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CCIE Vocab
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1. An STP timer that dictates the interval at which the Root switch generates and sends Hello BPDUs.
Hello timer
granted window
modified tail drop
Message Digest 5
2. With EIGRP - the metric value for the lowest-metric route to a particular subnet.
eBGP multihop
hello interval
Feasible Distance
overlapping VPN
3. Defines a particular wireless LAN. The SSID configured in the radio card must match the SSID in the access point before the station can connect with the access point.
service set identifier
Zone-based IOS firewall
designated router (PIM)
GRE
4. A standard (RFC 903) protocol by which a LAN-attached host can dynamically broadcast a request for a server to assign it an IP address. See also ARP.
PDU
IPv6
LZS
Reverse ARP
5. An early standard from AT&T for encoding analog voice as a digital signal for transmission over a TDM network. PCM requires 64 kbps - and is the basis for the DS0 speed.
multicasting
subnet broadcast address
NO_EXPORT_SUBCONFED
pulse code modulation
6. Aka network layer reachability information.
maximum transmission unit
backup state
Local Management Interface
NLRI
7. With some routing protocols - the time period between successive Hello messages.
VRF Lite
CoS
AutoQos
hello interval
8. Diffusing Update Algorithm.
NO_EXPORT_SUBCONFED
InARP
DUAL
Gateway Load Balancing Protocol
9. 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.
LSA flooding
802.11a
Triggered Extensions to RIP for On-Demand Circuits
Local Management Interface
10. The Frame Relay protocol used between a DCE and DTE to manage the connection. Signaling messages for SVCs - PVC Status messages - and keepalives are all LMI messages.
Local Management Interface
Structure of Management Information
transmit power
multicast state information
11. An NTP client that assumes that a server will send NTP broadcasts - removing the requirement for the client to have the NTP server's IP address preconfigured.
egress PE
NTP broadcast client
DHCP
RMON collector
12. Records client authentication and roaming events - which are sent to the CiscoWorks Wireless LAN Solution Engine (WLSE) to monitor client associations to specific access points.
ISL
Management Information Base
ISATAP
client tracking
13. Reported distance or Route Distinguisher.
CB Marking
DHCP snooping
RD
Tag Distribution Protocol
14. The process of taking the IP and TCP headers of a packet - compressing them - and then uncompressing them on the receiving router.
provider router
DE
TCP header compression
MLP LFI
15. One of the two modes of MDRR - in which the priority queue is serviced between each servicing of the non-priority queues.
forwarding state
alternate mode
RTS/CTS
classful routing
16. A BGP router in an AS that uses route reflectors - but that is not aided by any RR server.
Excess
WPA
route reflector non-client
CHAP
17. An OSPF external route for which internal OSPF cost is not added to the cost of the route as it was redistributed into OSPF.
E2 route (OSPF)
customer edge
Flush timer
partial update
18. A strategy for subnetting a classful network for which masks/prefixes are different for some subnets of that one classful network.
variable-length subnet masking
E-LSR
Link Aggregation Control Protocol
RTS
19. An OSPF external route for which internal OSPF cost is added to the cost of the route as it was redistributed into OSPF.
E1 route (OSPF)
infrastructure mode
RARP
native VLAN
20. The protocol used in IPv6 for many functions - including address autoconfiguration - duplicate address detection - router - neighbor - and prefix discovery - neighbor address resolution - and parameter discovery.
Neighbor Discovery Protocol
variance
Assert message
virtual link
21. The number of beacons that governs how often multicast frames are sent over a wireless LAN.
DTIM interval
MLP LFI
Superframe
CIDR
22. A name used for DS1 lines inside the European TDM hierarchy.
active mode FTP
soft reconfiguration
E1
P router
23. Defined in IEEE 802.1d - a protocol used on LAN bridges and switches to dynamically define a logical network topology that allows all devices to be reached - but prevents the formation of loops.
Spanning Tree Protocol
regular expression
Join/Prune message
Label Forwarding Information Base
24. Multicast addresses that are not assigned by IANA.
transient multicast group
totally NSSA area
SPF algorithm
totally stubby area
25. 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.
Update timer (RIP)
subnet number
passive scanning
802.11b
26. A name used for DS3 lines inside the European TDM hierarchy.
E3
split horizon
DHCP
MPLS VPNs
27. With RIP - the advertisement of a poisoned route out an interface - when that route was formerly not advertised out that interface due to split horizon rules.
poison reverse
TTL
stub network (OSPF)
LCP
28. Data Set Ready.
PPPoE
DSR
community VLAN
FRF.11-c
29. When subnetting a class A - B - or C address - the subnet for which all subnet bits are binary 0.
superior BPDU
CLP
subnet zero
subnet
30. Cisco-proprietary VLAN trunking protocol.
stub network (OSPF)
Inter-Switch Link
BECN
802.11a
31. A numeric value between 0 and 32 (inclusive) that defines the number of beginning bits in an IP address for which all IP addresses in the same group have the same value. Alternative: The number of binary 1s beginning a subnet mask - written as a deci
spread spectrum
prefix
Inter-Switch Link
stub router (EIGRP)
32. A dotted-decimal number used to help define the structure of an IP address. The binary 0s in the mask identify the host portion of an address - and the binary 1s identify either the combined network and subnet part (when thinking classfully) or the n
subnet mask
socket
prefix list
Be
33. 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
IGMPv2 Leave
WTD
Out of Frame
34. Database Description.
smurf attack
IP SLA
authentication - authorization - and accounting
DD
35. Variable name for the time interval used by shapers and by CAR.
Time Interval (Tc)
Next Hop field
network layer reachability information
authentication server
36. 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.
ForeSight
Voice over Frame Relay
aggregate route
quantum value
37. The router in a VRRP group that is currently actively forwarding IP packets. Conceptually the same as an HSRP Active router.
TCP intercept
Multilayer Switching
VRRP Master router
CBAC
38. 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.
Bc bucket
full duplex
Multilink PPP
graceful restart (OSPF)
39. A neighbor state that signifies the other router has reached neighbor status - having passed the parameter check.
2Way (OSPF)
granted window
minimum CIR
path attribute
40. Wired Equivalent Privacy.
Class Selector
Reliable Transport Protocol
iBGP
WEP
41. Router Advertisement.
CIR
EUI-64
DCE
RA
42. Refers to how a router views a BGP peer relationship - in which the peer is in the same AS.
Local Management Interface
internal BGP
SNMP agent
full drop
43. A multicast routing protocol that operates in dense mode and depends on the OSPF unicast routing protocol to perform its multicast functions.
LSA flooding
global routing prefix
shared mode
Multicast Open Shortest Path First
44. A method for optimizing the flow of multicast IP packets passing through a LAN switch. The switch using IGMP snooping examines IGMP messages to determine which ports need to receive traffic for each multicast group.
IGMP snooping
IEEE 802.1X
internal DSCP
VC
45. On a serial cable - the pin lead set by the DCE to imply a working link.
AS_PATH length
supplicant
Data Carrier Detect
access rate
46. Maximum transmission unit.
variable-length subnet masking
MTU
superior BPDU
policing rate
47. Link Control Protocol.
LCP
tail drop
LDP
Management Information Base
48. Inter-Switch Link.
internal BGP
ISL
WTD
router ID
49. Extended Superframe.
Update timer (RIP)
ESF
encapsulation
port security
50. 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
not-so-stubby area
Hello (OSPF)
Maximum Segment Size
frequency hopping spread spectrum