Before you take the exam, be sure you're familiar with the following terms:
| active virtual forwarder (AVF) | laws of physics delay |
| Active Virtual Gateway (AVG) | line loss |
| auto-QoS | Multistage Queuing |
| best efforts network | output buffer priorities |
| buffer overflows | per-hop routing |
| classification | policing |
| Custom Queuing | Priority Queuing |
| Differentiated Services | processing delay |
| discard eligible | Quality of service (QoS) |
| first in, first out | queue disposition |
| Gateway Load Balancing Protocol (GLBP) | serialization delay |
| Hot Standby Router Protocol (HSRP) | Server Load Balancing (SLB) |
| IEEE 802.1p | transparent Ethernet |
| Integrated Services | Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP) |
| isochronous | Weighed Fair Queuing (WFQ) |
| latency | Weighted Round Robin Queuing |