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CCIE Vocab
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1. Digital Signal Level 1.
DS1
enhanced editing
adaptive shaping
NSSA
2. Committed information rate.
BackboneFast
label switched path
sparse-mode protocol
CIR
3. A BGP path attribute that is communicated throughout a single AS to signify which route of multiple possible routes is the best route to be taken when leaving that AS. A larger value is considered to be better.
LOCAL_PREF
RMON event
IGMP
Neighbor Advertisement
4. With Spanning Tree Protocol - the single port on each LAN segment from which the best Hello BPDU is forwarded.
PQ
designated port
RXBOOT
Alternate state
5. The condition in which a route has been in an EIGRP active state for longer than the router's Active timer.
stuck-in-active
Neighbor Discovery Protocol
WCCP cluster
CLUSTER_LIST
6. A Cisco-proprietary STP implementation - created many years before IEEE 802.1s and 802.1w - that speeds convergence and allows for one STP instance for each VLAN.
PHP
MPLS VPNs
High Density Binary 3
Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus
7. Ethernet feature in which a NIC or Ethernet port can both transmit and receive at the same instant in time. It can be used only when there is no possibility of collisions. Loopback circuitry on NIC cards is disabled to use full duplex.
Tc
full duplex
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
scheduler
8. A Cisco 12000 series router feature that combines the key features of LLQ and CQ to provide similar congestion-management features.
Hot Standby Router Protocol
weighted tail drop
Modified Deficit Round-Robin
MQC
9. The Cisco IOS feature by which special short key sequences can be used to move the cursor inside the current command line to more easily change a command.
enhanced editing
active scanning
going active
Hot Standby Router Protocol
10. Extended Superframe.
Bc bucket
enable password
SPF algorithm
ESF
11. Network Address Translation-Protocol Translation.
blocking state
NAT-PT
ingress PE
maximum transmission unit
12. 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
subnet ID
isolated VLAN
FHSS
13. An STP timer that dictates the interval at which the Root switch generates and sends Hello BPDUs.
Response (SNMP)
Outside Global address
subnet mask
Hello timer
14. The actual number of packets in a queue at a particular time.
violate category
DSL
distribution list
actual queue depth
15. A single instance of STP that is applied to multiple VLANs - typically when using the 802.1Q trunking standard.
EAP
fraggle attack
Reliable Transport Protocol
Common Spanning Tree
16. An 802.1d STP port state in which the port does not send or receive frames - except for listening for received Hello BPDUs.
subnet ID
ISATAP
DVMRP
blocking state
17. With PIM on a multiaccess network - the PIM router with the highest IP address on the subnet. It is also the IGMPv1 Querier. The DR is responsible for the following tasks: - Sending PIM register and PIM join and prune messages toward the RP to infor
WPA
RSPAN
Modular QoS CLI
designated router (PIM)
18. A routing protocol feature by which the routing update includes only routes that have changed - rather than include the entire set of routes.
multicast scoping
partial update
Context-Based Access Control
PortFast
19. A Cisco IOS configuration tool for RIP and EIGRP for which the list matches routes in routing updates - and adds a defined value to the sent or received metric for the routes. The value added to the metric is the offset.
Digital Signal Level 0
route reflector non-client
Modular QoS CLI
offset list
20. A 3-bit field in an 802.1Q header used for marking frames.
graceful restart (OSPF)
User Priority
data plane
active (EIGRP)
21. Loss of Frame.
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
beacon
LOF
Rapid Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus
22. 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.
RF channel
NLPID
RMON alarm
RID
23. A process used in routers that are encrypting traffic to permit egress QoS actions to be taken on traffic that is being encrypted on that router. QoS pre-classification keeps a copy of each packet to be encrypted in memory long enough to take the app
one-time password
window
QoS pre-classification
MOSPF
24. A component that interfaces with a phone using IP and provides connections to the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN).
IP PBX
CSMA/CD
NetFlow
Inter-Switch Link
25. A neighbor state that signifies the other router has reached neighbor status - having passed the parameter check. The FIB entry details the information needed for forwarding: the next-hop router and the outgoing interface - in an optimized mtrie stru
Forwarding Information Base
Update (EIGRP)
Congestion Avoidance
root port
26. A serial-line encoding standard that sends alternating positive and negative 3-volt signals for binary 1 - and no signal (0 V) for binary 0.
route reflector server
IP Control Protocol
Alternate Mark Inversion
IGMPv2 Leave
27. A tunneling protocol that can be used to encapsulate many different protocol types - including IPv4 - IPv6 - IPsec - and others - to transport them across a network.
generic routing encapsulation
link-state routing protocol
local label
PIM Hello message
28. In the context of SNMP - the GetNext command is sent by an SNMP manager - to an agent - requesting the value of a single MIB variable. The GetNext request identifies a variable for which the manager wants the variable name and value of the next MIB l
switched virtual circuit
IOS Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)
PQ
GetNext
29. Defined in RFC 826 - a protocol used on LANs so that an IP host can discover the MAC address of another device that is using a particular IP address.
Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol
area (OSPF)
Address Resolution Protocol
TTL
30. A calculation of the length of the AS_PATH PA - which includes 1 for each number in the AS_SEQ - 1 for an entire AS_SET segment - and possibly other considerations.
sparse-mode protocol
IP Source Guard
policy map
AS_PATH length
31. Defined in FRF.11 - an FR VC that uses a slightly varied header - as compared with FRF.3 data VCs - to accommodate voice payloads directly encapsulated inside the Frame Relay LAPF header.
Voice over Frame Relay
Link Fragmentation and Interleaving
ASBR
NBAR
32. The speed at which the access link is clocked. This choice affects the price of the connection and many aspects of traffic shaping and policing - compression - quality of service - and other configuration options.
AR access rate.
control plane
Inside Local address
poison reverse
33. 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.
Trap (SNMP)
Temporal Key Integrity Protocol
administratively scoped addresses
exceed
34. Data Set Ready.
IGMPv2 Host Membership Query
Loss of Frame
DSR
encoding
35. Similar to an appliance firewall - in that interfaces are placed into security zones. Traffic is allowed between interfaces in the same zone. You can apply policies to filter and control traffic between zones.
DTIM interval
Hello (OSPF)
Zone-based IOS firewall
LSRefresh
36. A BGP router that forwards iBGP-learned routes to other iBGP routers.
subnet broadcast address
DSCP-to-CoS map
beacon
route reflector server
37. Controls the distribution of multicast traffic by checking the TTL values configured on the interfaces. It forwards the multicast packet only on those interfaces whose configured TTL value is less than or equal to the TTL value of the multicast packe
provider router
TTL scoping
802.11n
DS1
38. The command used to initialize a SPAN or RSPAN session on a Catalyst switch.
GLBP
Extensible Authentication Protocol
Route Distinguisher
monitor session
39. Any other router - sharing a common data link - with which a router exchanges Hellos - and for which the parameters in the Hello pass the parameter-check process.
neighbor (OSPF)
AMI
request-to-send/clear-to-send
Label Switch Router
40. A state variable kept by a router for each known neighbor or potential neighbor.
traffic contract
neighbor state
Context-Based Access Control
confederation ASN
41. Layer 2 payload compression.
PVC
payload compression
Dynamic ARP Inspection
active mode FTP
42. In BGP - a configuration construct in which multiple neighbors' parameters can be configured as a group - thereby reducing the length of the configuration. Additionally - BGP performs routing policy logic against only one set of Updates for the entir
NLRI
shaping rate
exceed
peer group
43. Alternate Mark Inversion. A serial-line encoding standard that sends alternating positive and negative 3-volt signals for binary 1 - and no signal (0 V) for binary 0.
AMI
global routing prefix
area (OSPF)
synchronization
44. A field within a route entry in a routing update - used to associate a generic number with the route. It is used when passing routes between routing protocols - allowing an intermediate routing protocol to pass information about a route that is not n
anycast
Type of Service byte
route redistribution
Route Tag field
45. A bit in the LAPF Frame Relay header that - when set to 1 - implies that the frame has experienced congestion.
Forward Explicit Congestion Notification
administratively scoped addresses
MIB-I
shared distribution tree
46. On a serial cable - the pin lead set by the DCE to imply that the DCE is ready to signal using pin leads
blocking state
Data Set Ready
LSR
mark probability denominator
47. 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.
RSPAN
Network Address Translation
CIR
LSA flooding
48. Slow Start Threshold.
marking down
PIM-SM (S -G) RP-bit Prune
Loop Guard
SSThresh
49. Carrier sense multiple access with collision detection. A media-access mechanism where devices ready to transmit data first check the channel for a carrier. If no carrier is sensed for a specific period of time - a device can transmit. If two devices
CSMA/CD
Voice over Frame Relay
CIDR
WCCP cluster
50. A BGP router in an AS that uses route reflectors - but that is not aided by any RR server.
route reflector non-client
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
DSR
PDU