Scenario: A Citrix Architect needs to design a new XenApp and XenDesktop environment. Currently, the environment is configured with two locations with identical XenDesktop Sites. Each Site has two Delivery Controllers, two StoreFront servers, and one NetScaler high availability pair. The same applications have been published from both Sites for all the users. Two Zones (Zone A and Zone B) are configured in each Site with one Controller in each zone. The Microsoft Exchange server is only accessible from Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) machines in Zone A in each Site.
The following access requirements have been identified:
– Users should have a single URL when accessing resources from different Sites.
– Users should always connect to the datacenter closest to their location.
– Applications added to Favorites within Citrix Receiver should be retained when accessed from different Sites.
– Launched applications and desktops should always connect through a local NetScaler.
– No duplication of applications published from different Sites.
– Microsoft Outlook should always launch in Zone A.
The architect should recommend configuring Optimal Gateway routing on ___________across both locations to ensure that users connect through a local NetScaler. (Choose the correct option to complete the sentence.)
- A . Delivery Controllers
- B . StoreFront servers
- C . Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) vServers
- D . NetScaler appliances
Scenario: A Citrix Architect needs to design a new XenApp and XenDesktop environment. While designing Universal Print server (UPS) for the customer, the architect is asked to ensure that the UPS design can handle 500 simultaneous print jobs per minute.
What must the architect deploy to support the load estimated by the customer?
- A . Two UPS servers and configure UPS for load balancing policy
- B . Ten UPS servers and configure UPS for load balancing policy
- C . Five UPS servers and configure NetScaler load balancing
- D . Two UPS servers and configure NetScaler load balancing
- E . Five UPS servers and configure UPS for load balancing policy
- F . Ten UPS servers and configure NetScaler load balancing
Scenario: A Citrix Architect is designing an environment for a large company.
The company has identified the following user groups and requirements.
– Product Managers – Typically, they work from inside the company network but are able to work from home. They need to use a variety of standard productivity and web-based SaaS applications.
– Field Sales Engineers – They frequently work with mobile devices and tend to access the environment externally. They need access to sales tools and the front-end of the customer database.
– Web Developers – Internal and remote workers who use specialized hardware with a graphics card to handle resource-intensive applications.
Which FlexCast model should the architect assign to Web Developers?
- A . VM Hosted Applications
- B . Published Apps
- C . Published Desktops
- D . Hosted VDI
Scenario: A Citrix Architect needs to design a new XenApp and XenDesktop environment.
The architect has identified printing requirements for certain user groups and locations, as shown in the Exhibit.
Click the Exhibit button to view the requirements.
Currently, no printer settings or policies have been configured, and as such, the environment is using default settings. Universal Print Server will NOT be used in this design.
Which two settings should the architect configure to allow the Executives group to achieve the desired print behavior and to ensure their print jobs are optimally routed? (Choose two.)
- A . Set Auto-create Client Printers policy to auto-create local printers only
- B . Enable Auto-create PDF Universal Printer policy
- C . Set Direct connections to print servers policy to Enabled
- D . Set Direct connections to print servers policy to Disabled
- E . Configure Session Printers policy
- F . Configure Default Printers policy
- G . Set Auto-create Client Printers policy to auto-create all client printers
Scenario: A Citrix Architect needs to design a new XenApp and XenDesktop environment.
The following design requirements have been identified:
– External Partner users should be denied access to published resources unless connecting from a corporate laptop running up-to-date antivirus software.
– External users and partners authenticate using Two-Factor authentication.
– External employees are logged off Citrix Receiver for Web after 10 minutes of inactivity.
– Clipboard mapping is enabled for external engineering users.
– Once authenticated to a company device, internal users do NOT authenticate a second time to access published apps and desktops.
Later in the Assess phase, the architect creates the Access Matrix shown in the Exhibit.
Click the Exhibit button to view the Access Matrix.
During the quality assurance review, the architect determines that one of the user groups does NOT align with the design requirements.
Which user group should the architect modify to match the design requirements identified?
- A . HR
- B . Engineering
- C . Call Center
- D . Partners
- E . Sales
Scenario: A Citrix Architect needs to design a new XenApp and XenDesktop environment.
The architect has determined the user groups and FlexCast model listed in the Exhibit during the high-level design.
Click the Exhibit button to view the user group and FlexCast model details.
Which graphics protocol should the architect select for the highlighted group in the Exhibit?
- A . Thinwire (Legacy)
- B . Framehawk
- C . Thinwire+
- D . H.264
Scenario: A Citrix Architect needs to design a new XenApp and XenDesktop environment. The architect has identified the requirements, based on the assessment and early stages of the design.
Click the Exhibit button to view the requirements.
Additionally, the IT team has identified the following general requirements:
– The provisioning strategy should be compatible with the planned design decisions.
– The provisioning strategy should minimize the steps required to perform image and application updates.
Which three follow-up questions should the architect ask about this environment, based on the planned design decisions? (Choose three.)
- A . How much storage is available for the Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) machines?
- B . What is the VM uplink speed in the current deployment?
- C . Is PXE currently being used in the subnets where the Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) machines will be placed?
- D . Will the machines using the images be physical or virtual?
- E . Are there any applications which must only be accessed by a subset of users?
A Citrix Architect needs to conduct a capabilities assessment for an organization that wants to design and build a new XenApp and XenDesktop environment.
Which four capabilities will directly influence whether the existing Citrix administrative team will have the capacity to support the new environment? (Choose four.)
- A . Network architecture
- B . Current backup solutions
- C . Users and applications
- D . Existing XenApp and XenDesktop environments
- E . Training and certifications of support staff and users
- F . Current storage solutions
- G . Image management processes
Scenario: A Citrix Architect must complete a XenApp and XenDesktop security assessment. After examining the network topology for the hypervisor hosts supporting the Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) machines, the architect finds that some of the network connections are NOT following leading security practices.
Click the Exhibit button to view a high-level diagram which shows the connectivity between various components.
Which three of the labeled areas of the diagram represent connections which are NOT following Citrix leading security practices? (Choose three.)
- A . G
- B . B
- C . A
- D . E
- E . F
- F . D
- G . C
Scenario: A Citrix Architect needs to redesign an existing XenApp and XenDesktop environment to use Machine Creation Services (MCS). During the design discussions, the locations for the MCS-provisioned thin clone machine disks are proposed as shown in the Exhibit.
Click the Exhibit button to view the details.
Which potential concern should the architect address with the customer before proceeding with this configuration? (Choose two.)
- A . It is limited to NFS shared storage.
- B . It will require substantial read IOPS from the shared storage location during machine creation and updates.
- C . It will require substantial write IOPS to the shared storage location as temporary data is written.
- D . It will require more storage to be allocated on the VM hosts compared with other options.
- E . It is limited to certain hypervisors.
Scenario: A Citrix Architect needs to design a new XenApp and XenDesktop environment.
The architect has identified the User Layer requirements, as shown in the Exhibit.
Click the Exhibit button to view the requirements.
Additionally, management at the organization has identified the following general Access Layer requirements:
– A multi-factor authentication method is required for any connections to the XenApp and XenDesktop environment originating from outside the corporate network.
– External connections must be authenticated by a NetScaler Gateway virtual server located in a DMZ network.
– Internal connection traffic should NOT leave the internal corporate network.
Which two authentication methods should the architect use for the Contractors group? (Choose two.)
- A . RADIUS authentication
- B . Smart Cards
- C . SAML authentication
- D . Domain pass-through
- E . Federated Authentication Service
- F . Username and password
Scenario: A Citrix Architect needs to design a new XenApp and XenDesktop environment.
While deploying Optimal HDX Routing for the customer, the architect makes the following configurations:
– Authentication Gateway – AuthGW C Logon.workspace.com – Authentication only
– New York Gateway – NYCGW C Nycgw.workspace.com – HDX Routing only
– San Francisco Gateway – SFOGW C Sfogw.workspace.com – HDX Routing only
Click the Exhibit button to view further details about the configuration.
Upon investigation of the load on the NetScalers, the architect determines that both internal and external HDX traffic flow through the NetScaler Gateways and the NetScalers are running at capacity.
Which PowerShell commandlet and parameter can help the architect address this issue until more NetScaler resources are procured?
- A . Set-DSOptimalGatewayForFarms -onDirectAccess=false
- B . Set-STFCitrixAGBasicOptions -onDirectAccess=true
- C . Set-STFCitrixAGBasicOptions -onDirectAccess=false
- D . Set-DSOptimalGatewayForFarms -onDirectAccess=true
Scenario: A Citrix Architect needs to design a multi-datacenter XenApp and XenDesktop environment that will use Provisioning Services (PVS) to manage Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) machine images. Each datacenter will have a separate Provisioning Services farm. During the design discussions, the architect creates a diagram to depict the way vDisk files will be replicated between PVS farms, based on the available storage for the vDisk Stores.
Click the Exhibit button to view the diagram.
Overall, the customer has identified the following objectives for the image replication process:
– Minimize the administrative time required to replicate images between farms
– Must be usable by PVS farm administrators based on native tools
– Minimize network traffic between datacenters
Which method should the architect use to replicate the vDisk files between datacenters?
- A . SAN replication
- B . Scheduled robocopy commands
- C . Microsoft DFS-R
- D . vDisk Replicator Tool
- E . Manual copy
Scenario: A Citrix Architect needs to design a new XenApp and XenDesktop environment for a financial services company.
During the project kickoff meeting, the organization states the following business priorities:
"Overall, we want a robust solution which ensures that users can access their resources at any time, even if our primary datacenter experiences an outage. Our employees will need to access their resources from both inside and outside our corporate network, but we need to ensure that we enable this in a secure manner and protect our sensitive data."
Which four design decisions align with the organization’s stated business drivers? (Choose four.)
- A . Redundancy should be implemented for all infrastructure components.
- B . Server OS Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) machines should be used to increase user density per machine.
- C . Optimal Gateway Routing should be configured on StoreFront.
- D . NetScaler will be required in the environment.
- E . A multi-Site architecture and disaster recovery plan will be required.
- F . Single image management should be included in the design.
- G . SmartAccess or SmartControl features should be considered for this environment.
Scenario: A Citrix Architect needs to design a new XenApp and XenDesktop environment.
The table in the Exhibit lists details about the requirements of the current user groups and their Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) machine workloads.
Click the Exhibit button to view the table.
The architect should scale the hardware used to host the VMs for User Group 1 to ______ cores. (Choose the correct option to complete the sentence.)
- A . 32
- B . 24
- C . 16
- D . 96
- E . 64
Scenario: A Citrix Architect needs to design a new XenApp and XenDesktop environment. The architect has identified the Resource Layer requirements shown in the Exhibit.
Click the Exhibit button to view the requirements.
Additionally, management at the organization has identified the following general Resource Layer requirements:
– The profile solution should be centrally managed.
– The profile solution should minimize logon and logoff times as much as possible.
– User groups do NOT need to use the same profile type.
– Citrix Director should be used for monitoring profiles.
Which profile type should the architect use for the Executives group?
- A . Local
- B . Microsoft roaming
- C . Citrix Profile Management
- D . Mandatory
Scenario: A Citrix Architect needs to design a new XenApp and XenDesktop environment. The architect has identified the Resource Layer requirements shown in the Exhibit.
Click the Exhibit button to view the requirements.
Which feature of Citrix Profile Management could help the architect address the Graphic Designers group requirements?
- A . Profile caching
- B . Profile streaming
- C . File exclusions
- D . Active Write Back
Scenario: While assessing the User Layer, a Citrix Architect finds that most of the internal users connect using corporate-owned laptops, desktop devices, and thin clients. Many of these laptops and desktop devices are running Windows 10, while the remainder of the machines are running Windows 7 and are in the process of being migrated to Windows 10. Some users also connect using personal devices which have Receiver Desktop Lock installed.
Currently, Citrix Receiver is manually installed on any endpoint device added to the company. All these devices use Citrix Receiver version 4.8 and above. The IT team is planning to automate a process to update all the devices with the latest version of Citrix Receiver and to automate another process for automatic installation of Citrix Receiver without incurring extra costs and maintenance.
During the initial testing of the Citrix Receiver Auto-Update feature, the architect observed that the Citrix Receiver Auto-Update feature does NOT work on some of the machines.
Which two reasons could be causing this issue? (Choose two.)
- A . Citrix Receiver was locally installed with administrator-level privileges.
- B . The Group Policy Object for Receiver Auto-Update feature is incorrectly configured in Active Directory.
- C . Citrix Receiver Auto-Update is disabled on machines where Receiver Desktop Lock is installed.
- D . The Citrix Receiver Auto-Update feature needs to be configured before Receiver Desktop Lock is configured.
Scenario: A Citrix Architect needs to design a multi-datacenter XenApp and XenDesktop environment that will use Provisioning Services (PVS) to manage Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) machine images. Each datacenter will have a separate Provisioning Services farm. During the design discussions, the architect creates a diagram to depict the way vDisk files will be replicated between PVS farms, based on the available storage for the vDisk Stores.
Click the Exhibit button to view the diagram.
Overall, the customer has identified the following objectives for the image replication process:
– Minimize the administrative time required to replicate images between farms
– Must be usable by storage administrators without PVS farm administrative permissions
– Utilize pre-existing infrastructure and processes where possible
Which method should the architect use to replicate the vDisk files between datacenters?
- A . Scheduled robocopy commands
- B . vDisk Replicator Tool
- C . Microsoft DFS-R
- D . Manual copy
- E . SAN replication
Scenario: A Citrix Architect is designing a XenApp and XenDesktop environment and needs to design machine catalogs and Delivery Groups. Users should only be able to access their assigned resources.
Click on the Exhibit button to view the design requirements.
What is the appropriate design using the minimum number of machine catalogs and Delivery Groups, based on the requirements in the Exhibit?
- A . 1 machine catalog, 2 Delivery Groups, and no tagging
- B . 2 machine catalogs, 3 Delivery Groups, and tagging for the machine hosting the Engineering application – QA version
- C . 3 machine catalogs, 4 Delivery Groups, and no tagging
- D . 1 machine catalog, 1 Delivery Group, and tagging for the machine hosting the Engineering application QA version
Scenario: After a recent security assessment, a Citrix Architect recommends blocking unnecessary peripheral types by disabling the associated HDX channels. Currently, the environment is intended to support the peripheral types listed in the Exhibit.
Click the Exhibit button to view the supported peripheral types.
Which four HDX virtual channels should the architect disable, based on the peripherals required in the environment? (Choose four.)
- A . SmartCard
- B . TWI
- C . Print
- D . ClientAudio
- E . GenericUSB
- F . TwainRdr
- G . Multimedia
Scenario: A Citrix Architect is designing an environment for a large company. The company has identified the following user groups and requirements.
– Product Managers – Typically, they work from inside the company network but are able to work from home. They need to use a variety of standard productivity and web-based SaaS applications.
– Field Sales Engineers – They frequently work with mobile devices and tend to access the environment externally. They need access to sales tools and the front-end of the customer database.
– Web Developers – Internal and remote workers who use specialized hardware with a graphics card to handle resource-intensive applications.
Which FlexCast model should the architect assign to Product Managers?
- A . Hosted VDI
- B . Remote PC
- C . VM Hosted Applications
- D . Published Apps
- E . Published Desktops
Scenario: A Citrix Architect needs to design a new XenApp and XenDesktop environment.
The architect has identified the Resource Layer requirements shown in the Exhibit.
Click the Exhibit button to view the requirements.
Additionally, management at the organization has identified the following general Resource Layer requirements:
– The profile solution should minimize logon and logoff times as much as possible.
– The time required to configure and maintain the solution should be minimized.
– User groups do NOT need to use the same profile type.
Which profile type should the architect use for the Customer Service group?
- A . Microsoft roaming
- B . Mandatory
- C . Local
- D . Citrix Profile Management
Scenario: A Citrix Architect needs to manage the disaster recovery process for a XenApp and XenDesktop environment. The environment currently consists of an active datacenter which is typically accessed by users and a disaster recovery (DR) datacenter which would be used in the event that a disaster impacts the primary datacenter. The organization has made it a priority to minimize the loss of data when failing over between datacenters and has begun planning for an event in which the environment must fail over from the primary datacenter to the DR datacenter.
What is the appropriate sequence of steps that the architect should follow after getting management approval to complete the process in case of such an event?
- A . Block access to primary datacenter, complete replication, terminate/drain existing sessions, reverse direction of replication, enable access in DR datacenter
- B . Block access to primary datacenter, terminate/drain existing sessions, complete replication, reverse direction of replication, enable access in DR datacenter
- C . Terminate/drain existing sessions, complete replication, block access to primary datacenter, enable access in DR datacenter, reverse direction of replication
- D . Complete replication, terminate/drain existing sessions, block access to primary datacenter, reverse direction of replication, enable access in DR datacenter
- E . Complete replication; block access to primary datacenter, terminate/drain existing sessions, enable access in DR datacenter, reverse direction of replication
- F . Terminate/drain existing sessions; block access to primary datacenter, complete replication, reverse direction of replication, enable access in DR datacenter
Scenario: A Citrix Architect is designing a new XenApp and XenDesktop environment and needs to determine which endpoints to include. Based on discussions with various departments, the user requirements listed in the Exhibit were collected.
Click the Exhibit button to view the requirements.
In addition to the user requirements, the architect has identified the following organizational requirements:
– Minimize total cost of ownership (TCO)
– Minimize maintenance costs
Which endpoint type should the architect use for the Product Development group, based on the requirements?
- A . BYOD laptop/notebook
- B . Corporate-owned high-performance workstation
- C . Corporate-owned standard desktop
- D . Corporate-owned laptop/notebook
- E . Corporate-owned thin client
Scenario: A Citrix Architect needs to design a new XenDesktop environment for a client who does NOT currently have a Citrix environment. The project scope has NOT yet been determined, and the architect is about to start the Assess phase of the project.
In which order should the architect complete the four tasks of a typical assessment when following the Citrix methodology?
- A . Define the organization, Define the user groups, Define the applications, Define the project team.
- B . Define the user groups, Define the applications, Define the organization, Define the project team.
- C . Define the project team, Define the organization, Define the user groups, Define the applications.
- D . Define the organization, Define the project team, Define the user groups, Define the applications.
Scenario: A Citrix Architect needs to implement XenApp and XenDesktop. Based on the assessment and early stages of the design, the architect has identified the requirements as shown in the Exhibit.
Click the Exhibit button to view the requirements.
Which tier of storage should the architect consider implementing, based on the requirements in the Exhibit?
- A . DAS
- B . Local
- C . SAN
- D . NAS
Scenario: A Citrix Architect is reviewing a XenApp and XenDesktop design for an environment with multiple Active Directory forests.
Click the Exhibit button to view the design details.
Which risk should the architect highlight to the customer, based on the details listed in the Exhibit?
- A . The SupportMultipleForest registry key is NOT supported.
- B . The Active Directory trust method is NOT supported.
- C . The Active Directory functional level is NOT supported.
- D . The DNS lookup strategy is NOT supported.
Scenario: A Citrix Architect is designing hardware requirements for a small production XenApp and XenDesktop environment.
Requirements:
– Access to the environment hosted in a single datacenter
– Ability to perform maintenance on the environment without requiring an outage
Which hardware requirement does the architect need to include for hypervisor hosts in order to meet the customer’s needs?
- A . Multiple individual hypervisor hosts in the same datacenter
- B . Separate hypervisor cluster/pool in an alternate datacenter
- C . Separate hypervisor clusters/pools in the same datacenter
- D . N+1 hypervisor hosts in a single cluster/pool
Scenario: A Citrix Architect is designing a XenDesktop environment. The Engineer group uses graphical applications which require the use of AMD hardware shared virtualized GPU.
Which two hypervisors can the architect select? (Choose two.)
- A . XenServer 6.5
- B . VMware vSphere 5.5
- C . XenServer 7.0
- D . VMware vSphere 6.0
- E . Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2
Scenario: A Citrix Architect needs to design a single-Site XenApp and XenDesktop environment. Through earlier design discussions, the architect has determined the environment details listed in the Exhibit.
Click the Exhibit button to view the details.
Which SQL server baseline specifications will provide acceptable performance and stability while avoiding unnecessary over-provisioning of resources?
- A . 4 CPU cores, 8 GB of RAM, 10 GB database storage
- B . 2 CPU cores, 4 GB of RAM, 10 GB database storage
- C . 2 CPU cores, 4 GB of RAM, 100 GB database storage
- D . 8 CPU cores, 16 GB of RAM, 10 GB database storage
- E . 8 CPU cores, 16 GB of RAM, 100 GB database storage
- F . 4 CPU cores, 8 GB of RAM, 100 GB database storage
Scenario: While assessing the User Layer, a Citrix Architect finds that most of the internal users connect using corporate-owned laptops, desktop devices, and thin clients. Many of these laptops and desktop devices are running Windows 10, while the remainder of the machines are running Windows 7 and are in the process of being migrated to Windows 10. Some users also connect using personal devices.
Currently, Citrix Receiver is manually installed on any endpoint device added to the company. All these devices use Citrix Receiver version 4.8 and above. Some of the internal users with Windows laptops are experiencing issues in which devices such as a keyboard, mouse, a monitor connected to a docking station or a USB hub are NOT usable in an HDX session.
Which action should the architect recommend to provide a uniform user experience for all users?
- A . Recreate user accounts in Active Directory
- B . Upgrade all clients to the latest version of Citrix Receiver
- C . Upgrade drivers of peripheral devices
- D . Recreate user profiles
Scenario: A Citrix Architect needs to design a new XenApp and XenDesktop environment. Citrix Provisioning Services has been selected for image management.
Which two RAID levels should the architect use for the storage hosting the Provisioning Service write cache? (Choose two.)
- A . RAID 0
- B . RAID 1
- C . RAID 10
- D . RAID 6
- E . RAID 5
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Scenario: While assessing the User Layer, a Citrix Architect finds that most of the internal users connect using corporate-owned laptops, desktop devices, and thin clients. Many of these laptops and desktop devices are running Windows 10, while the remainder of the machines are running Windows 7 and are in the process of being migrated to Windows 10. Some users also connect using personal devices.
Currently, Citrix Receiver is manually installed on any endpoint device added to the company. All these devices use Citrix Receiver version 4.8 and above. The IT team is planning to automate a process to update all the devices with the latest version of Citrix Receiver and to automate another process for automatic installation of Citrix Receiver without incurring extra costs and maintenance.
What should the architect recommend to upgrade Citrix Receivers for internal Windows endpoints?
- A . The use of deployment tools for internal endpoints.
- B . The deployment of Enterprise software.
- C . Configure Receiver auto-updates through Citrix Cloud.
- D . Edit the Web.config file and set upgradeAtLogin to True.
Scenario: A Citrix Architect needs to design a new XenApp and XenDesktop environment. The customer previously installed all applications locally on managed laptops and desktops but is willing to evaluate other application delivery methods as part of the new deployment. The environment will be standardized on Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 for the Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) machines.
As part of an application analysis performed earlier in the project, the information shown in the Exhibit was collected regarding one of the required applications.
Click the Exhibit button to view the information.
Additionally, the customer has the following objectives:
– Minimize the amount of additional infrastructure components.
– Utilize thin clients as endpoints in order to reduce costs.
– Users should NOT have direct access to the thin client operating system.
How should the architect install the application?
- A . Directly on a VDA machine image and accessed through a virtual desktop session
- B . On an Application Layer using Citrix App Layering and included in a layered image and accessed through a virtual desktop session
- C . Directly on endpoint devices and included in a virtual desktop session using the Local App Access feature
- D . Stream it to a VDA machine using Microsoft App-V and accessed through a virtual desktop session
- E . On an Application Layer using Citrix App Layering then presented to assigned users as an Elastic Layer during a virtual desktop session
Scenario: A Citrix Architect is designing an environment for a large company. The company has identified the following user groups and requirements.
– Product Managers – Typically, they work from inside the company network but are able to work from home. They need to use a variety of standard productivity and web-based SaaS applications.
– Field Sales Engineers – They frequently work with mobile devices and tend to access the environment externally. They need access to sales tools and the front-end of the customer database.
– Web Developers – Internal and remote workers who use specialized hardware with a graphics card to handle resource-intensive applications.
Which FlexCast model should the architect assign to Field Sales Engineers?
- A . Published Apps
- B . Hosted Applications
- C . Hosted VDI
- D . Published Desktops
Scenario: A Citrix Architect is designing a XenDesktop environment. The Engineer group uses graphical applications which require the use of Intel Iris Pro GPUs.
Which two hypervisors can the architect select for this environment? (Choose two.)
- A . XenServer 6.5
- B . Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2
- C . XenServer 7.0
- D . VMware vSphere 5.5
- E . VMware vSphere 6.0
Scenario: A Citrix Architect needs to design a new XenApp and XenDesktop environment. The design will require three different StoreFront Stores and three corresponding Citrix Receiver for Web sites. Each different Store and Citrix Receiver for Web site will serve different business units. Each of these will also require their own branding and SSL certificate. The solution should remain supported by Citrix.
The architect has already installed StoreFront on a server.
How can the architect achieve the desired design while keeping cost and maintenance requirements as low as possible?
- A . Create two extra IIS Sites, bind the certificates in IIS manager, copy the StoreFront configurations to the two new IIS Sites, and use a text editor to configure all three StoreFront Stores.
- B . Deploy two extra virtual servers, bind the certificates in IIS manager, and install StoreFront again on each new virtual server.
- C . Create two extra IIS Sites, bind the certificates in IIS manager, copy the StoreFront configuration to the two new IIS Sites, and use the StoreFront console to configure all three StoreFront Stores.
- D . Create two extra IIS Sites, bind the certificates in IIS manager, use PowerShell to deploy additional Stores to the two new IIS Sites, and use a text editor to configure all three StoreFront Stores.
Scenario: A Citrix Architect has designed an active/passive XenApp and XenDesktop environment for a customer, where the passive datacenter serves as the disaster recovery datacenter for all users.
The following has been configured:
– NetScaler Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) to provide single URL direction to the active datacenter.
– GSLB has health monitors configured for the load balanced servers.
– NetScaler Gateways are on both datacenters.
– NetScaler load balancing occurs for StoreFront and Delivery Controller XML services.
– A single XenApp and XenDesktop Site exists.
– Four Delivery Controllers are members of the Site.
– Two Delivery Controllers are members of the primary zone in the active datacenter.
– Two Delivery Controllers are members of the satellite zone in the passive datacenter.
– SQL is deployed in the active datacenter.
– Local Host Cache is enabled.
– Two StoreFront servers are deployed in each datacenter aggregating resources from the Delivery Controllers in the respective datacenter.
– Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) machines are deployed in both datacenters and configured to register with Delivery Controllers in their zone.
What would happen if the SQL Server in the primary datacenter were turned off?
- A . VDA machines from the primary datacenter would register with the Delivery Controllers in the passive datacenter.
- B . GSLB will NOT identify that the SQL Server is down and sessions cannot launch.
- C . StoreFront in the primary datacenter would still be able to launch sessions.
- D . GSLB will start redirecting connections to the secondary datacenter.
Scenario: A large retail environment includes a StoreFront server group with two servers, each with 2 vCPUs and 4 GB of RAM. The server group handles about 25,000 user connections per hour, with a majority of the users accessing the environment using native Receiver. Workspace Control has been disabled for the environment.
A Citrix Architect learns that the company will soon merge with another retail chain. The XenApp and XenDesktop environment must double its capacity, and the StoreFront server group is expected to handle about 40,000 user connections per hour.
What should the architect do to meet the expected load while maintaining high availability with optimal resource allocation for the StoreFront component?
- A . Add a third StoreFront server with 2 vCPUs and 4 GB of RAM.
- B . Allocate an additional 2 vCPUs to each existing StoreFront server.
- C . Train users to begin accessing the environment using Receiver for Web.
- D . Allocate an additional 2 GB of RAM to each existing StoreFront server.
- E . Enable Workspace Control for all StoreFront stores.