Routing Protocols - Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
1. Which of the following is a distance vector routing protocol?
Answer: C. RIP
2. What metric does OSPF use to determine the best path?
Answer: B. Bandwidth
3. Which protocol is commonly used as an exterior gateway protocol on the Internet?
Answer: D. BGP
4. EIGRP is proprietary to which company?
Answer: C. Cisco
5. Which of the following supports equal-cost load balancing by default?
Answer: D. All of the above
6. What is the administrative distance of OSPF?
Answer: A. 110
7. In which protocol do routers send the entire routing table every 30 seconds?
Answer: C. RIP
8. What protocol uses Link State Advertisements (LSAs)?
Answer: C. OSPF
9. Which protocol uses the DUAL algorithm?
Answer: B. EIGRP
10. Which of the following routing protocols is classless?
Answer: B. OSPF
11. Which of the following is a link-state routing protocol?
Answer: B. OSPF
12. What is the default administrative distance of EIGRP?
Answer: B. 90
13. Which routing protocol uses the term 'Area' to describe its network hierarchy?
Answer: B. OSPF
14. Which protocol is best suited for very large, complex networks with multiple vendors?
Answer: C. OSPF
15. What does BGP use to avoid routing loops?
Answer: C. AS Path
16. Which protocol is classified as a hybrid routing protocol?
Answer: C. EIGRP
17. Which of the following is not a feature of OSPF?
Answer: B. Classful routing
18. Which protocol operates on TCP port 179?
Answer: D. BGP
19. What is the maximum hop count allowed in RIP?
Answer: B. 15
20. In OSPF, which router sends hello packets to form neighbor relationships?
Answer: B. All OSPF routers
21. What is the administrative distance of static routes (without next-hop tracking)?
Answer: A. 1
22. Which OSPF router type connects multiple areas to the backbone area?
Answer: B. ABR
23. Which routing protocol is based on path vector logic?
Answer: B. BGP
24. Which protocol allows unequal cost load balancing (variance)?
Answer: C. EIGRP
25. Which protocol requires manual configuration of neighbors in most cases?
Answer: C. BGP
