Juniper JN0-351 Online Access

The two reasons for the failure to form an adjacency in a network running IS-IS could be:

B. There is no configured ISO address on any IS-IS interface. IS-IS requires each router interface to have an ISO address configured.  Without this address, the routers cannot form an adjacency 1 .

D. The family iso configuration is missing from the adjacency interface. The ‘family iso’ configuration is essential for IS-IS to function correctly.  If this configuration is missing from the adjacency interface, it could prevent the formation of an adjacency 1 .

These explanations are based on the Enterprise Routing and Switching Specialist (JNCIS-ENT) documents and learning resources available at Juniper Networks 2 3 .

The routers that are directly connected to the Dallas and Denver subnets are not advertising the connected subnets.  This can be resolved by redistributing the connected subnets into OSPF 1 .

Option C suggests to configure and apply a routing policy that redistributes the connected Dallas and Denver subnets.  This is correct because redistribution allows routes from one routing protocol to be communicated to another, and in this case, it allows the connected subnets to be advertised through OSPF 1 .

Option D suggests enabling the passive option on the OSPF interfaces that are connected to the Dallas and Denver subnets.  This is also correct because in OSPF, a passive interface is an interface that belongs to the OSPF router, but does not send OSPF Hello packets 1 .  It’s typically used on an interface that you don’t want to use for OSPF adjacencies, but you still want to advertise its IP address 1 . Therefore, enabling passive interface can help in advertising the Dallas and Denver subnets.

Aggregate routes are used for advertising summarized network prefixes 1 2 .  They help minimize the number of routing tables in an IP network by consolidating selected multiple routes into a single route advertisement 1 .  This approach is in contrast to non-aggregation routing, in which every routing table contains a unique entry for each route 1 .

Therefore, option D is correct. Options A, B, and C are not correct because:

Aggregate routes can be used with both static routing and dynamic routing protocols 1 .

Aggregate routes are not automatically generated for all of the subnets in a routing table.  They need to be manually configured 1 .

Aggregate routes are not always preferred over more specific routes.  The route selection process in Junos OS considers several factors, including route preference and metric, before determining the active route 1 .