Question 200
The change advisory board sees a repeat risk in this case: During a predeployment review for a multisite healthcare network, the team discovers this design gap: a partner sends default and private internal prefixes but the enterprise should learn only approved service aggregates. 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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Correct Answer
Maintain peer-specific prefix inventories and review BGP filters before provider changes. Apply the same control to the multisite healthcare network rollout checklist. This control targets the underlying design risk. Route policy can prevent undesired BGP NLRI from entering the local routing system. The follow-up acceptance check remains: Only approved partner prefixes are accepted and excess or private prefixes are rejected and logged. The multisite healthcare network acceptance record also captures this result.
Incorrect Answers
BGP multipath requires compatible selected paths under the platform’s path-equivalence rules; mere coexistence of peers is not enough. The repeat risk here is different: Route policy can prevent undesired BGP NLRI from entering the local routing system. A directly relevant preventive control is: Maintain peer-specific prefix inventories and review BGP filters before provider changes. Apply the same control to the multisite healthcare network rollout checklist.
AS-path length can influence outside-AS best-path selection but remote networks keep final policy authority. The repeat risk here is different: Route policy can prevent undesired BGP NLRI from entering the local routing system. A directly relevant preventive control is: Maintain peer-specific prefix inventories and review BGP filters before provider changes. Apply the same control to the multisite healthcare network rollout checklist.
BGP local preference is used within an AS to prefer an outbound path, with higher values preferred. The repeat risk here is different: Route policy can prevent undesired BGP NLRI from entering the local routing system. A directly relevant preventive control is: Maintain peer-specific prefix inventories and review BGP filters before provider changes. Apply the same control to the multisite healthcare network rollout checklist.