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300-410 Practice Question: Which BGP attribute is used as the first…
Which BGP attribute is used as the first tie-breaker when selecting the best path in a VRF-Lite environment?
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Weight
BGP selects the path with the highest weight (Cisco proprietary) as the first tie-breaker, followed by local preference.
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Local preference
Why it's wrong here
Local preference is the second tie-breaker after weight.
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Weight
Why this is correct
Weight is a Cisco-proprietary attribute and is checked first in the BGP best-path selection process.
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AS path length
Why it's wrong here
AS path length is the third tie-breaker.
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MED
Why it's wrong here
MED is the fourth tie-breaker.
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