Meraki Certifications

[Mr_IT_Guy]

I am currently a CMNO. @btevans995 wrote a post asking about access areas for CMNA and Masters. How does one become a CMNA or a Master?

[terminalvelocity777]

Hi Caroline,

FYi below is the response for my application for CMNO course place from Meraki:

Hi Mick,

Thank you for your interest in CMNO (Certified Meraki Network Operator) on Wednesday August, 01, 2018 9am BST. Unfortunately we are only offering spots in the program to a select group of Meraki resellers at this time. We'll be looking to open CMNO to our full reseller community in the future as the program continues to grow. You may also have been declined because you attended CMNA or work in a pre-sales role.

[CarolineS-Meraki]

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@terminalvelocity777 wrote:

Hi Caroline,

FYi below is the response for my application for CMNO course place from Meraki:

Hi Mick,

Thank you for your interest in CMNO (Certified Meraki Network Operator) on Wednesday August, 01, 2018 9am BST. Unfortunately we are only offering spots in the program to a select group of Meraki resellers at this time. We'll be looking to open CMNO to our full reseller community in the future as the program continues to grow. You may also have been declined because you attended CMNA or work in a pre-sales role.

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Hi @terminalvelocity777 - Yes, as the CMNO course is designed for Meraki customers, there's only limited availability for resellers. But, it's indeed true that we are looking to widen the program and add more training options over time. Stay tuned!

[Thomas Quick]

CMNA Info Site - https://sites.google.com/meraki.net/cmnaext

[CapitolG]

At the Meraki Partners website you can see available dates for CMNA. It's free and fun. I took the class about a month ago and learned some new cool things.

[Vikassi]

I also took the CNMA about a month ago. Did you get your polo shirt or equipment yet?

[Ryan-Zimmerle]

I also would like to see some addition options around Cisco Meraki certifications, to include the CMNA. As a customer, I see value in the CMNA, I constantly have to sell solutions / products to management ever year. Budgeting, 5 YR plans, Erate Category 2 availability, etc. While perhaps I am not selling the product direct to a customer, many of us selling it to "someone". I am drinking the Meraki cool-aid and some additional options here will keep it sweet.

Ryan

[BlakeRichardson]

I just came across this and saw that the question about Meraki Masters was not answered, why is someone who has sat the CMNO course not have access to the Masters course. I would evening be willing to pay for it as I have the rest of the certifications I have.

It seems bizarre we cannot get full product training, the people are asking but it doesn't sound like we are being heard, a lot of the members here are customers!

[Mr_IT_Guy]

@BlakeRichardson, to be fair, @dbate did ask what kind of advanced training we as CMNO holders were looking for and only one person responded. He even explained how the different certifications worked. While I agree we should be able to take the Masters course, that is not the case right now; however, what we can do is leverage this forum and try to get more advanced training.

@dbate - to answer your question 5 months later... the type of advanced training I'm looking would be similar to what is covered in the Meraki Masters training. Seeing as how CMNO and CMNA are essentially the same thing just aimed at different targets, you can make the customer version of Meraki Masters called Meraki Jedi. Just gotta get clear that with George Lucas!

[Uberseehandel]

Welcome to quantum qualifications.

CMNO and CMNA are functionally equivalent and not equivalent.

They are the Schrödingers. Or, if you must, the Erwins.

At the end of the day it is all about massaging the egos of the folk who do the marketing.

There should definitely be qualifications for people who obtain proficiency in using the API and writing the code appropriately. And by that I mean that it should go beyond a basic understanding of what the api calls do, and embrace the generally accepted coding practices for the language concerned, be it Python, Node.js or NodeRed.

Location analytics is probably another specialty worthy of its own qualification.

[MRCUR]

@Mr_IT_Guy @dbate Absolutely agree on the need for higher level training/certs that customers have access too. It looks like Masters (technically CMNP?) is being given to both partners and inside SE's now - https://community.meraki.com/t5/Community-Tips-Tricks/Community-profile-badges-the-master-list/td-p/10733 (@daviscot when will I see this badge on your profile!?). It'd be very interesting to see this opened up for customers or a modified version.

I think it's now very clear that CMNO is a very, very low level cert. I see lots of people with CMNO certs throughout the community asking questions that should be covered by a cert.

[CHNC]

Hi,

I m currently working on Meraki MX, MS & MR and we were recently deployed this device for one our customer. Now we need certification from Meraki.

Can you please suggest me. How, i do the certification in Meraki.

[MRCUR]

@CHNC This is the CMNO info/signup page: https://meraki.cisco.com/webinars/cmno

[ZDonaldson]

sorry for late reply, I just came across this.

I'm a new Meraki customer who has a somewhat lengthy background in network administration and network security devices.

The most challenging part of operating Meraki, for which I would love to see some content is in the areas of troubleshooting and reporting. Because they security appliances are so "simple" in their feature set, I have found it challenging to address these areas.

Its almost as if the lack of complexity has made things more difficult. Additional training in the Meraki-suggested way of handling these things would be appreciated

[Adam Hinchliff]

I completed the CMNO cert a few weeks ago, it was very basic and provided you with a touch and feel of the full stack followed by a root cause scenario of the stack. This was the better part as made you click around different menus troubleshooting various problems. I would recommend taking the course. I would be interested to know what areas of troubleshooting you were finding difficult in the Meraki dashboard.

Cheers

Adam

[ZDonaldson]

I had several users who couldn't browse the internet. I wasn't sure where to see if they had violated a web filter policy or if it was a traffic routing issue, firewall rule, etc...

again, i'm brand-new to Meraki and more familiar with full-featured security appliances with more traditional logging abilities. These products feel very limiting right now, but I'm still in the break-in period.