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15 Cards in this Set
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Identify acronym: ASIC
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Application Specific Integrated Circuit
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What is the term for a specialized hardware component that is able to reach throughput at wire speed without any performance degradation for various advanced features?
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ASIC
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Identify acronym: TCAM
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Ternary Content Addressable Memory
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What is the term for specialized memory used by ASICs to acheive higher performance?
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TCAM
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What is the difference between hardware-switching and software-switching?
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Hardware-switching is done with ASICs that are specialized to perform switching a wire speeds without any performance degradation. Software-switching is done in the CPU and is accelerated only by using higher processing rates.
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What OSI layer is Content-Intelligence on routers and switches?
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Layer 7
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What OSI layer contains Server Load Balancing (SLB)?
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Layer 4
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What OSI layer contains switches and routers?
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Layer 3
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What OSI layer contains switches and hubs?
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Layer 2
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What OSI layer contains repeaters?
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Layer 1
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Which layer of switching limits devices to a single broadcast domain?
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Layer 2 Switching
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Layer 2 switching strictly focuses on which layer that is only capable of switching packets based on MAC addresses?
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Data Link Layer (DLL)
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Which layer of switching is based on protocol sessions?
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Layer 4 Switching
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What capabilities are required for layer 4 switches to achieve a high level of performance?
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Hardware-forwarding
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What feature does layer 7 switching imply?
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Content-intelligence
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