101 CCNP INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

1. Difference between RIPv1 and RIPv2?
2. How many number of routes carried by RIP packet?
3. Is OSPF link state or distance vector or path vector protocol?
4. What is the difference between OSPF and IS-IS and which one is preferred?
5. Can we use BGP instead of any IGP?
6. How many network types available in OSPF?
7. Different type of Link State Advertisements aka LSA?
8. LSA 3 and LSA 4 are generated by which router?
9. When to use Stub and Not So Stubby Area?
10. How to get the external routes without making area Not So Stubby?
11. What is the different type of route summarization available in OSPF?
12. What is the requirement of doing summarization?
13. A major network is advertised as summary in one area and few of the routes from that network is configured in another area. What will happen in that case?
14. If any of the OSPF area is not stabilized, does it impact another area?
15. What is the use of forwarding address in LSA 5 and LSA 7?
16. External routes are available in OSPF database but not installing in routing table?
17. If loopback is not configured, what will be the router-id selected by OSPF process?
18. Can we run multiple OSPF process in single router and what is the advantage of using it?
19. What are timers of OSPF?
20. Multicast address of used by OSPF.
21. OSPF works on which layer?
22. What is backbone area in OSPF?
23. Can we use OSPF without backbone area?
24. Is it required that OSPF router-id must reachable in IGP cloud?
25. After configuring new router-id, automatically it will be used or do we need to use some type of command to get it operational.
26. Why the secondary ip address of interface is not advertising in IGP cloud?
27. OSPF neighbourship is not coming up. Please tell the various steps to troubleshoot it.
28. One side MTU is 1500 and another side MTU is 1600. Does it affect neighbourship?
29. Provide process of DR and BDR election.
30. If DR is down and no BDR is configured what will happen?
31. What is the difference between a neighbor and adjacent neighbor?
32. My OSPF neighbourship is showing 2-way, what does it mean?
33. Define different type of OSPF neighbor states?
34. OSPF external routes are not redistributing?
35. What is Layer 3 routing loop?
36. OSPF LSA and Packet Format
37. How does OSPF Sham Link in different area work?
38. What is Link State Advertisement (LSA) – 1?
39. What is Link State Advertisement (LSA) – 2?
40. What is Link State Advertisement (LSA) – 3?
41. What is Link State Advertisement (LSA) – 4?
42. How to design OSPF Network or OSPF Design Consideration?
43. What to ask from customer if he demands OSPF as PE – CE Routing Protocol?
44. What is C and R in OSPF debug?
45. How does CPE Area 0 & PE Super backbone Communicate?
46. Why OSPF VPNv4 Routes Look As External Routes Instead Of Inter Area Routes?
47. How does ISP hack by using OSPF as PE-CE routing protocol?
48. OSPF High Availability with SSO,NSF and NSR
49. How does OSPF behave with SSO,NSF and NSR? 50. How does CISCO EIGRP DUAL Algorithm works for selecting successor?
50. Define various tools which participates in OSPF fast convergence
51. How does event propagation tool help OSPF to converge fast?
52. How does OSPF Fast Convergence Tools – Event Processing helps to reduce convergence time?
53. OSPF Fast Convergence Tools – Updating RIB 55. What is Discard Route or Null0 Route?
54. How does static routing behaves?
55. What are the fundamentals of route redistribution?

58. Which routing protocol is best between OSPF and EIGRP?

59.  In OSPF, in Broadcast network type, if all the routers are added with priority=0, then what will happen, will the routers make adjacency or not ?

60.  In case of redistribution, if OSPF routes are not getting redistributed into BGP, what can be the possible reasons?
61.  In case of BGP neigborship, we are making neighborship with loopback ip, what will be the next hop here, loopback ip or the physical interface ip ?

62.In HSRP, there are two members, A & B, A is active. As per STP, B is the root bridge. Both are conflicting with each other, then will the traffic flow or not, if yes, what will be the direction of traffic flow ?

63.  In your network, how the internet & intranet traffic is flowing in terms of design. Explain ?

64.  If a server is connected to the switch, users are not able to access application hosted on server. What will be the approach to troubleshoot ?

67.In case of NAT process, one public ip is mapped to number of private ip’s. what is the mechanism behind this ?

68.Which protocol you familiar with ?

69. Explain OSPF features
70. In OSPF routing table, how inter-area route will see ?
71. Explain EIGRP metric calculation?
72. Why to multiply by 256 for EIGRP metric ?
73. What is static floating and command ?
74. How to install a new switch in the production network
75. Explain VTP
76. Ether channel
77. SNMP port no
78. What is difference B/w TCP & UDP & give examples?

79. What is sub netting & super netting

80. What is the diameter of spanning Tree?

81.  What is policy based Routing?

82.  What is static floating?

83.  What is difference between IPV4 & IPV6?

84.  What does the EIGRP stuck in active message mean?

85.  What are the conditions of EIGRP at the time of Redistribution?

86.  How do you redistribute an IPv6 default route in EIGRP?

87.  What are the primary functions of the PDM?

88.  What are the various load−balancing options available in EIGRP?

89.  What is the difference between GLBP and HSRP?

90.  Is it possible to run HSRP for both primary and secondary subnets?

91.  What is the use of delay in standby preempt delay minimum 60 command?

92.  Is it possible to run HSRP on a Sub−Interfaces?

93.  Why do I receive the “cannot allocate router id” error message when I configure Router OSPF ?

94. Why do I receive the “unknown routing protocol” error message when I configure Router OSPF ?

95. OSPF neighbor states?

96.  What does the OSPF ‘INIT State’ mean?

97.  Attributes of BGP?

98.  What are the BGP path selection criteria?

99.  When & how should I reset a BGP session?

100.  How can I configure BGP to provide load sharing & redundancy in my network?

101.  What is the difference between RSTP & MSTP?