BGP Quiz Border Gateway Protocol Questions

BGP  Quiz

Border Gateway Protocol plays a key role in the overall operation of the Internet, you can take the Border Gateway Protocol BGP quiz and test your knowledge about it.

BGP Quiz

Q1:  If the BGP-router was unable to establish a successful TCP session, then it ends up in the ____.

•  Active state
•  open state
•  passive state
•  none of these

Answer: Active state

Q2:  Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) use the hop-count for shortest path, but hop-count in BGP’s case is a ________

•  router
•  AS (Autonomous System)
•  switch
•  BGP dont use Hop-count

Answer: AS

Q3:  BGP is technically a distance vector protocol, mostly we call it __________

•  Path vector protocol
•  IGP protocol
•  link-start protocol
•  dual protocol

Answer: Path vector protocol

Q4:  BGP supports the auto-summary you can disable it by command ________.

•  No auto-summary
•  auto-summary
•  BGP don’t have auto-summary

Answer: No auto-summary

Q5:  Type of BGP\’s messages include:

1.  Open
2.  Update
3.  KeepAlive
4.  Hello

Answer:  1,2,3

Q6:  “BGP table” contain the list of all ____ whereas routing table has the best path.

•  static route
•  IGP routes only
•  default route
•  BGP routes

Answer: BGP routes

Q7:  An iBGP normally running within a _______.

•  AS
•  multiple AS

Answer: AS

Q8:  BGP runs on the top of TCP port number _____.

•  169
•  178
•  179
•  1911

Answer: 179

Q9:  BGP’s metric consist of ___ values.

•  14
•  16

Answer: 16

Q10:  Some of well known BGP metric’s attributes are ____.

•  AS-path
•  next hop-address
•  load preference
•  origin

Answer: AS-path

Q12:  You can implement the following type of BGP for your network design: (choose three)

1.  Partial updates
2.  Default route
3.  full updates
4.  mesh updates

Answer: 1,2,3

Q13:  You can define a BGP neighbor in Cisco with following command:

1.  Neighbor <AS-ID>
2.  Neighbor <IP>
3.  network <Subnet-ID>
4.  Neighbor <IP> remote AS <AS-number>

Answer: 4

Q14:  BGP “Open” packets (state) _____ the session, same like the hellos in link-state.

•  Starts
•  ends
•  terminate
•  keep

Answer: Starts

Q15:  BGP is the protocol of internet and it is ___ protocol.

•  EGP
•  IGP
•  FTP
•  STP

Answer: EGP

Q16:  BGP supports redistribution of other AS-routes.

•  yes
•  no

Answer: YEs

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