Before you take the exam, be sure you're familiar with the following terms:
| bus fabric | non-blocking switch |
| CatOS | particle buffers |
| Content Addressable Memory (CAM) | shared memory |
| contiguous buffers | Standard Image (SI) |
| crossbar | switching fabric |
| Enhanced Image (EI) | Ternary Content Addressable Memory (TCAM) |
| IOS | wire speed |
| matrix |