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Nokia SRC Border Gateway Protocol Practice Exam Questions Document EN PDF
Nokia SRC Border Gateway Protocol Practice Exam Questions Document EN PDF
Nokia SRC Border Gateway Protocol Practice Exam Questions Document EN PDF
2. Given that ISP 1 and ISP 2 are Tier 2 providers, and that ISP 3 and ISP 4 are Tier 1 providers, what is the most likely
relationship between ISP 3 and the other ISPs?
a. ISP 3 has a transit relationship with ISP 1 and a peering relationship with ISP 4.
b. ISP 3 has a transit relationship with ISP 1 and ISP 2.
c. ISP 3 has a peering relationship with ISP 1 and a transit relationship with ISP 4.
d. ISP 3 has a peering relationship with ISP 2 and ISP 4.
3. Which of the following statements about 32-bit AS numbers is FALSE?
a. AS range 65536-65551 is for use in documentation and sample code.
b. AS range 65552-131071 is reserved.
c. They are allocated to the RIRs by ICANN/IANA.
d. Public AS range 131072-132096 is unallocated.
5. An autonomous system has 6 routers configured with BGP. How many iBGP sessions are required for a fully meshed
configuration?
a. 1
b. 6
c. 12
d. 15
6. AS 65540 is using MPLS to provide BGP shortcuts for its iBGP routing. AS 65541 is advertising prefix 192.168.1.0/27 into
BGP. Which of the following statements about the configuration is FALSE?
7. A BGP session is currently in the Active state. Which BGP message type is exchanged next?
a. Keepalive
b. Update
c. Open
d. Notification
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8. Which of the following statements about the KeepAlive timer is FALSE?
a. The KeepAlive timer is negotiated between BGP peers.
b. The KeepAlive timer default value is 30 seconds.
c. The KeepAlive timer may be overridden by the hold time value.
d. A KeepAlive message is sent every time the KeepAlive timer expires.
9. The local BGP state is OpenSent and an Open message is sent to the peer. If the local system never receives an Open
message in return, which state will BGP transition to?
a. Idle
b. Connect
c. Active
d. OpenConfirm
11. If router R6 originates a BGP route for prefix 192.168.1.0/27 with origin IGP, what will the update contain when it reaches
router R4?
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12. An update travels from AS 150 to AS 235000, traversing both 32-bit and 16-bit AS Paths. What AS Path is seen by AS 250?
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17. Which of the following statements regarding BGP route selection is FALSE?
a. Higher MED is preferred over lower MED when all other attributes are equal.
b. The lower peer ID addresses is preferred when all other attributes are equal.
c. Higher Local preference is preferred when all other attributes are equal.
d. Lower origin code is preferred when all other attributes are equal.
18. A router in AS 65200 receives two BGP routes. The first route is for 138.2.2.0/24 with an AS Path of 65100, Local Preference
of 100 and router ID of 10.2.2.2. The second route is for 138.0.0.0/8 with an AS Path of 65500, Local Preference of 150
and router ID of 10.3.3.3. Assuming all other attributes are equal, which route would be used to forward an IP packet with
destination IP address 138.2.2.1?
a. None of the routes are used.
b. The first BGP route.
c. The second BGP route.
d. Both routes are used.
19. A Nokia 7750 SR has the BGP configuration as shown below. Assuming the router has an established iBGP session to R1 and
an established eBGP session to R2, which of the following is TRUE?
20. Which of the following statements about BGP recursive lookup is FALSE?
a. A BGP recursive lookup is performed on the packet’s destination IP address.
b. Address matching is based on longest-match routing.
c. If the lookup returns an interface, the packet is encapsulated and forwarded via the specified interface.
d. A BGP recursive lookup is needed if the egress interface is not known.
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21. The commands “configure router triggered-policy” and “clear router bgp external soft” are executed on a Nokia 7750 SR.
Which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Resets eBGP neighbors only. All eBGP neighbors reevaluate all routes in the Local-RiB against any configured export
policies.
b. Does not reset any BGP neighbor. All eBGP neighbors reevaluate all routes in the Local-RIB against any configured export
policies.
c. Does not reset any BGP neighbor. All eBGP neighbors reevaluate all routes in the RIB-In against any configured import
policies.
d. Resets eBGP neighbors only. All eBGP neighbors reevaluate all routes in the RIB-In against any configured import policies.
22. Which of the following statements about BGP authentication on the Nokia 7750 SR is FALSE?
a. BGP authentication can be configured at the BGP global, group and neighbor levels.
b. BGP authentication uses the MD5 message-based digest.
c. The authentication-key cannot contain spaces.
d. The hash-key is any combination of ASCII characters up to 342 characters.
23. Which of the following statements about IPv6 BGP implementation on a Nokia 7750SR is FALSE?
a. The router ID must be reachable.
b. The router must have a chassis-mode of “c” or higher.
c. Link-local addresses can be used for eBGP sessions.
d. A router ID must be 32 bits.
24. Assume all router IDs are properly configured, and IPv6 link-local addresses are used to establish all eBGP sessions. Given the
following iBGP configuration on router A, what is the Next Hop for prefix 2001:DB8:A:401::1/128 on router B?
group “iBGP”
peer-as 65540
neighbor 2001:DB8:2::2
exit
neighbor 2001:DB8:3::3
exit
exit
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25. Which of the following is NOT considered a best practice for BGP address planning?
a. Do not mix customer assigned addresses with internal IGP addresses.
b. Use the next-hop-self command to force BGP to use the resources provided by the IGP.
c. Use interface addresses for setting up iBGP sessions.
d. Customer addresses become BGP NLRI for the AS.
26. Which of the following statements about BGP import policies on a Nokia 7750SR is FALSE?
a. Import policies can filter NLRI based on AS Path.
b. Import policies can send aggregate routes.
c. Import policies can filter NLRI based on prefix lists.
d. Import policies can modify local preference.
27. What is the result of configuring the following policy statement as a BGP import policy on the Nokia 7750 SR?
policy-statement “Policy-1”
entry 10
from
protocol bgp
prefix-list “List-1” “List-2”
exit
action reject
exit
exit
default-action reject
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28. Assuming that “customer1” and “customer2” are directly connected networks, what is the result of executing the following
BGP export policy?
entry 10
from
protocol direct
exit
action accept
metric set 30
exit
exit
entry 20
from
prefix-list “customer1”
exit
action accept
community add “North”
exit
exit
entry 30
from
prefix-list “customer2”
exit
action accept
community add “South”
exit
exit
default-action reject
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29. Assuming that “customer1” and “customer2” are directly connected networks, what is the result of executing the following
BGP export policy?
entry 10
from
protocol direct
exit
action next-entry
metric set 30
exit
exit
entry 20
from
prefix-list “customer1”
exit
action accept
community add “North”
exit
exit
entry 30
from
prefix-list “customer2”
exit
action accept
community add “South”
exit
exit
default-action reject
a. “customer1” and “customer2” MED is not set while “customer1” is tagged with community “North” and “customer2” is
tagged with community “South”.
b. “customer1” and “customer2” MED is set to 30 while “customer1” is tagged with community “North” and “customer2” is
tagged with community “South”.
c. “customer1” and “customer2” MED is set to 30 while “customer1” is tagged with community “North” and “customer2” is
not tagged with a community.
d. “customer” MED is set to 30 while “customer” is tagged with community “North” and “customer2” is rejected.
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30. The following policies are configured and exported using “export “policy2” “policy1”.” Assuming both “customer1” and
“customer2” are properly defined on the router, which routes are advertised?
Router-A>config>router>policy-options# info
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prefix-list “customer1”
prefix 192.168.10.0/29 exact
exit
prefix-list “customer2”
prefix 192.168.20.0/29 exact
exit
policy-statement “policy1”
entry 10
from
prefix-list “customer1”
exit
action accept
exit
exit
default-action accept
exit
policy-statement “policy2”
entry 10
from
prefix-list “customer2”
exit
action next-policy
exit
exit
default-action reject
exit
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31. Which of the following is NOT a prefix-list mask option?
a. longer
b. shorter
c. exact
d. range
32. Router R2 is advertising prefix 192.168.10.0/24 with community “no-export”. Which routers will receive an update for that
prefix?
a. Router R1 only.
b. Router R3 only.
c. Routers R1 and R3 only.
d. Routers R1, R3 and R4.
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33. AS 65100 owns CIDR block 10.16.0.0/12. Router R1 creates and advertises the aggregate 10.16.0.0/12 to AS 65000 using
the configuration below. Which of the following statements is TRUE?
a. R4 receives the aggregate route only and the atomic aggregate attribute is set.
b. R4 receives the aggregate route only and the atomic aggregate attribute is not set.
c. R4 receives the aggregate route and specific routes for each client. The atomic aggregate route is set.
d. R4 receives the aggregate route and specific routes for each client. The atomic aggregate attribute is not set.
34. Which of the following statements about advertising aggregate routes in BGP is FALSE?
a. The Atomic Aggregate flag is set on an aggregate route to indicate that there is a loss of data in the path information.
b. If the “summary-only” option is used, then the specific routes will not be advertised.
c. The Atomic Aggregate flag is cleared when the “as-set” option is used in the aggregate command.
d. The “as-set” option affects the AS-Path information of the summary and more specific routes.
35. Which of the following AS Paths will match the regular expression “*65000.”?
a. 65100 65000
b. 65100 65000 65200
c. 65100 65200 65000
d. 65000 65100 65200
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36. Router R1 is configured with an import policy to reject updates with an AS Path matching the regular expression “65200 .+”.
Which of the following statements is TRUE?
37. R1 receives a route from R2 with a MED value of 200. What MED value for the route is sent from R1 to R4?
a. 200
b. None
c. 100
d. 1
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38. AS 65100 is configured with confederation ASes 65101 and 65102. If R3 sends an update for a route to R2 with a local
preference of 200, what is the local preference once this update arrives at router R1?
a. 100
b. 200
c. 300
d. None
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39. Router R2 receives a route to 192.168.1.0/27 from router R4, and does not explicitly set the local preference. Router R1
receives a route to 192.168.1.0/27 from router R3, and sets the local preference to 80. Both ASs have a full iBGP mesh. What
path does traffic destined to 192.168.1.0/27 take from router R1?
a. R1-R2-R4-R6
b. R1-R2-R4-R3-R5-R6
c. R1-R3-R5-R6
d. R1-R3-R4-R6
40. A confederated AS is comprised of 3 members. One member is comprised of 3 routers, while the other two members are
comprised of 4 routers each. Assuming member ASs are fully meshed and use full mesh iBGP, what is the required number of
iBGP sessions and eBGP sessions within the confederation?
a. 3 eBGP sessions and 15 iBGP sessions.
b. 0 eBGP sessions and 18 iBGP sessions.
c. 3 eBGP sessions and 11 iBGP sessions.
d. 0 eBGP sessions and 14 iBGP sessions.
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41. Which of the following statements best describes the BGP sessions within the given network?
42. Which of the following statements about BGP attributes within a configuration is FALSE?
a. The ORIGIN attribute remains unchanged within a confederation.
b. If an update is sent to a neighbor in a foreign AS, the confederation path is removed from AS_PATH.
c. If an update is sent to a neighbor in a different member AS within the confederation, the member AS number is added to
AS_PATH.
d. The NEXT_HOP attribute remains unchanged within a confederation.
43. Which of the following statements about configuring BGP confederations is FALSE?
a. Configure the AS number as the local confederation AS.
b. All involved routers must support confederations.
c. A member AS inside a confederation need not be fully-meshed.
d. There can be a maximum of 16 member ASes in a confederation.
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45. Routers RR1 and RR2 are route reflectors with different Cluster-IDs. Which of the following statements is FALSE if AS 65100
sends an update for Client1 prefix 192.168.3.0/29 to Router B?
46. Which of the following statements about the ORIGINATOR_ID attribute is FALSE?
a. Once set, the ORIGINATOR_ID is not modified.
b. The BGP router that originates an update sets the ORIGINATOR_ID.
c. The ORIGINATOR_ID is set to the Router-ID of the originator of the route in the local autonomous system.
d. The ORIGINATOR_ID is used for loop prevention inside of an autonomous system.
47. Routers RR1 and RR2 are route reflectors with different Cluster IDs. When the update for prefix 192.168.3.0/29 is received at
router C from RR1, what will the ORIGINATOR_ID attribute be?
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48. Routers RR1 and RR2 are route reflectors with different Cluster IDs. When the update for prefix 192.168.3.0/29 is received at
router D from RR2, what will the CLUSTER_LIST attribute be?
49. Routers RR1 and RR2 are redundant route reflectors for clients B, C and D. Which of the following is a valid configuration on
router RR2?
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a. RR2>config>router>bgp# info
----------------------------------------------
group “AS 65200”
peer-as 65200
neighbor 10.10.10.10
exit
neighbor 10.10.10.30
cluster 10.10.10.20
exit
neighbor 10.10.10.40
cluster 10.10.10.20
exit
neighbor 10.10.10.50
cluster 10.10.10.20
exit
b. RR2>config>router>bgp# info
----------------------------------------------
group “AS 65200”
peer-as 65200
neighbor 10.10.10.10
cluster 10.10.10.10
exit
neighbor 10.10.10.30
cluster 10.10.10.20
exit
neighbor 10.10.10.40
cluster 10.10.10.20
exit
neighbor 10.10.10.50
cluster 10.10.10.20
exit
c. RR2>config>router>bgp# info
----------------------------------------------
group “AS 65200”
cluster 10.10.10.20
peer-as 65200
neighbor 10.10.10.10
exit
neighbor 10.10.10.30
exit
neighbor 10.10.10.40
exit
neighbor 10.10.10.50
exit
exit
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d. RR2>config>router>bgp# info
----------------------------------------------
group “AS 65200”
peer-as 65200
neighbor 10.10.10.10
cluster 10.10.10.20
exit
neighbor 10.10.10.30
exit
neighbor 10.10.10.40
exit
neighbor 10.10.10.50
exit
exit
50. Which of the following statements about the BGP Advertise External feature is FALSE?
a. BGP Advertise External modifies BGP advertisement logic with no protocol changes.
b. BGP Advertise External allows better load sharing.
c. BGP Advertise External applies to both regular IPv4 unicast routes and labeled-IPv4 (SAFI4) routes.
d. BGP Advertise External is supported only at the config>router>bgp>group level.
51. Router R1 is a route reflector for clients ASBR1, ASBR2, and ASBR3. Router R3 advertises prefix 192.168.1.0/27 to routers
ASBR1 and ASBR2. Router ASBR1 is configured with a local preference of 200. On which routers is “advertise-external”
needed for router R1 to receive two distinct routes for prefix 192.168.1.0/27?
a. ASBR1 only
b. ASBR2 only
c. ASBR1 and ASBR2
d. R1 only
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52. Router R1 is a route reflector with clients ASBR1, ASBR2, and ASBR3. Prefixes advertised by router ASBR1 have a local
preference of 200. Router R3 advertises the prefix 192.168.1.0/27 to routers ASBR1 and ASBR2. Assuming that none of
the routers in AS 65540 is configured with “advertise-external,” what is the expected output of “show router bgp routes” on
router ASBR2?
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d. Flag Network LocalPref MED
Nexthop (Router) Path-Id Label
As-Path
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
*i 192.168.1.0/27 200 None
10.10.10.5 None -
65541
*i 192.168.1.0/27 100 None
10.10.10.6 None -
65541
53. Router R1 is a route reflector with clients ASBR1, ASBR2 and ASBR3. Prefixes advertised by router ASBR1 have a local preference
of 200. Router R3 advertises the prefix 192.168.1.0/27 to routers ASBR1 and ASBR2. Assuming that router ASBR2 is configured
with “advertise-external,” what is the expected output of “show router bgp routes” when executed on router ASBR2?
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c. Flag Network LocalPref MED
Nexthop (Router) Path-Id Label
As-Path
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
u*>i 192.168.1.0/27 200 None
10.10.10.5 None -
65541
*i 192.168.1.0/27 None None
10.3.6.3 None -
65541
55. Router R1 is a route reflector for clients ASBR1, ASBR2 and ASBR3. Router R3 advertises prefix 192.168.1.0/27 to routers
ASBR1 and ASBR2. Routers R1 is configured with “add-paths ipv4 send 2 receive none” and ASBR3 is configured with “add-
paths ipv4 send 2 receive.” What is the expected output of “show router bgp routes” on ASBR3?
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b. Flag Network LocalPref MED
Nexthop (Router) Path-Id Label
As-Path
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
u*>i 192.168.1.0/27 200 None
10.10.10.5 1 -
65541
*i 192.168.1.0/27 100 None
10.10.10.6 2 -
65541
56. Router R1 is a route reflector with clients ASBR1, ASBR2 and ASBR3. Router R3 advertises the prefix 192.168.1.0/27 to
routers ASBR1 and ASBR2. Assuming that routers R1, ASBR3, and R4 are configured with “add-paths ipv4 send 2 receive”,
executing “show router bgp routes” on R4 will show which IP address as the next hop for route 192.168.1.0/27?
a. 10.2.4.3
b. 10.10.10.2
c. 10.10.10.1
d. 10.3.5.3
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57. Which of the following is NOT a criterion used to notify the IOM that a BGP next-hop is unreachable?
a. Peer IP address unreachable and peer-tracking enabled.
b. The LDP tunnel that resolves the next-hop goes down.
c. BFD session associated with BGP goes down.
d. BGP hold timers for a session expire.
58. Router R1 is a route reflector for clients ASBR1, ASBR2 and ASBR3. Router R3 advertises prefix 192.168.1.0/27 to routers
ASBR1 and ASBR2. Assuming that router ASBR3 is configured with “backup-path ipv4”, what is the expected output of “show
router bgp routes” when executed on router ASBR3?
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c. Flag Network LocalPref MED
Nexthop (Router) Path-Id Label
As-Path
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
u*>i 192.168.1.0/27 200 None
10.10.10.5 1 -
65541
*i 192.168.1.0/27 100 None
10.10.10.6 2 -
65541
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60. Both routers C and D are advertising the eBGP learned prefix 10.5.0.0/16 into ISP X. What action is taken by router C?
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