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352-001 · Question #438

Which technology allows QoS-marked traffic to be sent over a dedicated link?

The correct answer is C. policy-based routing. Policy-based routing (PBR) allows a router to forward traffic over a specific interface or next-hop based on defined criteria, including QoS markings, rather than relying solely on the routing table.

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Question

Which technology allows QoS-marked traffic to be sent over a dedicated link?

Options

  • Atraffic policing
  • BMPLS
  • Cpolicy-based routing
  • DQ-in-Q tunneling

How the community answered

(31 responses)
  • B
    3% (1)
  • C
    90% (28)
  • D
    6% (2)

Why each option

Policy-based routing (PBR) allows a router to forward traffic over a specific interface or next-hop based on defined criteria, including QoS markings, rather than relying solely on the routing table.

Atraffic policing

Traffic policing meters and drops or re-marks traffic that exceeds a defined rate, but it does not influence which link the traffic is forwarded over.

BMPLS

MPLS provides label-switched paths and supports traffic engineering, but it does not inherently forward traffic over a specific link based on QoS markings applied at the IP layer without additional TE configuration.

Cpolicy-based routingCorrect

PBR uses route-maps to match traffic attributes such as IP Precedence or DSCP markings and then set a specific next-hop or outgoing interface, effectively steering QoS-marked traffic over a dedicated link. This decouples forwarding decisions from the standard shortest-path routing table. No other listed technology provides this per-packet, policy-driven forwarding capability based on QoS marks.

DQ-in-Q tunneling

Q-in-Q (IEEE 802.1ad) is a Layer 2 VLAN stacking mechanism used to tunnel customer VLANs across a provider network and has no function in steering QoS-marked traffic to a dedicated link.

Concept tested: Policy-based routing for QoS traffic steering

Source: https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/ip/ip-routed-protocols/14033-policy-based-routing.html

Topics

#policy-based routing#QoS-marked traffic#dedicated link steering#traffic classification

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