Question 170
At the Cedarport regional hospital, two directly connected distribution switches never form OSPF adjacency after an area renumbering. What risk should the team identify as the primary issue?
Explanation
Correct Answer
This identifies the root issue: area or hello mismatch on adjacent interfaces prevents normal OSPF peering. At the Cedarport regional hospital, the team should therefore align OSPF area and adjacency parameters on the intended interfaces then validate neighbors.
Incorrect Answers
The option states: Layer 2 VLAN existence does not by itself supply a routed gateway interface. The source describes its associated mechanism as: layer 2 VLAN existence does not by itself supply a routed gateway interface; a passing acceptance check would show that a test host reaches the SVI address and permitted off subnet destinations. By contrast, the current situation is governed by: area or hello mismatch on adjacent interfaces prevents normal OSPF peering. Choosing this alternative would leave the question’s specific root-cause explanation unresolved.
a device that is merely inventoried may not inherit the required group configuration or site policy, rather than merely a monitoring or presentation issue. The offered alternative applies that mechanism: A device that is merely inventoried may not inherit the required group configuration or site policy. The reported facts point to a different controlling condition: area or hello mismatch on adjacent interfaces prevents normal OSPF peering. The alternative does not directly settle the required root-cause explanation.
Without learned receiver groups a Layer 2 multicast stream may be flooded to unrelated ports. Its technical scope is explained by: without learned receiver groups a Layer 2 multicast stream may be flooded to unrelated ports, rather than merely a monitoring or presentation issue. In this question, the decisive issue is: area or hello mismatch on adjacent interfaces prevents normal OSPF peering. That is why the offered option is not the most direct root-cause explanation.