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Engineering Cisco Meraki Solutions
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Introduction
The Engineering Cisco Meraki Solutions training helps you gain the core knowledge and skills needed to deploy, plan, design, implement, and operate complex Cisco Meraki solutions. This training combines Engineering Cisco Meraki Solutions Part 1 and 2 trainings. This training helps prepare you for roles focused on implementing, securing, and managing Cisco Meraki based networks from a centralized dashboard. Topics covered include Cisco Meraki’s cloud-based solutions, understanding of network security protocols, design of scalable architectures, and application of troubleshooting strategies.
This training prepares you for the Cisco Meraki Solutions Specialist (ECMS 500-220) exam. If passed, you earn the Cisco Meraki Solutions Specialist certification. This training also earns you 24 Continuing Education (CE) credits towards recertification.
Audience profile
This training is designed for anyone seeking the Cisco Meraki Solution Specialist certification. The training provides foundational knowledge and skills to engineer Cisco Meraki solutions, including cloud management, design, implementation, monitoring, troubleshooting, and the comprehensive features of the Cisco Meraki product suite.
The job roles best suited to the material in this training are:
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Pre-requisites
Before taking this course, you should have earned a Cisco Certified Networking Associate (CCNA) certification or be familiar with:
- Basic network fundamentals and building simple Local Area Networks (LANs)
- Basic network fundamentals, including building simple LANs, Internet Protocol (IP) addressing, and subnetting
- Routing and switching fundamentals
- Basic wireless networking concepts and terminology
- Strong fundamental knowledge of IP addressing, subnetting, and dynamic routing protocols (Open Shortest Path First [OSPF] and Border Gateway Protocol [BGP])
- Understanding of wired and wireless QoS mechanisms, IPsec VPN technologies, and network security controls
- Familiarity with Radio Frequency (RF) design principles, wireless security best practices, and standard logging/monitoring protocols (Simple Network Management Protocol [SNMP], syslog, webhooks)
- Basic knowledge of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and related languages/formats (Representational State Transfer [REST], JavaScript Object Notation [JSON])
The following recommended Cisco offerings may help you meet these prerequisites:
- Implementing and Administering Cisco Solutions (CCNA)
- Implementing and Operating Cisco Enterprise Network Core Technologies (ENCOR)
Course objectives
- Describe Cisco Meraki cloud architecture, administration, and licensing
- Describe the hardware and features of Cisco Meraki product families
- Describe best practices for troubleshooting and when to contact Cisco Meraki support
- Plan new Cisco Meraki architectures and expand existing deployments
- Design the network for scalable management and high availability
- Describe how to automate and scale Cisco Meraki deployments with dashboard tools
- Use dynamic routing protocols to expand networks and improve wide-area network (WAN) performance
- Describe proper quality of service (QoS), policy, and performance-based routing configurations across a Cisco Meraki network and WAN optimization through traffic shaping
- Describe virtual private network (VPN) and WAN topologies and how to integrate them
- Secure, expand, and shape the network
- Implement switched network concepts and practices, and configure guest networks
- Implement wireless configuration practices and concepts
- Describe endpoint management concepts and practices using Cisco Meraki Systems Manager
- Describe physical security concepts and practices
- Gain network insight by monitoring applications
- Describe how to prepare monitoring, logging, and alerting services
- Set up reporting and auditing capabilities in the Cisco Meraki dashboard
- Monitor and troubleshoot issues using Cisco Meraki tools
Course content
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Associated certifications and exam
This training prepares you for the Cisco Meraki Solutions Specialist (ECMS 500-220) exam. If passed, you earn the Cisco Meraki Solutions Specialist certification.
500-220 ECMS: Cisco Meraki Solutions Specialist is a 90-minute exam associated with the Cisco Meraki Solutions Specialist certification.
The exam tests your knowledge and skills to engineer Meraki solutions, including:
- Cloud management
- Design
- Implementing
- Monitoring
- Troubleshooting
Cisco Overview
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Our standard and customized Cisco training courses are hands-on. When you attend training at Torque IT, you will implement the concepts that you learn using current Cisco equipment or Cisco Learning Labs (CLL), in real-world scenarios, to prepare you for real networking environments and the associated Cisco Certification examinations. Our authorized Cisco training and associated certification solutions empower you to design, sell, implement, troubleshoot and maintain Cisco implementations of any size.
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