Final answer:
The student's statement is false. Exterior Gateway Protocols(EGPs) like BGP are used for sharing routes between autonomous systems, while IGPs are used within a single autonomous system.
Step-by-step explanation:
The statement is false. Exterior Gateway Protocols (EGPs) are designed to share routing information between different autonomous systems, not within a single one. In contrast, Interior Gateway Protocols (IGPs) are used to exchange routing information within a single autonomous system. One common example of an EGP is the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), which is used to exchange routing information over the entire internet, which is made up of many autonomous systems. For routing within an autonomous system, protocols like OSPF (Open Shortest Path First) or RIP (Routing Information Protocol) would be used, and these are examples of IGPs.