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Dell EMC D-NWG-FN-23 Exam - Topic 2 Question 51 Discussion

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Question #: 51
Topic #: 2

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Which type of protocol is OSPF and what metric does it use to determine best path?

ALink-state protocol that uses a concept of cost as metric

BHybrid protocol that uses hop count as a metric

CPath vector protocol that uses the Dijkstra algorithm as a metric

DDistance Vector protocol that uses bandwidth and delay as metric

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Bulah

I’m a bit confused; I thought OSPF was a distance vector protocol. But I do recall that it uses some form of cost metric, not hop count.

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Tammi

5 days ago

I’m pretty confident that OSPF is a link-state protocol, and it uses cost as the metric. I just need to remember the details about how cost is calculated.

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Whitley

10 days ago

I practiced a similar question last week, and I believe OSPF uses the Dijkstra algorithm for path calculation, but that might be for a different protocol.

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Lauran

15 days ago

I think OSPF is a link-state protocol, but I'm not entirely sure about the metric it uses. I remember something about cost, though.

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