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CCIE Vocab
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1. A Frame Relay address used in Frame Relay headers to identify the VC
RSTP
PIM-DM
Data-link connection identifier
SSID
2. 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.
time-division multiplexing
subnet number
Access Control Server
pruning
3. 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.
committed information rate
conform
FRF.9
Boot Protocol
4. A PPP feature used to load balance multiple parallel links at Layer 2 by fragmenting frames - sending one frame over each of the links in the bundle - and reassembling them at the receiving end of the link.
active (EIGRP)
Multilink PPP
Enhanced Local Management Interface
OFDM
5. An alternative software loaded into a Cisco router - used for low-level debugging and for password recovery.
MLD
full SPF calculation
shortest-path tree switchover
ROMMON
6. With private VLANs - a port that can send and receive frames with all other ports in the private VLAN.
promiscuous port
authenticator
Multicast Open Shortest Path First
IEEE 802.1X
7. 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.
Remote VLAN
weighted random early detection
policing rate
MIB-I
8. 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.
designated router (PIM)
Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus
External BGP
same-layer interaction
9. Direct sequence spread spectrum.
stub router (EIGRP)
authentication - authorization - and accounting
Modular QoS CLI
DSSS
10. Cisco-proprietary VLAN trunking protocol.
provider router
User Priority
Inter-Switch Link
authentication method
11. In the context of SNMP - the Get command is sent by an SNMP manager - to an agent - requesting the value of a single MIB variable identified in the request. The Get request identifies the exact variable whose value the manager wants to retrieve. Intr
Get (SNMP)
Rapid Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus
transit network (OSPF)
internal BGP
12. 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.
same-layer interaction
triggered updates
Dead Time/Interval
direct sequence spread spectrum
13. A term used in this book to refer to a route that is included in a larger summary route.
component route
provider router
Network Address Translation
reported distance
14. Controls access to the Internet in public wireless LANs.
DTP
isolated VLAN
DHCP snooping binding database
wireless LAN controller
15. The one VLAN on an 802.1Q trunk for which the endpoints do not add the 4-byte 802.1Q tag when transmitting frames in that VLAN.
native VLAN
FD
sequence number (WFQ)
MOSPF
16. Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus.
quantum value
pulse code modulation
ATOMIC_AGGREGATE
PVST+
17. Weighted tail drop.
link-state routing protocol
WTD
request-to-send/clear-to-send
Differentiated Services
18. Database Description.
multicast
PAgP
802.1Q-in-Q
DD
19. A category used by a policer to classify packets relative to the traffic contract. With two-color policers - these packets are considered to be above the contract; for three-color - these packets are above the Bc setting - but within the Be setting.
summary route
exceed
Next Hop field
no drop
20. The most recent standardized set of generic SNMP MIB variables - defined in RFC 1213 and updated in RFCs 2011 through 2013.
EEM
MIB-II
OTP
internal DSCP
21. When a Query is received from a router - each host randomly picks a time between 0 and the Maximum Response Time period to send a Report. When the host with the smallest time period first sends the Report - the rest of the hosts suppress their report
Measured Round-Trip Time
QoS pre-classification
backup designated router
Report Suppression mechanism
22. A BGP process by which a router reapplies routing policy configuration (route maps - filters - and the like) based on stored copies of sent and received BGP Updates.
Router Advertisement
port security
soft reconfiguration
aggregatable global unicast address
23. A protocol - defined in RFC 2865 - that defines how to perform authentication between an authenticator (for example - a router) and an authentication server that holds a list of usernames and passwords.
PPP
prefix list
RADIUS
encapsulation replication
24. An MPLS VPN term referring to the more efficient choice of popping the outer label at the second-to-last (penultimate) LSR - which then prevents the egress PE from having to perform two LFIB lookups to forward the packet.
RXBOOT
policing rate
WCCP
penultimate hop popping (PHP)
25. An EIGRP message that is used to ask neighboring routers to verify their route to a particular subnet. Query messages require an Ack.
SNMP manager
Query (EIGRP)
policing rate
Port Address Translation
26. A queuing scheduler's logic by which - if a particular queue has packets in it - those packets always get serviced next.
hello interval
Outside Global address
NSSA
strict priority
27. Software-based collection and reporting tool for data reported by NetFlow.
NetFlow aggregator
T3
Layer 2 protocol tunneling
dual stack
28. A component that interfaces with a phone using IP and provides connections to the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN).
DS3
IP PBX
configuration register
ESF
29. The rate at which a policer limits the bits exiting or entering the policer.
gateway of last resort
policing rate
TCP header compression
collision domain
30. The All OSPF Routers multicast IP address - listened for by all OSPF routers.
224.0.0.5
aggregate route
transmit power
Forwarding Information Base
31. IP multicast address range from 224.0.0.0 through 239.255.255.255.
virtual circuit
802.11n
OAM
multicast IP address range
32. Receiver's advertised window.
granted window
cross-over cable
OFDM
MaxAge (OSPF)
33. Policing in which a single rate is metered - and packets are placed into one of two categories (conform or exceed).
single-rate - two-color policer
encapsulation
Triggered Extensions to RIP for On-Demand Circuits
Neighbor Solicitation
34. Alternate name for the SPF algorithm - named for its inventor - Edsger W. Dijkstra.
provider router
Differentiated Services
Dijkstra Algorithm
MIB-I
35. Multicast Listener Discovery.
Message Digest 5
WPA
Holddown timer
MLD
36. 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.
UplinkFast
RITE
listening state
Maximum Segment Size
37. EIGRP jargon meaning that EIGRP has placed a route into active status.
FRF.12
LZS
going active
AS_PATH prepending
38. Link Fragmentation and Interleaving.
broadcast address
RTP
LFI
spread spectrum
39. An integer setting for EIGRP and IGRP. Any FS route whose metric is less than this variance multiplier times the successor's metric is added to the routing table - within the restrictions of the maximum-paths command.
variance
promiscuous port
Alternate state
aggregatable global unicast address
40. One of the two modes of MDRR - in which the priority queue is serviced between each servicing of the non-priority queues.
Slow Start Threshold
alternate mode
E1
area (OSPF)
41. Single-bit fields in the TCP header. For example - the TCP SYN and ACK code bits are used during connection establishment.
TCP code bits
IP SLA responder
prefix list
Dynamic ARP Inspection
42. A routing protocol feature by which the routing update includes the entire set of routes - even if some or all of the routes are unchanged.
Management Information Base
totally NSSA area
shaped mode
full update
43. The specific frequency subband on which the radio card or access point is operating. The RF channel is set in the access point or ad hoc stations.
MQC
access link
RF channel
LLQ
44. A 3-bit field in the first 3 bits of the ToS byte in the IP header - used for QoS marking.
Protocol Independent Multicast sparse-mode routing protocol
minimum CIR
FRF.5
IP Precedence
45. Web Cache Communication Protocol.
half duplex
WCCP
classful routing
sub-AS
46. A multicast routing protocol whose default action is to flood multicast packets throughout a network.
RMON collector
Network Based Application Recognition
dense-mode protocol
SVC
47. A set of all devices that receive broadcast frames originating from any device within the set. Devices in the same VLAN are in the same broadcast domain.
ASN
PAT
broadcast domain
DSCP
48. An FRF standard for Frame Relay-to-ATM Service Interworking in which one DTE uses Frame Relay and one uses ATM.
FRF.8
DR election (OSPF)
man-in-the-middle attack
partial SPF calculation
49. This term has two BGP-related definitions. First - it is the normal process in which a router - before sending an Update to an eBGP peer - adds its local ASN to the beginning of the AS_PATH path attribute. Second - it is the routing policy of purpose
ELMI
Dead Time/Interval
AS_PATH prepending
NA
50. 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
WFQ
Network Address Translation
OOF
CSMA/CD