Scenario: A planning document for deploying a new Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Site specifies that it will be created with 1 Site and different zones ini each of 3 regions. The IT team expects that each zone will host 825 concurrent user sessions, with no more than 28 concurrent session launches.
What is the minimum acceptable Site-to-Site bandwidth required between the Primary Zone and a Satellite Zone?
- A . 1 Kbps
- B . 200 Mbps
- C . 2 Mbps
- D . 8 Gbps
C
Explanation:
Reference: https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/advanced-concepts/implementation-guides/citrix-virtual-apps-desktops-zones-deep-dive.html
Scenario: A Citrix Architect is assessing an existing infrastructure for a company that has storage challenges as a result of hyper-growth. They currently have a large IT infrastructure that consists of 15 hypervisor hosts and more than 200 virtual machines (VMs) worldwide. Management has advised the architect that they need to improve their storage infrastructure to include high performance and scalability.
Which storage solution should the architect implement within this infrastructure?
- A . DAS
- B . SAN
- C . NAS
- D . Local
Scenario: A Citrix Architect has developed the hardware requirements for a small production Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environment as follows:
✑ Access to the environment hosted in a single data center
✑ Ability to perform maintenance on the environment without requiring an outage
✑ Keep management efforts to a minimum
Which hardware requirement does the architect need to include for Citrix Hypervisor hosts to meet the customer’s needs?
- A . N+1 Citrix Hypervisor hosts in a single cluster/pool
- B . Separate Citrix Hypervisor cluster/pool in an alternate data center
- C . Multiple individual Citrix Hypervisor hosts in the same data center
- D . Separate Citrix Hypervisor clusters/pools in the same data center
A
Explanation:
https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-hypervisor/hosts-pools/clustered-pools.html#manage-your-clustered-pool
Scenario: A Citrix Architect is designing a new Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Service environment in Citrix Cloud. During the kickoff meeting, management advised that they need a robust, scalable image-provisioning strategy that allows for easy image and application maintenance to deploy a large number of applications to users. This should include company-wide applications and departmental applications to be used only by specific sets of users. Some applications will require run-once scripts at system startup for product licensing.
Which image provisioning strategy should the architect use for this deployment?
- A . Application Layering
- B . Machine Creation Services (MCS)
- C . Manual Provisioning
- D . Citrix Provisioning (PVS)
Scenario: A Citrix Architect is designing a new Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environment. Management has requested dynamic distribution of users between the primary and backup data centers to ensure that all available hardware is utilized during normal operations.
What is the biggest risk the architect should highlight to the customer when designing the profile strategy?
- A . Scale-Out File Servers are required to support active-active profile deployments
- B . Using Microsoft Distributed File System Replication (DFSR) to replicate user profiles requires significant bandwidth
- C . Replicating profiles between the 2 data centers will double storage costs
- D . Roaming profiles are NOT supported in active-active Microsoft Distributed File System Replication (DFSR) deployments
A Citrix Architect needs to enable the security of the Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) by evaluating the ‘Enable- VdaSSL.ps1 -Enable’ script.
Which supported SSL protocol version is least secure when using the default settings of the script?
- A . TLS 1.0
- B . SSL 3.0
- C . TLS 1.2
- D . TLS 1.1
- E . SSL 1.0
- F . SSL 2.0
A
Explanation:
Defaults setting is TLS 1.0 (Script -> .PARAMETER SSLMinVersion Specifies the minimum SSL version (allowed values are SSL_3.0, TLS_1.0, TLS_1.1 and TLS_1.2). Default is TLS_1.0. )
https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX220062
Scenario: A Citrix Architect needs to support a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environment with 2 data centers. App Layering is being used to create layered images that are used by the Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) machines in both data center locations. To comply with disaster recovery (DR) requirements, administrators must be able to modify and deploy layered images from either data center if needed.
Which statement correctly describes the process that the architect must follow to meet the requirements?
- A . All required layers should be exported from the first Enterprise Layer Manager using the hypervisor hosting the machine, then imported to the hypervisor resource pool in the secondary data center.
- B . All required layers should be copied from the first Enterprise Layer Manager to the second Enterprise Layer Manager using Microsoft Distributed File System Replication (DFSR)
- C . All required layers should be exported from the first Enterprise Layer Manager to an SMB file share, and then imported into the second Enterprise Layer Manager.
- D . All required layers should be copied from the first Enterprise Layer Manager to the second Enterprise Layer Manager using RoboCopy commands
Scenario: The IT team of a company configured its Citrix environment on Microsoft Azure. Load on the servers is nominal during the off season, but during peak season, load increases on the infrastructure servers. This load varies from year to year. A Citrix Architect is asked to design a solution that dynamically increases and decreases the number of infrastructure servers.
What should the architect recommend the IT team create in Microsoft Azure to meet this demand?
- A . Availability sets
- B . Resource group
- C . Scale sets
- D . Availability domains
C
Explanation:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machine-scale-sets/overview#:~:text=Azure%20virtual%20machine%20scale%20sets%20let%20you%20create%20and,group%20of%20load%20balanced%20VMs.&text=Scale%20sets%20provide %20high%20availability,a%20large%20number%20of%20VMs.
Scenario: A Citrix Architect designing a new Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environment 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 must address the organizational requirement of minimizing endpoint management effort.
Which endpoint type should the architect use for the Sales Group, based on the requirements?
- A . Corporate-owned thin client
- B . Bring-your-own device (BYOD) laptop/notebook
- C . Corporate-owned smartphone
- D . Corporate-owned laptop/notebook
- E . Bring-your-own device (BYOD) smartphone
Scenario: A Citrix Architect is developing a Citrix Provisioning (PVS) design for a healthcare organization. The initial design places all PVS farm components in the primary data center of the organization. The customer asks if the vDisk can be streamed from PVS servers in the primary data center to target devices located in a secondary data center in another region, while still maintaining good performance. The data centers are connected with a 10 GB link with approximately 20 ms of latency.
The architect recommends against the organization pursuing this approach.
Which statement is a relevant reason for this recommendation?
- A . This configuration would introduce excessive latency in streaming traffic.
- B . This configuration does NOT provide sufficient connectivity between PVS servers and the farm database.
- C . This configuration prevents the Subnet Affinity feature from being implemented.
- D . This configuration does NOT provide sufficient bandwidth for streaming traffic.
A
Explanation:
"If having a global PVS Farm across data centers is required, Citrix recommends additional testing to confirm network performance and reliability, this is especially relevant for networks with higher latency (>15ms). If reliability and performance cannot be guaranteed then it is best to implement multiple PVS farms with local SQL databases for optimal performance and reliability." https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX220651
Scenario: A Citrix Architect is designing a new Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environment. The design has a Primary Zone and 3 Satellite Zones. Each Satellite Zone has a number of Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) machines that belong to a single Delivery Group spanning all 3 Satellite Zones.
Click the Exhibit button to view more details about the configuration.
How should the architect ensure that the SharePoint application has optimal performance for all user groups?
- A . Use PowerShell to change the process priority to high for SharePoint within Zone-SFO.
- B . Publish SharePoint in an individual Delivery Group within each zone.
- C . Edit the application properties to set Zone-SFO as the Home Zone for SharePoint.
- D . Edit the zone properties to only allow SharePoint to launch in Zone-SFO.
C
Explanation:
Reference: https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-virtual-apps-desktops-service/manage-deployment/zones.html#manage-home-zones-for-applications
Scenario: An IT department moved its entire infrastructure to Microsoft Azure. It is utilizing multiple Azure regions for redundancy. It also uses all Azure regions as resource locations within Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Service in Citrix Cloud.
Which storage replication option will allow data to be read from both the primary and secondary locations?
- A . Locally redundant storage (LRS)
- B . Read-access geo-redundant storage (RA-GRS)
- C . Zone-redundant storage (ZRS)
- D . Geo-redundant storage (GRS)
D
Explanation:
Reference: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates/crossregion-restore-for-azure-virtual-machines-using- azure-backup/
Scenario: A Citrix Architect is implementing a new Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environment.
The customer has 3 requirements:
✑ All users must be able to aggregate resources from all Sites.
✑ Both Sites should be treated as 1 equivalent farm set.
✑ User connections should be directed to the New York Site with failover to San Francisco.
Click the Exhibit button to view the StoreFront configurations.
Exhibit 1.
Based on the configurations, requirement 1 is ______________, requirement 2 is ______________, and requirement 3 is ______________. (Choose the correct option to complete the sentence.)
- A . met; met; met
- B . NOT met; NOT met; NOT met
- C . NOT met; met; met
- D . NOT met; met; NOT met
- E . met; met; NOT met
- F . met; NOT met; met
- G . met; NOT met; NOT met
Scenario: Engineers at a new company developed their product and infrastructure in Microsoft Azure. The engineers have reached out to a Citrix Architect to help design an Azure infrastructure to support publishing applications using the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service. Costs need to be kept to a minimum.
Which Azure virtual machine (VM) series provides the lowest cost per user while also providing good performance?
- A . A-series
- B . B-series
- C . H-series
- D . D-series
D
Explanation:
Reference: https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/tech-zone/design/reference-architectures/virtual-apps-and-desktops- azure.html
Scenario: A Citrix Architect is designing a multi-data center Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environment that will use Citrix Provisioning (PVS) to manage Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) machine images. Each data center will have a separate PVS farm. During design discussions, the architect created a diagram to depict the way in which vDisk files will be replicated among PVS farms, based on the available storage for the vDisk stores.
Click the Exhibit button to view the diagram.
Overall, the customer has identified 3 objectives for the image-replication process:
✑ Administrative time required to replicate images among farms must be minimized.
✑ The process must be usable by storage administrators without PVS farm administrative permissions.
✑ Pre-existing infrastructure and processes should be used where possible.
Which method should the architect use to replicate vDisk files among data centers?
- A . Manual copy
- B . Scheduled RoboCopy commands
- C . SAN replication
- D . vDisk Replicator Utility
- E . Microsoft Distributed File System Replication (DFSR) Namespaces
C
Explanation:
"vDisks and Storage C For vDisk stores hosted on local, Direct Attached Storage (DAS) or Storage Area Network (SAN), replication should be used to synchronize the vDisks. If using Network Attached Storage (NAS), ensure that the vDisks are hosted on a highly available network share."
https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/xenapp-and-xendesktop/7-15-ltsr/citrix-vdi-best-practices/design/design-userlayer4.html
Scenario: A Citrix Architect is designing a new Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environment. As part of the graphics-mode design considerations, the architect determined that one User Group requires pixel-perfect images at all times.
Which graphics mode should the architect recommend be configured for this specific group?
- A . Visual quality = Always Lossless
- B . Optimize for 3D graphics workload = Enabled
- C . Optimize for 3D graphics workload = Disabled
- D . Visual quality = Build to Lossless
Scenario: A Citrix Architect is designing a new Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environment.
Two Control Layer security requirements have been identified:
✑ Secure XML traffic between StoreFront and the Delivery Controller using SSL.
✑ Secure Ticket Authority (STA) traffic must be protected with SSL.
Which three tools can the architect use to ensure that all security requirements are met? (Choose three.)
- A . Citrix Studio console
- B . Internet Information Services (IIS)
- C . Citrix Director console
- D . Citrix StoreFront console
- E . ‘NETSH’ command line
Scenario: A Citrix Architect is designing a new Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environment. The design will require 2 different StoreFront stores share a subscription datastore, and 2 corresponding Citrix Workspace app for Web sites. 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 to a
minimum?
- A . Point 1 store to the subscription service endpoint of the other store.
- B . Deploy a separate virtual server, install StoreFront on the new virtual server, and update the web.config file.
- C . Make the web.config files of both stores identical.
- D . Point 1 store to the Citrix Credential Wallet Service endpoint of the other store.
A
Explanation:
https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/storefront/1912-ltsr/configure-manage-stores/configure-two-stores-share-datastore.html
Scenario: A Citrix Architect is designing a new Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environment. Currently, the environment is configured as 2 locations with identical Citrix Virtual Desktops Sites. Each Site has 2 Delivery Controllers, 2 StoreFront servers, and 1 Citrix ADC high-availability pair. The same applications have been published from both Sites for all users. Two zones (Zone A and Zone B) are configured in each Site with 1 Delivery Controller in each zone. The Microsoft Exchange server is only accessible from Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) machines in Zone A in each Site.
Six access requirements have been identified:
✑ Users should have a single URL when accessing resources from different Sites.
✑ Users should always connect to the data center closest to their location.
✑ Applications added to Favorites within the Citrix Workspace app should be retained when accessed from different Sites.
✑ Launched applications and desktops should always connect through a local Citrix ADC.
✑ No duplication of applications published from different Sites.
✑ Microsoft Outlook should always launch in Zone A.
What should the architect recommend configuring to avoid duplication of the same applications being delivered from different Sites?
- A . ‘Keywords: Featured’ in the properties of the published applications
- B . An Application Group
- C . Zone preferences for VDA machines hosting the applications
- D . Aggregate resources
Scenario: An automobile manufacturer in Germany has deployed a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops solution for its employees using Citrix Cloud and uses a resource location in Germany. Recently, they acquired an automobile manufacturer in Japan. Since then, users from Japan have reported issues regarding slowness and degraded performance of the application hosted in the German resource location.
How can a Citrix Architect improve the performance of the application for users in Japan?
- A . Implement Optimal Gateway Routing within the existing resource location.
- B . Create a new Site for Japan within Germany’s resource location
- C . Provision new resources in Japan’s resource location
- D . Implement Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB)
C
Explanation:
https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-cloud/citrix-cloud-resource-locations/resource-locations.html#example-of-a-resource-location-deployment
Scenario: A Citrix Architect is using LDAP as single-factor authentication (SFA). The architect is migrating the environment to Citrix Cloud and wants to retain the same authentication, procedure for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service in Citrix Cloud.
Which deployment strategy should the architect use for the Access Layer to ensure that the solution reduces management and does NOT incur additional costs?
- A . Use Citrix Cloud Gateway service and Citrix Cloud Workspace.
- B . Set up Citrix ADC with bring-your-own license (BYOL) and StoreFront in a public cloud.
- C . Set up Citrix ADC VPX and StoreFront on premises.
- D . Use Citrix Cloud Gateway service and on-premises StoreFront.
Scenario: A Citrix Architect is designing a new Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environment. As part of graphics-mode design considerations, the architect discovered that one User Group requires a graphics mode that provides both good performance and high image quality.
Which graphics mode should the architect recommend be configured for this specific group?
- A . Visual quality = Build to Lossless
- B . Visual quality = Always Lossless
- C . Optimize for 3D graphics workload = Disabled
- D . Optimize for 3D graphics workload = Enabled
A
Explanation:
Policy named "Optimize for 3D graphics workload", as per https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-virtual-apps-desktops/policies/reference/ica-policy-settings/graphics-policy-settings.html#optimize-for-3d-graphics-workload, This setting configures the appropriate default settings that best suit graphically intense workloads. Enable this setting for users whose workload focuses on graphically intense applications. Apply this policy only in cases where a GPU is available to the session. Any other settings that explicitly override the default settings set by this policy take precedence.. As per https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/xenapp-and-xendesktop/7-15-ltsr/policies/reference/ica-policy-settings/visual-display-policy-settings.html, the visual quality policy value build to lossless does the following: "Build to lossless – Sends lossy images to the user device during periods of high network activity and lossless images after network activity reduces; this setting improves performance over bandwidth-constrained network connections". So build to lossless is a best fit for combining performance and image quality
Scenario: A Citrix Architect needs to assess a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environment. The Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops diagram in the exhibit gives details about the current Site and zone design.
Click the Exhibit button to view the diagram.
Which statement is correct if the Delivery Controller in Satellite Zone 2 fails?
- A . Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) machines in Zone 2 will register within the Primary Zone
- B . Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) machines in Zone 2 will register within Satellite Zone 1
- C . Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) machines in Satellite Zone 2 will NOT register
- D . Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) machines will register using the Local Host Cache (LHC)
Scenario: A Citrix Architect is designing a new Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environment. Two Control Layer security requirements have been identified:
For security reasons, it is unacceptable to use default ports for FlexCast Management Architecture (FMA) services.
Management access to PowerShell and Citrix Studio should be restricted to management workstations by granular firewall rules.
Which combination of ports can the architect assign to the listed Citrix services to meet the Control Layer security requirements?
- A . VDA Registration Port: 80 XML SSL Port: 80
SDK Port: 8083 - B . VDA Registration Port: 8081 XML SSL Port: 443
SDK Port: 80 - C . VDA Registration Port: 8081 XML SSL Port: 8082
SDK Port: 8083 - D . VDA Registration Port: 8081 XML SSL Port: 8083
SDK Port: 8083
Scenario: A Citrix Architect is designing a new Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environment. The architect’s objective is to create a configuration to automatically reroute network traffic to the second NIC within the bond. The goal is to avoid a loss of productivity should the primary Citrix Hypervisor host NIC fail. Each hypervisor currently consists of a single, active 10 GB NIC and a second, dormant 1 GB NIC.
Which two network interface configurations should the architect implement? (Choose two.)
- A . Active-passive (LACP)
- B . Active-active (SLB)
- C . NIC teaming-bonding
- D . Active-active (LACP)
A,C
Explanation:
https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-hypervisor/networking.html.
Scenario: A Citrix Architect is designing a new Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environment. Currently, the environment is configured with 2 locations with identical Citrix Virtual Desktops Sites. Each Site has 2 Delivery Controllers, 2 StoreFront servers, and 1 Citrix ADC high-availability pair. The same applications have been published from both Sites for all users. Two zones (Zone A and Zone B) are configured in each Site with 1
Delivery Controller in each zone. The Microsoft Exchange server is only accessible from Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) machines in Zone A in each Site.
Six access requirements have been identified:
✑ Users should have a single URL when accessing resources from different Sites.
✑ Users should always connect to the data center closest to their location.
✑ Applications added to Favorites within the Citrix Workspace app should be retained when accessed from different Sites.
✑ Launched applications and desktops should always connect through a local Citrix ADC.
✑ No duplication of applications published from different Sites.
✑ Microsoft Outlook should always launch in Zone A.
What should the architect recommend to ensure that Microsoft Outlook always launches from Zone A for every user?
- A . Configure zone preference based on user location.
- B . Configure Zone A as the application Home Zone for Microsoft Outlook.
- C . Move a Delivery Controller from Zone B to Zone A.
- D . Designate Zone A as the Home Zone for all users.
B
Explanation:
"If that application has a configured zone association (an application home), then the preferred zone is the home zone for that application." https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-virtual-apps-desktops/1912-ltsr/manage-deployment/zones.html#tailoring-zone-preference
Scenario: A Citrix Architect is designing a new Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environment. While performing the capabilities assessment for the existing infrastructure, the architect discovered substantial issues with packet loss and latency, and no current Quality-of-Service (QoS) technology is in place to manage these issues.
Which capability risk will the architect need to investigate to address these issues?
- A . Access infrastructure
- B . Disaster recovery (DR) plan and implementation
- C . Network architecture
- D . Windows Server and Active Directory (AD) environments
Scenario: A Citrix Architect is designing a Citrix Virtual Desktops environment. The Engineer Group requires NVIDIA hardware with shared virtualized GPUs due to its use of graphical applications.
Management wants to use 4 components within the Citrix Virtual Desktops environment to meet these requirements:
✑ NVIDIA GRID Tesla P40 GPUs
✑ Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2
✑ Windows 10 virtual machines (VMs)
✑ Citrix Virtual Desktops 7
Which component must the architect change to implement this use case?
- A . Windows 10 virtual machines
- B . Citrix Virtual Desktops 7
- C . NVIDIA GRID Tesla P40 GPUs
- D . Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2012 R2
D
Explanation:
https://docs.nvidia.com/grid/5.0/grid-vgpu-release-notes-microsoft-windows-server/index.html
Scenario: A Citrix Architect is implementing a new Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environment. The IT team has purchased 1,000 Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Advanced licenses.
The company requires the IT team to produce a report of successful and failed connections of Citrix Virtual Apps sessions during the last 30 days.
Which two actions does the architect need to take to produce the report? (Choose two.)
- A . Implement Citrix Application Delivery Management
- B . Configure ‘GroomFailuresRetentionDays’
- C . Configure ‘GroomSessionsRetentionDays’
- D . Purchase Citrix Gateway Universal licenses
- E . Purchase Citrix Virtual Desktops Premium licenses
Scenario: A Citrix Architect is designing a new Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environment. While performing a capabilities assessment of the existing infrastructure, it was discovered that there are issues with load balancing users, and that the existing load-balancing hardware is outdated.
Which capability risk will the architect need to investigate to address these issues?
- A . Windows Server and Active Directory (AD) environments.
- B . Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environments
- C . Network architecture
- D . Access infrastructure
D
Explanation:
https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/xenapp-and-xendesktop/7-15-ltsr/citrix-vdi-best-practices/design/design-userlayer2.html