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CCIE Vocab
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1. From one perspective - DTE devices are one of two devices on either end of a communications circuit - specifically the device with less control over the communications. In Frame Relay - routers connected to a Frame Relay access link are DTE devices.
multicasting
data terminal equipment
Structure of Management Information
Committed Burst
2. 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.
default route
EEM
quartet
established
3. A BGP neighbor state in which the BGP neighbors have stabilized and can exchange routing information using BGP Update messages.
traffic contract
CHAP
IPv6
established
4. A term used with WFQ for the number assigned to a packet as it is enqueued into a WFQ. WFQ schedules the currently lowest SN packet next.
AAAA
configuration register
BackboneFast
sequence number (WFQ)
5. Bipolar 8 Zero Substitution. A serial-line encoding standard that substitutes Bipolar Violations in a string of eight binary 0s to provide enough signal transitions to maintain synchronization.
RTS
PCM
B8ZS
full drop
6. Defines a particular behavior for FTP regarding the establishment of TCP data connections. In passive mode - an FTP server uses the FTP PORT command - over the FTP control connection - to tell the FTP client the port on which the server will be liste
2Way (OSPF)
NAT-PT
passive mode FTP
Point-to-Point Protocol
7. Shaped round-robin.
TCP code bits
SRR
RP
RID
8. In IPv6 - a Router Advertisement message used by an IPv6 router to send information about itself to nodes and other routers connected to that router.
FECN
Router Advertisement
Alternate state
CWND
9. An IPv6/IPv4 tunneling method that allows isolated IPv6 domains to be connected over an IPv4 network.
PIM-DM
6to4
PHP
Next Hop field
10. Cisco-proprietary STP feature in which an access layer switch is configured to be unlikely to become Root or to become a transit switch. Also - convergence upon the loss of the switch's Root Port takes place in a few seconds.
Inform
CGMP
UplinkFast
LMI
11. An FRF standard for Frame Relay-to-ATM Service Interworking in which one DTE uses Frame Relay and one uses ATM.
weighted tail drop
FRF.8
Ready To Send
SMI
12. Variable-length subnet masking.
VLSM
RTP header compression
well-known discretionary
scheduler
13. 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.
protocol data unit
Smoothed Round-Trip Time
Garbage timer
subnet broadcast address
14. Copper cable with RJ-45 connectors in which the wire at pin 1 on one end is connected to pin 1 on the other end; the wire at pin 2 is connected to pin 2 on the other end; and so on.
straight-through cable
classless routing
Password Authentication Protocol
Triggered Extensions to RIP for On-Demand Circuits
15. Digital subscriber line - a common Internet service type for residential and business customers.
overloading
DSL
disabled state
IGMP
16. 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.
aggregatable global unicast address
AMI
adjacent (OSPF)
IP forwarding
17. On a serial cable - the pin lead set by the DCE to imply a working link.
802.11n
Data Carrier Detect
EAP
Dynamic Trunking Protocol
18. A type of spread spectrum that spreads RF signals over the frequency spectrum by representing each data bit by a longer code. 802.11b specifies the use of DSSS.
passive mode FTP
direct sequence spread spectrum
NLPID
summary route
19. Modular QoS CLI.
shortest-path tree switchover
queue starvation
route reflector
MQC
20. 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
CST
DCE
internal DSCP
generic traffic shaping (GTS)
21. An administrative setting - included in Hellos - that is the first criteria for electing a DR. The highest priority wins - with values from 1-255 - with priority 0 meaning a router cannot become DR or BDR.
PCM
Alternate state
NLRI
priority (OSPF)
22. A Cisco IOS configuration tool for routing protocols by which routing updates may be filtered.
SPF algorithm
224.0.0.6
data plane
distribution list
23. Wi-Fi Protected Access. A security standard that includes both TKIP and AES and was ratified by the Wi-Fi Alliance.
WPA
passive mode FTP
exceed
802.1Q
24. The number of bytes in a queue that are removed per cycle in MDRR. Similar to byte count in the custom queuing (CQ) scheduler.
route reflector
broadcast subnet
Dijkstra Algorithm
quantum value
25. A name used for DS1 lines inside the North American TDM hierarchy.
request-to-send/clear-to-send
feasibility condition
Smoothed Round-Trip Time
T1
26. A NAT term describing the process of multiplexing TCP and UDP flows - based on port numbers - to a small number of public IP addresses. Also called NAT overloading.
Port Address Translation
ForeSight
backbone area (OSPF)
peer group
27. A technology that enables frequency reuse. Two variants exist: frequency hopping (FHSS) and direct sequence (DSSS). Both techniques spread the signal power over a relatively wide portion of the frequency spectrum over time - to reduce interference be
source registration
Superframe
full duplex
spread spectrum
28. Web Cache Communication Protocol.
Cisco Group Management Protocol
WCCP
CE
multicast IP address range
29. An MPLS VPN term referring to any LSR that connects to customers to support the forwarding of unlabeled packets - as well as connecting to the MPLS network to support labeled packets - thereby making the LSR be on the edge between the provider and th
provider edge
authentication
RID
RTS/CTS
30. A list of interspersed alphanumeric literals and metacharacters that are used to apply complex matching logic to alphanumeric strings. Often used for matching AS_PATHs in Cisco routers.
DSCP-to-CoS map
weighted fair queuing
limiting query scope (EIGRP)
regular expression
31. The process of breaking a frame into pieces - sending some of the fragments - and then sending all or part of a different packet - all of which is done to reduce the delay of the second packet.
Link Fragmentation and Interleaving
MIB-I
AAA
mark probability denominator
32. Policing in which a single rate is metered - and packets are placed into one of two categories (conform or exceed).
Wi-Fi Protected Access
minimum CIR
sparse-mode protocol
single-rate - two-color policer
33. Jargon referring to any queue that receives priority service - often used for queues in an LLQ configuration that have the priority command configured.
Outside Global address
dual-rate - three-color policer
Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP)
priority queue
34. A communication protocol between hosts and a multicast router by which routers learn of which multicast groups' packets need to be forwarded onto a LAN.
Internet Group Management Protocol
AES
RPF check
GRE
35. A set of DiffServ PHBs that defines 12 DSCP values - with four queuing classes and three drop probabilities within each queuing class.
global routing prefix
DCE
SSID
Assured Forwarding
36. An 802.1d STP port state in which the port does not send or receive frames - except for listening for received Hello BPDUs.
LOF
blocking state
CTS
STP
37. A Cisco-proprietary messaging protocol implemented in WAN switches that can be used to signal network status - including congestion - independent of end-user frames and cells.
subnet zero
Cisco Group Management Protocol
ForeSight
OAM
38. Digital Signal Level 1.
LDP
DS1
SMI
Network Based Application Recognition
39. Uses Modular QoS CLI to control the amount and type of traffic handled by the router or switch control plane. Class maps identify traffic types - and then a service policy applied to the device control plane sets actions for each type of traffic.
Reply (EIGRP)
SSID
Control Plane Policing (CoPP)
passive mode FTP
40. WRED compares this setting to the average queue depth to decide whether packets should be discarded. All packets are discarded if the average queue depth rises above this maximum threshold.
distance vector
LSR
maximum threshold
DR
41. An exterior routing protocol that predates BGP. It is no longer used today.
virtual link
Exterior Gateway Protocol
AS_PATH length
Congestion Avoidance
42. Ethernet process by which devices attached to the same cable negotiate their speed and the duplex settings over the cable.
auto-negotiation
priority (OSPF)
hardware queue
trunking
43. The RFC-standard MPLS protocol used to advertise the binding (mapping) information about each particular IP prefix and associated label. See also TDP.
Dynamic Trunking Protocol
Congestion Avoidance
Label Distribution Protocol
IP SLA
44. A reserved value for the BGP COMMUNITY path attribute that implies that the route should not be advertised to any other peer.
enable password
AR access rate.
NO_ADVERT
Be bucket
45. The router in a VRRP group that is currently actively forwarding IP packets. Conceptually the same as an HSRP Active router.
DSCP-to-CoS map
VRRP Master router
source registration
minimum CIR
46. Switched virtual circuit.
SVC
priority (OSPF)
active scanning
AutoQos
47. Designed to solve the problems of multicast duplication and multicast routing loops. For every multicast packet received - a multicast router examines its source IP address - consults its unicast routing table - determines which interface it would us
peer group
RPF check
dense-mode protocol
NO_ADVERT
48. Superframe
CS
maximum transmission unit
Password Authentication Protocol
SF
49. 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.
Ack (EIGRP)
224.0.0.2
transmit power
Inverse ARP
50. The process of installing a multicast application; also referred to as launching an application.
joining a group
Dual FIFO
T3
DVMRP