Question 120
The change advisory board sees a repeat risk in this case: During a predeployment review for a university backbone, the team discovers this design gap: an EIGRP migration changes metric K-values on just one of two intended peers and adjacency establishment fails. An approval gate requires both a measurable acceptance check and a durable prevention control. Which preventive design control MOST DIRECTLY addresses this specific risk?
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Enforce a single approved EIGRP metric profile via configuration validation. Apply the same control to the university backbone rollout checklist. This control targets the underlying design risk. A mismatch in EIGRP K-values prevents neighbor compatibility for route exchange. The follow-up acceptance check remains: Peer adjacencies establish and routes enter the topology table after the K-values match. The university backbone acceptance record also captures this result.
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EIGRP stub signaling discourages neighbors from querying the spoke as a transit path for remote routes. The repeat risk here is different: a mismatch in EIGRP K-values prevents neighbor compatibility for route exchange. A directly relevant preventive control is: Enforce a single approved EIGRP metric profile via configuration validation. Apply the same control to the university backbone rollout checklist.
EIGRP summarization can hide detailed routes; an overbroad aggregate may attract traffic to nonexistent destinations. The repeat risk here is different: a mismatch in EIGRP K-values prevents neighbor compatibility for route exchange. A directly relevant preventive control is: Enforce a single approved EIGRP metric profile via configuration validation. Apply the same control to the university backbone rollout checklist.
A feasible successor must meet DUAL’s feasibility condition to provide a loop-free immediate backup. The repeat risk here is different: a mismatch in EIGRP K-values prevents neighbor compatibility for route exchange. A directly relevant preventive control is: Enforce a single approved EIGRP metric profile via configuration validation. Apply the same control to the university backbone rollout checklist.