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CCIE Vocab
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1. Designated router.
MIB walk
summary route
IPCP
DR
2. A wireless LAN physical layer that operates at up to 54-Mbps data rates using OFDM in the 5-GHz band.
802.11a
BPDU Guard
stub router (EIGRP)
Inside Local address
3. Typically used by protocols that perform flow control (like TCP) - a TCP window is the number of bytes that a sender can send before it must pause and wait for an acknowledgement of some of the yet-unacknowledged data.
EAP
rendezvous point
DTP
window
4. Network Layer Protocol ID is a field in the RFC 2427 header that is used as a Protocol Type field in order to identify the type of Layer 3 packet encapsulated inside a Frame Relay frame.
User Priority
TDM
NLPID
Invalid timer
5. An E-LSR in an MPLS VPN network whose role in a particular discussion is to receive unlabeled packets over customer links and then forward the packets as labeled packets into the MPLS network.
link-local
ingress PE
Protocol Independent Multicast dense-mode routing protocol
router ID
6. An MPLS term referring to any device that can forward packets that have MPLS labels.
administratively scoped addresses
transit network (OSPF)
NLRI
Label Switch Router
7. Alternate name for the SPF algorithm - named for its inventor - Edsger W. Dijkstra.
Dijkstra Algorithm
totally NSSA area
SSH
Inverse ARP
8. Feasible distance.
customer edge
CS
classless routing
FD
9. Per-Hop Behavior.
service set identifier
neighbor (OSPF)
PHB
Lead Content Engine
10. A type of OSPF packet used to discover neighbors - check for parameter agreement - and monitor the health of another router.
data communications equipment
Alternate state
maximum transmission unit
Hello (OSPF)
11. A Cisco switch feature that allows separation of ports as if they were in separate VLANs - while allowing the use of a single IP subnet for all ports.
Data Set Ready
counting to infinity
private VLAN
IGMPv1 Host Membership Report
12. Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol.
PDU
CDP Control Protocol
Assert message
CHAP
13. A designated router that is directly connected with a source of the multicast group.
discarding state
LAPF
source DR
RID
14. An MPLS term describing designs in which one or more MPLS customer sites can be reached from multiple other VPNs.
totally NSSA area
OFDM
overlapping VPN
unicast MAC address
15. Defined in IEEE 802.1s - a specification for multiple STP instances when using 802.1Q trunks
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
Multiple Spanning Trees
Structure of Management Information
Access Control Entry
16. A dotted-decimal number used to help define the structure of an IP address. The binary 0s in the mask identify the host portion of an address - and the binary 1s identify either the combined network and subnet part (when thinking classfully) or the n
MOSPF
subnet mask
TCP code bits
NS
17. A BGP feature by which a router learns iBGP routes - and then forwards them to other iBGP peers - reducing the required number of iBGP peers while also avoiding routing loops.
route reflector
ABR
source-specific addresses
Layer 2 protocol tunneling
18. A process on a computing device that accepts SNMP requests - responds with SNMP-structured MIB data - and initiates unsolicited Trap messages back to an SNMP management station.
wireless LAN controller
CHAP
SNMP agent
Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol
19. 16 bits between the interface ID and global routing prefix in an IPv6 global address - used for subnet assignment inside an enterprise.
Wi-Fi Protected Access
peak information rate
alternate mode
subnet ID
20. Border Gateway Protocol.
AES
offset list
6to4
BGP
21. A Cisco-proprietary protocol - used by LAN switches to communicate VLAN configuration.
policing rate
QoS pre-classification
VLAN Trunking Protocol
Hello (EIGRP)
22. A standard (RFC 951) protocol by which a LAN-attached host can dynamically broadcast a request for a server to assign it an IP address - along with other configuration settings - including a subnet mask and default gateway IP address.
CLP
AS_SEQUENCE
Boot Protocol
Measured Round-Trip Time
23. Link-State Acknowledgment.
TDP
Port Address Translation
LSAck
Triggered Extensions to RIP for On-Demand Circuits
24. Data Set Ready.
Forward Explicit Congestion Notification
DSR
shared distribution tree
Graft message
25. Sent by a PIM router to its upstream router to either request that the upstream router forward the group traffic or stop forwarding the group traffic that is currently being forwarded. If a PIM router wants to start receiving the group traffic - it l
Maximum Segment Size
DSCP-to-threshold map
Report Suppression mechanism
Join/Prune message
26. Link-state database.
queue starvation
straight-through cable
LSDB
SVC
27. Cisco IOS Embedded Event Manager - a feature that monitors events on a router and reports their results. Principally intended to increase availability - EEM provides flexible - granular detection and alerting functions.
QV
T1
adjacent (OSPF)
EEM
28. An IPv6 address format used for publicly registered IPv6 addresses.
aggregatable global unicast address
SN
SPF algorithm
LZS
29. 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.
HSRP
successor route
Hello timer
Graft message
30. A type of logic for how a router uses a default route. When a default route exists - and no more specific match is made between the destination of the packet and the routing table - the default route is used.
local computation
MPD
classless routing
authenticator
31. Label Distribution Protocol.
PAP
LDP
UniDirectional Link Detection
Inside Local address
32. Structure of Management Information.
MULTI_EXIT_DISC (MED)
SMI
RA
Forwarding Equivalence Class
33. Wired Equivalent Privacy.
Maximum Segment Size
RMON alarm
WEP
Neighbor Solicitation
34. Alarm Indication Signal. With T1s - the practice of sending all binary 1s on the line in reaction to problems - to provide signal transitions and allow recovery of synchronization and framing.
Excess
AIS
ORIGINATOR_ID
mincir
35. A switch feature with which the switch watches ARP messages - determines if those messages may or may not be part of some attack - and filters those that look suspicious.
Temporal Key Integrity Protocol
feasible successor
Dynamic ARP Inspection
tail drop
36. RFC 1918-defined IPv4 network numbers that are not assigned as public IP address ranges - and are not routable on the Internet. Intended for use inside enterprise networks.
exceed
feasibility condition
private addresses
classful routing
37. Aka network layer reachability information.
PAT
cross-over cable
Update (EIGRP)
NLRI
38. Penultimate hop popping.
Auto-RP
Invalid timer
PHP
weighted round-robin
39. A set of all devices for which any frame sent by one of the devices would collide with any frames transmitted at the same time by any of the other devices in the set.
ACS
scheduler
MLP
collision domain
40. Cisco IOS router feature by which a route map determines how to forward a packet - typically based on information in the packet other than the destination IP address.
one-time password
6to4
policy routing
power-save mode
41. Used to reserve network resources for a flow as it traverses the network. A device that creates an RSVP reservation guarantees that it can provide the bandwidth - latency - or other resources that are requested by RSVP.
weighted tail drop
Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP)
Yellow Alarm
GRE
42. Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol.
EEM
totally NSSA area
DHCP
FHSS
43. An optimized Layer 3 forwarding path through a router. Fast switching optimizes routing table lookup by creating a special - easily searched table of known flows between hosts.
private addresses
stub area
multicast state information
fast switching
44. A dotted-decimal number that represents a subnet. It is the lowest numeric value in the range of IP addresses implied by a subnet number and prefix/mask.
routed interface
backup designated router
subnet number
map class
45. A BGP term referring to an IP prefix and prefix length.
class map
network layer reachability information
DMVPN
designated port
46. The condition in which a route has been in an EIGRP active state for longer than the router's Active timer.
MPLS unicast
one-time password
stuck-in-active
RA
47. Aka minimum CIR.
neighbor state
mincir
DSCP-to-CoS map
NLPID
48. A multicast routing protocol that forwards the multicast traffic only when requested by a downstream router.
fraggle attack
beacon
sparse-mode protocol
Multicast Open Shortest Path First
49. An Internet standard (RFC 1305) that defines the messages and modes used for IP hosts to synchronize their time-of-day clocks.
Network Time Protocol
IP routing
Multiple Spanning Trees
SCP
50. An early T1 framing standard.
cross-over cable
OFDM
TACACS+
Superframe