Cisco CCNP Service Provider Certification Exam (350-501 SPCOR)

The Cisco CCNP Service Provider certification exam (350-501 SPCOR) evaluates your expertise in implementing and operating Cisco service provider network core technologies.

Certification Overview

  • Exam name: CCNP 350-501 SPCOR
  • Vendor: Cisco
  • Exam code: ccnp-350-501
  • Duration: 120 minutes
  • Total questions: 100
  • Passing score: 80%

About This Certification

The Cisco CCNP Service Provider certification exam, known as the 350-501 SPCOR, assesses a candidate's ability to implement and operate core service provider network technologies. This exam covers several crucial areas, including network architecture, services, automation, and security. Candidates are expected to demonstrate proficiency in designing and implementing service provider networks, focusing on routing protocols, segment routing, and multicast technologies. Additionally, the exam evaluates skills in network automation, including the use of tools and protocols that streamline operations and enhance network efficiency. Security is another critical domain, where candidates must understand and apply security principles to protect service provider networks. The exam also covers service provider services, such as Quality of Service (QoS) and network assurance, ensuring candidates can manage and optimize network performance effectively. By passing this exam, professionals validate their ability to handle complex network environments and implement solutions that meet the demands of modern service provider infrastructures.

Who Should Take This Exam?

Network Engineer, Service Provider Engineer, Network Architect, Systems Engineer, Network Administrator, Solutions Architect, Technical Consultant, IT Manager

Prerequisites

Valid CCNA certification or equivalent networking experience

Topics Covered

  • Topics to be announced

Question Types

  • Multiple Choice (Single Answer)
  • Multiple Choice (Multiple Answers)
  • Drag and Drop

CCNP 350-501 SPCOR Practice Questions

Our question bank contains 248+ practice questions for this certification. Sample questions from each exam chapter. Expand a question to see the answer choices. With a subscription, you get unlimited practice exams with randomized questions from our full question bank.

Architecture

Which QoS model allows hosts to report their QoS needs to the network?
  • DiffServ
  • CB-WFQ
  • IntServ
  • MQC
What is a primary benefit of IPoATM or MPLS over ATM backbone service provider networks?
  • dedicated circuits
  • variable-length packets
  • isochronous system
  • fixed-length cells
The engineering team at a large ISP has been alerted that a customer network is experiencing high traffic congestion. After a discussion between the ISP and technical personnel at the customer site, the team agrees that traffic to the customer network that exceeds a specific threshold will be dropped. Which task must the engineer perform on the network to implement traffic policing changes?
  • Configure RSVP to reserve bandwidth on all interfaces when a path is congested.
  • Enable Cisco Discovery Protocol on the interface sending the packets.
  • Enable Cisco Express Forwarding on the interfaces sending and receiving the packets.
  • Set IP precedence values to take effect when traffic exceeds a given threshold.

Networking

While implementing TTL security, you issue the PE(config-router-af)#neighbor 2.2.2.2 ttl-security hops 2 command. After you issue this command, which BGP packets does the PE accept?
  • to 2.2.2.2, with a TTL of 2 or more
  • from 2.2.2.2, with a TTL of less than 2
  • to 2.2.2.2, with a TTL of less than 253
  • from 2.2.2.2, with a TTL of 253 or more
An engineer is trying to implement BGP in a multihomed architecture. What must the engineer configure to influence inbound path selection?
  • A route map with WEIGHT attribute to control the inbound traffic.
  • An offset list to set the metric for routes received from neighboring autonomous systems.
  • An access list to identify traffic and enable it on both of the provider-facing interfaces.
  • A route map with AS_PATH attribute to control the inbound traffic.
A network team has failed to implement IS-IS multitopology. What is the reason for it?
  • The router did not support VRFs.
  • The routing process did not support extended metrics.
  • The router did not have Cisco Discovery Protocol and Cisco Express Forwarding disabled.
  • The routing process supported Level 1 only.

MPLS and Segment Routing

Which component is similar to an EVPN instance?
  • router distinguisher
  • MPLS label
  • IGP router ID
  • VRF
Why do Cisco MPLS TE tunnels require a link-state routing protocol?
  • The link-state database provides segmentation by area, which improves the path-selection process.
  • The link-state database provides a data repository from which the tunnel endpoints can dynamically select a source ID.
  • Link-state routing protocols use SPF calculations that the tunnel endpoints leverage to implement the tunnel.
  • The tunnel endpoints use the link-state database to evaluate the entire topology and determine the best path.
Which configuration mode do you use to apply the mpls ldp graceful-restart command in IOS XE Software?
  • MPLS LDP neighbor
  • interface
  • MPLS
  • global

Services

After you analyze your network environment, you decide to implement a full separation model for Internet access and MPLS L3VPN services. For which reason do you make this decision?
  • It enables EGP and IGP to operate independently.
  • It enables you to choose whether to separate or centralize each individual service.
  • It is easier to manage a system in which services are mixed.
  • It requires only one edge router.
Which protocol in the IPv6 stack does the MLD protocol use to carry its messages?
  • NDP
  • IGMPv6
  • DHCPv6
  • IGMP
  • ICMPv6
Which multicast feature listens multicast conversations maintaining a map in order to control which ports receive specific multicast traffic?
  • Bidirectional PIM
  • Source Specific Multicast
  • PIM assertion
  • IGMP snooping

Automation and Assurance

After a possible security breach, the network administrator of an ISP must verify the times that several different users logged into the network. Which command must the administrator enter to display the login time of each user that activated a session?
  • show netconf-yang sessions detail
  • show netconf-yang sessions
  • show netconf-yang datastores
  • show platform software yang-management process
An engineer is developing a configuration script to enable dial-out telemetry streams using gRPC on several new devices. TLS must be enabled. Which configuration must the engineer apply on the network?
  • telemetry model-driven destination-group ciscotest address-family ipv4 192.168.1.0 port 57500 encoding self-describing-gpb protocol grpc tls-hostname ciscotest.com commit
  • telemetry model-driven destination-group DGroup1 address-family ipv4 172.0.0.0 port 5432 encoding self-describing-gpb protocol tcp commit
  • telemetry model-driven destination-group ciscotest address-family ipv4 192.168.1.0 port 57500 encoding self-describing-gpb protocol grpc no-tls commit
  • telemetry model-driven destination-group ciscotest address-family ipv4 192.168.1.0 port 57500 encoding self-describing-gpb protocol grpc commit
What is the role of NSO in network automation?
  • It is a tool used to bridge automation to the physical network infrastructure.
  • It is a GUI used to manage wireless devices in a campus infrastructure.
  • It is a type of REST API used to configure an APIC.
  • It is a tool that uses CLI only to configure virtual network devices.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many questions are on the exam?

The CCNP 350-501 SPCOR exam contains 100 questions.

What is the passing score?

You need 80% to pass.

How long is the exam?

You have 120 minutes to complete the exam.

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