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1

An SP engineer is configuring IS-IS on a router and specifies a NET address of 49.0001.1921.6800.1001.00. What does the '00' at the end represent?

2

In an OSPF network, an engineer wants to minimize the size of the routing table in a non-backbone area while still allowing the area to learn external routes from other ASs. Which OSPF area type should be configured?

3

Which BGP attribute is NOT considered in the BGP best path selection process when all other attributes are equal and the routes are from different ASs?

4

An SP network uses MPLS to provide IPv6 connectivity over an IPv4 backbone using 6PE. Which BGP extension is required on the provider edge routers to exchange IPv6 prefixes with an IPv4 next-hop?

5

In IS-IS, which type of LSP is used to advertise prefix information for IPv4 and IPv6 in a modern SP network that supports traffic engineering?

6

An OSPF network is configured with RSVP-TE. Which OSPF extension is used to advertise TE link attributes such as bandwidth and administrative group?

7

In BGP route reflection, what is the purpose of the ORIGINATOR_ID attribute?

8

An SP is implementing IPv6 transition using MAP-T. Which encapsulation method does MAP-T use?

9

In IS-IS, which metric type supports traffic engineering (TE) and is required for segment routing?

10

Which BGP attribute influences inbound traffic to an AS by affecting the path selection of eBGP peers?

11

An SP is deploying IS-IS fast convergence. Which mechanism triggers an immediate SPF computation when a neighbor fails?

12

In a BGP confederation, which AS number is used in the AS_PATH to prevent loops within the confederation?

13

An SP engineer is designing an OSPF network and wants to reduce the number of LSAs in a stub area. Which TWO area types would block Type 5 LSAs but allow Type 3 LSAs? (Choose two.)

14

Which THREE BGP attributes are considered in the best path selection process before comparing IGP metric to the next-hop? (Choose three.)

15

An SP is deploying IPv6 using 6VPE. Which THREE components are required? (Choose three.)

16

An engineer is configuring IS-IS in a service provider network. The network uses wide metrics for traffic engineering. Which TLV is mandatory for IS-IS to carry traffic engineering (TE) information in accordance with RFC 5305?

17

In an IS-IS network, a router has a NET of 49.0001.1921.6800.1001.00. What does the '00' at the end represent?

18

A service provider is deploying OSPFv3 for IPv6 in its core. The network uses multiple areas. Which LSA type is used by OSPFv3 to advertise prefix information for inter-area routes?

19

An ISP is implementing BGP PIC (Prefix Independent Convergence) for edge routers. Which BGP feature must be enabled to support PIC for core-facing failures?

20

Which BGP attribute is used to prefer a specific entry point into an AS when multiple ASBRs are advertising the same prefix to a neighboring AS?

21

Which OSPF network type elects a Designated Router (DR) and Backup Designated Router (BDR) to reduce the number of adjacencies on a multi-access segment?

22

An SP is designing an OSPF network with a totally stubby area to reduce the LSA database. Which LSA types are blocked by default in a totally stubby area?

23

In IS-IS, what is the result of configuring wide metrics on all interfaces?

24

A service provider is implementing 6VPE to provide IPv6 L3VPN services over an MPLS core. Which BGP address family must be configured on the PE routers to exchange IPv6 VPN routes?

25

In BGP, which attribute is used to prevent routing loops when route reflectors are deployed?

26

Which BGP attribute is locally significant and used to influence outbound traffic from an AS?

27

An SP is deploying IS-IS fast convergence using Partial Route Computation (PRC). Under which condition does PRC occur?

28

A service provider is designing an OSPF network for both IPv4 and IPv6. Which two features are supported by OSPFv3 but not by OSPFv2? (Choose two.)

29

Which three BGP attributes are considered in the route selection process before comparing MED? (Choose three.)

30

An ISP is implementing 6PE for IPv6 transport over MPLS. Which two conditions are required for 6PE to work? (Choose two.)

31

In IS-IS, which type of router is responsible for routing between different areas and also maintains a Level 1 Link State Database?

32

An SP network engineer configures IS-IS with wide metrics. Which statement is true about IS-IS wide metrics compared to narrow metrics?

33

A service provider uses OSPFv3 for IPv6 routing in the core. Which statement correctly describes OSPFv3 adjacency formation on a broadcast multiaccess network?

34

In BGP route selection, which attribute is considered before the MED when comparing routes from different ASes?

35

A service provider wants to provide IPv6 connectivity over an MPLS IPv4 core using 6PE. Which BGP extension is required on the provider edge routers?

36

In IS-IS, what is the purpose of the Partial Route Computation (PRC)?

37

Which OSPF area type does not allow external routes (Type 5 LSAs) but does allow inter-area routes and can have a default route injected?

38

A service provider deploys BGP route reflectors in the core. Which mechanism prevents routing loops within the route reflector cluster?

39

Which IS-IS TLV is used to carry IPv6 reachability information?

40

In OSPF Traffic Engineering (TE) extensions for RSVP-TE, which LSA type is used to carry TE information?

41

A service provider wants to use BGP Prefix Independent Convergence (PIC) for faster failover. Which BGP feature must be enabled to support PIC?

42

In BGP confederation, which attribute is used to prevent loops between sub-ASes?

43

A service provider is designing an OSPF network with multiple areas. Which two area types prevent Type 5 LSAs from entering the area (choose two)?

44

Which three BGP attributes are considered before the MED in the BGP best path selection process?

45

An SP engineer configures IS-IS fast convergence mechanisms. Which three techniques help achieve sub-second convergence in IS-IS?

46

Which IS-IS level is used for routing within an area?

47

In OSPF, which type of area does not allow external routes and only accepts a default route?

48

Which BGP attribute is used to influence inbound traffic to a specific AS by indicating the preferred path?

49

In BGP route selection, which attribute is considered before LOCAL_PREF?

50

In IS-IS, which TLV is used to carry traffic engineering information for MPLS-TE?

51

Which OSPF adjacency type requires DR/BDR election on a multi-access network?

52

A service provider wants to provide IPv6 connectivity over an existing MPLS IPv4 core using BGP extensions. Which technology should be used?

53

Which IS-IS metric type supports values up to 2^24-1 and is used for traffic engineering?

54

Which BGP mechanism can reduce the number of iBGP sessions in a large SP network while preventing routing loops?

55

In OSPFv3, which of the following is true about the protocol's operation?

56

A service provider is implementing Segment Routing in an IS-IS network. Which TLV is used to advertise the Segment Routing Global Block (SRGB)?

57

Which OSPF area type can import external routes as Type 7 LSAs?

58

A service provider is designing an OSPF network with multiple areas. Which two area types prevent Type 5 LSAs from being flooded? (Choose two.)

59

Which three BGP attributes are considered during the route selection process before comparing AS_PATH length? (Choose three.)

60

A service provider is deploying IPv6 transition mechanisms. Which three technologies use encapsulation over an IPv4 network? (Choose three.)

61

In IS-IS, which type of router is responsible for exchanging routing information between different areas?

62

An SP network is migrating from IS-IS narrow metrics to wide metrics. What is a key advantage of using wide metrics?

63

In OSPFv3 (for IPv6), which of the following statements is true regarding OSPFv3 packet format and authentication?

64

In BGP route selection, if two routes have the same weight, local preference, and are both locally originated, which attribute is considered next?

65

A service provider is implementing BGP PIC (Prefix Independent Convergence) for its core network. Which mechanism does BGP PIC primarily rely on to achieve fast convergence?

66

In IS-IS, what is the purpose of the NET (Network Entity Title) address field SEL (Selector) byte?

67

Which OSPF area type is most suitable for a service provider's customer-facing network where external routes are blocked, but internal routes (including inter-area) are allowed, and the area should not accept Type 5 LSAs?

68

In BGP, what is the purpose of the ORIGINATOR_ID attribute in a route reflector environment?

69

Which technology allows an IPv6-only customer edge router to connect to an MPLS provider edge router using IPv4 transport, encapsulating IPv6 packets in MPLS with a labeled IPv4 next-hop?

70

An engineer is configuring IS-IS fast convergence. Which mechanism provides sub-second failure detection independently of the routing protocol?

71

In OSPF TE extensions for RSVP-TE, which LSA type is used to carry TE information (such as link attributes) in OSPF?

72

Which BGP attribute is used to influence inbound traffic to a multi-homed AS by indicating the preferred entry point?

73

A service provider is designing an OSPF network with multiple areas. Which TWO area types allow external routes (Type 5 LSAs) to be injected into the area? (Choose two.)

74

Which THREE of the following are valid BGP extended community attributes? (Choose three.)

75

An engineer is configuring BGP route reflectors to scale iBGP. Which TWO attributes are used to prevent routing loops in a route reflector cluster? (Choose two.)

76

Which IS-IS router type maintains a full Layer 2 routing table of all areas and can act as a gateway between areas?

77

An SP engineer is designing an OSPF network with several remote sites that should not receive external routes but need to reach external destinations via a default route. Which OSPF area type best meets this requirement while also preventing Type 5 LSAs from entering?

78

In BGP, an SP router receives multiple routes to the same prefix. The first route has a weight of 100, LOCAL_PREF of 200, AS_PATH length 3, and is learned via eBGP. The second route has weight 50, LOCAL_PREF 150, AS_PATH length 2, and is learned via iBGP. According to BGP route selection, which route will be preferred?

79

Which IS-IS TLV is used to carry Traffic Engineering (TE) information such as link bandwidth and TE metric in modern SP networks?

80

A service provider is implementing 6PE to carry IPv6 traffic over an existing MPLS IPv4 core. Which BGP extension is required on the provider edge (PE) routers to exchange IPv6 prefixes with an IPv4 next-hop?

81

An SP network uses OSPF with RSVP-TE for traffic engineering. Which OSPF extension is required to advertise TE link parameters such as maximum reservable bandwidth?

82

In an IS-IS network, a service provider wants to achieve fast convergence using Partial Route Computation (PRC). Which of the following events triggers a PRC instead of a full SPF?

83

Which BGP attribute is used to indicate the preference of a route within an AS and is propagated to iBGP peers but not to eBGP peers by default?

84

An SP network is implementing BGP PIC (Prefix Independent Convergence) for fast failover. What is the primary mechanism used by BGP PIC to achieve sub-second convergence?

85

In IS-IS, which type of metric uses 24 bits (wide) to allow higher link bandwidth values and is required for TE support?

86

An SP is deploying NAT64 to allow IPv6-only clients to access IPv4 servers. Which address translation mechanism is used by NAT64 to map IPv6 addresses to IPv4 addresses?

87

In BGP confederation, how does the AS_PATH attribute handle the confederation sub-AS numbers to prevent loops?

88

A service provider is configuring BGP route reflectors to scale iBGP. Which two mechanisms are used to prevent routing loops in a route reflector environment? (Choose two.)

89

An SP network uses OSPFv3 for IPv6 routing. Which three statements about OSPFv3 are true? (Choose three.)

90

A service provider is implementing MAP-T (Mapping of Address and Port using Translation) to transition customers from IPv4 to IPv6. Which two characteristics of MAP-T are true? (Choose two.)

91

A service provider is migrating from OSPF to IS-IS in the core network. They need to support Traffic Engineering and Segment Routing. Which IS-IS TLV must be supported to carry TE information?

92

In an OSPF network, an engineer wants to reduce the size of the routing table and prevent external routes from being advertised into an area. Which area type should be configured?

93

A service provider uses BGP route reflectors to scale iBGP. A route reflected from a route reflector arrives at a client with the originator-id set. What is the purpose of the originator-id attribute?

94

An ISP is implementing 6PE to provide IPv6 connectivity over an MPLS network that only supports IPv4 in the core. In 6PE, how are IPv6 prefixes carried across the MPLS backbone?

95

In IS-IS, what is the purpose of the System ID portion of the NET address?

96

Which BGP attribute is used to influence inbound traffic to an AS by advertising a preferred path to a neighbor AS?

97

A service provider is deploying BGP PIC (Prefix Independent Convergence) for edge routers. What is the primary benefit of BGP PIC?

98

In OSPFv3, what change was introduced compared to OSPFv2 for supporting IPv6?

99

Which IS-IS metric type is required for traffic engineering and segment routing?

100

A service provider wants to enable fast convergence for OSPF networks. Which feature should be enabled to detect link failures in sub-second time?

101

In BGP route selection, when comparing two routes with the same LOCAL_PREF, which attribute is considered next?

102

An ISP is implementing MAP-T to transition to IPv6. Which of the following best describes MAP-T?

103

A service provider is designing an OSPF network for MPLS-TE. Which two OSPF LSA types are used to advertise Traffic Engineering information? (Choose two.)

104

Which three BGP communities are standardized and commonly used for inter-AS traffic engineering? (Choose three.)

105

An ISP is deploying BGP confederations to reduce iBGP mesh requirements. Which of the following statements about BGP confederations are true? (Choose two.)

106

What is the purpose of the SEL (NSAP Selector) field in an IS-IS NET address?

107

An SP engineer is troubleshooting IS-IS routing. The network uses wide metrics, and some links have been configured with TE metrics. Which statement correctly describes the relationship between TE metrics and narrow metrics in IS-IS?

108

In an OSPF network, an area is configured as a Not-So-Stubby Area (NSSA). Which statement about LSA types in this area is correct?

109

An SP uses OSPF with Traffic Engineering extensions to support RSVP-TE. Which LSA type is used to carry TE information in OSPF?

110

In IS-IS, a router is configured as L1 only. Which statement is true regarding its routing table?

111

Which BGP attribute is used to influence inbound traffic to an AS by indicating the preferred path into the AS?

112

A service provider is deploying BGP PIC (Prefix Independent Convergence) to improve convergence after a link failure. Which mechanism does BGP PIC leverage to achieve fast failover?

113

In OSPFv3, which statement correctly describes how OSPFv3 differs from OSPFv2 regarding router IDs and adjacencies?

114

Which BGP community is used to prevent a route from being advertised to any eBGP peers?

115

An SP is deploying 6VPE (IPv6 L3VPN). Which BGP extensions are used to carry IPv6 VPN prefixes?

116

Which TWO of the following are characteristics of IS-IS Partial Route Computation (PRC)? (Choose two.)

117

Which TWO BGP attributes are considered during the best path selection process and can be used to influence outbound traffic from an AS? (Choose two.)

118

Which THREE of the following are valid IS-IS TLV types used to support traffic engineering and segment routing? (Choose three.)

119

Which TWO of the following are types of OSPF stub areas? (Choose two.)

120

A service provider is implementing BGP route reflectors to scale iBGP. Which THREE mechanisms are used to prevent routing loops in a route reflector topology? (Choose three.)

121

A service provider is deploying IS-IS with wide metrics to support traffic engineering. Which two statements about IS-IS wide metrics are correct?

122

An SP network is running OSPFv3 for IPv6 and needs to support traffic engineering extensions for RSVP-TE. Which three statements about OSPFv3 TE extensions are true?

123

An engineer is designing an iBGP route reflector topology to improve scalability. Which two statements about BGP route reflectors are correct?

124

A service provider is implementing 6VPE to provide IPv6 L3VPN services. Which three statements about 6VPE are true?

125

An SP network is using IS-IS and wants to achieve fast convergence using BFD. Which two statements about BFD in IS-IS are correct?

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