200-901 Cisco Platforms and Development Practice Question
An administrator is configuring a Cisco Meraki Dashboard API integration. After receiving a 429 HTTP response, what header should be examined to determine when the request can be retried?
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Retry-After
Meraki's rate limit returns a 429 status with a Retry-After header indicating the number of seconds to wait before retrying.
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X-RateLimit-Reset
Why it's wrong here
This header is not used by Meraki; it is used by some other APIs.
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Retry-After
Why this is correct
Correct. Meraki includes a Retry-After header in the 429 response.
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X-Cisco-Meraki-API-Key
Why it's wrong here
This header is used for authentication, not rate limiting.
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Location
Why it's wrong here
Location header is used for redirects, not rate limiting.
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