1. Introducing the Cloud and the Cisco Meraki Dashboard
2. Introducing Cisco Meraki Products and Administration
3. Introducing Cisco Meraki Troubleshooting
4. Planning New Cisco Meraki Architectures and Expanding Existing Deployment
5. Designing for Scalable Management and High Availability
6. Automating and Scaling Cisco Meraki Deployments
7. Designing Routing on the Cisco Meraki Platform
8. Introducing QoS and Traffic Shaping Design
9. Building VPN and WAN Topologies
10. Securing, Expanding, and Shaping the Network
11. Introducing Switched Network Concepts and Practices
12. Implementing Wireless Configuration Practices and Concepts
13. Introducing Endpoint Management Concepts and Practices
14. Introducing Physical Security Concepts and Practices
15. Gaining Network Insight by Monitoring Applications
16. Preparing, Monitoring, Logging, and Alerting Services
17. Setting Up Reporting and Auditing Capabilities in the Cisco Meraki Dashboard
18. Gaining Visibility and Resolving Issues Using Cisco Meraki Tools

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.

• Consulting Systems Engineers
• Deployment Engineers
• Network Administrators
• Network Engineers
• Network Managers
• Site Reliability Engineers
• Systems Engineers
• Technical Solutions Architects
• Wireless Design Engineers
• Wireless Engineers
• Sales Engineers
• Account Managers

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)

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)