Cisco 500-220 Certification Sample Questions and Answers

Cisco 500-220 sample questions for Cisco Meraki Solutions Specialist preparationThe Cisco 500-220 Certification Sample Questions on this page help you become familiar with the question style and knowledge areas of the Cisco Meraki Solutions Specialist (ECMS) exam. Each question is written to reflect the syllabus topics and the level of understanding the certification expects, so you can see how theoretical concepts are tested in practice. Working through them lets you check your understanding, identify topics that need further study, and get comfortable interpreting certification-style questions before you sit the official exam.

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Cisco 500-220 (ECMS) Sample Questions:

01. Clients on an 802.1X SSID intermittently fail to authenticate, and you suspect the RADIUS exchange between the AP and the server.
Which approach best isolates where the failure occurs?
a) Raise the SSID minimum bitrate so that weaker clients stop attempting to authenticate
b) Enable Air Marshal containment and observe whether the failing clients then associate
c) Run a cable test on the AP's wired uplink and read the pair-status result for any intermittent physical fault
d) Run a packet capture on the AP's wired uplink and correlate it with the event log's RADIUS entries
 
02. An engineer builds an RF profile for a packed auditorium expecting hundreds of active devices.
Which settings are appropriate for a high-density design?
(Choose three.)
a) Disable the 5 GHz radio so that all clients share the 2.4 GHz band
b) Raise the minimum bitrate to reduce airtime spent on low-rate frames
c) Enable band steering to move capable clients onto the 5 GHz band
d) Narrow the channel width to increase the number of non-overlapping channels
e) Set every AP to maximum transmit power to guarantee the strongest possible signal
 
03. Meraki Insight shows a critical application's response time is high at a branch, while that site's WAN Health loss and latency remain green.
What does this most likely indicate?
a) The branch uplink is saturated, and adding more bandwidth will restore the response time
b) The Insight sensor is miscalibrated, so both the WAN and application readings can be ignored
c) A duplex mismatch or negotiation error on the WAN port is dropping packets upstream
d) The slowdown is on the server or application side, because the WAN path metrics are healthy
 
04. A security team wants the MX to detect and drop a network exploit that matches a known attack signature as it transits the appliance.
Which service performs this?
a) IPS, which inspects traffic against intrusion signatures and can drop matching flows inline
b) The L3 firewall, which allows or denies flows based on addresses, ports, and protocol
c) AMP, which evaluates downloaded files against reputation data to stop known malware
d) Content filtering, which restricts access to web categories and blocked URL lists
 
05. On the AutoVPN status page, a single spoke shows as unreachable to the hub while every other spoke stays connected.
Which cause is most consistent with this pattern?
a) AutoVPN needs a manual key exchange, and that spoke's shared key was entered incorrectly
b) The hub's license or its cloud registration has expired, dropping only that spoke
c) An upstream firewall or NAT device at that spoke is blocking the VPN's path to the hub
d) The other spokes are in mesh mode, so only this spoke follows the hub-and-spoke topology
 
06. Users at a site report slow file transfers, yet the Dashboard throughput live tool run against the MX returns a high value.
Why can both observations be true at once?
a) The tool measures client Wi-Fi speed, so a wired bottleneck never affects its result
b) The live throughput test measures the path to Dashboard, not the site's real internet or LAN throughput
c) The throughput tool tests only the fastest uplink or primary WAN, so a failing backup uplink stays hidden
d) The tool reports a stored peak historical throughput value rather than the reading measured when you run it
 
07. Shortly after security services were enabled on an MX, users can no longer reach a legitimate business SaaS site.
Which configured features could plausibly be responsible for the block?
(Choose three.)
a) An L3 firewall rule denying the destination IP range the service uses
b) A content filtering category or URL rule that includes the site's address
c) Air Marshal containment mistakenly classifying the SaaS provider's server as a rogue SSID
d) An L7 firewall rule matching the application or category the site relies on
e) The cable test live tool left running against the appliance's WAN uplink port after maintenance
 
08. An MS access port shows a steadily rising count of CRC errors in its port statistics, while utilization on the link stays low.
Which conclusion is best supported?
a) The port is oversubscribed or congested, and enabling QoS will stop the counter climbing
b) A physical-layer fault such as a bad cable, connector, or duplex mismatch is corrupting frames
c) The switch is under a broadcast storm, and storm control will reset the accumulated error counts
d) A spanning-tree recalculation is underway, and the errors will clear once the topology converges
 
09. In Air Marshal, an engineer at a shared office building sees a neighboring tenant's SSID listed and considers enabling containment against it.
What is the best guidance?
a) Move your APs to a non-overlapping channel, which separates you and removes the neighbor from Air Marshal
b) Reclassify it as trusted, which stops Air Marshal from flagging it and silences the neighbor's broadcasting AP
c) Avoid containment here, since it can disrupt a legitimate neighbor and should target only confirmed rogues on your own LAN
d) Contain it immediately, because any SSID that Air Marshal detects near your building is a rogue and a direct threat to your wireless clients
 
10. After an outage, an engineer needs a timestamped, filterable history of association, DHCP, and port events to reconstruct what happened.
Which Dashboard feature provides this record?
a) The event log, a timestamped record of association, DHCP, and port events you can filter
b) The summary report, which aggregates usage and client counts over a date range
c) The topology map, which renders discovered Layer 2 links, uplinks, and neighboring devices as a diagram
d) The live tools panel, which runs on-demand ping, throughput, and cable tests against a chosen device

Solutions:

Question: 01

Answer: d

Question: 02

Answer: b, c, d

Question: 03

Answer: d

Question: 04

Answer: a

Question: 05

Answer: c

Question: 06

Answer: b

Question: 07

Answer: a, b, d

Question: 08

Answer: b

Question: 09

Answer: c

Question: 10

Answer: a

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