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Cisco 200-301 Practice Test 52

Question 510

Client devices were assigned a physical router's IP, so they lose their default gateway after a physical router failure. What should their configured gateway address be in a working FHRP design?

  1. Use the first router’s physical SVI IP as the permanent client gateway
  2. Use the second router’s physical SVI IP as the permanent client gateway
  3. Set hosts to the FHRP virtual IP address
  4. Install two unrelated default gateway addresses on clients and assume seamless failover

Explanation

Correct Answer

C:

Hosts use a stable virtual gateway IP while the active device changes.

Incorrect Answers

A:

If that router fails, its physical IP may stop responding and the host cannot rely on the other FHRP member to own it.

B:

That merely moves the single point of gateway failure to the second router instead of using the FHRP identity.

D:

Client implementations vary and two physical next hops do not offer the one stable FHRP virtual-IP default gateway described.

Question 511

A standards-based VRRP group has one currently forwarding gateway owner and several backups. Which VRRP term identifies that forwarding member?

  1. Recognize the VRRP master
  2. The VRRP backup forwarding member with lower priority
  3. The HSRP standby router
  4. The GLBP active virtual forwarder only

Explanation

Correct Answer

A:

A VRRP master currently owns the virtual routing function for the group.

Incorrect Answers

B:

A backup member does not own the virtual router forwarding role while the current VRRP master is healthy.

C:

HSRP is another first-hop protocol whose standby state is not the VRRP master role stated.

D:

GLBP provides separate virtual-MAC load sharing; the VRRP group forwarding role is named master.

Question 512

Three routers share a VRRP virtual gateway. R1 is master with priority 150; R2 and R3 are healthy backups at priorities 120 and 110 respectively. R1 fails completely, and the backup routers stop receiving its advertisements. Which backup is expected to take over master forwarding?

  1. R3, because the lower VRRP priority is always preferred
  2. R1, because the master retains the virtual address even after hardware failure
  3. Neither backup, because VRRP can never elect a new master without controller instructions
  4. R2, because it has the higher backup priority and can assume the master role when R1 fails

Explanation

Correct Answer

D:

After the master fails, healthy backups compete by VRRP election rules; R2 has the highest remaining priority (120), so it should become master.

Incorrect Answers

A:

VRRP uses higher numeric priority as stronger preference, so R3 at 110 does not outrank R2 at 120 under the stated conditions.

B:

A failed master cannot continue advertising and forwarding; VRRP backups can promote one device to assume the shared virtual gateway role.

C:

VRRP is a distributed first-hop redundancy protocol and does not require an external WLAN/network controller for master election.

Question 513

A Cisco LAN uses a proprietary first-hop protocol with **active** and **standby** gateway routers sharing a virtual IP. Which FHRP is being described?

  1. VRRP with Master and Backup state terminology
  2. GLBP with multiple active virtual MAC forwarders
  3. Ordinary static default routing without first-hop gateway state
  4. Recognize HSRP

Explanation

Correct Answer

D:

HSRP uses an active/standby model around a shared virtual gateway.

Incorrect Answers

A:

VRRP uses Master/Backup role terminology rather than HSRP Active/Standby roles in the described Cisco configuration.

B:

GLBP is characterized by load sharing among virtual forwarders; the stem points to HSRP’s Active/Standby pair.

C:

Static routes do not create the elected Active/Standby virtual gateway pair described.

Question 514

A group of Cisco gateway routers provides one virtual gateway address but can assign multiple active virtual MAC forwarders across hosts for traffic sharing. Which Cisco FHRP supports that feature?

  1. Recognize GLBP
  2. HSRP running one Active and one Standby gateway
  3. VRRP with one master and one or more backups
  4. Two parallel static default gateways without a virtual-IP scheme

Explanation

Correct Answer

A:

Gateway Load Balancing Protocol can distribute client gateway load among participating forwarders.

Incorrect Answers

B:

HSRP offers gateway failover with one active gateway for the group; it does not allocate multiple active forwarding virtual MACs for load sharing.

C:

VRRP master/backup provides virtual-router redundancy, not GLBP’s multiple active virtual MAC forwarders.

D:

Independent routes cannot advertise one virtual gateway IP with distinct assigned forwarding MACs as specified.

Question 515

HSRP clients have a fixed virtual default-gateway IPv4 address. After an HSRP active-router failover, which Ethernet destination identity should a normal host resolve for that same virtual gateway IP?

  1. Continue using each router’s changing physical MAC for the stable gateway identity
  2. Use the HSRP group virtual MAC address obtained by ARP for the virtual IP
  3. Use the HSRP priority value as a destination MAC address
  4. Use the Ethernet broadcast MAC for all off-subnet packets

Explanation

Correct Answer

B:

HSRP represents the shared gateway with a virtual IP and virtual MAC address. ARP for the gateway IP returns the group virtual MAC, which the current Active member services, rather than one member’s physical interface MAC.

Incorrect Answers

A:

Failover should preserve the group virtual gateway MAC behavior rather than bind clients to one failed router’s physical MAC.

C:

Priority is an election parameter, not a valid Ethernet destination identity that clients can resolve.

D:

The broadcast MAC is not the FHRP virtual unicast gateway MAC normally returned by ARP.

Question 516

A Catalyst VLAN uses HSRP **version 1**, group 10, with the default virtual-MAC scheme and no `standby use-bia` override. Which virtual MAC address represents the group to hosts, independently of which physical router is active?

  1. 0000.0c07.ac0a
  2. 0000.0c07.ac0b
  3. 0000.0c9f.f00a
  4. The unique burned-in MAC address of whichever router is currently active

Explanation

Correct Answer

A:

The default HSRPv1 virtual MAC has prefix 0000.0c07.ac followed by the hexadecimal group number; group 10 decimal corresponds to 0a.

Incorrect Answers

B:

The ac0b suffix would correspond to HSRPv1 group 11 rather than group 10.

C:

The 0000.0c9f.fxxx virtual-MAC format applies to HSRPv2, not the explicitly stated version 1.

D:

Under the default HSRPv1 behavior the virtual MAC remains stable across physical router failover; the question excludes use-bia.

Question 517

HSRP group 10 has Active router B (priority 100) after a failure. Router A (priority 120) recovers, and operations require A to reclaim Active automatically rather than remain Standby. What HSRP setting enables that behavior?

  1. Increase the recovered primary’s physical interface IP address only
  2. Enable standby 10 preempt on router A, the higher-priority recovered member
  3. Configure preempt on the lower-priority standby peer instead of the preferred primary
  4. Disable HSRP on the current Active router before every maintenance recovery

Explanation

Correct Answer

B:

With preemption enabled on recovered router A and its effective priority above router B, A can take back the Active gateway role. Higher priority by itself need not cause takeover after an existing Active is established.

Incorrect Answers

A:

HSRP selection is based on priority/preemption settings; a larger interface IP alone does not initiate priority-based active takeover.

C:

The required behavior is for the returning higher-priority router to reclaim Active; preempt should be enabled for that router as appropriate.

D:

Removing protection from the existing Active router is unnecessary and disruptive when priority/preemption can control preferred recovery.

Question 518

R1 normally has HSRP priority 120 but has been offline. R2, priority 100, is the active gateway. R1 comes back healthy with `standby 1 preempt` configured and no delay or tracking decrement. After election processing, what is expected?

  1. R1 can preempt R2 and become active because its effective priority is higher
  2. R2 remains permanently active regardless of R1 priority and preemption
  3. Both routers continuously forward using their own physical IP as the shared virtual gateway
  4. HSRP automatically deletes the virtual IP from all hosts when R1 returns

Explanation

Correct Answer

A:

HSRP preempt lets a recovered router with higher effective priority claim the active role, subject to configured delays and normal election processing.

Incorrect Answers

B:

Without preemption R2 may retain the active role; with explicit preempt and higher R1 priority, permanent R2 ownership is not expected.

C:

Hosts use a shared virtual gateway address, not two physical addresses simultaneously as one default gateway.

D:

A correctly configured FHRP keeps the virtual gateway address available through role changes; it is not removed from clients as part of preemption.

Question 519

HSRP group 10 runs on two routers. R1 is active with priority 120 and R2 standby with priority 110 and preempt enabled. R1's tracked WAN interface fails while its VLAN remains up. Which configured priority-tracking response allows healthy R2 to take over?

  1. Leave R1 at effective priority 120 because its local VLAN interface is still up
  2. Configure HSRP authentication only; it does not lower priority on tracked-uplink failure
  3. Increase R1's HSRP priority on WAN loss so it remains active indefinitely
  4. Track the WAN interface in HSRP and decrement R1 priority by more than 10 on failure

Explanation

Correct Answer

D:

A tracking decrement of at least 11 takes R1's effective 120 priority below R2's 110; with the applicable preemption behavior, R2 can become active and preserve the virtual gateway.

Incorrect Answers

A:

Keeping priority 120 after loss of the upstream link can leave the virtual gateway on a router unable to forward externally, contrary to failover policy.

B:

HSRP authentication helps protect control messages, but does not detect WAN path failure or modify election priority.

C:

Raising R1's priority after its ISP path fails favors the unhealthy gateway, not the functioning standby router.

Question 520

A host has ARP-resolved the default gateway IP of an HSRPv1 group to its **virtual MAC address**. Router A fails and Router B becomes HSRP active; both implement the normal virtual-IP/MAC scheme. What MAC address should the host continue using as destination for off-subnet frames?

  1. The HSRP virtual MAC address already associated with its virtual default-gateway IP
  2. Router A’s burned-in physical MAC even though it failed
  3. Router B’s physical burned-in MAC instead of the HSRP virtual MAC
  4. The Ethernet broadcast MAC address for every routed IPv4 packet

Explanation

Correct Answer

A:

HSRP failover moves ownership of the same virtual gateway identity to Router B, so the host normally retains the virtual MAC destination.

Incorrect Answers

B:

Router A’s physical address is not the HSRP virtual identity and becomes unusable after failure.

C:

Although Router B transmits its own frames with its physical address, hosts use the HSRP virtual MAC as their default-gateway destination.

D:

Broadcast Ethernet is used for some discovery traffic such as ARP requests, not the destination MAC for every routed unicast packet.

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