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CCIE Vocab
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1. 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
penultimate hop popping (PHP)
SN
Dynamic Multipoint VPN
2. 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.
autonomous system
IP SLA
summary route
RPF check
3. With EIGRP - a router sharing the same primary subnet - with which Hellos are exchanged - parameters match - and with which routes can be exchanged.
DS0
Control Plane Policing (CoPP)
RPVST+
neighbor (EIGRP)
4. 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.
Maxage timer (STP)
subnet broadcast address
local computation
Control Plane Policing (CoPP)
5. A T1 alarm state that occurs when the receiver can no longer consistently identify the frame.
Loss of Frame
Dual FIFO
Loop Guard
CE
6. Link Control Protocol.
Auto-RP
LCP
Differentiated Services Code Point
man-in-the-middle attack
7. Digital Signal Level 3.
ACE
Message Digest 5
DS3
SLSM
8. Enhances RP redundancy by providing a method for RPs to exchange multicast source information - even between multicast domains.
Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)
T3
STP
BOOTP
9. A method of collecting traffic received on a switch port or a VLAN and sending it to specific destination ports on the same switch.
distributed coordination function
AS_PATH prepending
SPAN
Class-Based Marking
10. Internet Group Management Protocol.
exponential weighting constant
active mode FTP
client tracking
IGMP
11. A T1 alarm state that occurs when a device receives a Yellow Alarm signal. This typically means that the device on the other end of the line is in a Red Alarm state.
Class-Based Weighted Fair Queuing
local label
Common Spanning Tree
Yellow Alarm
12. A BGP feature by which a router learns iBGP routes - and then forwards them to other iBGP peers - reducing the required number of iBGP peers while also avoiding routing loops.
auto-negotiation
no drop
AES
route reflector
13. A commonly used name for Multi-VRF CE.
Multilayer Switching
IOS Intrusion Prevention System (IPS)
storm control
VRF Lite
14. An Internet standard (RFC 1305) that defines the messages and modes used for IP hosts to synchronize their time-of-day clocks.
GLBP
Garbage timer
Network Time Protocol
transmit power
15. An Internet standard authentication protocol that uses clear-text passwords and a two-way handshake to perform authentication over a PPP link.
CQ
prefix
multicasting
Password Authentication Protocol
16. Network Time Protocol.
NTP
multipath
Be
gateway of last resort
17. The characterization of how far EIGRP Query messages flow away from the router that first notices a failed route and goes active for a particular subnet.
radio management aggregation
autonomous system
synchronization
query scope (EIGRP)
18. Aka receiver's advertised window.
CLP
224.0.0.2
advertised window
PAgP
19. Aka network layer reachability information.
VLAN
DS1
Layer x PDU
NLRI
20. Neighbor Discovery Protocol.
active (EIGRP)
SSM
autonomous system
ND
21. Defines a particular behavior for FTP regarding the establishment of TCP data connections. In passive mode - an FTP server uses the FTP PORT command - over the FTP control connection - to tell the FTP client the port on which the server will be liste
IGMPv3 Host Membership Query
passive mode FTP
Extensible Authentication Protocol
PHB
22. A Cisco IOS configuration tool for routing protocols by which routing updates may be filtered.
Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus
distribution list
stateful autoconfiguration
TTL scoping
23. Internal BGP.
AIS
dense-mode protocol
iBGP
PIR
24. The definitions for a particular set of data variables - with those definitions following the SMI specifications. See also SMI.
IP Source Guard
Management Information Base
Network Address Translation
PIM-DM
25. The difference between the measured signal power and the noise power that a particular receiver sees at a given time. Higher SNRs generally indicate better performance.
expedite queue
Hello (OSPF)
transit network (OSPF)
signal-to-noise ratio
26. A set of DiffServ PHBs that defines 12 DSCP values - with four queuing classes and three drop probabilities within each queuing class.
Assured Forwarding
D4 framing
Modular QoS CLI
flash updates
27. A NAT term describing an IP address representing a host that resides inside the enterprise network - with the address being used in packets inside the enterprise network.
Inside Local address
NS
well-known discretionary
control plane
28. 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.
Alternate Mark Inversion
Digital Signal Level 3
802.11g
SRR
29. A basic form of traffic shaping that is applied to an interface or subinterface. By default - it shapes all traffic leaving the interface - but can be modified by using an access control list. The access list controls only what traffic is shaped; GTS
generic traffic shaping (GTS)
stuck-in-active
AS_SEQUENCE
MIB walk
30. Source-specific multicast.
broadcast subnet
AutoQos
SSM
PHP
31. Request-to-send/clear-to-send.
Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)
exponential weighting constant
fully adjacent (OSPF)
RTS/CTS
32. 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.
authenticator
process switching
Dual FIFO
RADIUS
33. A term referring to the processes and bits in the data stream used to manage the Telco TDM hierarchy.
ND
Operation - Administration - and Maintenance
Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol
IP SLA
34. CDP Control Protocol.
Wireless LAN Threat Defense Solution
RMON collector
CDPCP
Boot Protocol
35. A Cisco switch feature that permits limiting traffic arriving at switch ports by percentage or absolute bandwidth. Separate thresholds are available per port for unicast - multicast - and broadcast traffic.
RPF check
Loop Guard
storm control
MPD
36. An optional contention-free 802.11 access protocol that requires the access point to poll wireless stations before they are able to send frames. Not commonly implemented.
SF
E-LSR
QoS pre-classification
point coordination function
37. A TCP variable used as the basis for a TCP sender's timer defining how long it should wait for a missing acknowledgement before resending the data.
sequence number (OSPF)
Measured Round-Trip Time
query scope (EIGRP)
Feasible Distance
38. Local Management Interface.
MPLS unicast
BPDU Guard
LMI
GLOP addressing
39. The process of running the SPF algorithm against the LSDB - with the result being the determination of the current best route(s) to each subnet.
InARP
BGP table
association ID
SPF calculation
40. An exterior routing protocol designed to exchange prefix information between different autonomous systems. The information includes a rich set of characteristics called path attributes - which in turn allows for great flexibility regarding routing ch
limiting query scope (EIGRP)
Report Suppression mechanism
Border Gateway Protocol
authenticator
41. The second byte of the IP header - formerly known as the ToS byte and redefined by DiffServ.
Discard Eligible
DS field
Gateway Load Balancing Protocol
ATOMIC_AGGREGATE
42. Shaped round-robin.
SRR
promiscuous port
stub router (OSPF)
full duplex
43. A mapping between each DSCP value and a WRED threshold - often used in Cisco LAN switches when performing WRED.
Label Distribution Protocol
IP Precedence
DSCP-to-threshold map
PHP
44. IP routing The simplest MPLS application - involving the advertisement of an IGP to learn IP routes - and LDP or TDP to advertise labels.
NTP broadcast client
external route
policy routing
MPLS unicast
45. Link Aggregation Control Protocol.
DSSS
LACP
Neighbor Solicitation
LSA type (OSPF)
46. A small FIFO queue associated with each router's physical interface - for the purpose of making packets available to the interface hardware - removing the need for a CPU interrupt to start sending the next packet out the interface.
encoding
hardware queue
TCP flags
NEXT_HOP
47. With EIGRP - the timer used to determine when a neighboring router has failed - based on a router not receiving any EIGRP messages - including Hellos - in this timer period.
single-rate - two-color policer
Hold timer
AS_SET
CQ
48. An 802.1d STP transitory port state in which the port does not send or receive frames - but does learn the source MAC addresses from incoming frames.
learning state
frequency hopping spread spectrum
Multicast Open Shortest Path First
BGP
49. In BGP - a feature in which BGP routes cannot be considered to be a best route to reach an NLRI unless that same prefix exists in the router's IP routing table as learned via some IGP.
Hello timer
synchronization
CST
shaped round-robin
50. The actual number of packets in a queue at a particular time.
Multi-VRF CE
actual queue depth
Layer 2 protocol tunneling
CSMA/CD