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Practise Cisco SPCOR / CCNP Service Provider Core 350-501 Networking practice questions — original exam-style scenarios with answer choices, explanations, and analysis of common mistakes.

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20 questionsDomain: Networking
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What to know about Networking

Networking questions test whether you can apply the concept in context, not just recognise a definition.

How the topic appears in realistic exam-style scenarios.

Which detail in the question changes the correct answer.

How to eliminate plausible but wrong options.

How to connect the question back to the wider exam objective.

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Common Networking exam traps

  • ▸Answering from memory before reading the full scenario.
  • ▸Missing a constraint such as cost, availability, security, scope or command context.
  • ▸Choosing a broad answer when the question asks for the most specific fix.
  • ▸Ignoring why the wrong options are tempting.

Practice set

Networking questions

20 questions · select your answer, then reveal the explanation

Question 1mediummultiple choice
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A service provider is deploying MPLS L3VPN over an OSPF backbone. The PE routers are configured with OSPF as the IGP. The CE router of customer A is connected to two PEs for redundancy. Which configuration is required on the PE routers to ensure that the CE router can load-balance traffic across both PEs without loops?

Question 2easymultiple choice
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An ISP is designing an MPLS core network and needs to choose an IGP that supports fast convergence. Which IGP meets this requirement and is most commonly used in MPLS core networks?

Question 3hardmultiple choice
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A network engineer is troubleshooting an MPLS L3VPN where the CE router is receiving the correct VPN prefixes from the PE, but traffic from the CE to those prefixes is being dropped. The PE has a default route pointing to the CE. What is the most likely cause?

Question 4mediummultiple choice
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A service provider is deploying segment routing in its MPLS core. Which label allocation method is used by segment routing to distribute prefix SIDs?

Question 5hardmultiple choice
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An engineer is configuring an MPLS L3VPN and needs to ensure that the PE router installs VPNv4 routes from a remote PE into the VRF of a customer. The remote PE sends a VPNv4 route with route-target 100:1. Which configuration on the local PE causes the route to be imported into the VRF?

Question 6mediummulti select
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Which TWO of the following are characteristics of MPLS-TE (Traffic Engineering)?

Question 7hardmulti select
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Which THREE are valid methods for label distribution in an MPLS network?

Question 8mediummultiple choice
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Based on the exhibit, which prefix is NOT reachable via MPLS forwarding?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

R1# show mpls ldp bindings
  label bindings: 5
  label binding: 10.1.1.1/32, label 16
  label binding: 10.2.2.2/32, label 17
  label binding: 10.3.3.3/32, label 18
  label binding: 10.4.4.4/32, label 19
  label binding: 10.5.5.5/32, label 20

R1# show mpls forwarding-table
Local  Outgoing    Prefix           Bytes Label   Outgoing   Next Hop
Label  Label       or Tunnel Id     Switched      interface
16     Pop Label   10.1.1.1/32      0             Gi0/0      192.168.1.2
17     18          10.2.2.2/32      0             Gi0/0      192.168.1.2
18     19          10.3.3.3/32      0             Gi0/0      192.168.1.2
19     20          10.4.4.4/32      0             Gi0/0      192.168.1.2
20     Untagged    10.5.5.5/32      0             Gi0/0      192.168.1.2
Question 9hardmultiple choice
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Based on the exhibit, what is the purpose of the 'mpls ldp neighbor ... password cisco' commands?

Exhibit

Refer to the exhibit.

interface GigabitEthernet0/0
 ip address 192.168.1.1 255.255.255.252
 mpls ip
 mpls mtu 1500
 no shutdown

interface GigabitEthernet0/1
 ip address 192.168.2.1 255.255.255.252
 mpls ip
 mpls mtu 1500
 no shutdown

router ospf 1
 network 192.168.1.0 0.0.0.3 area 0
 network 192.168.2.0 0.0.0.3 area 0

mpls label protocol ldp
mpls ldp router-id Loopback0 force

mpls ldp neighbor 192.168.1.2 password cisco
mpls ldp neighbor 192.168.2.2 password cisco
Question 10easymultiple choice
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A service provider is designing a Layer 2 MPLS VPN to connect multiple customer sites. Which technology should be used to provide end-to-end Ethernet service with MAC address transparency and support for multiple customer VLANs?

Question 11mediummultiple choice
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An engineer is troubleshooting a BGP peering issue between two routers. The peering is established, but routes are not being exchanged. On router R1, 'show bgp neighbors 192.0.2.2' shows the neighbor state as 'Established' but the 'Prefixes received' counter is zero. What is most likely the cause?

Question 12hardmultiple choice
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A service provider is deploying segment routing (SR) with MPLS data plane. The network uses OSPF as the IGP. Which configuration is required to enable SR-MPLS and ensure that routers advertise prefix-SIDs for their loopback interfaces?

Question 13easymultiple choice
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A network administrator is configuring a Cisco ASR 9000 router for MPLS L3VPN. The PE receives customer routes via eBGP from the CE. Which command is required to redistribute these routes into the VPNv4 BGP table on the PE?

Question 14mediummultiple choice
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A customer reports intermittent packet loss on a MPLS L3VPN connection. The PE router shows 'show mpls forwarding' entries for the CE prefix, but ping from the PE to the CE fails intermittently. Which action should be taken to isolate the issue?

Question 15hardmulti select
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A service provider is deploying L3VPN with inter-AS option B (ASBR-to-ASBR). Which TWO statements are true about this design?

Question 16mediummulti select
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A network engineer is troubleshooting a BGP route selection issue on a router that receives the same prefix from two different peers. Which THREE BGP attributes are considered in the route selection process before the 'prefer the route with the lowest metric' step?

Question 17mediummultiple choice
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A service provider is deploying MPLS L3VPN to connect multiple customer sites. The PE router receives a route from a CE router via MP-BGP. Which attribute must the PE router add to the route before advertising it to the route reflector?

Question 18hardmultiple choice
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A network engineer is troubleshooting MPLS LSP connectivity. The MPLS LDP session is up on both endpoints, but some MPLS labels are missing in the LFIB. Which configuration change would most likely resolve the issue?

Question 19easymultiple choice
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A network administrator is designing an MPLS TE tunnel for a service provider backbone. The goal is to provide bandwidth protection for voice traffic. Which MPLS TE feature should be configured?

Question 20mediummulti select
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Which TWO statements correctly describe the use of OSPF in a service provider network?

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Networking questions test whether you can apply the concept in context, not just recognise a definition.
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