Exam 350-501 topic 1 question 340 discussion

Actual exam question from Cisco's 350-501

Question #: 340
Topic #: 1

Refer to the exhibit. The service provider is serving hosts with two different multicast streams from source X and source Y. Source X is multicast group 224.0.0.0/8, and source Y is multicast group 226.0.0.0/8. Multicast source X should send its stream through bidirectional RP address 10.20.1.1, and multicast source Y should send its stream through RP address 10.20.2.1. Which configuration meets these requirements?

A. Enable ip pim ssm default on RA and RB.
B. Add ip pim bidir-enable in global mode on RB.
C. Permit the source X and source Y IP addresses in the access list on RB.
D. Set PIM sparse mode with a static RP address of 10.20.2.1 on RA and RC.

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳️

by thejag at June 13, 2023, 10:01 p.m.

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picho707

10 months, 1 week ago

Selected Answer: B

B is the answer. However the access "ip pim bidir-enable" needs to be run first. This is because the "ip pim rp-address 10.20.1.1 15 bidir" will render an access list without the "bidir" sub-command.

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enco

10 months, 2 weeks ago

Selected Answer: B

bidir pim must be enabled globally, and on all routers

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thejag

1 year, 11 months ago

Selected Answer: B

The Cisco IOS/IOS XE ip pim bidir-enable command enables BIDIR-PIM on the router

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