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CCIE Vocab
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1. An 802.1w RSTP port state in which the port is not the Root Port but is available to become the root port if the current root port goes down.
FRF.8
EGP
Alternate state
IP PBX
2. A wireless LAN that offers connections to the Internet from public places - such as airports - hotels - and coffee shops.
public wireless LAN
EAPoL
LSP segment
WLSE
3. An Internet standard authentication protocol that uses clear-text passwords and a two-way handshake to perform authentication over a PPP link.
inspection rule
confederation eBGP peer
Triggered Extensions to RIP for On-Demand Circuits
Password Authentication Protocol
4. The IPv6 protocol used for the discovery of which hosts are listening for which multicast IP addresses for IPv6.
stateless autoconfiguration
AAA
active scanning
Multicast Listener Discovery
5. Finish time.
Address Resolution Protocol
FT
point coordination function
Get (SNMP)
6. IP routing The simplest MPLS application - involving the advertisement of an IGP to learn IP routes - and LDP or TDP to advertise labels.
Assured Forwarding
subnet number
enhanced editing
MPLS unicast
7. Similar to an appliance firewall - in that interfaces are placed into security zones. Traffic is allowed between interfaces in the same zone. You can apply policies to filter and control traffic between zones.
Rapid Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus
routed interface
Zone-based IOS firewall
weighted tail drop
8. A type of logic for how a router uses a default route. When a default route exists - and no more specific match is made between the destination of the packet and the routing table - the default route is used.
IP forwarding
administrative weight
CQ
classless routing
9. On a serial cable - the pin lead set by the DTE to imply that the DTE is ready to signal using pin leads.
Service Interworking
Data Terminal Ready
Database Description
transmit power
10. High Density Binary 3.
Maximum Segment Size
DS field
Be
HDB3
11. A BGP path attribute that allows routers in one AS to set a value and advertise it into a neighboring AS - impacting the decision process in that neighboring AS. A smaller value is considered better. Also called the BGP metric.
External BGP
MULTI_EXIT_DISC (MED)
NS
payload compression
12. An E-LSR in an MPLS VPN network whose role in a particular discussion is to receive unlabeled packets over customer links and then forward the packets as labeled packets into the MPLS network.
blocking state
AAAA
ingress PE
RTO
13. A WRED process by which WRED does not discard packets during times in which a queue's minimum threshold has not been passed.
no drop
Alternate Mark Inversion
BGP table
adjacent-layer interaction
14. Aka network layer reachability information.
Dynamic Multipoint VPN
NLRI
peak information rate
Multilayer Switching
15. A strategy for subnetting a classful network for which all masks/prefixes are the same value for all subnets of that one classful network.
static length subnet masking
shaped round-robin
Data-link connection identifier
MPD
16. A technology that sends a high-speed data stream over multiple subcarriers simultaneously. It is highly immune to multipath interference. 802.11a and 802.11g specify the use of OFDM.
Join/Prune message
DLCI
permanent virtual circuit
orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
17. A type of routing protocol convergence event in which the metric for a route increases slightly over time because of the advertisement of an invalid route.
Forwarding Information Base
Bipolar 8 Zero Substitution
counting to infinity
infrastructure mode
18. Virtual Routing and Forwarding table.
VTP
EAP
NAT
VRF table
19. An architecture and set of documents that defines Cisco's best recommendations for how to secure a network.
split horizon
Network Address Translation
link-state advertisement
SAFE Blueprint
20. Network Layer Protocol ID is a field in the RFC 2427 header that is used as a Protocol Type field in order to identify the type of Layer 3 packet encapsulated inside a Frame Relay frame.
MPLS VPNs
Multicast Listener Discovery
NLPID
graceful restart (OSPF)
21. An E-LSR in an MPLS VPN network whose role in a particular discussion is to receive labeled packets from other LSRs and then forward the packets as unlabeled packets to CE routers.
isolated VLAN
PE
egress PE
power-save mode
22. A router that is not an ABR or ASBR in that all of its interfaces connect to only a single OSPF area.
subnet ID
internal router (OSPF)
Classic IOS Firewall
CHAP
23. Data Set Ready.
CLUSTER_LIST
Loop Guard
DSR
RPF check
24. A BGP path attribute that lists the next-hop IP address used to reach an NLRI.
NEXT_HOP
sparse-mode protocol
Outside Local address
DVMRP
25. A reserved value for the BGP COMMUNITY path attribute that implies that the route should not be advertised to any other peer.
NO_ADVERT
ASN
Rapid Per-VLAN Spanning Tree Plus
ORIGINATOR_ID
26. Network Address Translation.
NAT
queue starvation
Address Resolution Protocol
passive (EIGRP)
27. A single instance of STP that is applied to multiple VLANs - typically when using the 802.1Q trunking standard.
EGP
access rate
Common Spanning Tree
Inverse ARP
28. A BGP feature that overcomes the requirement of a full mesh of iBGP peers inside a single AS by separating the AS into multiple sub-autonomous systems.
ACS
confederation
PIM-SM (S -G) RP-bit Prune
VC
29. 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
224.0.0.5
Next Hop field
GetNext
Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol
30. On a serial cable - the pin lead set by the DCE to imply a working link.
broadcast domain
Differentiated Services
fully adjacent (OSPF)
Data Carrier Detect
31. The single port on each nonroot switch upon which the best Hello BPDU is received.
root port
ORIGINATOR_ID
PHB
TCP header compression
32. A number between 1 and 64 -511 (public) and 64 -512 and 65 -535 (private) assigned to an AS for the purpose of identifying a specific BGP domain.
frequency hopping spread spectrum
AS number
IP Precedence
Bipolar Violation
33. A term used with Cisco LAN switches - referring to a queue treated with strict-priority scheduling.
multicast state information
Operation - Administration - and Maintenance
expedite queue
anycast
34. 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
DTP
Inform
OOF
Ack (EIGRP)
35. An OSPF router that connects to the backbone area and to one or more non-backbone area.
Digital Signal Level 3
adjacency (EIGRP)
FIB
Area Border Router
36. Cisco Express Forwarding.
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
Protocol Independent Multicast sparse-mode routing protocol
Distance Vector Multicast Routing Protocol
CEF
37. A set of four hex digits listed in an IPv6 address. Each quartet is separated by a colon.
quartet
optional nontransitive
generic routing encapsulation
administrative scoping
38. An interface on a Cisco IOS-based switch that is treated as if it were an interface on a router.
IPCP
weighted fair queuing
routed interface
NTP broadcast client
39. In IPv6 - the Neighbor Discovery message used by an IPv6 node to send information about itself to its neighbors.
Neighbor Advertisement
no drop
Exterior Gateway Protocol
orthogonal frequency division multiplexing
40. An MPLS term referring to the first of several labels when an MPLS-forwarded packet has multiple labels (a label stack).
DSCP
outer label
ad hoc mode
PIR
41. Tag Distribution Protocol.
distance vector
payload compression
TDP
Digital Signal Level 3
42. With private VLANs - a port that can send and receive frames with all other ports in the private VLAN.
Cisco Express Forwarding
promiscuous port
Extensible Authentication Protocol
MPLS VPNs
43. Provides dynamic inspection of traffic as it traverses the router. It uses Context-Based Access Control (CBAC) to look deeper into a packet than an access list can. It tracks outbound traffic and dynamically allows in responses to that traffic.
overloading
local computation
Classic IOS Firewall
DS3
44. A method used by an IPv6 host to determine its own IP address - without DHCPv6 - by using NDP and the modified EUI-64 address format. See also stateful autoconfiguration.
NCP
control plane
stateless autoconfiguration
Per-Hop Behavior
45. Protocol data unit.
flash updates
PDU
cross-over cable
token bucket
46. The second most significant bit in the most significant byte of an Ethernet MAC address - a value of binary 0 implies that the address is a Universally Administered Address (UAA) (also known as Burned-In Address [BIA]) - and a value of binary 1 impli
ingress PE
RPVST+
BPDU Guard
U/L bit
47. Local Management Interface.
LMI
LOCAL_PREF
external route
trunking
48. With routing protocols - the measurement of favorability that determines which entry will be installed in a routing table if more than one router is advertising that exact network and mask.
SAFE Blueprint
power-save mode
metric
MTU
49. An attack by which the attacker initiates many TCP connections to a server - but does not complete the TCP connections - by simply not sending the third segment normally used to establish the connection. The server may consume resources and reject ne
TCP SYN flood
static length subnet masking
enhanced editing
link-local
50. A state variable kept by a router for each known neighbor or potential neighbor.
Context-Based Access Control
neighbor state
solicited node multicast
RTS