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1. A 3-bit field in an 802.1Q header used for marking frames.
CB Marking
User Priority
IGMPv3 Host Membership Report
feasibility condition
2. The same thing as TCP code bits. See TCP code bits.
time-division multiplexing
Neighbor Solicitation
TCP flags
NTP client mode
3. An attack similar to a smurf attack - but using packets for the UDP Echo application instead of ICMP.
subnet ID
Differentiated Services
fraggle attack
DHCP
4. An 802.11 frame that access points or stations in ad hoc networks send periodically so that wireless stations can discover the presence of a wireless LAN and coordinate use of certain protocols - such as power-save mode.
beacon
PPPoE
Layer 2 payload compression
established
5. Generic routing encapsulation.
Multicast Listener Discovery
GRE
sequence number (OSPF)
RP
6. Data terminal equipment.
Backward Explicit Congestion Notification
DTE
LSRefresh
link-state advertisement
7. Temporal Key Integrity Protocol.
TKIP
LZS
stateful autoconfiguration
synchronization
8. An interface on a Cisco IOS-based switch that is treated as if it were an interface on a router.
routed interface
remote label
cross-over cable
Port Address Translation
9. In SNMP - the process of a manager using successive GetNext and GetBulk commands to discover the exact MIB structure supported by an SNMP agent. The process involves the manager asking for each successive MIB leaf variable.
MIB walk
MaxAge (OSPF)
backup designated router
Multi-VRF CE
10. Variable-length subnet masking.
queue starvation
VLSM
actual queue depth
policy map
11. 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.
granted window
full drop
full SPF calculation
AS_PATH
12. In IPv6 - an address used in the Neighbor Discovery (ND) process. The format for these addresses is FF02::1:FF00:0000/104 - and each IPv6 host must join the corresponding group for each of its unicast and anycast addresses.
Multicast Source Discovery Protocol (MSDP)
solicited node multicast
fragmentation
flash updates
13. The router that will receive the group traffic when a multicast router forwards group traffic to another router.
SPAN
downstream router
Frame Relay Forum
multicasting
14. 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.
Reverse ARP
RITE
RTP header compression
SN
15. Exterior Gateway Protocol.
DROther
limiting query scope (EIGRP)
K value
EGP
16. In MPLS - a term used to define a label that an LSR learned from a neighboring LSR.
PHP
VRRP
remote label
configuration register
17. Ready To Send.
RTS
virtual IP address
designated port
interface ID
18. An exterior routing protocol that predates BGP. It is no longer used today.
Exterior Gateway Protocol
Network Based Application Recognition
Alternate Mark Inversion
LOF
19. 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
conform
Auto-RP
Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol
passive mode FTP
20. Finish time.
QoS pre-classification
FEC
Congestion Avoidance
FT
21. A standard (RFC 951) protocol by which a LAN-attached host can dynamically broadcast a request for a server to assign it an IP address - along with other configuration settings - including a subnet mask and default gateway IP address.
PAgP
Rapid Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus
router ID
Boot Protocol
22. Enables a wireless client to securely roam between access points in the same subnet or between subnets with access point handoff times within 50 ms.
Database Description
Service Interworking
NS
Fast Secure Roaming
23. Three core security functions.
feasibility condition
window
authentication - authorization - and accounting
stub network (OSPF)
24. Priority queue and priority queuing.
discarding state
PQ
Fast Secure Roaming
MD5
25. A NAT term describing the process of multiplexing TCP and UDP flows - based on port numbers - to a small number of public IP addresses. Also called NAT overloading.
RITE
DiffServ
CTS
Port Address Translation
26. An MPLS VPN term referring to an LSR that has no direct customer connections - meaning that the P router does not need any visibility into the VPN customer's IP address space.
TDM hierarchy
provider router
LOCAL_AS
IP PBX
27. 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
well-known discretionary
Class of Service
DHCP
28. Protects against problems caused by unidirectional links between two switches. Watches for loss of received Hello BPDUs - in which case it transitions to a loop-inconsistent state instead of transitioning to a forwarding state.
Link Control Protocol
Database Description
data communications equipment
Loop Guard
29. The innermost MPLS header in an packet traversing an MPLS VPN - with the label value identifying the forwarding details for the egress PE's VRF associated with that VPN.
VPN label
VLAN
Dual FIFO
MD5
30. Backup designated router.
eBGP
source registration
PAP
BDR
31. Permanent virtual circuit.
IGMPv3 Host Membership Report
Forwarding Information Base
PVC
graceful restart (OSPF)
32. Assured Forwarding. A set of DiffServ PHBs that defines 12 DSCP values - with four queuing classes and three drop probabilities within each queuing class.
FRF.12
DHCP snooping binding database
AF
virtual circuit
33. A method of applying a mathematical formula - with input including a private key - the message contents - and sometimes a shared text string - with the resulting digest being included with the message. The sender and the receiver perform the same mat
Message Digest 5
Congestion Avoidance
DUAL
Reply (EIGRP)
34. With OSPF - the OSPF router that wins an election amongst all current neighbors. The DR is responsible for flooding on the subnet - and for creating and flooding the type 2 LSA for the subnet.
designated router (OSPF)
not-so-stubby area
listening state
violate category
35. The range 233.0.0.0 through 233.255.255.255 that IANA has reserved (RFC 2770) on an experimental basis. It can be used by anyone who owns a registered autonomous system number to create 256 global multicast addresses.
PE
COMMUNITY
GLOP addressing
link-state database
36. In 802.1X - the computer that stores usernames/passwords and verifies that the correct values were submitted before authenticating the user.
administrative weight
shaped mode
authentication server
promiscuous port
37. 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.
smurf attack
storm control
Slow Start
NS
38. The Cisco IOS Router IP Traffic Export feature - intended for intrusion detection - exports IP traffic that has signs of an attack - such as duplicate IP packets simultaneously received on two or more of a router's interfaces.
Multilink PPP
VLAN filtering
Network Based Application Recognition
RITE
39. Port Aggregation Protocol.
port security
going active
man-in-the-middle attack
PAgP
40. An MPLS term referring to the first of several labels when an MPLS-forwarded packet has multiple labels (a label stack).
outer label
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
AS_SEQUENCE
Trap (SNMP)
41. The MPLS feature by which an ingress E-LSR copies the IP packet's IP TTL field into the MPLS header's TTL field.
MPLS TTL propagation
dense-mode protocol
service set identifier
ad hoc mode
42. The range 232.0.0.0 through 232.255.255.255 that is allocated by IANA for SSM destination addresses and is reserved for use by source-specific applications and protocols.
DSR
source-specific addresses
variance
adjacency table
43. An intrusion detection system that safeguards the wireless LAN from malicious and unauthorized access.
route reflector
client tracking
blocking state
Wireless LAN Threat Defense Solution
44. AutoQoS is a macro that creates and applies quality of service configurations based on Cisco best-practice recommendations.
ARP
RTO
AutoQos
provider router
45. Jargon referring to the minimum value to which adaptive shaping will lower the shaping rate.
Label Switch Router
minimum CIR
Data-link connection identifier
trunking
46. When multiple routers are connected to a subnet - only one should be sending IGMP queries. It is called a querier. IGMPv1 does not have any rules for electing a querier. In IGMPv2 and IGMPv3 - a router with the lowest interface IP address on the subn
Forwarding Equivalence Class
querier election
Inside Local address
DVMRP
47. Link-state advertisement.
routing black hole
PCM
dense-mode protocol
LSA
48. With DiffServ - a DSCP marking and a related set of QoS actions applied to packets that have that marking.
WFQ
dual stack
Per-Hop Behavior
P router
49. The multicast addresses assigned by IANA.
source-based distribution tree
shaped mode
permanent multicast group
Route Target
50. The number of beacons that governs how often multicast frames are sent over a wireless LAN.
BackboneFast
DTIM interval
process switching
frequency hopping spread spectrum