Cisco 500-220 Practice Test

500-220 practice test: what's covered

• Cloud Management
• Design
• Implementation
• Monitoring & Troubleshooting
• MX/MR/MS/MV/MT/SM

Free 500-220 sample questions

1. An engineer is explaining the Meraki cloud architecture to a security-conscious customer who worries that user data traverses Meraki's cloud. Which statement correctly describes how production traffic flows in a Meraki network?

   • A. User data traffic is processed entirely in the Meraki dashboard cloud before being forwarded to its destination
   • B. Only management and configuration data flows to the Meraki cloud; user data is switched and routed directly by the local devices (out-of-band control plane)
   • C. All user traffic is tunneled to the nearest Meraki regional data center for inspection
   • D. User data is mirrored to the cloud for AMP inspection and then returned to the device
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   Correct: B. Meraki uses an out-of-band control plane: the dashboard handles management/config/telemetry while production user data never traverses the Meraki cloud — it is forwarded locally by the MX/MS/MR. This is a core selling point for data-sovereignty concerns.

2. A managed service provider runs 40 customer deployments, each with multiple sites, and needs a single pane to apply consistent policy and roll out configuration to many networks at once. Which Meraki dashboard hierarchy element should be used as the top-level boundary per customer?

   • A. Network
   • B. Organization
   • C. Configuration template
   • D. Tag
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   Correct: B. The Organization is the top of the Meraki hierarchy and the administrative/billing boundary; each customer typically gets its own organization. Networks live inside an org, and templates bind many networks for consistent policy.

3. A retail chain wants 200 identical branch networks to share one policy so a single change propagates everywhere, while still allowing per-site local VLAN subnets. Which dashboard feature meets this requirement?

   • A. Bind each network to a configuration template and use template VLAN subnetting (per-network unique subnets)
   • B. Manually clone the first network 200 times
   • C. Place all 200 branches in a single combined network
   • D. Use organization-wide firmware-only management
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   Correct: A. Configuration templates let one master policy drive many bound networks; template auto-subnetting assigns each bound network a unique VLAN subnet from a supernet, so a single template edit propagates while sites keep distinct addressing.

4. An organization currently uses co-termination licensing. The admin adds a new MX appliance with a 3-year license mid-cycle. What is the expected licensing behavior?

   • A. The new license is tracked independently and expires exactly 3 years from the add date
   • B. Adding the device recalculates a single co-termination date for the whole organization, which may shift the org expiration date earlier or later
   • C. The organization automatically converts to per-device licensing
   • D. The new MX runs unlicensed until the next renewal window
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   Correct: B. Under co-termination (co-term), all licenses share one organization-wide expiration date. Adding devices/licenses recalculates that single date, so the org co-term date can move. Per-Device Licensing (PDL) instead tracks each license independently.

5. An admin is deciding between Co-Termination licensing and Per-Device Licensing (PDL) for a growing organization. Which TWO statements about Per-Device Licensing are correct? (Choose TWO)

   • A. Each license is assigned to a specific device and has its own independent expiration date
   • B. All licenses in the org share a single common expiration date
   • C. Licenses can be moved between devices and unused license time is preserved in the license bank
   • D. PDL eliminates the need to license any devices for the first year
   • E. PDL requires every device to be the same model and license tier
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   Correct: A and C. PDL ties each license to a device with its own expiry and supports a license bank where unused time is preserved and reassignable. A single shared expiration date is the co-termination model, not PDL.

Last updated: 2026-10-19

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