Free Citrix 1Y0-205 Practice Exam with Questions & Answers | Set: 2

To monitor running published applications, Citrix administrators use Broker PowerShell cmdlets. Citrix documentation defines the role of the following:

✔ Get-BrokerApplicationInstance

This cmdlet returns active instances of published applications, including:

Which application is running

Which user is running it

Which session it belongs to

Launch time and instance metadata

This is the only cmdlet dedicated to reporting per-application instance activity.

Why the others are incorrect:

Get-BrokerApplication:Returns application configuration, not active app sessions.

Get-BrokerSession:Returns session details (user, endpoint, VDA, etc.) but does not list individual running application instances.

Get-BrokerSessionPreLaunch:Only shows information about pre-launch sessions, not active applications.

Documentation References

Citrix Virtual Apps & Desktops PowerShell SDK → Broker Application Instance Cmdlets

Citrix PowerShell Admin Guide → Monitoring Active Application Instances

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

The Citrix Universal Generic Printer is a special type of auto-created printer that uses the Citrix Universal Print Driver and does not require any printer drivers to be installed on the server. It can reduce the number of native drivers being used within the Site infrastructure. To use this feature, the administrator must enable the Auto-create generic universal printer policy setting

Citrix Virtual Delivery Agents offer optional install components. For help desk personnel to shadow or view user sessions, Citrix relies on Microsoft Windows Remote Assistance, which integrates with Citrix Director’s " Shadow " feature.

During VDA installation, administrators must select Windows Remote Assistance to allow help desk technicians to:

Observe the user’s session

Interactively assist them

Troubleshoot live issues

The other options do not provide session viewing capabilities:

VDA Upgrade Agent handles upgrade automation

MCS I/O Driver is related to Machine Creation Services storage handling

Real-Time Audio Transport handles audio protocol optimization

Documentation References:

Citrix VDA Installation Guide → Additional Components (Remote Assistance)

Citrix Director Features → Session Shadowing Requirements

According to the Create store page from the Citrix Product Documentation, the administrator can create a store for unauthenticated users by ticking the option “Allow only unauthenticated users to access this store” when creating the store. This option is suitable for contractors who will not be Active Directory users and need access to specific resources. The other options (HTTP Basic, Smart card, and Pass-through) are authentication methods that require user credentials.

Citrix Studio provides a feature called Limit Visibility, which allows administrators to hide specific published resources (apps or desktops) from chosen users or groups. This is the correct method to selectively exclude users from seeing or launching certain apps without removing them from the Delivery Group.

Correct Approach:

To prevent HR10 from seeing or accessing APP_A, the administrator should configure Limit Visibility so that only HR1–HR9 are allowed visibility for APP_A.

This ensures:

The entire HR group still receives all published apps

Only HR10 is restricted from APP_A

The Delivery Group configuration remains intact

Why the other options are incorrect:

A. Remove HR10 from the Delivery Group:This would remove HR10’s access to all Delivery Group applications, not just APP_A.

C. Remove APP_A from the Delivery Group:This removes the app for everyone, not just HR10.

D. Limit visibility on APP_A to HR10:This would assign visibility only to HR10, the opposite of what is needed.

Documentation References

Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops → Application Publishing and Visibility

Citrix Studio → App Properties → “Limit Visibility” Feature

Citrix App Assignment Best Practices

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 Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 Deployment and Administration guide1, to connect to an SSL offload virtual server without any SSL errors, the client must trust the certificate that is bound to the virtual server. This means that the root certificate of the certificate authority (CA) that issued the server certificate must be installed on the client’s device. Additionally, the server certificate must be bound to the load-balancing virtual server that is configured for SSL offload, not to the back-end servers. This way, the Citrix ADC can terminate the SSL connection and communicate with the back-end servers using HTTP or TCP.

The ns_allow expression always evaluates to true, which means it allows all users access through the vServer. The ns_disallow and ns_false expressions always evaluate to false, which means they deny all users access. The ns_true expression is not a valid policy expression1

1: Citrix ADC 13.0 - Policy Expressions

Application Lingering allows applications to stay open for a configurable amount of time after a user closes them, which can reduce application launch times in subsequent sessions.