EIGRP Questions (MCQ's) – Part1

1. There are two routers A and B in enterprise network of ATech company that use EIGRP. How does Router A watch for
the status of Router B so that router A could react if router B fails?
A) By using EIGRP Hello messages, with A needing to receive periodic Hello messages to believe B is still working
B) By using EIGRP update messages, with A needing to receive periodic update messages to believe B is still working
C) Using a periodic ping of B's IP address based on the EIGRP neighbor timer
D) None of the other answers are correct

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2. EIGRP is a routing Protocol design by Cisco which cannot operate on Juniper Routers?
A) True
B) False

3. EIGRP metric is ________.

A) K-values
B) Bandwidth only
C) Hop Count
D) Delay only

4. EIGRP can support ____________.

A) VLSM/subnetting
B) Auto summary
C) Unequal cast load balancing
D) All the above

5. EIGRP send the hello message after every ___________ seconds.

A) 5 seconds (LAN), 60 seconds (WAN)
B) 5 seconds (LAN), 5 seconds (WAN)

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C) 15 seconds
D) 180 seconds

6. Administrative distance for internal EIGRP is ___________.

A) 90
B) 170
C) 110
D) 91

7. The EIGRP metric values include:

A) Delay
B) Bandwidth
C) MTU
D) All of the above

8. For default gateway you will use which of following command on Cisco router?
A) IP default network
B) IP default gateway
C) IP default route
D) Default network

9. Administrative distance for external EIGRP route is __________.

A) 90
B) 170
C) 110
D) 100

10. EIGRP uses the ____________ algorithm for finding shortest path
A) SPF
B) DUAL
C) Link stat
D) Dijkstra algorithm

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11. In EIGRP best path is known as the successor, where as backup path is known as __________.
A) Feasible successor
B) Back-up route
C) Default route
D) There is no backup route in EIGRP

12. Where are EIGRP successor routes stored?

A) In the routing table only
B) In the neighbor table only
C) In the topology table only
D) In the routing table and the topology table

13. Which is true regarding EIGRP successor routes? (Choose two)

A) A successor route is used by EIGRP to forward traffic to a destination
B) Successor routes are saved in the topology table to be used if the primary route fails.
C) Successor routes are flagged as "active" in the routing table.
D) A successor route may be backed up by a feasible successor route.

14. Which EIGRP information is held in RAM and maintained through the use of Hello and update packets? (Choose two)
A) Neighbor table
B) STP table
C) Topology table
D) DUAL table

15. Which of the following protocols support VLSM, summarization, and discontiguous networking?
A) RIPv1
B) IGRP
C) EIGRP
D) BGP

16. EIGRP stands for _______________.

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A) Enhanced Interior Gateway Protocol
B) Gateway Routing Protocol
C) Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol
D) None of these

17. For EIGRP authentications you need to synchronize the date/time on all the routers with _____ server.
A) NTTP
B) NTP
C) Time
D) AAA

18. There are three tables in EIGRP, choose the correct options: (Choose three)
A) Neighbor table
B) Routing table
C) Topology Table
D) DR Table

19. Neighbor table in EIGRP has the information related to about ________.
A) Connected routers
B) All routers
C) Stub router
D) Routers of connect area

20. EIGRP uses the ____________ algorithm for finding shortest path.
A) SPF
B) DUAL
C) Link stat
D) Dijkstra algorithm

21. EIGRP can supports ____________. (Choose three)

A) VLSM/subnetting
B) Auto summary

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C) Unequal cast load balancing
D) Area

22. EIGRP is an advanced ____________ Protocol

A) Distance-vector
B) Path-vector
C) Link State - Given
D) EGP

23. EIGRP send the updates on the multicast address _________.

A) 224.0.0.10
B) 224.0.0.9
C) 225.0.0.10
D) 225.255.255.255

24. _______________ supports the simultaneous use of multiple unequal cost paths to a destination.
A) OSPF
B) EIGRP
C) BGP
D) RIP

25. Which of the following is/are the benefits provided by EIGRP? (Choose three)
A) Faster convergence
B) Partial routing updates
C) High bandwidth utilization
D) Route summarization

26. The Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol (EIGRP) is categorized as a ______________.
A) Distance vector routing protocols
B) Link state routing protocols
C) Hybrid routing protocols
D) Automatic state routing protocols

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27. Logical partitioning of the network, authentication and faster convergence rate are the advantages of EIGRP.
A) Yes
B) No

28. A network administrator needs to configure a router with a distance-vector protocol that allows classless routing.
Which of the following satisfies those requirements?
A) OSPF
B) BGP
C) IGRP
D) EIGRP

29. What year was EIGRP created

A) 1994
B) 1992
C) 1993
D) 1991

30. EIGRP supports Equal and Unequal Cost Load Balancing.

A) Yes
B) No

31. The router eigrp _______________ command enables the EIGRP process.
A) Autonomous-system
B) Autnomous-system
C) Autonomouse-system
D) None of these

32. Queries use unreliable delivery

A) Yes
B) No

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33. The ________ is the least-cost route to the destination network.
A) Feasible successor
B) Feasible distance
C) Reported distance
D) Successor

34. EIGRP is a _________, advanced distance vector routing protocol.

A) Classless
B) Classful

35. The default administrative distance of ___ is used for internal routes, and ___ for routes imported from an external
source.
A) 60, 150
B) 20,100
C) 90, 170
D) 100,300

36. Most serial bandwidths are set to ____ kb/s

A) 1554
B) 1984
C) 1221
D) 1755

37. Hello packets are sent every ____ seconds

A) 4
B) 6
C) 5
D) 7

38. EIGRP establishes neighbor ____________.

A) Proximity
B) Adjacency

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C) Vicinity
D) None of the above

39. The autonomous system number is not significant to the EIGRP routing domain.
A) Yes
B) No

40. Used in both EIGRP and OSPF routing protocols, the router ID’s role is more significant in EIGRP
A) Yes
B) No

41. Diffusing Update Algorithm (DUAL) provides which of the following

A) Loop-free paths and loop-free backup paths
B) Identifies the routes with the least-cost path to be inserted into the routing table.
C) Uses EIGRP metrics to select efficient, loop-free paths
D) DUAL FSM tracks all routes.

42. The ________ is the lowest calculated metric to reach the destination network.
A) Feasible successor
B) Feasible distance
C) Reported distance
D) Successor

43. _______ is an EIGRP neighbor’s feasible distance to the same destination network.
A) Feasible successor
B) Feasible distance
C) Reported distance
D) Successor

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44. _______ is met when a neighbor’s Reported Distance (RD) to a network is less than the local router’s feasible distance
to the same destination network.
A) Feasible successor
B) Feasible distance
C) Feasibility Condition
D) Successor

45. __________ is a neighbor that has a loop-free backup path to the same network as the successor, and it satisfies
the Feasibility Condition (FC).
A) Feasible successor
B) Feasible distance
C) Feasibility Condition
D) Successor

46. EIGRP Hello packets are used for which purpose?

A) Greet neighbors
B) Discover neighbors
C) Recover neighbors
D) Create neighbors

47. ______ sends partial bounded updates when a change occurs on network.
A) DUAL
B) DUAL FSM
C) EIGRP
D) OSPF

48. ________ give EIGRP the capability to support different Layer 3 protocols.
A) PDMs
B) PDWs
C) PDQs
D) PFSs

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49. EIGRP supports Equal Cost Load Balancing only.
A) Yes
B) No

50. Which of the following affect the calculation of EIGRP metrics when all possible default values are used? (Choose two)
A) Bandwidth
B) Delay
C) Load
D) Reliability

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