Question 150
In a technical design review: During a predeployment review for a multisite healthcare network, the team discovers this design gap: a remote OSPF area must import a limited external route locally but should not flood all backbone external LSAs inward. An approval gate requires both a measurable acceptance check and a durable prevention control. Which technical principle BEST explains the design decision?
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Correct Answer
An OSPF NSSA can originate Type 7 external information and translate it at an eligible ABR. The correct engineering response is: Use a properly designed not-so-stubby area and validate Type 7 translation at its ABR. The observable check is: The local redistributed prefix appears via the correct NSSA translation behavior and prohibited external floods remain absent. The multisite healthcare network acceptance record also captures this result.
Incorrect Answers
An OSPF NSSA can originate Type 7 external information and translate it at an eligible ABR. The offered choice instead concerns a different principle: an OSPF stub area restricts external Type 5 LSA flooding while permitting interarea reachability as designed. Those technical conditions are not interchangeable.
An OSPF NSSA can originate Type 7 external information and translate it at an eligible ABR. The offered choice instead concerns a different principle: Passive OSPF interfaces advertise their connected networks without forming unnecessary neighbor adjacencies. Those technical conditions are not interchangeable.
An OSPF NSSA can originate Type 7 external information and translate it at an eligible ABR. The offered choice instead concerns a different principle: Routing protocol authentication helps prevent unauthenticated devices from injecting link-state information. Those technical conditions are not interchangeable.