Question 760
The change advisory board sees a repeat risk in this case: An engineer assumes a multicast shared tree and shortest-path source tree are the same forwarding path. Which preventive design control MOST DIRECTLY addresses this specific risk?
Explanation
Correct Answer
Use separate source and RP path tests when documenting multicast failover. This control targets the underlying design risk. Shared trees organize joins around a rendezvous point while source trees follow paths toward a particular sender. The follow-up acceptance check remains: Control-plane state and packet captures match the expected shared or source-specific tree at each stage.
Incorrect Answers
Multicast RPF checks rely on the unicast or multicast routing view of the source path to avoid loops. The repeat risk here is different: Shared trees organize joins around a rendezvous point while source trees follow paths toward a particular sender. A directly relevant preventive control is: Use separate source and RP path tests when documenting multicast failover.
PIM sparse-mode any-source multicast may use an RP to help establish shared-tree membership and source discovery. The repeat risk here is different: Shared trees organize joins around a rendezvous point while source trees follow paths toward a particular sender. A directly relevant preventive control is: Use separate source and RP path tests when documenting multicast failover.
MSDP can advertise active sources between participating RPs in ASM deployments; it is not an SSM dependency. The repeat risk here is different: Shared trees organize joins around a rendezvous point while source trees follow paths toward a particular sender. A directly relevant preventive control is: Use separate source and RP path tests when documenting multicast failover.