Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 Administration (1Y0-204) Practice Exam

The Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 Administration (1Y0-204) certification validates your ability to install, configure, and managing Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 (or its equivalent, Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.15). Earning this credential demonstrates your knowledge and skills in delivering virtual desktops and applications to end-users in an enterprise environment.

Who Should Take This Exam?

This certification is ideal for:

• IT Professionals: System administrators, desktop support specialists, and virtualization professionals seeking to managing Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environments.
• Cloud Administrators: Individuals working in cloud or hybrid IT environments who want to specialize in managing Citrix solutions.
• Citrix Enthusiasts: Those with a basic understanding of virtualization technologies aiming to gain expertise in administering Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops.

Prerequisites

While there are no formal prerequisites, Citrix recommends that candidates have hands-on experience with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 before taking the exam. This experience can be gained through:

• Formal Citrix Training Courses: Enrolling in Citrix-authorized training programs like "Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 Administration."
• Self-Study with Resources: Utilizing Citrix documentation, online tutorials, and practice exams to prepare for the exam.
• Working with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7: If you have access to a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 environment in your workplace or personal lab, you can gain practical experience through configuration and managingment tasks.

Roles and Responsibilities 

• Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Administrator: Installing, configuring, managing, and maintaining Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environments to deliver desktops and applications to end-users.
• VDI Administrator (Citrix Focus): Managing virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments using Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops technologies.
• Cloud Desktop Specialist: Supporting and managing Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops in cloud or hybrid cloud environments.

Exam Details 

• Exam Duration 90 mins
• Exam Format Multiple Choice
• Exam Type Desktop Administration
• Number of Questions 65 Questions

Course Outline

1. Section 1: Architecture Overview

• identifying the layers in the layered architecture approach to Virtual Apps and Desktops
• Determining the appropriate hosting platform based on requirements

2. Section 2: Deploying the Site 

• identifying what is required for a given environment prior to deployment
• Determining how to configure Citrix Licensing for a given environment
• Determining how to install and configure the Delivery Controller
• Determining how to configure a Site based on a list of requirements

3. Section 3: The Apps and Desktops Images

• Determining what is required in an environment for a specified master image

4. Section 4: Provisioning and Delivering App and Desktop Resources

• Determining how to managing Machine Catalogs and Delivery Groups
• Determining how to deploy machines using Machine Creation Services
• Determining the behavior of different types of machines provisioned using Machine Creation Services
• Determining where to configure the resource location for a given environment

5. Section 5: Providing Access to App and Desktop Resources

• Determining how to implement a specified authentication method based on given requirements
• Determining how to implement Workspace Experience User Authentication based on a scenario
• Determining how to deploy Workspace Apps in a given environment
• Determining the communication flow when delivering an app or desktop to a user in a given environment

6. Section 6: Managing the User Experience

• Determining how to configure Citrix policies based on a scenario
• Determining the appropriate policy priority based on a scenario
• Determining the appropriate user experience settings to configure to achieve a specific outcome

7. Section 7: Published App and Desktop Presentation and managingment

• Determining which application specific properties to use in Delivery Groups based on a scenario
• Determining how to optimize Server OS published applications for a given environment
• Determining how to present applications to users based on a scenario
• Determining how to configure application groups

8. Section 8: Managing Printing for User Sessions

• Determining the appropriate printer mapping for a given environment
• identifying appropriate printer drivers based on a scenario
• identifying the printing requirements for a given environment

9. Section 9: Citrix Profile managingment

• Determining how to configure Citrix Profile managingment

10. Section 10: Managing the Site

• Determining how to delegate permissions to other administrators
• Determining how to use PowerShell to query information in the Site
• Determining the appropriate power managingment decisions for a given environment

11. Section 11: Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Basic Security Considerations

• Determining how to configure basic network security for Virtual Apps and Desktops components
• Determining how to enable XML Service Trust for certain authentication types
• Determining how to secure remote access using Citrix Gateway and the Secure Ticket Authority

12. Section 12: Monitoring the Site

• Determining how to monitor user sessions based on given requirements
• Determining how to analyze published apps in a given environment
• Determining how to monitor machines that are running the Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) based on a scenario
• Determining what to monitor within a Site to find the root cause of a common issue
• Determining how to configure alerts and notifications based on a scenario
• Determining how to use Citrix ADM to optimize monitoring through Citrix Director

13. Section 13: Supporting and Troubleshooting Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops

• Determining the proper tool to use to troubleshoot a given issue.
• identifying ways to proactively support common tasks in an environment

14. Section 14: Migrating to Citrix Cloud 

• Determining how to migrate policies and catalogs in a given environment
• Determining how to deploy or maintain Citrix Cloud Connector
• Determining how to configure Virtual Apps and Desktops with an on-premises resource location
• Determining the migration process to use for a given scenario