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Cisco SPCOR / CCNP Service Provider Core 350-501 Practice Test

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Q1Architecturemedium
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A service provider is designing a new MPLS L3VPN service. The customer requires that their VPN traffic be isolated from other customers and that the provider edge routers maintain separate routing tables for each VPN. Which architectural component is essential for this separation?

AMPLS label stacking
VRF (Virtual Routing and Forwarding)Correct
CVLAN tagging on the customer-facing interfaces
DBGP route reflectors

VRF (Virtual Routing and Forwarding) is the essential architectural component that enables a provider edge router to maintain separate, isolated routing tables for each VPN customer. Each VRF instance contains its own routing table, CEF (Cisco Express Forwarding) table, and assoc…Read full explanation

Q2Architecturehard
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An operator notices that a new MPLS-TE tunnel is not being established. The tunnel configuration includes a dynamic path option and a bandwidth of 100 Mbps. The network uses RSVP-TE with CSPF. The link-state database shows sufficient reservable bandwidth on all links along the calculated path. What is the most likely cause of the tunnel establishment failure?

RSVP-TE is not enabled on the transit interfacesCorrect
BThe path option is misconfigured with a strict explicit path
CMPLS LDP is not enabled on the core routers
DThe tunnel source interface is not configured with an IP address

RSVP-TE must be explicitly enabled on every interface that will participate in MPLS-TE label-switched path (LSP) signaling. Even if the link-state database shows sufficient reservable bandwidth, without RSVP-TE enabled on transit interfaces, the PATH messages cannot be processed,…Read full explanation

Q3Architectureeasy
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Which network architecture model separates the control plane and data plane in a way that allows for centralized control and distributed forwarding?

SDN architectureCorrect
BMPLS architecture
CVPN architecture
DQoS architecture

Software-Defined Networking (SDN) architecture explicitly separates the control plane from the data plane, centralizing network intelligence in a controller while leaving packet forwarding to distributed switches and routers. This decoupling enables programmatic, centralized cont…Read full explanation

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