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CCIE Vocab
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1. Differentiated Services.
DiffServ
NLPID
Reply (EIGRP)
radio management aggregation
2. Extensible Authentication Protocol.
area (OSPF)
EAP
weight (BGP)
DSL
3. An issue whereby parts of the RF signal take different paths from the source to the destination - which causes direct and reflected signals to reach the receiver at different times - and corresponding bit errors.
multipath
Update (EIGRP)
CBWFQ
active scanning
4. The SNMP specifications - standardized in RFCs - defining the rules by which SNMP MIB variables should be defined.
average queue depth
Structure of Management Information
Measured Round-Trip Time
subnet number
5. Class-Based Weighted Fair Queuing.
CBWFQ
regular expression
FRF.8
overloading
6. Layer 2 payload compression.
Control Plane Policing (CoPP)
payload compression
local computation
link-state database
7. 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.
Alternate Mark Inversion
route reflector
learning state
BGP
8. Customer edge.
payload compression
CE
Multicast Open Shortest Path First
network layer reachability information
9. A wireless LAN physical layer that operates at up to 11-Mbps data rates using DSSS in the 2.4-GHz band.
802.11b
global routing prefix
Virtual Routing and Forwarding table
IGMPv2 Leave
10. An NTP mode in which two or more NTP servers mutually synchronize their clocks.
minimum threshold
Neighbor Discovery Protocol
client tracking
NTP symmetric active mode
11. Also called VLAN trunking - a method (using either the Cisco ISL protocol or the IEEE 802.1Q protocol) to support carrying traffic between switches for multiple VLANs that have members on more than one switch.
Inter-Switch Link
trunking
RTS/CTS
smurf attack
12. Defined in RFC 2091 - the extensions define how RIP may send a full update once - and then send updates only when routes change - when an update is requested - or when a RIP interface changes state from down to up.
Triggered Extensions to RIP for On-Demand Circuits
control plane
SRTT
reported distance
13. The destination VLAN for an RSPAN session.
SSThresh
authentication method
Remote VLAN
Cisco Group Management Protocol
14. The Lempel Ziv STAC compression algorithm is used in Frame Relay networks to define dynamic dictionary entries that list a binary string from the compressed data and an associated smaller string that represents it during transmission
ToS byte
STP
LZS
collision domain
15. Authentication - authorization - and accounting.
Slow Start Threshold
Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus
AAA
totally NSSA area
16. A BGP neighbor state in which the BGP neighbors have stabilized and can exchange routing information using BGP Update messages.
active mode FTP
custom queuing
storm control
established
17. VLAN Trunking Protocol.
Differentiated Services
Triggered Extensions to RIP for On-Demand Circuits
traffic contract
VTP
18. The signal strength of the RF signal at the output of the radio card or access point transmitter - before being fed into the antenna. Measured in milliwatts - watts - or dBm.
RTP header compression
transmit power
RADIUS
optional nontransitive
19. An optional contention-free 802.11 access protocol that requires the access point to poll wireless stations before they are able to send frames. Not commonly implemented.
Multilink PPP
Context-Based Access Control
NBAR
point coordination function
20. With OSPF - the timer used to determine when a neighboring router has failed - based on a router not receiving any OSPF messages - including Hellos - in this timer period.
Dead Time/Interval
Boot Protocol
enable secret
listening state
21. A Frame Relay address used in Frame Relay headers to identify the VC
label switched path
Data-link connection identifier
virtual circuit
Cisco Express Forwarding
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
Bootstrap Router (BSR)
LACP
Report Suppression mechanism
proxy ARP
23. The process of taking a PDU from some other source and placing a header in front of the original PDU - and possibly a trailer behind it.
encapsulation
link-state advertisement
authentication - authorization - and accounting
VRF table
24. Any OSPF neighbor for which the database flooding process has completed.
Enhanced Local Management Interface
ForeSight
fully adjacent (OSPF)
E1 route (OSPF)
25. A mechanism for conserving battery power in wireless stations. The access point buffers data frames destined to sleeping stations - which wake periodically to learn from information in the beacon frame whether or not data frames are waiting for trans
multicast MAC address
route reflector server
power-save mode
Dynamic Multipoint VPN
26. Defined in RFC 3748 - the protocol used by IEEE 802.1X for exchanging authentication information.
data communications equipment
Extensible Authentication Protocol
IGMPv3 Host Membership Query
CHAP
27. An EIGRP message that is used to acknowledge reliable EIGRP messages - namely Update - Query - and Reply messages. Acks do not require an Ack.
MQC
classless routing
SNMP agent
Ack (EIGRP)
28. In MPLS VPNs - a 64-bit Extended Community path attribute attached to a BGP route for the purpose of controlling into which VRFs the route is added.
Route Target
sequence number (OSPF)
hello interval
broadcast subnet
29. The 32-bit number used to represent an OSPF router.
router ID
hello interval
PCM
route map
30. Cisco Wireless LAN Solution Engine.
query scope (EIGRP)
Control Plane Policing (CoPP)
WLSE
Classless IP Addressing
31. A TCP variable that defines the largest number of bytes allowed in a TCP segment's Data field. The calculation does not include the TCP header. With a typical IP MTU of 1500 bytes - the resulting default MSS would be 1460. TCP hosts must support an M
inspection rule
Maximum Segment Size
sequence number (OSPF)
MD5
32. Weighted fair queuing.
Tag Distribution Protocol
Bc bucket
WFQ
terminal history
33. A 3-tuple consisting of an IP address - port number - and transport layer protocol. TCP connections exist between a pair of sockets.
socket
RTO
MSS
VoFR
34. A term referring generically to ways in which a router or switch can determine whether a particular device or user should be allowed access.
authentication method
route reflector client
Inter-Switch Link
Protocol Independent Multicast sparse-mode routing protocol
35. 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
actual queue depth
U/L bit
Digital Signal Level 3
request-to-send/clear-to-send
36. A security standard that includes both TKIP and AES and was ratified by the Wi-Fi Alliance.
sparse-mode protocol
MIB
internal router (OSPF)
Wi-Fi Protected Access
37. Expedited Forwarding.
Layer 2 payload compression
EF
CLP
IPv4
38. An STP timer that dictates how long a switch should wait when it ceases to hear Hellos.
stub router (OSPF)
interface ID
Maximum Segment Size
Maxage timer (STP)
39. Multicast Listener Discovery.
FRF.5
MLD
route poisoning
Password Authentication Protocol
40. PIM-SM is a method of routing multicast packets that requires some intelligence in the network about the locations of receivers so that multicast traffic is not flooded into areas with no receivers. PIM Sparse Mode gets its name from the assumption t
Next Hop field
Protocol Independent Multicast sparse-mode routing protocol
MRT
forwarding state
41. With EIGRP - for a particular route - the case in which the RD is lower than the FD.
congestion window
feasibility condition
MPLS unicast
scheduler
42. PIM-DM is a method of routing multicast packets that depends on a flood-and-prune approach. PIM Dense Mode gets its name from the assumption that there are many receivers of a particular multicast group - close together (from a network perspective).
Protocol Independent Multicast dense-mode routing protocol
RMON collector
graceful restart (OSPF)
sticky learning
43. A BGP router that - unknown to it - is aided by a route reflector server to cause all iBGP routers in an AS to learn all eBGP-learned prefixes.
UniDirectional Link Detection
Garbage timer
GetNext
route reflector client
44. Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol.
Expedited Forwarding
Inside Local address
Multicast Listener Discovery
VRRP
45. The algorithm used by OSPF and IS-IS to compute routes based on the LSDB.
SPF algorithm
shaping rate
MTU
TACACS+
46. In OSPF - a router that is prepared to take over the designated router.
Time Interval (Tc)
backup designated router
multicast
CSMA/CD
47. An EIGRP message that identifies neighbors - exchanges parameters - and is sent periodically as a keepalive function. Hellos do not require an Ack.
proxy ARP
neighbor state
Hello (EIGRP)
Reply (EIGRP)
48. A type of OSPF packet used to exchange and acknowledge LSA headers. Sometimes called DBD.
policy routing
SVC
Database Description
Access Control Entry
49. External BGP.
queue starvation
classless routing
eBGP
ORIGINATOR_ID
50. 64 bits at the end of an IPv6 global address - used to uniquely identify each host in a subnet.
interface ID
Router Advertisement
MQC
Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol