Refer to the exhibit. The network 10.10.0.0/16 has been redistributed to OSPF processes and the best path to the destination from R1 has been chosen as R1-R2-R3. A failure occurred on the link…

R1-R4-R5-R3 does not retain a permanently better metric - OSPF recalculates costs after the link recovers and selects the path with the lowest current metric, which is R1-R2-R3.

E1 route type causes OSPF to add the internal path cost to the external metric, but the correct answer is specifically about OSPF reconvergence restoring the lower-cost path, regardless of whether E1 or E2 is used.

OSPF does compare metrics between competing paths to the same external destination, and the reconvergence process explicitly selects the path with the lower total cost.

OSPF runs SPF upon detecting the topology change when R2-R3 recovers, recalculating all path costs from scratch. The R1-R2-R3 path traverses fewer hops with a lower total cost to the ASBR redistributing 10.10.0.0/16, so OSPF reconverges back to that path as the mathematically best route.