CCIERoutingandSwitchingWrittenExam

Version5.1(400101)

ExamDescription:TheCiscoCCIERoutingandSwitchingWrittenExam(400101)version5.1isa2
hourtestwith90110questionsthatwillvalidatethatprofessionalshavetheexpertiseto:configure,
validate,andtroubleshootcomplexenterprisenetworkinfrastructure;understandhowinfrastructure
componentsinteroperate;andtranslatefunctionalrequirementsintospecificdeviceconfigurations.The
examisclosedbookandnooutsidereferencematerialsareallowed.

Thefollowingtopicsaregeneralguidelinesforthecontentlikelytobeincludedontheexam.However,
otherrelatedtopicsmayalsoappearonanyspecificdeliveryoftheexam.Inordertobetterreflectthe
contentsoftheexamandforclaritypurposes,theguidelinesbelowmaychangeatanytimewithout
notice.

10%

1.0
1.1

NetworkPrinciples
Networktheory
1.1.a DescribebasicsoftwarearchitecturedifferencesbetweenIOSandIOSXE
1.1.a(i)
ControlplaneandForwardingplane
1.1.a(ii) Impacttotroubleshootingandperformances
1.1.a(iii) Excludingspecificplatform'sarchitecture
1.1.b IdentifyCiscoexpressforwardingconcepts
1.1.b(i)
RIB,FIB,LFIB,Adjacencytable
1.1.b(ii) LoadbalancingHash
1.1.b(iii) Polarizationconceptandavoidance
1.1.c Explaingeneralnetworkchallenges
1.1.c(i)
Unicastflooding
1.1.c(ii) Outoforderpackets
1.1.c(iii) Asymmetricrouting
1.1.c(iv) Impactofmicroburst
1.1.d ExplainIPoperations
1.1.d(i)
ICMPunreachable,redirect
1.1.d(ii) IPv4options,IPv6extensionheaders
1.1.d(iii) IPv4andIPv6fragmentation
1.1.d(iv) TTL
1.1.d(v) IPMTU
1.1.e ExplainTCPoperations
1.1.e(i)
IPv4andIPv6PMTU
1.1.e(ii) MSS
1.1.e(iii) Latency
1.1.e(iv) Windowing
1.1.e(v) Bandwidthdelayproduct
1.1.e(vi) Globalsynchronization

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1.2

1.3

13%

2.0
2.1

1.1.e(vii) Options
ExplainUDPoperations
1.1.f(i)
Starvation
1.1.f(ii)
Latency
1.1.f(iii) RTP/RTCPconcepts

Networkimplementationandoperation
1.2.a Evaluateproposedchangestoanetwork
1.2.a(i)
Changestoroutingprotocolparameters
1.2.a(ii) MigratepartsofanetworktoIPv6
1.2.a(iii) Routingprotocolmigration
1.2.a(iv) Addingmulticastsupport
1.2.a(v) Migratespanningtreeprotocol
1.2.a(vi) EvaluateimpactofnewtrafficonexistingQoSdesign
Networktroubleshooting
1.3.a UseIOStroubleshootingtools
1.3.a(i)
debug,conditionaldebug
1.3.a(ii) ping,traceroutewithextendedoptions
1.3.a(iii) Embeddedpacketcapture
1.3.a(iv) Performancemonitor
1.3.b Applytroubleshootingmethodologies
1.3.b(i)
Diagnosetherootcauseofnetworkingissue(analyzesymptoms,
identifyanddescriberootcause)
1.3.b(ii) Designandimplementvalidsolutionsaccordingtoconstraints
1.3.b(iii) Verifyandmonitorresolution
1.3.c Interpretpacketcapture
1.3.c(i)
UsingWiresharktraceanalyzer
1.3.c(ii) UsingIOSembeddedpacketcapture
Layer2Technologies
LANswitchingtechnologies
2.1.a Implementandtroubleshootswitchadministration
2.1.a(i)
ManagingMACaddresstable
2.1.a(ii) errdisablerecovery
2.1.a(iii) L2MTU
2.1.b Implementandtroubleshootlayer2protocols
2.1.b(i) CDP,LLDP
2.1.b(ii) UDLD
2.1.c ImplementandtroubleshootVLAN
2.1.c(i)
Accessports
2.1.c(ii) VLANdatabase
2.1.c(iii) Normal,extendedVLAN,voiceVLAN
2.1.d Implementandtroubleshoottrunking
2.1.d(i)
VTPv1,VTPv2,VTPv3,VTPpruning
2.1.d(ii) dot1Q
2.1.d(iii) NativeVLAN
2.1.d(iv) Manualpruning

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2.1.e ImplementandtroubleshootEtherChannel
2.1.e(i)
LACP,PAgP,manual
2.1.e(ii) Layer2,layer3
2.1.e(iii) Loadbalancing
2.1.e(iv) Etherchannelmisconfigurationguard
2.1.f Implementandtroubleshootspanningtree
2.1.f(i)
PVST+/RPVST+/MST
2.1.f(ii)
Switchpriority,portpriority,pathcost,STPtimers
2.1.f(iii) portfast,BPDUguard,BPDUfilter
2.1.f(iv) loopguard,rootguard
2.1.g ImplementandtroubleshoototherLANswitchingtechnologies
2.1.g(i)
SPAN,RSPAN,ERSPAN
2.1.h Describechassisvirtualizationandaggregationtechnologies
2.1.h(i)
Multichassis
2.1.h(ii) VSSconcepts
2.1.h(iii) AlternativetoSTP
2.1.h(iv) Stackwise
2.1.h(v) Excludingspecificplatformimplementation
2.1.i Describespanningtreeconcepts
2.1.i(i)
CompatibilitybetweenMSTandRSTP
2.1.i(ii)
STPdispute,STPbridgeassurance

2.2

2.3

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3.0
3.1

Layer2multicast
2.2.a ImplementandtroubleshootIGMP
2.2.a(i)
IGMPv1,IGMPv2,IGMPv3
2.2.a(ii) IGMPsnooping
2.2.a(iii) IGMPquerier
2.2.a(iv) IGMPfilter
2.2.a(v) IGMPproxy
2.2.b ExplainMLD
2.2.c ExplainPIMsnooping
Layer2WANcircuittechnologies
2.3.a ImplementandtroubleshootHDLC
2.3.b ImplementandtroubleshootPPP
2.3.b(i)
Authentication(PAP,CHAP)
2.3.b(ii) PPPoE
2.3.b(iii) MLPPP
2.3.c DescribeWANratebasedethernetcircuits
2.3.c(i)
MetroandWANEthernettopologies
2.3.c(ii) UseofratelimitedWANethernetservices
Layer3Technologies
Addressingtechnologies
3.1.a Identify,implementandtroubleshootIPv4addressingandsubnetting
3.1.a(i)
Addresstypes,VLSM
3.1.a(ii) ARP
3.1.b Identify,implementandtroubleshootIPv6addressingandsubnetting

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3.1.b(i)
3.1.b(ii)
3.1.b(iii)
3.1.b(iv)
3.1.b(v)
3.1.b(vi)
3.1.b(vii)
3.1.b(viii)
3.1.b(ix)

3.2

3.3

Unicast,multicast
EUI64
ND,RS/RA
Autoconfig/SLAAC,temporaryaddresses(RFC4941)
Globalprefixconfigurationfeature
DHCPprotocoloperations
SLAAC/DHCPv6interaction
Stateful,statelessDHCPv6
DHCPv6prefixdelegation

Layer3multicast
3.2.a Troubleshootreversepathforwarding
3.2.a(i)
RPFfailure
3.2.a(ii) RPFfailurewithtunnelinterface
3.2.b ImplementandtroubleshootIPv4protocolindependentmulticast
3.2.b(i)
PIMdensemode,sparsemode,sparsedensemode
3.2.b(ii) StaticRP,autoRP,BSR
3.2.b(iii) BiDirectionalPIM
3.2.b(iv) Sourcespecificmulticast
3.2.b(v) GrouptoRPmapping
3.2.b(vi) Multicastboundary
3.2.c Implementandtroubleshootmulticastsourcediscoveryprotocol
3.2.c(i)
IntradomainMSDP(anycastRP)
3.2.c(ii) SAfilter
3.2.d DescribeIPv6multicast
3.2.d(i)
IPv6multicastaddresses
3.2.d(ii) PIMv6
Fundamentalroutingconcepts
3.3.a Implementandtroubleshootstaticrouting
3.3.b Implementandtroubleshootdefaultrouting
3.3.c Compareroutingprotocoltypes
3.3.c(i)
Distancevector
3.3.c(ii) Linkstate
3.3.c(iii) Pathvector
3.3.d Implement,optimizeandtroubleshootadministrativedistance
3.3.e Implementandtroubleshootpassiveinterface
3.3.f ImplementandtroubleshootVRFlite
3.3.g Implement,optimizeandtroubleshootfilteringwithanyroutingprotocol
3.3.h Implement,optimizeandtroubleshootredistributionbetweenanyrouting
protocol
3.3.i Implement,optimizeandtroubleshootmanualandautosummarizationwith
anyroutingprotocol
3.3.j Implement,optimizeandtroubleshootpolicybasedrouting
3.3.k Identifyandtroubleshootsuboptimalrouting
3.3.l Implementandtroubleshootbidirectionalforwardingdetection
3.3.m Implementandtroubleshootlooppreventionmechanisms
3.3.m(i) Routetagging,filtering

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3.3.m(ii) Splithorizon
3.3.m(iii) Routepoisoning
3.3.n Implementandtroubleshootroutingprotocolauthentication
3.3.n(i)
MD5
3.3.n(ii) Keychain
3.3.n(iii) EIGRPHMACSHA2256bit
3.3.n(iv) OSPFv2SHA1196bit
3.3.n(v) OSPFv3IPsecauthentication

3.4

3.5

RIP(v2andv6)
3.4.a ImplementandtroubleshootRIPv2
3.4.b DescribeRIPv6(RIPng)
EIGRP(forIPv4andIPv6)
3.5.a Describepackettypes
3.5.a(i)
Packettypes(hello,query,update,andsuch)
3.5.a(ii) Routetypes(internal,external)
3.5.b Implementandtroubleshootneighborrelationship
3.5.b(i)
Multicast,unicastEIGRPpeering
3.5.b(ii) OTPpointtopointpeering
3.5.b(iii) OTProutereflectorpeering
3.5.b(iv) OTPmultipleserviceprovidersscenario
3.5.c Implementandtroubleshootloopfreepathselection
3.5.c(i)
RD,FD,FC,successor,feasiblesuccessor
3.5.c(ii) Classicmetric
3.5.c(iii) Widemetric
3.5.d Implementandtroubleshootoperations
3.5.d(i)
Generaloperations
3.5.d(ii) Topologytable,update,query,active,passive
3.5.d(iii) Stuckinactive
3.5.d(iv) Gracefulshutdown
3.5.e ImplementandtroubleshootEIGRPstub
3.5.e(i)
Stub
3.5.e(ii) Leakmap
3.5.f Implementandtroubleshootloadbalancing
3.5.f(i)
equalcost
3.5.f(ii)
unequalcost
3.5.f(iii) addpath
3.5.g ImplementEIGRP(multiaddress)namedmode
3.5.g(i)
Typesoffamilies
3.5.g(ii) IPv4addressfamily
3.5.g(iii) IPv6addressfamily
3.5.h Implement,troubleshootandoptimizeEIGRPconvergenceandscalability
3.5.h(i)
Describefastconvergencerequirements
3.5.h(ii) Controlqueryboundaries
3.5.h(iii) IPFRR/fastreroute(singlehop)
3.5.8(iv) Summaryleakmap
3.5.h(v) Summarymetric

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3.6

3.7

OSPF(v2andv3)
3.6.a Describepackettypes
3.6.a(i)
LSAyypes(1,2,3,4,5,7,9)
3.6.a(ii) Routetypes(N1,N2,E1,E2)
3.6.b Implementandtroubleshootneighborrelationship
3.6.c ImplementandtroubleshootOSPFv3addressfamilysupport
3.6.c(i)
IPv4addressfamily
3.6.c(ii) IPv6addressfamily
3.6.d Implementandtroubleshootnetworktypes,areatypesandroutertypes
3.6.d(i)
Pointtopoint,multipoint,broadcast,nonbroadcast
3.6.d(ii) LSAtypes,areatype:backbone,normal,transit,stub,NSSA,totally
stub
3.6.d(iii) Internalrouter,ABR,ASBR
3.6.d(iv) Virtuallink
3.6.e Implementandtroubleshootpathpreference
3.6.f Implementandtroubleshootoperations
3.6.f(i)
Generaloperations
3.6.f(ii)
Gracefulshutdown
3.6.f(iii) GTSM(GenericTTLSecurityMechanism)
3.6.g Implement,troubleshootandoptimizeOSPFconvergenceandscalability
3.6.g(i)
Metrics
3.6.g(ii) LSAthrottling,SPFtuning,fasthello
3.6.g(iii) LSApropagationcontrol(areatypes,ISPF)
3.6.g(iv) IPFRR/fastreroute(singlehop)
3.6.g(v) LFA/loopfreealternative(multihop)
3.6.g(vi) OSPFv3prefixsuppression

BGP
3.7.a Describe,implementandtroubleshootpeerrelationships
3.7.a(i)
Peergroup,template
3.7.a(ii) Active,passive
3.7.a(iii) States,timers
3.7.a(iv) Dynamicneighbors
3.7.b ImplementandtroubleshootIBGPandEBGP
3.7.b(i)
EBGP,IBGP
3.7.b(ii) 4bytesASnumber
3.7.b(iii) PrivateAS
3.7.c Explainattributesandbestpathselection
3.7.d Implement,optimizeandtroubleshootroutingpolicies
3.7.d(i)
Attributemanipulation
3.7.d(ii) Conditionaladvertisement
3.7.d(iii) Outboundroutefiltering
3.7.d(iv) Communities,extendedcommunities
3.7.d(v) Multihoming
3.7.e Implementandtroubleshootscalability
3.7.e(i)
Routereflector,cluster
3.7.e(ii) Confederations

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3.7.e(iii) Aggregation,ASset
3.7.f ImplementandtroubleshootmultiproctocolBGP
3.7.f(i)
IPv4,IPv6,VPNaddressfamily
3.7.g ImplementandtroubleshootASpathmanipulations
3.7.g(i)
LocalAS,allowASin,removeprivateAS
3.7.g(ii) Prepend
3.7.g(iii) Regexp
3.7.h Implementandtroubleshoototherfeatures
3.7.h(i)
Multipath
3.7.h(ii) BGPsynchronization
3.7.h(iii) Softreconfiguration,routerefresh
3.7.i DescribeBGPfastconvergencefeatures
3.7.i(i)
Prefixindependentconvergence
3.7.i(ii) Addpath
3.7.i(iii) Nexthopaddresstracking

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3.8

ISIS(forIPv4andIPv6)
3.8.a DescribebasicISISnetwork
3.8.a(i)
Singlearea,singletopology
3.8.b Describeneighborrelationship
3.8.c Describenetworktypes,levelsandroutertypes
3.8.c(i)
NSAPaddressing
3.8.c(ii) Pointtopoint,broadcast
3.8.d Describeoperations
3.8.e Describeoptimizationfeatures
3.8.e(i)
Metrics,widemetric

4.0
4.1

VPNTechnologies
Tunneling
4.1.a ImplementandtroubleshootMPLSoperations
4.1.a(i)
Labelstack,LSR,LSP
4.1.a(ii) LDP
4.1.a(iii) MPLSping,MPLStraceroute
4.1.b ImplementandtroubleshootbasicMPLSL3VPN
4.1.b(i)
L3VPN,CE,PE,P
4.1.b(ii) Extranet(routeleaking)
4.1.c Implementandtroubleshootencapsulation
4.1.c(i)
GRE
4.1.c(ii) DynamicGRE
4.1.c(iii) LISPencapsulationprinciplessupportingEIGRPOTP
4.1.d ImplementandtroubleshootDMVPN(singlehub)
4.1.d(i)
NHRP
4.1.d(ii) DMVPNwithIPsecusingpresharedkey
4.1.d(iii) QoSprofile
4.1.d(iv) Preclassify
4.1.e DescribeIPv6tunnelingtechniques
4.1.e(i)
6in4,6to4
4.1.e(ii) ISATAP

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4.1.e(iii) 6RD
4.1.e(iv) 6PE/6VPE
4.1.g Describebasiclayer2VPNwireline
4.1.g(i)
L2TPv3generalprincipals
4.1.g(ii) ATOMgeneralprincipals
4.1.h DescribebasicL2VPNLANservices
4.1.h(i)
MPLSVPLSgeneralprincipals
4.1.h(ii) OTVgeneralprincipals

5%

4.2

Encryption
4.2.a ImplementandtroubleshootIPsecwithpresharedkey
4.2.a(i)
IPv4sitetoIPv4site
4.2.a(ii) IPv6inIPv4tunnels
4.2.a(iii) VirtualtunnelingInterface(VTI)
4.2.b DescribeGETVPN

5.0
5.1

InfrastructureSecurity
Devicesecurity
5.1.a ImplementandtroubleshootIOSAAAusinglocaldatabase
5.1.b Implementandtroubleshootdeviceaccesscontrol
5.1.b(i)
Lines(VTY,AUX,console)
5.1.b(ii) SNMP
5.1.b(iii) Managementplaneprotection
5.1.b(iv) Passwordencryption
5.1.c Implementandtroubleshootcontrolplanepolicing
5.1.d DescribedevicesecurityusingIOSAAAwithTACACS+andRADIUS
5.1.d(i)
AAAwithTACACS+andRADIUS
5.1.d(ii) Localprivilegeauthorizationfallback

5.2

Networksecurity
5.2.a Implementandtroubleshootswitchsecurityfeatures
5.2.a(i)
VACL,PACL
5.2.a(ii) Stormcontrol
5.2.a(iii) DHCPsnooping
5.2.a(iv) IPsourceguard
5.2.a(v) DynamicARPinspection
5.2.a(vi) portsecurity
5.2.a(vii) PrivateVLAN
5.2.b Implementandtroubleshootroutersecurityfeatures
5.2.b(i)
IPv4accesscontrollists(standard,extended,timebased)
5.2.b(ii) IPv6trafficfilter
5.2.b(iii) Unicastreversepathforwarding
5.2.c ImplementandtroubleshootIPv6firsthopsecurity
5.2.c(i)
RAguard
5.2.c(ii) DHCPguard
5.2.c(iii) Bindingtable
5.2.c(iv) Devicetracking
5.2.c(v) NDinspection/snooping

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5.2.c(vii) Sourceguard
5.2.c(viii) PACL
5.2.d Describe802.1x
5.2.d(i)
802.1x,EAP,RADIUS
5.2.d(ii) MACauthenticationbypass

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6.0
6.1

InfrastructureServices
Systemmanagement
6.1.a Implementandtroubleshootdevicemanagement
6.1.a(i)
ConsoleandVTY
6.1.a(ii) telnet,HTTP,HTTPS,SSH,SCP
6.1.a(iii) (T)FTP
6.1.b ImplementandtroubleshootSNMP
6.1.b(i)
v2c,v3
6.1.c Implementandtroubleshootlogging
6.1.c(i)
Locallogging,syslog,debug,conditionaldebug
6.1.c(ii) Timestamp

6.2

Qualityofservice
6.2.a ImplementandtroubleshootendtoendQoS
6.2.a(i)
CoSandDSCPmapping
6.2.b Implement,optimizeandtroubleshootQoSusingMQC
6.2.b(i)
Classification
6.2.b(ii) Networkbasedapplicationrecognition(NBAR)
6.2.b(iii) MarkingusingIPprecedence,DSCP,CoS,ECN
6.2.b(iv) Policing,shaping
6.2.b(v) Congestionmanagement(queuing)
6.2.b(vi) HQoS,subrateethernetlink
6.2.b(vii) Congestionavoidance(WRED)
6.2.c Describelayer2QoS
6.2.c(i)
Queuing,scheduling
6.2.c(ii) Classification,marking

6.3

Networkservices
6.3.a Implementandtroubleshootfirsthopredundancyprotocols
6.3.a(i)
HSRP,GLBP,VRRP
6.3.a(ii) RedundancyusingIPv6RS/RA
6.3.b Implementandtroubleshootnetworktimeprotocol
6.3.b(i)
NTPmaster,client,version3,version4
6.3.b(ii) NTPAuthentication
6.3.c ImplementandtroubleshootIPv4andIPv6DHCP
6.3.c(i)
DHCPclient,IOSDHCPserver,DHCPrelay
6.3.c(ii) DHCPoptions
6.3.c(iii) DHCPprotocoloperations
6.3.c(iv) SLAAC/DHCPv6interaction
6.3.c(v) Stateful,statelessDHCPv6
6.3.c(vi) DHCPv6prefixdelegation
6.3.d ImplementandtroubleshootIPv4networkaddresstranslation

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6.3.d(i)
StaticNAT,dynamicNAT,policybasedNAT,PAT
6.3.d(ii) NATALG
6.3.e DescribeIPv6networkaddresstranslation
6.3.e(i)
NAT64
6.3.e(ii) NPTv6

6.4

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7.0
7.1

7.2

Networkoptimization
6.4.a ImplementandtroubleshootIPSLA
6.4.a(i)
ICMP,UDP,Jitter,VoIP
6.4.b Implementandtroubleshoottrackingobject
6.4.b(i)
Trackingobject,trackinglist
6.4.b(ii) Trackingdifferententities(e.g.interfaces,routes,IPSLA,andsuch)
6.4.c Implementandtroubleshootnetflow
6.4.c(i)
Netflowv5,v9
6.4.c(ii) Localretrieval
6.4.c(iii) Export(configurationonly)
6.4.d Implementandtroubleshootembeddedeventmanager
6.4.d(i)
EEMpolicyusingapplet
6.4.e Identifyperformancerouting(PfR)
6.4.e(i)
Basicloadbalancing
6.4.e(ii) Voiceoptimization
EvolvingTechnologies
Cloud
7.1.a CompareandcontrastClouddeploymentmodels
7.1.a(i)
Infrastructure,platform,andsoftwareservices(XaaS)
7.1.a(ii) Performanceandreliability
7.1.a(iii) Securityandprivacy
7.1.a(iv) Scalabilityandinteroperability

7.1.b DescribeCloudimplementationsandoperations
7.1.b(i)
Automationandorchestration
7.1.b(ii) Workloadmobility
7.1.b(iii) Troubleshootingandmanagement
7.1.b(iv) OpenStackcomponents

Networkprogrammability(SDN)
7.2.a Describefunctionalelementsofnetworkprogrammability(SDN)andhowthey
interact
7.2.a(i)
Controllers
7.2.a(ii) APIs
7.2.a(iii) Scripting
7.2.a(iv) Agents
7.2.a(v) Northboundvs.Southboundprotocols

7.2.b Describeaspectsofvirtualizationandautomationinnetworkenvironments
7.2.b(i)
DevOpsmethodologies,toolsandworkflows
7.2.b(ii) Network/applicationfunctionvirtualization(NFV,AFV)

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7.2.b(iii)
7.2.b(iv)
7.3

Servicefunctionchaining
Performance,availability,andscalingconsiderations

InternetofThings
7.3.a DescribearchitecturalframeworkanddeploymentconsiderationsforInternetof
Things(IoT)
7.3.a(i)
Performance,reliabilityandscalability
7.3.a(ii) Mobility
7.3.a(iii) Securityandprivacy
7.3.a(iv) Standardsandcompliance
7.3.a(v) Migration
7.3.a(vi) Environmentalimpactsonthenetwork

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