350-501 MPLS and Segment Routing Practice Question
In SR-TE, a headend router is configured with an SR Policy that includes an explicit candidate path with segment list [16001, 16003, 16005]. What does this segment list represent?
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A list of node SIDs representing the path through routers with those SIDs
Each SID in the list is a node SID (Prefix-SID) of intermediate routers, forming a strict hop-by-hop path.
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A list of labels for an RSVP-TE LSP
Why it's wrong here
RSVP-TE uses label assignment, but segment list is SR.
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A list of adjacency SIDs for each link
Why it's wrong here
Adjacency SIDs are specific to interfaces.
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A list of node SIDs representing the path through routers with those SIDs
Why this is correct
Correct. Node SIDs identify routers.
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A list of anycast SIDs for redundancy
Why it's wrong here
Anycast SIDs represent multiple routers.
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