SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
CCIE Vocab
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
certifications
,
ccie
,
it-skills
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. On a serial cable - the pin lead set by the DCE to imply that the DCE is ready to signal using pin leads
Data Set Ready
PDU
virtual link
source DR
2. A Frame Relay traffic shaping feature during which the shaping rate is reduced when the shaper notices congestion through the receipt of BECN or ForeSight messages.
VLSM
adaptive shaping
SRR
path attribute
3. 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.
TDM
prefix list
Network Address Translation
VLAN
4. 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
GetBulk
switched virtual circuit
Common Spanning Tree
ABR
5. A term referring to the MQC policy-map command and its related subcommands - which are used to apply QoS actions to classes of packets.
policy map
MQC
distance vector
router ID
6. Excess Burst.
User Priority
Be
RMON collector
Data Set Ready
7. The destination VLAN for an RSPAN session.
E2 route (OSPF)
Network Address Translation-Protocol Translation
Remote VLAN
confederation ASN
8. A specification for the 64-bit interface ID in an IPv6 address - composed of the first half of a MAC address - hex FFFE - and the last half of the MAC.
distribution list
EUI-64
quantum value
promiscuous port
9. 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
Maximum Segment Size
proxy ARP
GetNext
switched interface
10. Temporal Key Integrity Protocol.
QoS pre-classification
TKIP
Port Aggregation Protocol
SSM
11. The multicast IP address 224.0.0.6 - listened for by DR and BDR routers.
prefix
VRF table
All OSPF DR Routers
well-known discretionary
12. Digital Signal Level 3.
EUI-64
DS3
SNMP agent
Graft Ack message
13. A Cisco-proprietary protocol - used by LAN switches to communicate VLAN configuration.
area (OSPF)
VLAN Trunking Protocol
going active
High Density Binary 3
14. A security standard that includes both TKIP and AES and was ratified by the Wi-Fi Alliance.
Data Carrier Detect
LSU
Wi-Fi Protected Access
224.0.0.2
15. 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
virtual LAN
STP
AS_PATH
private VLAN
16. With RIP - a per-route timer that increases until the router receives a routing update that confirms the route is still valid - upon which the timer is reset to 0. If the updates cease - the Invalid timer will grow - until reaching the timer setting
Database Description
Invalid timer
Temporal Key Integrity Protocol
Auto-RP
17. A message sent by a router - after receiving a Leave message from a host - to determine whether there are still any active members of the group. The router uses the group address as the destination address.
IGMPv2 Group-Specific Query
All OSPF Routers
Digital Signal Level 1
broadcast address
18. Cisco IOS router feature by which a route map determines how to forward a packet - typically based on information in the packet other than the destination IP address.
stub network (OSPF)
policy routing
man-in-the-middle attack
Be
19. A wireless LAN physical layer that operates at up to 11-Mbps data rates using DSSS in the 2.4-GHz band.
Reply (EIGRP)
RT
802.11b
stuck-in-active
20. The Lempel Ziv STAC compression algorithm is used in Frame Relay networks to define dynamic dictionary entries that list a binary string from the compressed data and an associated smaller string that represents it during transmission
LZS
network type (OSPF)
policy routing
FRF.5
21. With EIGRP - the metric value for the lowest-metric route to a particular subnet.
advertised window
Feasible Distance
encapsulation
LFI
22. With EIGRP - a router sharing the same primary subnet - with which Hellos are exchanged - parameters match - and with which routes can be exchanged.
DUAL
neighbor (EIGRP)
CHAP
FRF.11-c
23. With EIGRP - for a particular route - the case in which the RD is lower than the FD.
permanent multicast group
802.11a
E2 route (OSPF)
feasibility condition
24. A logical concept that represents the path over which frames travel between DTEs. VCs are particularly useful when comparing Frame Relay to leased physical circuits.
Layer 2 payload compression
Bootstrap Router (BSR)
virtual circuit
successor route
25. A mapping between each DSCP value and a WRED threshold - often used in Cisco LAN switches when performing WRED.
DSCP-to-threshold map
Auto-RP
Loss of Frame
marking down
26. An optional transitive BGP path attribute used to store 32-bit decimal values. Used for flexible grouping of routes by assigning the group the same COMMUNITY value. Other routers can apply routing policies based on the COMMUNITY value. Used in a larg
COMMUNITY
ISL
enable secret
TDM hierarchy
27. A WRED process by which WRED discards all newly arriving packets intended for a queue - based on whether the queue's maximum threshold has been exceeded.
full drop
224.0.0.6
RTO
Neighbor Type
28. DCE devices are one of two devices on either end of a communications circuit - specifically the device with more control over the communications. Frame Relay switches are DCE devices. DCEs are also known as data circuit-terminating equipment (DTE).
Inter-Switch Link
Class Selector
Maxage timer (STP)
data communications equipment
29. Link Fragmentation and Interleaving.
LFI
Multiple Spanning Trees
Class-Based Marking
InARP
30. Regeneration of the Layer 2 encapsulation removed from frames forwarded in a SPAN session.
encapsulation replication
Address Resolution Protocol
PIM-SM
window
31. An address type in IPv6 networks that is used only on the local link and never beyond that scope.
network type (OSPF)
link-local
aggregatable global unicast address
synchronization
32. In the context of SNMP - the Inform command is sent by an SNMP manager to communicate a set of variables - and their values - to another SNMP manager. The main purpose is to allow multiple managers to exchange MIB information - and work together - wi
RTO
IGMP
Inform
terminal history
33. With routing protocols - the process by which the router receiving a routing update determines if the routing update came from a trusted router.
metric
DTR
LOF
authentication
34. 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.
shaped round-robin
dual-rate - three-color policer
AR access rate.
variance
35. Jargon referring to a policer action through which - instead of discarding an out-of-contract packet - the policer marks a different IPP or DSCP value - allowing the packet to continue on its way - but making the packet more likely to be discarded la
window
Class of Service
nested policy maps
marking down
36. Inter-Switch Link.
source-specific addresses
route reflector non-client
neighbor (OSPF)
ISL
37. A Cisco-proprietary feature. After a Cisco multicast router receives IGMP Join or Leave messages from hosts - it communicates to the connected Cisco switches - telling them which hosts (based on their unicast MAC addresses) have joined or left each m
FHSS
ACS
shortest-path tree switchover
Cisco Group Management Protocol
38. In the PIM-SM design - the process by which a PIM-SM router can build the SPT between itself and the source of a multicast group and take advantage of the most efficient path available from the source to the router as long as it has one directly conn
Discard Eligible
Invalid timer
shortest-path tree switchover
SSThresh
39. Cisco Wireless LAN Solution Engine.
Backward Explicit Congestion Notification
Layer 2 protocol tunneling
WLSE
inspection rule
40. A conceptual model used by CB Policing when using an excess burst.
Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
dual token bucket
ND
Frame Relay LFI Using Multilink PPP (MLP)
41. In IPv6 DNS - the IPv6 equivalent of an IPv4 DNS A record.
Dead Time/Interval
edge LSR
AAAA
AES
42. Port Address Translation.
Auto-RP
hardware queue
ad hoc mode
PAT
43. A Cisco-proprietary protocol 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.
rendezvous point
transmit power
Route Tag field
TACACS+
44. A 48-bit address that is calculated from a Layer 3 multicast address by using 0x0100.5E as the multicast vendor code (OUI) for the first 24 bits - always binary 0 for the 25th bit - and copying the last 23 bits of the Layer 3 multicast address.
token bucket
multicast MAC address
split horizon
SNMP agent
45. Multicast Open Shortest Path First.
BOOTP
MOSPF
public wireless LAN
process switching
46. With EIGRP - a route that is not a successor route - but that meets the feasibility condition; can be used when the successor route fails - without causing loops.
feasible successor
poison reverse
TACACS+
sequence number (WFQ)
47. Three core security functions.
HSRP
dual token bucket
DS0
authentication - authorization - and accounting
48. 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.
LSRefresh
MRTT
E-LSR
Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol
49. A characterization of a BGP path attribute in which BGP implementations are not required to support the attribute (optional) - and for which if a router receives a route with such an attribute - the router should forward the attribute unchanged (tran
ASBR
prefix
optional transitive
Access Control Entry
50. Address Resolution Protocol. Defined in RFC 826 - a protocol used on LANs so that an IP host can discover the MAC address of another device that is using a particular IP address.
ARP
CHAP
NetFlow
reported distance