Prerequisites
Before taking this offering, you should have earned a Cisco Certified Networking Associate (CCNA) certification or be familiar with:
General Networking
• Be actively engaged in the design, deployment, scaling, configuration, and management of enterprise networks, IPsec, and associated VPN technologies
• Be experienced with hierarchical network segmentation (access, distribution, and core layer) design and best practices
• Strong fundamental knowledge of internet protocol (IP) addressing and subnetting schemas necessary to build local area networks (LANs)
• A foundational understanding of network authentication, authorization, and accounting services
• Strong fundamental knowledge of dynamic routing protocols with focus and emphasis on open shortest path first (OSPF) and border gateway protocol (BGP)
• A foundational understanding of wired and wireless QoS mechanisms, packet queue operations, and practical implementations
• A foundational understanding of threat modeling concepts and methodologies and the ability to apply them to identify, analyze, and respond to cybersecurity threats
• A foundational understanding of network security controls and protocols, network management best practices, and data security
• Intermediate fundamental knowledge of radio frequency (RF) concepts, terminology, design principles, and practical implementations as they apply to wireless networking and current 802.11 wireless standards
• A foundational understanding of wireless security best practices centered on access control (802.1x) and spectrum security through wireless intrusion detection system (WIDS) and prevention system (WIPS)
• A foundational understanding of standard logging and monitoring protocols with a focus and emphasis on simple network management protocol (SNMP), syslog, and webhooks, and related implementation components or tools
• Be familiar with and have basic knowledge of Application Programming Interface (APIs) and related languages and formats, such as representational state transfer (REST) and JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) Cisco Meraki Knowledge
• Be able to describe the security, reliability, scalability, and licensing of the Cisco Meraki dashboard cloud architecture, structure, delineation or privileges, overarching administrative processes, and its out-of-band control plane
• Have the knowledge and ability to deploy advanced security features on Cisco Meraki MX security appliances, including intrusion detection/prevention, advanced malware protection (AMP), and Layer 3 and 7 firewall rules
• Fundamental understanding of Auto VPN and its purpose when used in a software-defined, wide-area network (SD-WAN) deployment
• Be experienced at navigating, configuring, and applying configurations to Cisco Meraki MS switches through the virtual stack interface in the dashboard
• Be able to describe the concepts behind a cloud-based wireless local-area network (WLAN) solution and the
features that can be delivered, including Layer 7 traffic shaping and various guest access authentication methods
• Fundamental understanding of device profile containerization and remote management capabilities as managed through the Cisco Meraki Systems Manager platform
• Fundamental understanding of the edge architecture as implemented using Cisco Meraki MV security cameras and its implications for video retention through various configurable options
• Be able to effectively use the live tools and monitoring capabilities of the Cisco Meraki dashboard when troubleshooting device or application performance issues
These skills can be found in the following Cisco Learning Offerings:
• Implementing and Administering Cisco Solutions (CCNA)
• Implementing and Operating Cisco Enterprise Network Core Technologies (ENCOR)
