Free Citrix 1Y0-204 Practice Exam with Questions & Answers | Set: 2

 According to the Citrix documentation1, HA monitoring should be enabled only on interfaces that are UP on both nodes. If HA monitoring is enabled on a disabled interface of the primary node, the secondary node will not be able to receive heartbeats from the primary node and will not initiate a failover.

 A resource location is a collection of resources that you use to deliver applications and desktops to users. It can include Citrix ADC, VDA, Active Directory Domain, and Hypervisor. These resources are required for hosting and managing the machines that deliver apps and desktops to users1. StoreFront, Citrix Director, Citrix Provisioning, and Database are not part of a resource location, but are components of the Citrix Cloud service2.

In the scenario described, when network connectivity to Citrix Cloud is lost, the Local Host Cache (LHC) feature allows one of the Citrix Cloud Connectors at the resource location to become the primary broker. This enables it to broker new sessions and manage existing HDX connections using the LHC, ensuring continuity of service during outages

 When creating a custom scope, the Full Administrator role is not available because custom scopes are designed to limit administrators’ permissions to specific objects or tasks within the Citrix environment.

The Logon Performance report in Citrix Director provides insights into the various stages of the logon process and can help identify which stage is causing the delay. It includes details such as Brokering, VM Start, HDX Connection, Authentication, and Interactive Session times, allowing administrators to pinpoint the bottleneck in the logon process.

According to the Create machine catalogs document from Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 2308, MCS adds the machines to Active Directory, which creates unique identities. MCS creates the number of VMs specified in the wizard, with two disks defined for each VM. In addition to the two disks per VM, a master is also stored in the same storage location. The identity disk is one of the two disks per VM, and it is used to store the Active Directory identity and other unique information for each VM. The identity disk is 16 MB in size and is created for each VM regardless of the disk type selected for the catalog.

The Group Policy Object administrative template, which includes the ADMX and ADML files, is recommended for configuring Citrix Workspace app settings at the domain level. This allows the settings to be applied across various user devices within the enterprise

According to the Citrix documentation1, when user subscriptions are disabled for a store (Mandatory Store), the following behaviors occur:

Users cannot subscribe to applications from the store. All the applications in the store are automatically subscribed to each user and appear in Citrix Workspace app.

Users cannot remove applications from Citrix Workspace app on the Favorites screen.

Users can organize their applications into folders using the Citrix Workspace app desktop.

Applications are placed in the Start menu or the Applications folder on the user’s device, depending on the Citrix Workspace app version and operating system.

Therefore, the correct answer is B and D.

1: Configure user access

 According to the Reference Architecture: Image Management, Machine Creation Services (MCS) is a disk-based provisioning approach that works with major hypervisors and leading cloud platforms. The clones include a differencing disk and an identity disk linked from a base disk. MCS configures, starts, stops, and deletes virtual machines using the hypervisor APIs. When a Random/Non-Persistent desktop machine is restarted, the differencing disk will be updated from the base image, discarding any changes made by the user. This ensures that the desktop machine is always in a clean state and consistent with the master image.

In Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, administrators can use tag restrictions to specify which machines within a Delivery Group are affected by certain power management actions. By applying tags to a subset of machines, the administrator can ensure that only those tagged machines are restarted daily during non-peak hours, while the rest follow the weekly restart schedule.