Nokia Service Routing Certification (SRC) Program

Practice Exam Questions for:

Nokia Scalable IP Networks
(exam number: 4A0-100)
The following questions will test your knowledge and prepare you for the Nokia
NRS I Certification Exam. Compare your responses with the Answer Key at
the end of the document.

Module 1: Internet Overview Module 2: Service Router Components and CLI

1.1 Which of the following is the physical infrastructure that 2.1 Which of the following shows a typical data packet flow
provides interconnections between ISPs? when egressing an Nokia 7750 SR?
a. A demarcation point a. SF/CPM -> MDA -> IOM -> SFP
b. An Internet exchange point b. SF/CPM -> SFP -> IOM -> MDA
c. A central office c. SF/CPM -> IOM -> MDA -> SFP
d. A point of presence d. MDA -> IOM -> SF/CPM -> SFP

1.2 Which of the following provides physical separation 2.2 Which of the following is not a recommended usage
between service provider and customer responsibilities? of the compact flashes on an Nokia 7750 SR?
a. A provider edge router a. Using CF 1 to store debug logs.
b. An Internet exchange point b. Using CF 2 to store debug logs.
c. A demarcation point c. Using CF 3 to store accounting logs.
d. A point of presence d. Using CF 3 to store system files.

1.3 Which TCP/IP layer is responsible for path determination 2.3 Which of the following displays a hierarchial CLI command
and end-to-end forwarding of datagrams? structure at the current context level?
a. The application services layer a. show
b. The transport layer b. info
c. The Internet protocol layer c. tree
d. The network interface layer d. help

1.4 What information is part of the encapsulation done at the 2.4 Which of the following is NOT a valid log destination in
network interface layer? an Nokia 7750 SR?
a. Source and destination MAC addresses a. Main
b. Source and destination IP addresses b. Session
c. Source and destination port numbers c. Syslog
d. Source and destination email addresses d. Console

2.5 Which one of the following log-IDs is typically reserved

for Network Management on an Nokia 7750 SR
a. 0
b. 98
c. 99
d. 100
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Module 3: Data Link Overview 3.6 After all PCs in the below network have communicated
with each other, which interface will switch D populate in
3.1 Which of the following is NOT a type of Layer 2 network? its MAC FDB for PC1?
a. Point-to-point network
b. Circuit-based network
c. Virtual private routed network
d. Shared network

3.2 Which of the following statements about SONET/SDH is

FALSE?
a. SONET/SDH is a Layer-1 technology.
b. SDH is used primarily in North America.
c. The basic SONET frame is the STS-1.
d. An STS-1 frame is exactly one third of an STM-1 frame.
a. 1/1/1
3.3 Which Ethernet frame field is found in the Ethernet b. 1/1/2
II frame header but NOT in the Ethernet 802.3 frame c. 1/1/3
header? d. 1/1/4
a. Preamble e. 1/1/6
b. Start Frame Delimiter
c. Source address 3.7 What happens when a switch receives an Ethernet frame
d. Type with an unknown source MAC address and a destination
MAC address of ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff?
3.4 Which address type is used to send frames to all devices a. The destination MAC address is saved in the MAC FDB,
in a Local Area Network? and the frame is discarded.
a. Anycast b. The destination MAC address is saved in the MAC
b. Multicast FDB, and the frame is flooded to all ports except the
receiving port.
c. Broadcast
c. The source MAC address is saved in the MAC FDB, and
d. Unicast
the frame is discarded.
3.5 Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of a hub? d. The source MAC address is saved in the MAC FDB, and the
frame is flooded to all ports except the receiving port.
a. It performs signal amplification.
b. It replicates Ethernet frames across all ports except 3.8 An Ethernet Local Area Network (LAN) consists of the
the receiving port. components shown in the diagram. How many broadcast
c. It inspects Layer 2 frame headers. and collision domains are on this LAN?
d. It operates in half-duplex mode.

a. 2 broadcast domains, 7 collision domains

b. 2 broadcast domains, 9 collision domains
c. 3 broadcast domains, 7 collision domains
d. 3 broadcast domains, 9 collision domains
e. 7 broadcast domains, 9 collision domains
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3.9 Which of the following statements about LAG is FALSE? 4.3 Which of the following is NOT a Regional Internet Registry?
a. It aggregates physical links between devices. a. ARIN
b. It improves performance by increasing bandwidth b. IANA
between devices. c. RIPE NCC
c. It provides point-to-point redundancy between d. AfriNIC
devices.
d. It supports auto-negotiation on ports in the LAG. 4.4 Which of the following is a unicast address that is
assigned to two or more devices on the same network?
3.10 W
 hich of the following protocols is used to prevent loops a. Network address
in Ethernet networks? b. Broadcast address
a. LAG c. Multicast address
b. STP d. Anycast address
c. ARP
d. ICMP 4.5 Which of the following about hierarchical IPv4 addressing
is FALSE?
3.11 An 8-port Ethernet switch is configured with VLAN 100 a. It cre ates a two-level address hierarchy.
on ports 1-4, and VLAN 200 on ports 5-8. What happens b. It increases the number of IP addresses available in
when the switch receives a frame with an unknown the Internet.
destination address on port 1?
c. It supports route summarization to reduce routing
a. The switch will flood the frames on ports 1 to 4. table size.
b. The switch will flood the frames on ports 2 to 4. d. It supports subnetting to divide a network into smaller
c. The switch will flood the frames on ports 5 to 8. networks.
d. The switch will flood the frames on ports 2 to 8.
4.6 A network has an address of 206.47.132.0 and a network
3.12 Which of the following statements about VLAN stacking is mask of 255.255.254.0. How many subnetworks can be
FALSE? created if each subnetnetwork must have at least 25 hosts?
a. It allows a service provider to support customers that a. 4
use overlapping VLAN IDs. b. 8
b. It increases the number of VLANs a service provider c. 16
can support. d. 32
c. It increases the size of the VLAN ID field in the
Ethernet header. 4.7 Which of the following is the broadcast address of the
d. It allows a service provider to add another VLAN tag to network to which host 172.16.176.135/18 belongs?
traffic. a. 172.16.176.255
b. 172.16.191.255
c. 172.16.255.255
Module 4: Layer 3 and IP Service
d. 172.255.255.255
4.1 Which of the following is used to connect multiple
broadcast domains? 4.8 How many subnets can be created from network
138.120.140.0/22 if each subnet must support 126 hosts?
a. Hub
a. 4
b. Switch
b. 8
c. Router
c. 16
d. Repeater
d. 32
4.2 Which of the following IP header fields is used to
distinguish IPv4 from IPv6 traffic?
a. Type of Service
b. Version
c. Identification
d. Protocol
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4.9 Which of the following statements about a system IP 4.15 Which of the following statements about ICMP is TRUE?
address on an Nokia 7750 SR is FALSE? a. ICMP is used to resolve a MAC address for a given IP
a. It is a loopback address. address.
b. It has a fixed prefix value of /32. b. ICMP messages are generated by Ethernet switches.
c. It is manually configured by an operator. c. ICMP messages are encapsulated within IP datagrams.
d. It is associated with the management port. d. ICMP relies on the CSMA/CD algorithm.

4.10 Which of the following is a characteristic of route

aggregation? Module 5: IP Routing Protocol Basics
a. It summarizes subnet addresses into classful
addresses. 5.1 Which of the following about the routing table on an
b. It maps multiple private IP addresses into one public Nokia 7750 SR is FALSE?
IP address. a. The routing table is maintained by the CPM.
c. It divides a network into multiple subnets. b. The routing table contains next-hop information.
d. It reduces the number of route advertisements c. The routing table is used in the MPLS data plane.
within a network. d. The routing table is used to construct a forwarding
table.
4.11 What is the most specific aggregate prefix for the
following 3 subnets? 5.2 Which of the following protocols is NOT used to build a
a. 134.234.123.0/25 routing table?
b. 134.234.123.0/24 a. LPD
c. 134.234.123.128/24 b. OSPF
d. 134.234.122.0/23 c. BGP
d. Static routing
4.12 Which of the following is NOT part of the IP forwarding
process? 5.3 Router R5 receives four route updates for the same
a. Perform longest match lookup for the destination prefix. Which of the four routes will be installed in R5’s
IP address. routing table?
b. Perform MAC address learning.
c. Push traffic through the switch fabric.
d. Identify physical egress interface.

4.13 Which DHCP message is used by a client to inform a

DHCP server that it accepts the assigned IP address?
a. Discover
b. Request
c. Offer
d. Acknowledgement
a. Routes learned from R1
4.14 What type of message is an ARP response? b. Routes learned from R2
a. A unicast message c. Routes learned from R3
b. A broadcast message d. Routes learned from R4
c. A multicast message
d. An anycast message
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5.4 Router R5 receives four route updates for the same 5.8 Which of the following about the displayed IP filter on
prefix. Which of the four routes will be installed in R5’s an Nokia 7750 SR is TRUE?
routing table?

a. Route learned from router R1

b. Route learned from router R2
c. Route learned from router R3
a. It discards traffic from network 1.2.3.0/24.
d. Route learned from router R4
b. It discards traffic to network 1.2.3.0/24.
5.5 Which of the following about a static route in an Nokia c. It discards all traffic except the traffic from network
7750 SR is FALSE? 1.2.3.0/24.
a. It is manually configured by an administrator d. It discards all traffic except the traffic to network
b. It is preferred over dynamic protocols by default 1.2.3.0/24.
c. It changes dynamically if the topology changes
5.9 Which of the following about a router running a link state
d. It can be used for routing within the same routing protocol is FALSE?
autonomous system
a. It uses an SPF algorithm to calculate the routing table.
5.6 When configuring a static route on router R2, what b. Route updates are driven by topology changes.
next hop address should be used to reach a host on c. It sends copies of the routing table to neighbor
192.168.1.0/27? routers.
d. It has a view of the entire network topology.

5.10 Which routing protocol uses hop count for path

selection?
a. OSPF
b. RIPv2
c. IS-IS
d. Static Routing
a. 10.1.1.1
5.11 Which routing protocol is best used to provide routing
b. 10.1.1.2 between autonomous systems?
c. 10.2.3.2 a. OSPF
d. 10.2.3.3 b. IS-IS
c. RIPv2
5.7 Which of the following about an IP filter in an Nokia 7750
SR is FALSE? d. BGP
a. It is also known as an Access Control List (ACL).
5.12 Which of the following about the OSPF routing protocol
b. It is applied to all interfaces by default. is TRUE?
c. It can be used to filter traffic based on IP addresses. a. It is a distance vector protocl.
d. It can be applied to egress traffic. b. It uses SPF algorithm for route selection.
c. It uses hop count to determine metric value.
d. It is used for routing between different autonomous
sytems.
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5.13 Which of the following is used by OSPF to identify the 6.4 Which device adds MPLS labels to packets that enter
most up-to-date routing information? a service provider network?
a. Priority value in the Hello packet. a. CE
b. Age in the Link State Advertisement. b. P
c. Master/slave status in the Database Description c. iLER
packet. d. eLER
d. Sequence number in the Link State Advertisement
6.5 Which device is the termination point of a Label Switched
5.14 Which of the following about BGP is FALSE? Path (LSP)?
a. It is a link state protocol. a. CE
b. It uses TCP sessions to establish BGP peering. b. P
c. It can be used for routing within an autonomous c. iLER
sytem. d. eLER
d. It can be used for routing between autonomous
sytems. 6.6 What operation is performed by an iLER when it receives
a packet?
5.15 Which of the following about autonomous systems is FALSE? a. It pushes a new MPLS label and forwards the packet
a. AS numbers can be assigned by RIRs. to the next LSR.
b. AS numbers can be assigned by ISPs. b. It swaps the MPLS albel and forwards the packet to
c. Private AS numbers are advertised on the Internet. the next LSR.
d. eBGP is used between different autonomous systems. c. It forwards the packet to the next LSR without altering
the MPLS label.
d. It pops the MPLS label and forwards the packet to
Module 6: Services Overview the next IP router.

6.1 Which of the following is TRUE about a CE router that is 6.7 Which of the following devices performs a label swap
involved in a VPN service? operation?
a. It is aware of the VPN services provided by the service a. LSR
provider. b. iLER
b. It resides on the service provider premises. c. eLER
c. It connects to at least one PE router. d. CE
d. It connects to at least one CE router.
6.8 Which of the following about VPWS is FALSE?
6.2 What is the function of a SAP? a. VPWS is a Layer 2 service.
a. It provides a P device with service access. b. VPWS emulates a single leased line between two
b. It provides a CE device with service access. locations.
c. It binds the service to an MPLS service tunnel. c. Each VPWS maintains a MAC FDB.
d. It binds the service to an MPLS transport tunnel. d. VPWS customers do not have knowledge of the service
provider network.
6.3 Which of the following about the service label is FALSE?
a. The ingress PE device encapsulates customer data 6.9 Which of the following about VPLS is FALSE?
with a service label. a. VPLS is a Layer 2 service.
b. A service label identifies the service that data b. VPLS emulates a switched Ethernet service.
belongs to. c. VPLS customers don’t have knowledge of the service
c. The egress PE device strips the service labels and provider network.
forwards unlabeled packets. d. Each PE maintains a VRF instance for each VPLS.
d. A P device performs a service label swap operation.
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Module 1 Module 3 Module 4 Module 5 Module 6

1.1 B 3.1 C 4.1 C 5.1 C 6.1 C
1.2 C 3.2 B 4.2 B 5.2 A 6.2 B
1.3 C 3.3 D 4.3 B 5.3 A 6.3 D
1.4 A 3.4 C 4.4 D 5.4 D 6.4 C
3.5 C 4.5 B 5.5 C 6.5 D
Module 2 3.6 E 4.6 C 5.6 D 6.6 A
2.1 C 3.7 D 4.7 B 5.7 B 6.7 A
2.2 C 3.8 C 4.8 B 5.8 A 6.8 C
2.3 C 3.9 D 4.9 D 5.9 C 6.9 D
2.4 A 3.10 B 4.10 D 5.10 B
2.5 B 3.11 B 4.11 B 5.11 D
3.12 C 4.12 B 5.12 B
4.13 B 5.13 D
4.14 A 5.14 A
4.15 C 5.15 C

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