Cisco CCNA 200-301 Practice Question

Routers prefer routes with lower administrative distances, as these are considered more trustworthy. A static route has a default administrative distance of 1, which is lower than that of routes learned via dynamic routing protocols (which typically have default administrative distances of 90 or higher). Therefore, the router will install the statically configured route into its routing table. Option B is incorrect because the route from the dynamic routing protocol has a higher administrative distance. Option C is incorrect because the router considers administrative distance before metric when selecting between routes from different sources. Option D is incorrect because the router will not load balance between routes with different administrative distances.