When studying for an exam, the blueprint is your best friend. If we look at the current BP for this exam, we see the following for Meraki
- 3.2 Describe the capabilities of Cisco network management platforms and APIs (Meraki, Cisco DNA Center, ACI, Cisco SD-WAN, and NSO)
- 3.9.a Obtain a list of network devices by using Meraki, Cisco DNA Center, ACI, Cisco SD-WAN, or NSO
- 3.9.c Obtain a list of clients / hosts seen on a network using Meraki or Cisco DNA Center
- 5.7 Identify the workflow being automated by a Python script that uses Cisco APIs including ACI, Meraki, Cisco DNA Center, or RESTCONF
This is your bible. Bookmark and extensively use the Meraki Developer Hub. The next tip is pay attention to the verbs in the BP, as this gives you an idea of the level of knowledge you need. The describe verb, means that this is more theoretical knowledge than hands on execution. A solid knowledge from the documentation would get you pass these questions, you are expected to be able to compare and contrast their general capabilities in the context of network management and automation. The obtain is within the overall exam construct verb, this is more a hands on (although there is no labs in the exam), these question expect code snippets, on how to do it and be expected to understand the JSON response/parsing, API keys, understanding of URLs. Finally, identify, you need to be able to look at a given piece of code (a Python script in this case) and understand its purpose or goals. Again, you will not necessarily be asked to write a script, but to decipher what problem it is solving, what task it automates based on its logic, API calls, and inputs/outputs.
The best thing you can do is go over the learning labs these should be in sync with the sandbox, the book now is older and many things have changed on the sandbox since the book was first written. If you can follow the learning labs, you should be ok - for this exam you can use the always on sandbox and just run GET/READ requests using Postman (some example here https://www.postman.com/ciscodevnet/meraki-workspace/overview)
if you wanted to do a hands on course, look at the offerings from Cisco U, which has hands on labs within the course. There is also plenty of free course on Meraki here for learning. i will say this section as a whole (Cisco APIs) is the hardest section of the exam, as you are expected to be able to recall a lot of information here for a number of platforms and their APIs. Having a good understanding of APIs as a whole will really help here too.
Best of luck.
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