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CCIE Vocab
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1. An 802.1w RSTP port state in which the port is not forwarding or receiving; covers 802.1d port states disabled - blocking - and listening.
discarding state
IP Source Guard
control plane
querier election
2. Border Gateway Protocol.
adjacency table
BGP
Data Terminal Ready
Maximum Segment Size
3. Flush timer.
NBAR
Clear To Send
broadcast subnet
Garbage timer
4. A conceptual model used by CB Policing when using an excess burst.
Differentiated Services
confederation identifier
dual token bucket
Network Based Application Recognition
5. The process of taking the IP - UDP - and RTP headers of a voice or video packet - compressing them - and then uncompressing them on the receiving router.
SLSM
stateless autoconfiguration
RTP header compression
control plane
6. The notation in a Cisco IOS IP routing table that identifies the route used by that router as the default route.
gateway of last resort
FRF
Root Guard
WTD
7. A BGP path attribute that allows routers in one AS to set a value and advertise it into a neighboring AS - impacting the decision process in that neighboring AS. A smaller value is considered better. Also called the BGP metric.
PHP
Alternate state
RADIUS
MULTI_EXIT_DISC (MED)
8. A process whereby a switch - when making a forwarding decision - uses not only Layer 2 logic but other OSI layer equivalents as well.
Multilayer Switching
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
Port Address Translation
scheduler
9. In IPv6 - the Neighbor Discovery message used by an IPv6 node to request information about a neighbor or neighbors.
EGP
link-state advertisement
ACE
Neighbor Solicitation
10. Provider router.
IOS Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)
actual queue depth
P router
LCP
11. WRED is a method of congestion avoidance that works by dropping packets before the output queue becomes completely full. WRED can base its dropping behavior on IP Precedence or DSCP values to drop low-priority packets before high-priority packets.
weighted random early detection
minimum CIR
B8ZS
Forward Explicit Congestion Notification
12. The first 6 bits of the DS field - used for QoS marking.
VLAN
beacon
Cisco Group Management Protocol
Differentiated Services Code Point
13. A wireless LAN that includes the use of access points. Infrastructure mode connects wireless users to a wired network and allows wireless users to roam throughout a facility between different access points. All 802.11 data frames in an infrastructure
generic routing encapsulation
designated port
infrastructure mode
spread spectrum
14. Hot Standby Router Protocol.
PAgP
Web Cache Communication Protocol
K value
HSRP
15. 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.
priority (OSPF)
weighted round-robin
straight-through cable
Control Plane Policing (CoPP)
16. EIGRP jargon meaning that EIGRP has placed a route into active status.
CWND
pruning
going active
Link-State Update
17. A message sent by the multicast router - by default every 60 seconds - on each of its LAN interfaces to determine whether any host wants to receive multicast traffic for any group.
NTP server mode
IGMPv1 Host Membership Query
DHCP snooping binding database
MRTT
18. Calculated measurement based on the actual queue depth and the previous average. Designed to allow WRED to adjust slowly to rapid changes of the actual queue depth.
authentication
Excess
switched interface
average queue depth
19. 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
SCP
Forwarding Information Base
Database Description
data plane
20. 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.
trunking
RT
soft reconfiguration
enhanced editing
21. Any routing protocol that uses the concept of using the SPF algorithm with an LSDB to compute routes.
link-state routing protocol
Join/Prune message
exceed
SPF algorithm
22. Type of Service byte.
ToS byte
supplicant
FIB
distance vector
23. A BGP router in an AS that uses route reflectors - but that is not aided by any RR server.
PIR
Committed Burst
OAM
route reflector non-client
24. The combination of PVST+ and Rapid Spanning Tree. It provides subsecond convergence time and is compatible with PVST+ and MSTP.
Rapid Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus
RTS/CTS
shared mode
Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)
25. Aka Rapid Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus.
MPLS VPNs
RPVST+
SSThresh
backbone area (OSPF)
26. Retransmission Timeout.
DCE
subnet broadcast address
RTO
MDRR
27. A route that is created to represent one or more smaller component routes - typically in an effort to reduce the size of routing and topology tables.
network layer reachability information
summary route
minimum CIR
802.1Q-in-Q
28. VTP pruning.
nested policy maps
Port Address Translation
Protocol Independent Multicast sparse-mode routing protocol
pruning
29. In MPLS VPNs - an entity in a single router that provides a means to separate routes in different VPNs. The VRF includes per-VRF instances of routing protocols - a routing table - and an associated CEF FIB.
Virtual Routing and Forwarding table
conform
one-time password
window
30. Inverse ARP.
Multi-VRF CE
InARP
Multicast Open Shortest Path First
subnet
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
TCP intercept
eBGP multihop
client tracking
Maximum Segment Size
32. Each 802.11 station passively monitors each RF channel for a specific amount of time and listens for beacons. Stations use the signal strengths of found beacons to determine the access point or ad hoc network with which to attempt association.
passive scanning
K value
minimum threshold
MPLS TTL propagation
33. Edge LSR.
DR
subnet
Bootstrap Router (BSR)
E-LSR
34. A route that is used for forwarding packets when the packet does not match any more specific routes in the IP routing table.
DiffServ
rendezvous point
default route
listening state
35. An IPv6 address format used for publicly registered IPv6 addresses.
OFDM
aggregatable global unicast address
virtual link
Port Address Translation
36. A set of packets in an MPLS network for which the MPLS network will apply the exact same forwarding behavior.
Forwarding Equivalence Class
IGMP snooping
Dynamic ARP Inspection
LSDB
37. Digital Signal Level 3.
DS3
TCP flags
direct sequence spread spectrum
SNMP agent
38. Link-State Refresh. A timer that determines how often the originating router should reflood an LSA - even if no changes have occurred to the LSA.
RITE
CHAP
LSRefresh
Maximum Response Time
39. A term referring to EIGRP's internal processing logic.
Backward Explicit Congestion Notification
Diffusing Update Algorithm
private VLAN
Area Border Router
40. A table used by CEF that holds information about adjacent IP hosts to which packets can be forwarded.
adjacency table
AS number
AF
full update
41. A type of OSPF NSSA area for which neither external (type 5) LSAs are introduced - nor type 3 summary LSAs; instead - the ABRs originate and inject default routes into the area. External routes can be injected into a totally NSSA area.
Tc
totally NSSA area
designated router (OSPF)
sub-AS
42. 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.
SNMP agent
NO_EXPORT_SUBCONFED
multi-action policing
infrastructure mode
43. The operating mode of shaped round-robin that provides a low-latency queue with policing.
backup state
shaped mode
administrative weight
internal BGP
44. A state for a route in an EIGRP topology table that indicates that the router is actively sending Query messages for this route - attempting to validate and learn the current best route to that subnet.
active (EIGRP)
MLP
Loop Guard
CB Marking
45. A queuing scheduler's logic by which - if a particular queue has packets in it - those packets always get serviced next.
PIR
strict priority
SMI
access link
46. A calculated TCP variable - used along with the TCP CWND variable - to dictate a TCP sender's behavior when it recognizes packet loss. As CWND grows after packet loss - the TCP sender increases CWND based on Slow Start rules - until CWND grows to be
Slow Start Threshold
PAgP
no drop
boot field
47. In the context of SNMP - the GetBulk command is sent by an SNMP manager - to an agent - requesting the values of multiple variables. The GetBulk command allows retrieval of complex structures - like a routing table - with a single command - as well a
stub area
GetBulk
T1
Maxage timer (STP)
48. The portion of PPP focused on negotiating IP features
Lead Content Engine
IP Control Protocol
variance
Outside Global address
49. Defined in RFC 1293 - this protocol allows a Frame Relay-attached device to react to a received LMI "PVC up" message by announcing its Layer 3 addresses to the device on the other end of the PVC.
Inverse ARP
adjacent-layer interaction
BOOTP
FIB
50. With some routing protocols - the time period between successive Hello messages.
hello interval
Differentiated Services
TTL scoping
sub-AS