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CCIE Vocab
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1. A component that interfaces with a phone using IP and provides connections to the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN).
RSPAN
SCP
IP PBX
ACS
2. A generic term that refers to the data structure used by a layer in a layered network architecture when sending data.
IP SLA
protocol data unit
RTS/CTS
link-state advertisement
3. Protocol data unit.
not-so-stubby area
WTD
service set identifier
PDU
4. 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.
confederation
Protocol Independent Multicast sparse-mode routing protocol
subnet zero
Router Advertisement
5. A queuing scheduler's logic by which - if a particular queue has packets in it - those packets always get serviced next.
Bipolar 8 Zero Substitution
Yellow Alarm
Cisco Express Forwarding
strict priority
6. A Cisco router feature in which the router works to prevent SYN attacks either by monitoring TCP connections flowing through the router - or by actively terminating TCP connection until the TCP connection is established and then knitting the client-s
Wi-Fi Protected Access
modified tail drop
TCP intercept
DTE
7. A characterization of a BGP path attribute in which all BGP implementations must support and understand the attribute (well known) - but BGP Updates can either include the attribute or not depending on whether a related feature has been configured (d
auto-negotiation
well-known discretionary
maximum transmission unit
interface ID
8. Excess Burst.
generic routing encapsulation
Be
Neighbor Solicitation
differentiated tail drop
9. The process of sending an infinite-metric route in routing updates when that route fails.
TCP code bits
route poisoning
DMVPN
Layer 2 payload compression
10. An attack similar to a smurf attack - but using packets for the UDP Echo application instead of ICMP.
QV
blocking state
quartet
fraggle attack
11. 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
MLP
ATOMIC_AGGREGATE
fully adjacent (OSPF)
12. 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.
multicasting
Differentiated Services Code Point
trunking
Bootstrap Router (BSR)
13. The portion of PPP focused on supporting the CDP protocol.
confederation identifier
LSRefresh
CDP Control Protocol
multi-action policing
14. An interface on a Cisco IOS-based switch that is treated as if it were an interface on a switch.
CBWFQ
confederation identifier
passive (EIGRP)
switched interface
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.
CS
AS_PATH access list
Control Plane Policing (CoPP)
single-rate - three-color policer
16. Feasible distance.
FD
half duplex
offset list
Network Based Application Recognition
17. A Cisco switch feature that allows separation of ports as if they were in separate VLANs - while allowing the use of a single IP subnet for all ports.
provider router
distance vector
private VLAN
ISATAP
18. 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
SRTT
LSA flooding
Type of Service byte
infrastructure mode
19. The rate at which a policer limits the bits exiting or entering the policer.
fast switching
Maximum Segment Size
policing rate
virtual circuit
20. The RMON function of sending a notification to an RMON collector or the console. Triggered by an RMON event.
RMON alarm
Modular QoS CLI
PHB
data terminal equipment
21. Timer An STP timer that dictates how long a port should stay in the listening state and the learning state.
Forward Delay
direct sequence spread spectrum
request-to-send/clear-to-send
IGMPv2 Host Membership Report
22. Differentiated Services.
Inform
DiffServ
port security
graceful restart (OSPF)
23. A set of all devices for which any frame sent by one of the devices would collide with any frames transmitted at the same time by any of the other devices in the set.
collision domain
frequency hopping spread spectrum
NA
IPv6
24. With a routing update - or routing table entry - the portion of a route that defines the next router to which a packet should be sent to reach the destination subnet. With routing protocols - the Next Hop field may define a router other than the rout
Next Hop field
Time to Live
FRF.11-c
internal router (OSPF)
25. An SPF calculation for which a router does not need to run SPF for any LSAs inside its area - but instead runs a very simple algorithm for changes to LSAs outside its own area.
network layer reachability information
Network Address Translation-Protocol Translation
partial SPF calculation
generic routing encapsulation
26. Defined in RFC 1631 - a method of translating IP addresses in headers with the goal of allowing multiple hosts to share single public IP addresses - thereby reducing IPv4 public address depletion.
Network Address Translation
weight (BGP)
DE
WRR
27. With EIGRP - a purposefully slowly changing measurement of round-trip time between neighbors - from which the EIGRP RTO is calculated.
Smoothed Round-Trip Time
service set identifier
quartet
point coordination function
28. Inter-Switch Link.
ISL
link-state routing protocol
external route
MIB
29. 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.
Border Gateway Protocol
RSTP
MLP LFI
priority (OSPF)
30. 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.
MIB-II
WFQ
Dead Time/Interval
dual stack
31. A group of devices on one or more LANs that are configured (using management software) so that they can communicate as if they were attached to the same wire - when - in fact - they are located on a number of different LAN segments. Because VLANs are
service set identifier
virtual LAN
TCP SYN flood
MTU
32. Another name for Superframe.
NBAR
D4 framing
full SPF calculation
Root Guard
33. A switch feature that limits the number of allowed MAC addresses on a port - with optional limits based on the actual values of the MAC addresses.
port security
U/L bit
eBGP
Label Forwarding Information Base
34. An EIGRP message that is used to ask neighboring routers to verify their route to a particular subnet. Query messages require an Ack.
listening state
Query (EIGRP)
transit network (OSPF)
not-so-stubby area
35. Spanning Tree Protocol.
LSA type (OSPF)
trunking
pruning
STP
36. 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.
RADIUS
private AS
DS1
Area Border Router
37. An interface on a Cisco IOS-based switch that is treated as if it were an interface on a router.
component route
routed interface
LSA
ASBR
38. A problem that occurs when an AS does not run BGP on all routers - with synchronization disabled. The routers running BGP may believe they have working routes to reach a prefix - and forward packets to internal routers that do not run BGP and do not
routing black hole
stub network (OSPF)
CGMP
prefix list
39. An alternative software loaded into a Cisco router - used for low-level debugging and for password recovery.
MPLS TTL propagation
encapsulation
peer group
ROMMON
40. A wireless LAN physical layer that operates at up to 54-Mbps data rates using OFDM in the 5-GHz band.
Remote VLAN
802.11a
frequency hopping spread spectrum
High Density Binary 3
41. The underlying algorithms associated with RIP.
link-local
DD
distance vector
active (EIGRP)
42. 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.
Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP)
sparse-mode protocol
stub network (OSPF)
AMI
43. A single instance of STP that is applied to multiple VLANs - typically when using the 802.1Q trunking standard.
Bipolar Violation
Common Spanning Tree
RADIUS
IP routing
44. Request-to-send/clear-to-send.
data plane
RTS/CTS
SNMP manager
Temporal Key Integrity Protocol
45. Smoothed Round-Trip Time.
DCE
SRTT
Classless IP Addressing
wireless LAN controller
46. Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet. A convention often used as the data link protocol over Cable in which Ethernet is used as the data link protocol - but with PPP being encapsulated inside Ethernet. The combination gives the data link features of
PPPoE
BGP decision process
Link-State Acknowledgment
External BGP
47. Provider edge.
All OSPF DR Routers
PE
internal BGP
STP
48. Virtual LAN.
VLAN
Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus
NO_EXPORT
WCCP cluster
49. A router that is not an ABR or ASBR in that all of its interfaces connect to only a single OSPF area.
Set (SNMP)
224.0.0.5
internal router (OSPF)
quartet
50. Penultimate hop popping.
PHP
egress PE
single-rate - three-color policer
CIR