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Exam Code: JN0-364

Exam Name: Service Provider Routing and Switching, Specialist (JNCIS-SP)

Certification Provider: Juniper

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Juniper JN0-364 Practice Test 13

Question 120

At fictional Sprucewell Transit, during a metro aggregation ring, engineers report: A customer-facing edge port accidentally connects to another switch that begins sending BPDUs and threatens the access topology. Which observation would most directly establish that the reported failure has been repaired?

  1. Incoming labels resolve to valid outgoing label operations and interfaces, and data-plane counters show successful forwarding.
  2. The impacted non-designated port stays protected while BPDUs are absent and returns only after control-plane health is restored.
  3. An unexpected BPDU causes the intended protective state and operations receive a traceable port event.
  4. Each VLAN's spanning-tree state selects its planned root and forwarding ports without creating a cross-VLAN loop.

Explanation

Correct Answer

C:

An unexpected BPDU causes the intended protective state and operations receive a traceable port event. It tests the failed behavior itself rather than merely confirming that a configuration was committed. Edge BPDU protection is intended for ports expected to connect to hosts, not for ordinary switch-to-switch links that exchange BPDUs.

Incorrect Answers

A:

This measurement tests MPLS label forwarding table mismatch; it cannot distinguish success from failure for the observed RSTP edge BPDU protection condition. Edge BPDU protection is intended for ports expected to connect to hosts, not for ordinary switch-to-switch links that exchange BPDUs.

B:

The impacted non-designated port stays protected while BPDUs are absent and returns only after control-plane health is restored. It would validate a separate RSTP loop protection operation, not the change needed here. Confirm instead that an unexpected BPDU causes the intended protective state and operations receive a traceable port event.

D:

This measurement tests VSTP per-VLAN root choice; it cannot distinguish success from failure for the observed RSTP edge BPDU protection condition. Edge BPDU protection is intended for ports expected to connect to hosts, not for ordinary switch-to-switch links that exchange BPDUs.

Question 121

During a dual-stack transit pilot at fictional Fernstone Logistics, the team observes: A regional gateway needs a summary that inherits forwarding from an eligible contributing route, but an aggregate discard route is used instead. Which networking principle most accurately explains the observed failure?

  1. BGP import policy governs received routes and export policy governs outbound advertisements; changing the wrong direction cannot enforce the intended boundary.
  2. Martian-address handling protects routing tables from addresses that should not be accepted as normal routable destinations.
  3. Generated routes can derive their next-hop behavior from qualifying contributing routes, unlike aggregate discard summaries.
  4. Equal routing candidates do not prove the forwarding engine is using ECMP; Junos load-balancing policy and flow hashing determine installed next hops.

Explanation

Correct Answer

C:

Generated routes can derive their next-hop behavior from qualifying contributing routes, unlike aggregate discard summaries. That is the specific distinction behind the observed outage. The targeted fix is to use a generated route with the intended contributor policy and verify the selected qualifying route supplies usable forwarding behavior.

Incorrect Answers

A:

Although BGP import export control needs this consideration, the failure at issue has a different cause. Generated routes can derive their next-hop behavior from qualifying contributing routes, unlike aggregate discard summaries.

B:

Although martian source address rejection needs this consideration, the failure at issue has a different cause. Generated routes can derive their next-hop behavior from qualifying contributing routes, unlike aggregate discard summaries.

D:

Although equal-cost forwarding flow hashing needs this consideration, the failure at issue has a different cause. Generated routes can derive their next-hop behavior from qualifying contributing routes, unlike aggregate discard summaries.

Question 122

A fictional service-provider team at Highpoint Exchange is reviewing a virtual-router integration. The finding is: A backbone migration changes one router's circuit type to Level 2 while the other endpoint remains Level 1, leaving the IS-IS adjacency absent. Which focused engineering action would best correct the fault?

  1. Give each router a unique system ID and a NET whose area portion matches intended Level 1 membership.
  2. Set compatible IS-IS circuit levels on both ends of the interface and verify hello and neighbor state.
  3. Insert the appropriate valid adjacency SID for the required hop and verify the resolved segment list and actual forwarding path.
  4. Inspect the IS-IS link-state database and CSNP/PSNP exchange to resolve synchronization or flooding problems.

Explanation

Correct Answer

B:

Set compatible IS-IS circuit levels on both ends of the interface and verify hello and neighbor state. This treats the fault shown by Highpoint Exchange: IS-IS peers must support a common adjacency level; active Ethernet transport does not compensate for a level mismatch. Confirm success when the expected L1 or L2 IS-IS adjacency appears and routing information for the selected level is exchanged.

Incorrect Answers

A:

Give each router a unique system ID and a NET whose area portion matches intended Level 1 membership. Its normal acceptance signal would be neighbor state and system IDs show unique routers, and Level 1 adjacency establishes only among compatible area peers. Here the deciding check is different: the expected L1 or L2 IS-IS adjacency appears and routing information for the selected level is exchanged.

C:

Insert the appropriate valid adjacency SID for the required hop and verify the resolved segment list and actual forwarding path. Its normal acceptance signal would be packet traces follow the specified adjacency rather than merely the IGP shortest path to a node SID. Here the deciding check is different: the expected L1 or L2 IS-IS adjacency appears and routing information for the selected level is exchanged.

D:

Inspect the IS-IS link-state database and CSNP/PSNP exchange to resolve synchronization or flooding problems. This addresses IS-IS LSP database synchronization, but the reported symptoms arise from IS-IS adjacency circuit level. For this case, verify instead that the expected L1 or L2 IS-IS adjacency appears and routing information for the selected level is exchanged.

Question 123

The operations group at fictional Cedarline Broadband, working on a virtual-router integration, finds: A staff workstation port receives rogue spanning-tree control messages but remains forwarding because edge protection is missing. Which ongoing control would most directly detect or prevent the same failure from recurring?

  1. Audit which ports are true edges and test protective action when a simulated switch sends a BPDU.
  2. Validate MST digest and instance mapping consistency as part of configuration review.
  3. Rehearse planned root-link failures and verify alternate-port transitions and absence of loop symptoms.
  4. Test double-tag preservation and S-tag membership on both ends of each provider handoff.

Explanation

Correct Answer

A:

Audit which ports are true edges and test protective action when a simulated switch sends a BPDU. This monitors the behavior that failed at Cedarline Broadband; the most useful acceptance signal is that an unexpected BPDU causes the intended protective state and operations receive a traceable port event.

Incorrect Answers

B:

Validate MST digest and instance mapping consistency as part of configuration review. That ongoing check is for MSTP region consistency; it would not reliably detect recurrence of RSTP edge BPDU protection. Edge BPDU protection is intended for ports expected to connect to hosts, not for ordinary switch-to-switch links that exchange BPDUs.

C:

The control protects RSTP alternate port reconvergence. It does not establish the ongoing RSTP edge BPDU protection behavior required in this network. Edge BPDU protection is intended for ports expected to connect to hosts, not for ordinary switch-to-switch links that exchange BPDUs.

D:

Test double-tag preservation and S-tag membership on both ends of each provider handoff. The monitored boundary differs from RSTP edge BPDU protection, so the original weakness might reappear unnoticed. Edge BPDU protection is intended for ports expected to connect to hosts, not for ordinary switch-to-switch links that exchange BPDUs.

Question 124

At fictional Skybridge Metro, during an intercity fiber refresh, engineers report: An OSPF adjacency keeps resetting despite clean physical counters, and the two ends advertise different hello intervals. Which networking principle most accurately explains the observed failure?

  1. OSPF area identity is part of neighbor compatibility, and mismatched area membership prevents formation of the intended adjacency.
  2. IS-IS uses Level 1 within an area and Level 2 between areas; an L1 router needs an appropriate inter-area exit or route leak.
  3. OSPF external redistribution is controlled by export policy; stable IGP neighbor state does not imply arbitrary static or direct routes are advertised.
  4. OSPF neighbor formation requires compatible hello and dead timers; link-layer carrier does not override timer mismatch.

Explanation

Correct Answer

D:

OSPF neighbor formation requires compatible hello and dead timers; link-layer carrier does not override timer mismatch. That is the specific distinction behind the observed outage. The targeted fix is to restore compatible hello and dead intervals on the neighboring OSPF interfaces and observe stable hellos.

Incorrect Answers

A:

OSPF area identity is part of neighbor compatibility, and mismatched area membership prevents formation of the intended adjacency. That describes OSPF area identity mismatch, whereas the observed symptoms are caused by OSPF hello and dead timers; it does not predict the reported behavior.

B:

IS-IS uses Level 1 within an area and Level 2 between areas; an L1 router needs an appropriate inter-area exit or route leak. Those conditions do not account for the specific OSPF hello and dead timers problem reported by Skybridge Metro.

C:

This principle matters when troubleshooting OSPF external route export, but using it here mistakes a different failure mode for OSPF hello and dead timers. The relevant distinction is: OSPF neighbor formation requires compatible hello and dead timers; link-layer carrier does not override timer mismatch.

Question 125

During a carrier peering cutover at fictional Beacon Data Exchange, the team observes: After a core migration, route selection changes while neighbors remain Full because interface cost on the new links was not adjusted. Which ongoing control would most directly detect or prevent the same failure from recurring?

  1. Compare OSPF area IDs at both ends of every new inter-router link before production cutover.
  2. Audit OSPF export filters against an approved prefix list after every service addition.
  3. Track link cost and selected SPF path together in post-upgrade route-validation tests.
  4. Audit explicit segment lists against intended physical-hop constraints before deployment.

Explanation

Correct Answer

C:

Track link cost and selected SPF path together in post-upgrade route-validation tests. This monitors the behavior that failed at Beacon Data Exchange; the most useful acceptance signal is that the best route's cumulative OSPF cost selects the approved path and changes predictably when the alternative fails.

Incorrect Answers

A:

This is a useful guard against OSPF area identity mismatch, but it is not scoped to the observed OSPF interface metric selection failure. An appropriate test would show that the best route's cumulative OSPF cost selects the approved path and changes predictably when the alternative fails.

B:

This is a useful guard against OSPF external route export, but it is not scoped to the observed OSPF interface metric selection failure. An appropriate test would show that the best route's cumulative OSPF cost selects the approved path and changes predictably when the alternative fails.

D:

Audit explicit segment lists against intended physical-hop constraints before deployment. The monitored boundary differs from OSPF interface metric selection, so the original weakness might reappear unnoticed. OSPF chooses lowest-cost paths computed from link-state topology; a Full adjacency alone does not guarantee the desired route preference.

Question 126

A fictional service-provider team at Everfield Rail is reviewing a virtual-router integration. The finding is: A router running IS-IS discovers adjacent nodes but the IPv6 unicast routes never populate the IPv6 routing table. Which observation would most directly establish that the reported failure has been repaired?

  1. IPv6 reachability TLVs are exchanged and peers install the intended IPv6 routes independently of IPv4 reachability.
  2. The inappropriate prefix is absent or rejected while legitimate provider routes remain eligible and active.
  3. Neighbor Solicitation and Advertisement complete and the destination's link-layer neighbor entry becomes usable.
  4. BGP peers exchange the intended IPv6 NLRI and establish resolvable IPv6 next hops.

Explanation

Correct Answer

A:

IPv6 reachability TLVs are exchanged and peers install the intended IPv6 routes independently of IPv4 reachability. It tests the failed behavior itself rather than merely confirming that a configuration was committed. IS-IS can carry IPv6 topology and prefix information using appropriate TLVs; an IPv4 route table is not a substitute. Applied here, the relevant facts are: A router running IS-IS discovers adjacent nodes but the IPv6 unicast routes never populate the IPv6 routing table. The question asks which observation would most directly establish that the reported failure has been repaired.

Incorrect Answers

B:

The inappropriate prefix is absent or rejected while legitimate provider routes remain eligible and active. That establishes martian source address rejection rather than a repaired IS-IS IPv6 topology TLVs path. The reported failure still requires this evidence: IPv6 reachability TLVs are exchanged and peers install the intended IPv6 routes independently of IPv4 reachability.

C:

Neighbor Solicitation and Advertisement complete and the destination's link-layer neighbor entry becomes usable. It would validate a separate IPv6 neighbor discovery filtering operation, not the change needed here. Confirm instead that IPv6 reachability TLVs are exchanged and peers install the intended IPv6 routes independently of IPv4 reachability.

D:

BGP peers exchange the intended IPv6 NLRI and establish resolvable IPv6 next hops. That establishes multiprotocol BGP IPv6 AFI rather than a repaired IS-IS IPv6 topology TLVs path. The reported failure still requires this evidence: IPv6 reachability TLVs are exchanged and peers install the intended IPv6 routes independently of IPv4 reachability.

Question 127

The operations group at fictional Alderbrook Transit, working on a wholesale access handoff, finds: Hosts in two VLANs can bridge within their VLAN but cannot communicate across subnets because no L3 gateway is attached. Which observation would most directly establish that the reported failure has been repaired?

  1. Tagged test frames of the required service size traverse each handoff without oversize or discard counters rising.
  2. Hosts reach the expected IRB gateway and traffic between approved subnets is routed rather than bridged blindly.
  3. Hosts receive the intended untagged frames and trunk links carry the specified VLAN tags with correct membership.
  4. Each VLAN's spanning-tree state selects its planned root and forwarding ports without creating a cross-VLAN loop.

Explanation

Correct Answer

B:

Hosts reach the expected IRB gateway and traffic between approved subnets is routed rather than bridged blindly. It tests the failed behavior itself rather than merely confirming that a configuration was committed. IRB provides an L3 interface for a Layer 2 VLAN bridge domain; MAC learning alone cannot perform inter-subnet routing.

Incorrect Answers

A:

Tagged test frames of the required service size traverse each handoff without oversize or discard counters rising. It would validate a separate provider bridging MTU overhead operation, not the change needed here. Confirm instead that hosts reach the expected IRB gateway and traffic between approved subnets is routed rather than bridged blindly.

C:

The check is meaningful for VLAN access trunk distinction, but it does not prove that integrated routing and bridging was repaired. IRB provides an L3 interface for a Layer 2 VLAN bridge domain; MAC learning alone cannot perform inter-subnet routing.

D:

Each VLAN's spanning-tree state selects its planned root and forwarding ports without creating a cross-VLAN loop. That establishes VSTP per-VLAN root choice rather than a repaired integrated routing and bridging path. The reported failure still requires this evidence: hosts reach the expected IRB gateway and traffic between approved subnets is routed rather than bridged blindly.

Question 128

At fictional Everfield Rail, during an intercity fiber refresh, engineers report: An RSVP-signaled LSP remains Down because the ingress sends PATH messages but no corresponding reservation returns. Which observation would most directly establish that the reported failure has been repaired?

  1. The adjacency remains Full over successive dead intervals without periodic neighbor expiration.
  2. Packet traces follow the specified adjacency rather than merely the IGP shortest path to a node SID.
  3. The LSP shows a completed RSVP reservation and an operational signaled path through intended hops.
  4. The intended interface discovers the peer and the LDP neighbor appears with an operational session.

Explanation

Correct Answer

C:

The LSP shows a completed RSVP reservation and an operational signaled path through intended hops. It tests the failed behavior itself rather than merely confirming that a configuration was committed. RSVP-TE establishes LSP state through forward PATH and reverse RESV processing; one-way PATH reception is insufficient.

Incorrect Answers

A:

The check is meaningful for OSPF hello and dead timers, but it does not prove that RSVP PATH and RESV signaling was repaired. RSVP-TE establishes LSP state through forward PATH and reverse RESV processing; one-way PATH reception is insufficient.

B:

The check is meaningful for segment routing adjacency SID, but it does not prove that RSVP PATH and RESV signaling was repaired. RSVP-TE establishes LSP state through forward PATH and reverse RESV processing; one-way PATH reception is insufficient.

D:

The intended interface discovers the peer and the LDP neighbor appears with an operational session. It would validate a separate LDP neighbor discovery operation, not the change needed here. Confirm instead that the LSP shows a completed RSVP reservation and an operational signaled path through intended hops.

Question 129

During a provider-edge service migration at fictional Tidewater Hosting, the team observes: The router immediately before an LSP egress retains an unnecessary transport label because implicit-null behavior is not understood. Which networking principle most accurately explains the observed failure?

  1. The MPLS S bit identifies the final label in a stack; it does not describe label priority or path preference.
  2. Penultimate-hop popping can remove an outer transport label before the egress, reducing egress label processing.
  3. An aggregate route is conditional on active contributing routes and normally uses a discard or reject next hop to avoid creating a forwarding loop.
  4. RSVP traffic engineering applies resource reservation and constrained path selection, not merely IP shortest-path routing.

Explanation

Correct Answer

B:

Penultimate-hop popping can remove an outer transport label before the egress, reducing egress label processing. That is the specific distinction behind the observed outage. The targeted fix is to interpret the advertised implicit-null behavior and verify label disposition on the penultimate LSR and egress.

Incorrect Answers

A:

This principle matters when troubleshooting MPLS label stack bottom bit, but using it here mistakes a different failure mode for penultimate hop popping. The relevant distinction is: penultimate-hop popping can remove an outer transport label before the egress, reducing egress label processing.

C:

Although aggregate route contributor needs this consideration, the failure at issue has a different cause. Penultimate-hop popping can remove an outer transport label before the egress, reducing egress label processing.

D:

RSVP traffic engineering applies resource reservation and constrained path selection, not merely IP shortest-path routing. Those conditions do not account for the specific penultimate hop popping problem reported by Tidewater Hosting.

Question 130

A fictional service-provider team at Coastline Carrier is reviewing a network change window. The finding is: After adding a new circuit to an ae bundle, only some links forward because their LACP keys or compatibility settings differ. Which ongoing control would most directly detect or prevent the same failure from recurring?

  1. Exercise VRRP failover and confirm virtual gateway reachability under device and link failure.
  2. Monitor LACP partner IDs, actor keys, member state, and bundle bandwidth after changes.
  3. Validate local-AS and peer-AS inventory against change requests before activating external sessions.
  4. Test forwarding, bridge MAC state, and protocol-neighbor continuity separately during redundant Routing Engine failover drills.

Explanation

Correct Answer

B:

Monitor LACP partner IDs, actor keys, member state, and bundle bandwidth after changes. This monitors the behavior that failed at Coastline Carrier; the most useful acceptance signal is that every intended member joins the same aggregation and distributes frames according to the approved LAG hash behavior.

Incorrect Answers

A:

Exercise VRRP failover and confirm virtual gateway reachability under device and link failure. That ongoing check is for VRRP virtual gateway failover; it would not reliably detect recurrence of LACP aggregation consistency. LACP aggregates only compatible negotiated member links; physical Up state alone does not prove active bundle participation.

C:

This is a useful guard against BGP ASN and OPEN negotiation, but it is not scoped to the observed LACP aggregation consistency failure. An appropriate test would show that every intended member joins the same aggregation and distributes frames according to the approved LAG hash behavior.

D:

This is a useful guard against GRES preserves forwarding not protocols, but it is not scoped to the observed LACP aggregation consistency failure. An appropriate test would show that every intended member joins the same aggregation and distributes frames according to the approved LAG hash behavior.

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