What you’ll learn
The Engineering Cisco Meraki Solutions (ECMS) training equips you with the skills needed for roles that involve implementing, securing, and managing networks based on Cisco Meraki, all through a centralized dashboard. The training covers Cisco Meraki’s cloud-based solutions, network security protocols, scalable architecture design, and troubleshooting techniques. Completing this course provides you with 24 Continuing Education (CE) credits for recertification.
This course also prepares you for the:
500-220 ECMS Exam: Cisco Meraki Solutions Specialist
Who should enroll
This offering 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:
- Consulting Systems Engineer
- Deployment Engineer
- Network Administrator
- Network Engineer
- Network Manager
- Site Reliability Engineer
- Systems Engineer
- Technical Solutions Architect
- Wireless Design Engineer
- Wireless Engineer
What to expect in the exam
The ECMS exam validates your expertise in designing, implementing, and managing networks using the Cisco Meraki platform. It also assesses your knowledge of network security protocols and troubleshooting strategies.
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Prerequisites
Before taking this offering, you should have earned a CCNA certification or be familiar with:
- Basic network fundamentals and building simple LANs
- Basic network fundamentals, including building simple LANs, 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 (OSPF and BGP)
- Understanding of wired and wireless Quality of Service (QoS) mechanisms, IPsec VPN technologies, and network security controls
- Familiarity with RF design principles, wireless security best practices, and standard logging/monitoring protocols (SNMP, syslog, webhooks)
- Basic knowledge of APIs and related languages/formats (REST, 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)
Training overview
Objectives
- Describe the process of planning new Cisco Meraki architectures and expanding existing deployments.
- Design networks for scalable management and high availability.
- Implement dynamic routing protocols to expand networks and improve WAN performance.
- Configure Quality of Service (QoS), policy, and performance-based routing configurations across a Cisco Meraki network.
- Optimize WAN performance through traffic shaping and WAN optimization techniques.
- Deploy secure multi-cloud solutions using the Cisco Meraki platform.
- Implement network security protocols and access control measures.
- Configure and troubleshoot wireless networks using Cisco Meraki wireless solutions.
- Utilize Cisco Meraki Dashboard tools to monitor and troubleshoot network behavior.
- Design and implement VPN and WAN topologies using Cisco Meraki solutions.
- Automate and scale Cisco Meraki deployments with dashboard tools.
- Describe best practices for network monitoring, logging, and alerting in a Cisco Meraki environment.
- Implement physical security measures and devices using Cisco Meraki solutions.
- Describe endpoint management concepts and practices within a Cisco Meraki network.
- Customize dashboards and alerts for effective network management.
- Generate comprehensive reports on network performance and security.
- Apply troubleshooting techniques to find and resolve network issues promptly.
Lab Outline
- Configuring the Cisco Meraki Dashboard
- Enable advanced features and optimize networking
- Troubleshooting the network using the Cisco Meraki Dashboard
- Configure tags, links aggregation, port mirroring, and high-density SSIDs
- Configure routing on the Cisco Meraki platform
- Configure QoS, traffic shaping, and load balancing
- Configure network security
- Configure access policies and wireless guest access
- Configure SSIDs, RF profiles, and Air Marshal
- Implement endpoint management
- Deploy and configure physical security devices
- Enable alerts, and configure monitoring and reporting
- Enable reporting and auditing, and manage firmware
- Troubleshoot a Cisco Meraki network
