Mixed Deck — All ECMS Topics Flashcards

Which Cisco Meraki solution is designed for managing mobile devices, laptops, and other endpoint devices?

Answer: Meraki Systems Manager (SM)

Meraki Systems Manager (SM) is Cisco Meraki's Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) solution. It is specifically designed for managing and securing a wide range of endpoint devices, including mobile phones, tablets, laptops, and desktops, providing centralized control over device configurations, application deployment, and security policies.

Which Meraki dashboard feature provides a topology view showing how MS switches are interconnected with other Meraki devices?

Answer: Monitor > Topology

The Meraki Monitor > Topology view automatically discovers and displays the physical connections between Meraki switches, APs, and MX appliances using LLDP data.

What Meraki MR feature enables APs to provide Wi-Fi coverage in a building without running an Ethernet cable to every AP?

Answer: Meraki mesh networking (wireless uplink)

Meraki supports mesh networking where APs without a wired uplink can connect to a mesh root AP wirelessly, extending coverage to areas where cabling is impractical.

Which Meraki Live Tools feature allows an administrator to check whether a remote Meraki device can resolve DNS names correctly?

Answer: DNS lookup from device

The Live Tools DNS lookup runs a DNS resolution query from the Meraki device itself, helping verify DNS server reachability and resolution without needing CLI access.

How does Systems Manager Sentry WiFi integration work with Meraki MR access points?

Answer: SM pushes Wi-Fi credentials to enrolled devices; if a device is non-compliant, it is automatically moved to a restricted SSID via the MR

Sentry WiFi pushes SSID profiles and credentials to SM-enrolled devices; additionally, if a device loses compliance, SM can instruct the MR to move the device to a restricted SSID, effectively enforcing NAC.

What is a key feature of Cisco Meraki MV cameras?

Answer: Cloud-managed video surveillance with advanced analytics capabilities.

Cisco Meraki MV cameras are cloud-managed video surveillance devices that integrate directly with the Meraki dashboard. A key feature is their advanced analytics capabilities, such as motion detection, object recognition, and heat mapping, which provide valuable insights beyond basic video recording and enhance physical security monitoring.

When a Meraki MR access point shows a 'Rogue AP' alert in Air Marshal, what action can an administrator take directly from the dashboard?

Answer: Classify the AP as 'Known' to suppress alerts, or contain it by sending de-authentication frames

Air Marshal allows administrators to classify rogue APs as 'Known' (benign neighbor) to stop alerting, or actively contain them using de-authentication frames to disrupt client connections.

What is the maximum number of WAN uplinks supported on Meraki MX appliances for SD-WAN link bonding?

Answer: 2

Meraki MX appliances support up to two WAN uplinks for active-active load balancing or active-passive failover.

How does Cisco Meraki simplify the process of deploying new devices in the network?

Answer: By using zero-touch provisioning to automatically download configurations from the cloud.

Cisco Meraki simplifies device deployment through zero-touch provisioning. New devices can be shipped directly to a site, powered on, and automatically connect to the Meraki cloud to download their pre-configured settings. This eliminates the need for manual on-site configuration, drastically speeding up deployment and reducing operational costs.

When designing a Meraki network for 500 branch sites, what architectural approach does Cisco recommend for efficient management?

Answer: Use a template network (configuration template) applied to all branch networks

Meraki configuration templates allow administrators to define a master configuration applied to multiple branch networks, ensuring consistency and dramatically simplifying large-scale deployments.

Which Meraki licensing model component is required for all managed devices to communicate with the Meraki cloud?

Answer: A valid Meraki license for the specific product line

All Meraki hardware requires an active license for the device to be managed through the cloud; without a valid license the device will eventually lose management functionality.

What is a key advantage of using webhooks with the cisco Meraki platform?

Answer: Webhooks provide real-time alerts and automate responses to specific network events.

Webhooks are a key advantage for real-time network management with the Cisco Meraki platform. They allow the Meraki cloud to send immediate, automated alerts to external systems when specific network events occur, enabling real-time monitoring and triggering automated responses or actions based on these events.

An organization wants to support BYOD by allowing personal devices to access email but preventing those devices from accessing the internal corporate file shares. Which SM feature supports this scenario?

Answer: Selective wipe combined with per-app VPN to limit corporate app access without managing the entire device

Selective wipe removes only managed corporate data/apps from the device while leaving personal data intact, and per-app VPN can restrict which apps can reach internal resources, making it ideal for BYOD scenarios.

How does Meraki Systems Manager integrate with Meraki MX appliances to provide VPN access for enrolled devices?

Answer: SM pushes a Client VPN profile with MX credentials to enrolled devices, enabling automatic IKEv2 or L2TP/IPsec VPN connection

Systems Manager can push a Client VPN profile to enrolled devices containing the MX's Client VPN hostname, pre-shared key or certificate, and user credentials, enabling automatic and seamless VPN establishment.

Which protocol does Meraki Systems Manager use to distribute certificates to enrolled endpoints for Wi-Fi or VPN authentication?

Answer: SCEP (Simple Certificate Enrollment Protocol)

Systems Manager uses SCEP to automatically request and distribute digital certificates to enrolled devices, enabling certificate-based authentication for Wi-Fi (WPA2-Enterprise) and VPN connections.

Which Meraki tool provides a real-time view of spectrum utilization and interference sources on wireless radio channels?

Answer: Wireless spectrum analysis from compatible MR APs

Certain Meraki MR access points support spectrum analysis mode, which scans radio channels and displays interference sources, channel utilization, and noise floor in real time.

What happens to a device's network access when it violates a Systems Manager compliance policy and SM Sentry is configured on the associated MR SSID?

Answer: The device is disassociated from the corporate SSID or moved to a restricted SSID until compliance is restored

With SM Sentry enforcement, a non-compliant device is automatically disassociated from the corporate SSID or quarantined to a restricted SSID, preventing access to corporate resources until the compliance issue is resolved.

Which Meraki MX feature dynamically routes traffic across multiple WAN links based on real-time link quality metrics?

Answer: SD-WAN intelligent path control

Meraki SD-WAN intelligent path control continuously monitors latency, jitter, and packet loss on each WAN link and steers application traffic accordingly.

What Meraki MS feature allows administrators to disable or enable switch ports on a time schedule?

Answer: Port scheduling (access control by time)

Meraki port scheduling allows administrators to define time-based schedules that automatically enable or disable switch ports during specified hours or days.

Which of the following tasks can be automated using the Cisco Meraki API?

Answer: Automatically adding devices to a network and applying configuration templates.

The Cisco Meraki API enables automation of various network tasks, such as automatically adding new devices to a network and applying pre-defined configuration templates. This capability streamlines large-scale deployments and ensures consistent configurations across multiple devices without manual intervention, significantly improving efficiency.