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CCIE Vocab
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1. An alternative software loaded into a Cisco router - used for basic IP connectivity; most useful when Flash memory is broken and you need IP connectivity to copy a new IOS image into Flash memory.
label switched path
RXBOOT
MPD
Classic IOS Firewall
2. In two-rate policing - the second and higher rate defined to the policer.
isolated VLAN
conform
peak information rate
Differentiated Services
3. The mandatory contention-based 802.11 access protocol that is also referred to as CSMA/CA.
authenticator
static length subnet masking
Link Fragmentation and Interleaving
distributed coordination function
4. The second most significant bit in the most significant byte of an Ethernet MAC address - a value of binary 0 implies that the address is a Universally Administered Address (UAA) (also known as Burned-In Address [BIA]) - and a value of binary 1 impli
AS_PATH
Message Digest 5
U/L bit
DTR
5. The rate at which a shaper limits the bits exiting the shaper.
AS_PATH access list
DHCP
shaping rate
virtual LAN
6. Timer An STP timer that dictates how long a port should stay in the listening state and the learning state.
Forward Delay
private addresses
overloading
MDRR
7. A type of OSPF packet - used to communicate LSAs to another router.
Link-State Update
designated router (PIM)
NBAR
Extensible Authentication Protocol
8. The router in a VRRP group that is currently actively forwarding IP packets. Conceptually the same as an HSRP Active router.
PPP
Query (EIGRP)
VRRP Master router
average queue depth
9. A single address in each subnet for which packets sent to this address will be broadcast to all hosts in the subnet. It is the highest numeric value in the range of IP addresses implied by a subnet number and prefix/mask.
subnet
Layer 2 protocol tunneling
subnet broadcast address
CE
10. Often used synonymously with neighbor - but with emphasis on the fact that all required parameters match - allowing routing updates to be exchanged between the routers.
adjacency (EIGRP)
DS1
stub area
WCCP
11. Defined in RFC 1631 - a method of translating IP addresses in headers with the goal of allowing multiple hosts to share single public IP addresses - thereby reducing IPv4 public address depletion.
Network Address Translation
HDB3
NO_EXPORT
infrastructure mode
12. A message that each host sends - either in response to a router Query message or on its own - to all multicast groups for which it would like to receive multicast traffic.
RTS/CTS
WLSE
low-latency queuing
IGMPv1 Host Membership Report
13. Any OSPF neighbor for which the database flooding process has completed.
adjacent (OSPF)
GLOP addressing
AS_PATH
route reflector server
14. Permanent virtual circuit.
storm control
PVC
terminal history
fast switching
15. A basic form of traffic shaping that is applied to an interface or subinterface. By default - it shapes all traffic leaving the interface - but can be modified by using an access control list. The access list controls only what traffic is shaped; GTS
classful routing
Root Guard
MIB-II
generic traffic shaping (GTS)
16. With DiffServ - a DSCP marking and a related set of QoS actions applied to packets that have that marking.
link-state advertisement
LDP
ORIGINATOR_ID
Per-Hop Behavior
17. The multicast addresses assigned by IANA.
SRTT
DSCP-to-CoS map
I/G bit
permanent multicast group
18. Another term for summary route.
aggregate route
cross-over cable
variance
learning state
19. An IPv6/IPv4 tunneling method that is designed for transporting IPv6 packets within a site where a native IPv6 infrastructures is not available.
CBAC
IP Precedence
Layer 2 protocol tunneling
ISATAP
20. A TCP variable used as the basis for a TCP sender's timer defining how long it should wait for a missing acknowledgement before resending the data.
Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP)
LLQ
overlapping VPN
Measured Round-Trip Time
21. In MPLS - a term used to define a label that an LSR learned from a neighboring LSR.
remote label
RD
SAFE Blueprint
Inter-Switch Link
22. A standards-based way of helping routers find Rendezvous Points (RP). RPs notify BSRs of the groups they handle. BSRs in turn flood the group-to-RP mappings throughout the network. Each router individually determines which RP to use for a particular
shared mode
link-state database
AS_SEQUENCE
Bootstrap Router (BSR)
23. A term relating to Cisco LAN switch tail-drop logic - in which multiple tail-drop thresholds may be assigned based on CoS or DSCP - resulting in some frames being discarded more aggressively than others.
FRF.9
PVST+
internal router (OSPF)
differentiated tail drop
24. Link-State Acknowledgment.
prefix list
RMON collector
LSAck
DTE
25. Sent by a PIM router - by default every 30 seconds - on every interface on which PIM is configured to discover neighbors - establish adjacency - and maintain adjacency.
PIM Hello message
RTS
control plane
input event
26. A type of AS_PATH segment consisting of an ordered list of ASNs through which the route has been advertised.
Frame Relay LFI Using Multilink PPP (MLP)
AS_SEQUENCE
CBAC
CDP Control Protocol
27. An MQC configuration style by which one policy map calls a second policy map. For example - a shaping policy map can call an LLQ policy map to implement LLQ for packets shaped by CB Shaping.
stateless autoconfiguration
Structure of Management Information
nested policy maps
NO_EXPORT_SUBCONFED
28. Data-link connection identifier.
BGP
DLCI
CLP
Common Spanning Tree
29. A table inside a router that holds the path attributes and NLRI known by the BGP implementation on that router.
SRR
BGP table
EAP over LAN
upstream router
30. Multicast addresses that are not assigned by IANA.
authentication method
transient multicast group
Network Address Translation
AF
31. A Frame Relay address used in Frame Relay headers to identify the VC
fully adjacent (OSPF)
Data-link connection identifier
VC
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
32. Wired Equivalent Privacy.
PE
WEP
DSL
provider router
33. A predefined VC. A PVC can be equated to a leased line in concept.
Database Description
EEM
NTP symmetric active mode
permanent virtual circuit
34. A routing protocol feature by which the routing update includes the entire set of routes - even if some or all of the routes are unchanged.
proxy ARP
Holddown timer
orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
full update
35. Reverse ARP.
BGP table
FRF.9
RARP
Data Terminal Ready
36. A well-known discretionary BGP path attribute that flags a route as being a summary route.
ATOMIC_AGGREGATE
offset list
Multicast Listener Discovery
Router Advertisement
37. Message sent by a PIM-DM router to its upstream router asking to quickly restart forwarding the group traffic; sent using the unicast address of the upstream router.
MDRR
Graft message
outer label
SPF calculation
38. Sending a message from a single source or multiple sources to selected multiple destinations across a Layer 3 network in one data stream.
multicasting
terminal history
fast switching
Ready To Send
39. Modified Deficit Round-Robin.
Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus
ToS byte
MDRR
Slow Start Threshold
40. Data Terminal Ready.
TDM hierarchy
DTR
LZS
anycast
41. A specification for the 64-bit interface ID in an IPv6 address - composed of the first half of a MAC address - hex FFFE - and the last half of the MAC.
Auto-RP
stub network (OSPF)
EUI-64
Flush timer
42. Time to Live.
feasible successor
Password Authentication Protocol
TTL
encapsulation replication
43. An NTP mode in which two or more NTP servers mutually synchronize their clocks.
enable password
NTP symmetric active mode
reported distance
NO_ADVERT
44. A Cisco-proprietary feature by which multiple routers can provide interface IP address redundancy so that hosts using the shared - virtual IP address as their default gateway can still reach the rest of a network even if one or more routers fail.
Port Aggregation Protocol
CHAP
active mode FTP
Hot Standby Router Protocol
45. The IP address used by hosts as the default gateway in a VRRP configuration. This address is shared by two or more VRRP routers - much as HSRP works.
virtual IP address
querier election
full drop
MPLS VPNs
46. Layer x PDU.
LACP
class map
ND
LxPDU
47. A wireless LAN physical layer that is backward compatible with 802.11b and operates at up to 54-Mbps data rates using OFDM in the 2.4-GHz band.
HSRP
prefix list
802.11b
802.11g
48. An enhanced version of WEP that is part of the 802.11i standard and has an automatic key-update mechanism that makes it much more secure than WEP. TKIP is not as strong as AES in terms of data protection.
network type (OSPF)
LACP
Context-Based Access Control
Temporal Key Integrity Protocol
49. A VC that is set up dynamically when needed. An SVC can be equated to a dial-on-demand connection in concept.
switched virtual circuit
Structure of Management Information
feasible successor
minimum CIR
50. A bit inside the Frame Relay header that - when set - implies that congestion occurred in the direction opposite (or backward) as compared with the direction of the frame.
CBAC
RD
Backward Explicit Congestion Notification
Context-Based Access Control