Explanation
The advertise-peer-as parameter allows a router to advertise its peer's AS number as part of the AS path attribute when sending BGP updates to other peers. This parameter is useful when two routers in the same AS need to exchange routes through another AS, such as in the case of R1 and R4. By configuring this parameter on R1 and R4, they can advertise each other's AS number to R2 and R3, respectively.
The as-override parameter allows a router to replace the AS number of its peer with its own AS number when receiving BGP updates from that peer. This parameter is useful when two routers in different ASes need to exchange routes through another AS that has the same AS number as one of them, such as in the case of R2 and R3. By configuring this parameter on R2 and R3, they can override the AS number of R1 and R4 with their own AS number when sending BGP updates to each other.

Explanation
To provide Internet access for the hosts at Site 1, you need to configure static routes in the main routing instance on PE-1 that point to the VPN-A.inet.0 table as the next hop. This allows PE-1 to forward traffic from the Internet to CE-1 using MPLS labels and vice versa. You need to configure two static routes: one for the
10.1.2.0/24 prefix that represents the private network of Site 1, and one for the 203.0.113.1/32 prefix that represents the public IP address of CE-1.

Explanation
IS-IS is an interior gateway protocol that uses link-state routing to exchange routing information among routers within a single autonomous system. IS-IS uses two types of packets to synchronize link-state databases among routers: Link State Packets (LSPs) and Partial Sequence Number Packets (PSNPs). LSPs contain information about the state and cost of links in the network, and are flooded periodically throughout the network. PSNPs are used to acknowledge receipt of LSPs and request retransmission of missing or corrupted LSPs. PSNPs contain only descriptions of LSPs, such as their sequence numbers and checksums3. IS-IS also uses another type of packet called Complete Sequence Number Packets (CSNPs), which are used to summarize the entire link-state database at regular intervals or when a new adjacency is formed. CSNPs are flooded periodically throughout the network and contain only descriptions of LSPs4. Therefore, PSNPs contain only descriptions of LSPs and CSNPs are flooded periodically.
References: 3:
https://www.juniper.net/documentation/us/en/software/junos/routing-policy/topics/concept/routing-policy-is-is-p
4:
https://www.juniper.net/documentation/us/en/software/junos/routing-policy/topics/concept/routing-policy-is-is-c

Explanation
PIM Bootstrap Router (BSR) is a mechanism that allows PIM routers to discover and announce rendezvous point (RP) information for multicast groups. BSR uses two roles: candidate BSR and candidate RP. Candidate BSR is the router that collects information from all available RPs in the network and advertises it throughout the network. Candidate RP is the router that wants to become the RP and registers itself with the BSR. There can be only one active BSR in the network, which is elected based on the highest priority or highest IP address if the priority is the same. The BSR priority can be configured manually or assigned automatically. The default priority is 0 and the highest priority is 2551. In this question, R4 is directly connected to both RPs (R2 and R3) and is currently sending all joins upstream to R3 but we want all joins to go to R2 instead. To achieve this, we need to change the BSR priority on R2 to be higher than R3 so that R2 becomes the active BSR and advertises its RP information to R4.

Explanation
The problem in this scenario is that R1 and R8 are not receiving each other's routes because of private AS numbers in the AS path. Private AS numbers are not globally unique and are not advertised to external BGP peers. To solve this problem, you need to do the following:
* Configure loops on routers in AS 65412 and advertise-peer-as on routers in AS 64498. This allows R5 and R6 to advertise their own AS number (65412) instead of their peer's AS number (64498) when sending updates to R7 and R8. This prevents a loop detection issue that would cause R7 and R8 to reject the routes from R5 and R62
* Configure remove-private on advertisements from AS 64497 toward AS 64498 and from AS 64500 toward AS 64499. This removes any private AS numbers from the AS path before sending updates to external BGP peers. This allows R2 and R3 to receive the routes from R1 and R4, respectively3.