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CCIE Vocab
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1. Cisco-proprietary STP feature in which a switch port monitors for incoming superior Hellos - and reacts to a superior Hello to prevent any switch connected to that port from becoming root.
User Priority
CBWFQ
Inside Global address
Root Guard
2. The number of beacons that governs how often multicast frames are sent over a wireless LAN.
DTIM interval
IGMPv2 Host Membership Report
dense-mode protocol
NS
3. 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.
hardware queue
advertised window
RMON alarm
802.11a
4. A Layer 3 forwarding path through a router that does not optimize the forwarding path through the router.
Protocol Independent Multicast sparse-mode routing protocol
adaptive shaping
process switching
granted window
5. An IPv6 address type that is used by a number of hosts in a network that are providing the same service. Hosts accessing the service are routed to the nearest host in an anycast environment based on routing protocol metrics.
anycast
HDB3
Trap (SNMP)
FD
6. An MPLS term referring to any device that can forward packets that have MPLS labels.
internal BGP
Label Switch Router
designated router (PIM)
shared mode
7. Provider router.
RPF check
route reflector server
Class-Based Marking
P router
8. Finish time.
Zone-based IOS firewall
Backward Explicit Congestion Notification
FT
modified tail drop
9. VTP process that prevents the flow of broadcasts and unknown unicast Ethernet frames in a VLAN from being sent to switches that have no ports in that VLAN.
AAAA
CE
SSID
VTP pruning
10. The router in a VRRP group that is currently actively forwarding IP packets. Conceptually the same as an HSRP Active router.
VRRP Master router
private AS
Message Digest 5
SPAN
11. 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.
permanent virtual circuit
Inside Local address
violate category
sequence number (OSPF)
12. A term referring to EIGRP's internal processing logic.
Diffusing Update Algorithm
unicast MAC address
outer label
Access Control Entry
13. In switch port security - the process whereby the switch dynamically learns the MAC address(es) of the device(s) connected to a switch port - and then adds those addresses to the running configuration as allowed MAC addresses for port security.
Access Control Server
IEEE 802.1X
sticky learning
P router
14. Digital Signal Level 1.
DS1
TKIP
upstream router
stub router (EIGRP)
15. A BGP path attribute that implies how the route was originally injected into some router's BGP table.
DR
SMI
Forwarding Information Base
ORIGIN
16. In the context of SNMP - the GetNext command is sent by an SNMP manager - to an agent - requesting the value of a single MIB variable. The GetNext request identifies a variable for which the manager wants the variable name and value of the next MIB l
Route Distinguisher
DUAL
GetNext
SRR
17. An STP timer that dictates the interval at which the Root switch generates and sends Hello BPDUs.
AS number
IP routing
Hello timer
Maximum Response Time
18. With shaping - the number of bits allowed to be sent every Tc. Also defines the size of the token bucket when Be = 0.
area (OSPF)
Committed Burst
LSU
virtual link
19. With private VLANs - a secondary VLAN in which the ports can send and receive frames only with promiscuous ports in the primary VLAN.
Ready To Send
224.0.0.6
isolated VLAN
DiffServ
20. Generic routing encapsulation.
framing
Wireless LAN Threat Defense Solution
GRE
LOF
21. Dynamic Trunking Protocol.
DTP
MIB walk
Dijkstra Algorithm
EAP over LAN
22. In OSPF - a router that is prepared to take over the designated router.
DTE
backup designated router
Class-Based Weighted Fair Queuing
Access Control Entry
23. Reported distance or Route Distinguisher.
Diffusing Update Algorithm
Dynamic Multipoint VPN
Label Switch Router
RD
24. Advanced Encryption Standard A superior encryption mechanism that is part of the 802.11i standard and has much stronger security than TKIP.
limiting query scope (EIGRP)
SN
RSTP
AES
25. Structure of Management Information.
SMI
stateful autoconfiguration
Report Suppression mechanism
PHP
26. Cisco Express Forwarding.
CEF
BGP
Layer 2 payload compression
DTE
27. A serial-line encoding standard like B8ZS - but with each set of four consecutive 0s being changed to include a Bipolar Violation to maintain synchronization.
customer edge
CBAC
actual queue depth
High Density Binary 3
28. An 802.1d STP port state in which the port has been administratively disabled.
committed information rate
private AS
Address Resolution Protocol
disabled state
29. Retransmission Timeout.
RTO
single-rate - two-color policer
DVMRP
IGMPv3 Host Membership Query
30. With PIM on a multiaccess network - the PIM router with the highest IP address on the subnet. It is also the IGMPv1 Querier. The DR is responsible for the following tasks: - Sending PIM register and PIM join and prune messages toward the RP to infor
LOCAL_AS
wireless LAN controller
designated router (PIM)
E-LSR
31. 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.
Per-Hop Behavior
DS3
same-layer interaction
point coordination function
32. EIGRP jargon meaning that EIGRP has placed a route into active status.
private VLAN
going active
stub router (OSPF)
Cisco Express Forwarding
33. Cisco-proprietary VLAN trunking protocol.
Inter-Switch Link
PPP
Holddown timer
policy map
34. A T1 alarm state that occurs when the receiver can no longer consistently identify the frame.
Loss of Frame
DHCP snooping binding database
synchronization
supplicant
35. Extensible Authentication Protocol.
administrative weight
EAP
802.11g
Cisco Group Management Protocol
36. Data communications equipment.
MLP LFI
FECN
DCE
virtual LAN
37. In the PIM-SM design - the process by which a source DR - after it starts to receive the group traffic - encapsulates the multicast packets in the unicast packets and sends them to the RP.
successor route
2Way (OSPF)
source registration
AS_PATH access list
38. 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.
CST
graceful restart (OSPF)
aggregatable global unicast address
UplinkFast
39. Variable-length subnet masking.
ATOMIC_AGGREGATE
forwarding state
DHCP snooping
VLSM
40. Port Aggregation Protocol.
permanent multicast group
encapsulation replication
PAgP
BSR
41. Reliable Transport Protocol.
RTP
graceful restart (OSPF)
IP SLA responder
established
42. A standard (RFC 3768) feature by which multiple routers can provide interface IP address redundancy so that hosts using the shared - virtual IP address as their default gateway can still reach the rest of a network even if one or more routers fail.
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
backbone area (OSPF)
Classless IP Addressing
transit network (OSPF)
43. Method by which a dense-mode routing protocol distributes multicast traffic from a source to all the segments of a network. Also called shortest-path tree (SPT) - because it uses the shortest routing path from the source to the segments of the networ
IEEE 802.1X
NAT
source-based distribution tree
soft reconfiguration
44. When a PIM-SM router switches from RPT to SPT - it sends a PIM-SM Prune message for the source and the group with the RP bit set to its upstream router on the shared tree. RFC 2362 uses the notation PIM-SM (S - G) RP-bit Prune for this message.
PIM-SM (S -G) RP-bit Prune
IP SLA
ACE
IP SLA responder
45. Copper cable with RJ-45 connectors in which a twisted pair at pins 1 -2 on the first end of the cable is connected to pins 3 -6 on the other end - with a second pair connected to pins 3 -6 on the first end and pins 1 -2 on the other end.
Set (SNMP)
cross-over cable
Reliable Transport Protocol
multicast IP address range
46. Feasible distance.
AMI
FD
Inside Local address
broadcast domain
47. In IPv6 - the Neighbor Discovery message used by an IPv6 node to request information about a neighbor or neighbors.
CHAP
DMVPN
Neighbor Solicitation
IP prefix list
48. Defined in RFC 1293 - this protocol allows a Frame Relay-attached device to react to a received LMI "PVC up" message by announcing its Layer 3 addresses to the device on the other end of the PVC.
IGMPv2 Leave
private VLAN
Border Gateway Protocol
Inverse ARP
49. An FRTS configuration construct - configured with the map-class frame-relay global configuration command.
map class
encapsulation replication
supplicant
FRF.8
50. Policing in which a single rate is metered - and packets are placed into one of three categories (conform - exceed - or violate).
autonomous system
single-rate - three-color policer
CWND
token bucket