Some frequently asked interview Questions for BGP/MPLS position are

described below, go through all of the questions, you can take the reference
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BGP Questions

 What do you mean by Autonomous System?

 Why do we use BGP? Is BGP a link state or distance vector protocol?

 Is IGP protocol deployment is necessary to use BGP?

 Which port number is used by BGP?

 Can we use BGP instead of any IGP within an AS?

 Should BGP router-id reachable to form BGP neighborships?

 What is the difference between iBGP and eBGP?

 Why do we use AS path prepending?

 What is route reflector and why it is required?

 What is the BGP path selection criteria?

 Can we use local preference to control incoming traffic?

 Which BGP path attribute is local to an AS?

 Why BGP confederation is not much flexible as compare to Route-Reflector?

 Why “no-synchronization” is pre enable in BGP?

 Does iBGP peer change next hop? If not explain why?

 Is it possible to run two BGP process on a router?

 Can we configure IPv6 neighbor under IPv4 address-family?

 What is the Administrative Distance of external and internal BGP routes?

 Why do we use “update-source” command?

 Explain the difference between Standard and Extended communities in BGP?

 If BGP neighbor got stuck in Active state what you will do?

 Is BGP required to form OSPF sham link?

 Does BGP support Load Balancing? How many links can be used for load

balancing or sharing in BGP?

 Do we redistribute BGP into IGP?

 What is the role of BGP cluster-id and originator-id in loop prevention?

 When do we use eBGP-multihop command?

 How to configure TTL security in iBGP peering?

 Can we have multiple route-reflectors within an AS?

 What does it mean if a BGP neighbor is configured with “soft-reconfiguration”

command?

 Where do we use regular expressions in BGP?

 What is MP-BGP?

 What is the logical difference between allowas-in and as-override command?

MPLS Questions

 What do you mean by multiprotocol mechanism in MPLS?

 What is VRF? What is the difference between RD and RT?

 Why MPLS requires CEF in Cisco Network?

 Why most of service providers use MPLS in their backbone network?

 What is a MPLS label? What is the role of aggregated label?

 What is the difference between P and PE router?

 What is Penultimate Hop Poping?

 Explain the role of LSP and LSR.

 Why POP function is performed a hop before destination PE?

 Is it possible to POP a label 2 hops before destination PE?

 Why do we need to configure RD value to VRFs?

 What is the difference between LIB and LFIB?

 What is the difference between Data plane and Control plane?

 When do we receive untagged label for a prefix?

 What is the difference between Implicit Null and Explicit Null label?

 What is the difference between VPNv4 and IPv4 address family?

 Why do we need to configure loopback to loopback peering while implementing

BGP-VPNs?
 My LDP neighbor is down, what could be the reason?

 Does LDP exchange labels with TDP device?

 What is the meaning of “xmit” in output result of “debug mpls packets”?

 What is Label stacking? What is the significance of stack value 1?

 What is the EFC in MPLS?

 Does MPLS work within an AS without BGP implementation?

 Can we deploy L3VPN to connect IPv6 sites, if yes explain?

 Does MPLS failover impact internal routing behaviour of a network?

 What is MPLS TE? What is the significance of RSVP in MPLS TE?

 My MPLS TE tunnel is down, what could be the possible reason?

 What is the significance of defining BGP next-hop under VRF?

 Do we need to run “mpls traffic-eng tunnels” command over VRF interface in

MPLS TE implementation?

 Do we need to run “mpls traffic-eng tunnels” command over MPLS IGP to

implement MPLS TE?

 What is the purpose of defining explicit path options in MPLS TE?

 If defined explicit path options goes down then what will happen?