Monday, April 11, 2016

CCNA Interview Questions part-3

CCNA CCNP are the certifications given by the CISCO company in the level of skillset in the Networking modules. CCNA CCNP online training is the leading online training provider for the students all over the countries in the world. Here the training is provided by the trainers who has 12+ years of experience in the Real time. Below are the CCNA CCNP interview questions which help you to attend CCNA interview or cisco certification exams.



What is the counting-to-infinity problem, and how can it be controlled?

Answer: Counting to infinity occurs when routes update a route over a loop; each router increases the metric of the route until the metric reaches infinity. The effects of counting to infinity are controlled by defining infinity as a fairly low metric so that infinity is reached fairly quickly and the route is declared unreachable.

What are hold down timers, and how do they work?

Answer: Hold down timers help prevent routing loops. If a route is declared unreachable or if the metric increases beyond a certain threshold, a router will not accept any other information about that route until the hold down timer expires. This approach prevents the router from accepting possibly bad routing information while the inter network is re converging.

What are the differences between distance vector and link state routing protocols?

Answer: A distance vector router sends its entire route table, but it only sends the table to directly connected neighbors. A link state router sends only information about its directly connected links, but it floods the information throughout the inter networking area. Distance vector protocols usually use a variant of the Bellman-Ford algorithm to calculate routes, and link state protocols usually use a variant of the Dijkstra algorithm to calculate routes.

What is the purpose of a topological database?

Answer: A topological database holds the link state information originated by all routers in the link state routing domain.

Explain the basic steps involved in converging a link state inter network.

Answer: Each router floods a link state information advertisement describing its links, the states of its links, and any neighboring routers connected to those links, throughout the inter networking area. All routers store all received copies of the link state advertisement in a link state database. Each router calculates a shortest path tree from the information in the topological database and enters routes in its routing tables based on the shortest path tree.

Why are sequence numbers important in link state protocols?

Answer: Sequence numbers help a router differentiate between multiple copies of the same link state advertisement and also prevent flooded link state advertisements from circulating endlessly throughout the inter network.

What purpose does aging serve in a link state protocol?

A: Aging prevents old, possibly obsolete, link state information from residing in a topological database or from being accepted by a router.

Explain how an SPF algorithm works?

Answer: A router builds a shortest path tree by first adding itself as the root. Using the information in the topological database, the router creates a list of all of its directly connected neighbors. The lowest cost link to a neighbor becomes a branch of the tree, and that router’s neighbors are added to the list. The list is checked for duplicate paths, and if they exist, the higher-cost paths are removed from the list. The lowest-cost router on the list is added to the tree, that router’s neighbors are added to the list, and the list is again checked for duplicate paths. This process continues until no routers remain on the list.

How do areas benefit a link state inter network?

Answer: Within a routing domain, areas are subdomains. They make link state routing more efficient by limiting the size of the link state database of each router in the area.

What is an autonomous system?

Answer: Depending on the usage, an autonomous system can be defined as an inter network under a common administrative domain or a single routing domain.

What is the difference between an IGP and an EGP?

Answer: An Interior Gateway Protocol is a routing protocol that routes within an autonomous system. An Exterior Gateway Protocol is a routing protocol that routes between autonomous systems.

What port does RIP use?

Answer: RIP uses UDP port 520.

What metric does RIP use? How is the metric used to indicate an unreachable network?

Answer: RIP uses a hop count metric. An unreachable network is indicated by setting the hop count to 16, which RIP interprets as an infinite distance.

What is the update period for RIP?

Answer: RIP sends periodic updates every 30 seconds minus a small random variable to prevent the updates of neighboring routers from becoming synchronized.

How many updates must be missed before a route entry will be marked as unreachable?

Answer: A route entry is marked as unreachable if six updates are missed.

What is the purpose of the garbage collection timer?

Answer: The garbage collection timer, or flush timer, is set when a route is declared unreachable. When the timer expires, the route is flushed from the route table. This process allows an unreachable route to remain in the routing table long enough for neighbors to be notified of its status.

Why is a random timer associated with triggered updates? What is the range of this timer?

Answer: The random timer, whose range is 1 to 5 seconds, prevents a “storm” of triggered updates during a topology change.


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