1Y0-312 Practice Test 13 — 15 Questions

Question 1

A Citrix architect is designing a multi-zone Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 Site with a Primary Zone in New York and a Satellite Zone in London. The architect wants to ensure that if the London Zone Data Collector fails, the London zone continues to broker sessions without requiring manual intervention, and that the New York Zone Data Collector does not become the Zone Data Collector for London. What should the architect do?

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Accepted Answer

Deploy at least two Delivery Controllers in the London Satellite Zone and set their Zone Data Collector election preferences appropriately. To ensure the London zone remains available if its Zone Data Collector fails, at least two Delivery Controllers must be present in that zone. The election process will select one of them as the new Zone Data Collector. Because the election is confined to the zone, the New York Controller cannot become the Zone Data Collector for London. Proper election preferences ensure deterministic behavior.

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Enable the Zone Data Collector proxy feature on the New York Delivery Controllers

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Configure a StoreFront server in London to act as the Zone Data Collector if the London Delivery Controller fails

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Configure the New York Delivery Controllers to have a lower Zone Data Collector election preference than the London Controllers

Question 2

An administrator is migrating an on-premises Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 site to Citrix DaaS. The on-premises site uses Citrix Gateway for remote access. After migration, the administrator wants to use Citrix Workspace to provide remote access to both on-premises and cloud-hosted resources. Which Citrix Cloud service should the administrator configure to replace the on-premises Citrix Gateway?

Accepted Answer

Citrix Gateway service. The correct answer is Citrix Gateway service. It is a cloud-based service that provides secure remote access to Citrix DaaS resources, replacing the need for on-premises Citrix Gateway appliances. It integrates with Citrix Workspace and supports ICA proxy, allowing users to access both on-premises and cloud-hosted resources securely. The other options are either for web/SaaS access, WAN optimization, or file sharing, and do not fulfill the remote access requirement.

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Citrix Secure Workspace Access

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Citrix Content Collaboration

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Citrix SD-WAN

Question 3

A Citrix architect is designing a new Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 Site. The company requires that the Site database be highly available and that the loss of a single database server not cause a Site-wide outage. The architect plans to use SQL Server Always On availability groups. Which statement accurately describes a requirement for this configuration?

Accepted Answer

The Delivery Controllers must be configured to connect to the availability group listener, not to an individual SQL Server instance.. To use SQL Server Always On availability groups with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, the Delivery Controllers must be pointed to the availability group listener. The listener abstracts the underlying replicas and ensures that if a failover occurs, the Controllers automatically connect to the new primary replica without manual reconfiguration. This provides the required high availability for the Site database.

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The Delivery Controllers must be configured to connect to each SQL Server replica individually and use a round-robin connection string.

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The Site database must be configured with database mirroring instead of Always On availability groups because Citrix only supports mirroring.

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The Site database must be hosted on a SQL Server Express instance because Always On is only supported with Express edition.

Question 4

An administrator is investigating why a published application fails to launch for a subset of users in a Delivery Group, while other users in the same group can launch it successfully. The application is published from a machine catalog containing both server OS and desktop OS machines. The administrator has confirmed the Delivery Controllers are healthy and StoreFront enumerates the application for all affected users. Which TWO actions should the administrator take to isolate the cause? (Choose two.)

Accepted Answer

Check whether the affected users are being brokered to a machine where the application is not installed or is not in the allowed list. When only a subset of users fails to launch an application that enumerates correctly, the fault is usually tied to which machine the user is brokered to. Checking whether affected users land on machines lacking the application or excluded by the allowed list, and reviewing VDA event logs on those machines, isolates the machine-specific cause without disrupting healthy users.

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Restart the Citrix Broker Service on all Delivery Controllers to clear any stale brokering state

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Verify that the affected users are members of a group that is included in the application's 'Limit visibility' or tag restrictions

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Recreate the machine catalog to force a clean re-registration of all VDAs in the Delivery Group

Question 5

A Citrix Administrator is configuring a Citrix Gateway to provide access to published applications. The security team requires that all user connections use smart card authentication with certificate validation. The administrator has configured the gateway with a server certificate and enabled smart card authentication. Users report that they are prompted for a PIN but then receive an error stating 'Cannot complete your request.' Which Citrix ADC setting should the administrator verify to ensure that the client certificate is being validated correctly?

Accepted Answer

The client certificate is being validated against the correct root CA.. Smart card authentication requires the Citrix ADC to validate the client certificate against a trusted root CA. If the root CA is not imported and linked, the ADC cannot verify the certificate chain, resulting in authentication failure. The error 'Cannot complete your request' is a common symptom of certificate trust issues. Verifying the root CA configuration ensures the ADC trusts the smart card certificates, allowing successful authentication.

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The SSL bridge is enabled on the gateway virtual server.

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The authentication policy is bound to the gateway virtual server with priority 100.

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OCSP checking is enabled on the Citrix ADC.

Question 6

A financial services company is implementing Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 with a multi-zone site. The primary data center is in New York, and a satellite data center is in London. The architect needs to ensure that user sessions in London are launched from the London data center to minimize latency. However, some users travel between the two locations and require access to their applications from either site. Which feature should the architect configure to meet these requirements?

Accepted Answer

Zone Preference. Zone Preference is the feature that allows an administrator to define which zone a user's session should launch in, based on factors such as the user's location or the location of the VDA. By configuring zone preference, the architect can ensure that users in London launch sessions from the London zone, reducing latency. For traveling users, zone preference can be set to allow fallback to other zones if the preferred zone is unavailable. This directly meets the stated requirements.

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Delivery Controller groups

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StoreFront server groups

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Application Groups

Question 7

A Citrix architect is designing a multi-zone Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 Site with a Primary Zone in New York and a Satellite Zone in London. The architect wants to ensure that if the London Zone Data Collector fails, the London zone continues to broker sessions without requiring manual intervention, and that the New York Zone Data Collector does not become the Zone Data Collector for London. What should the architect do?

Choose an answer to begin — your selection is scored in the full session.

Accepted Answer

Zone preference. Zone preference is the feature that controls which zone is used for session brokering when a user has access to multiple zones. By configuring zone preference for the satellite zone, the architect ensures that users in that location are brokered by the local Delivery Controllers. This optimizes performance and reduces dependency on the primary zone.

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StoreFront load balancing

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Database high availability

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Local Host Cache

Question 8

An administrator is troubleshooting a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 environment where users report that their sessions are randomly disconnecting. The administrator suspects that the issue is related to the HDX Adaptive Transport settings. Which policy setting should the administrator verify to ensure that HDX Adaptive Transport is enabled and functioning correctly?

Accepted Answer

HDX Adaptive Transport. To troubleshoot random disconnections potentially linked to HDX Adaptive Transport, the administrator must verify the HDX Adaptive Transport policy setting. This policy determines whether adaptive transport is off, preferred, or diagnostic. Ensuring it is correctly configured helps maintain stable sessions, as incorrect settings can lead to transport-related disconnects.

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Citrix Gateway protocol

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HDX Adaptive Transport (legacy)

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Session reliability

Question 9

A Citrix Administrator is troubleshooting performance issues in a Virtual Apps and Desktops environment. Users report that published applications are slow to launch, and the administrator suspects that the issue is related to profile loading. The environment uses Citrix Profile Management. Which action should the administrator take to reduce profile load times and improve application launch performance?

Accepted Answer

Enable 'Profile streaming' in Citrix Profile Management.. Enabling profile streaming in Citrix Profile Management reduces profile load times by fetching files on demand, which directly improves application launch performance. Other options either do not affect load times or could worsen the user experience.

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Disable 'Active write back' in Citrix Profile Management.

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Increase the size of the user profile store.

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Configure 'Delete cached copies of roaming profiles' policy.

Question 10

An administrator has configured a Citrix Policy in Studio to disable client drive redirection for a specific Delivery Group. Users in that group report that they can still see and access their local C: drive inside their published sessions. The administrator confirms the policy is enabled and assigned to the correct Delivery Group. Which action should the administrator take to determine why the policy is not taking effect?

Accepted Answer

Use Citrix Studio's 'Effective Policy' report for a user in the Delivery Group to compare the resulting policy settings and their precedence. Citrix policies are evaluated by the broker and merged according to precedence rules, so a setting that appears enabled in one policy can be overridden by a higher-precedence policy or a conflicting setting. The Effective Policy report in Studio shows the merged result for a specific user, making it the correct tool to diagnose why client drive redirection remains active despite the intended policy.

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Run gpresult /h on the VDA to verify that the Citrix policy is being applied through Active Directory Group Policy

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Check the Windows Registry under HKLM\Software\Citrix\Policies on the VDA for a stale client drive redirection value

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Restart the Citrix Desktop Service on the VDA to force a re-read of the Citrix policy from the site database

Question 11

An administrator configures a Machine Creation Services catalog of 200 non-persistent machines and enables write-back cache to improve performance on the shared storage. Users report that after several hours of heavy use, machines become slow and some eventually fail to save changes. Which factor is most likely causing the degradation?

Accepted Answer

The write-back cache is stored on the same shared storage as the differencing disks and has filled up, causing writes to stall.. Write-back cache improves performance by absorbing writes, but it requires adequate capacity and IOPS on the cache volume. When the cache is placed on the same shared storage as the differencing disks, heavy sustained use fills the cache and saturates the underlying storage, so machines slow down and eventually cannot commit writes. Separating the cache onto dedicated fast storage avoids this contention.

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The catalog was configured with too many machines per host, so the hypervisor is throttling CPU for all clones.

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The identity disks are too small to hold the machine SIDs, so the machines cannot authenticate to Active Directory.

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The master image was captured with the page file enabled, so the clones are swapping to the shared storage excessively.

Question 12

A Citrix architect is designing a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 site that uses a multi-zone layout with a Primary Zone and two Satellite Zones. The architect must ensure that the site remains manageable if the Primary Zone becomes completely unavailable, including the Delivery Controllers and the Site database. Which statement describes the correct behavior of the site in this scenario?

Accepted Answer

Satellite Zone Delivery Controllers can continue to broker sessions using their Local Host Cache, but configuration changes are not possible until the Primary Zone or database is restored. Delivery Controllers use Local Host Cache to keep brokering sessions when the Site database cannot be reached. In a multi-zone site, Satellite Zone Controllers can continue to authenticate and launch sessions from their cached data. Administrative tasks that write to the database, such as configuration changes, are unavailable until the database is restored, so management capability is reduced but session delivery continues.

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All session brokering stops immediately because the Site database is the single point of failure for the entire site

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Satellite Zone Delivery Controllers automatically promote themselves to Primary Zone Controllers and take over database writes

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StoreFront automatically redirects users to a different site that shares the same database

Question 13

An administrator is migrating an on-premises Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops site to Citrix DaaS. The on-premises site uses Provisioning Services (PVS) to stream images to VDAs. The administrator wants to continue using PVS after the migration. Which statement is true regarding PVS support in Citrix DaaS?

Accepted Answer

PVS can be used in Citrix DaaS with Cloud Connectors, but the PVS servers must remain on-premises.. PVS remains supported in Citrix DaaS when the PVS servers are kept on-premises and connected via Cloud Connectors. This allows administrators to leverage existing PVS infrastructure and streaming images while benefiting from cloud-based management. The Cloud Connectors enable the necessary communication between the cloud control plane and the on-premises PVS environment.

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PVS is not supported in Citrix DaaS; the administrator must migrate to MCS.

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PVS can be used in Citrix DaaS only for non-persistent desktops, not for published applications.

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PVS can be used in Citrix DaaS only if the PVS servers are hosted in Citrix Cloud.

Question 14

An administrator is configuring a Citrix Provisioning (PVS) environment. The administrator needs to ensure that when a target device boots, it uses the most recent version of the vDisk automatically, without manual intervention. Which vDisk access mode should the administrator configure?

Accepted Answer

Standard Image mode with versioning. Standard Image mode with versioning allows the administrator to create multiple versions of a vDisk and promote the latest version. Target devices configured to boot from the latest version will automatically use the most recent version upon reboot. This provides a centralized way to manage updates without manual intervention on each device.

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Differencing Disk mode

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Standard Image mode without versioning

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Private Image mode

Question 15

An administrator is migrating an on-premises Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 site to Citrix DaaS. The on-premises site uses a Microsoft SQL Server database for the Citrix site database. The administrator plans to use Citrix Cloud Migration Service to migrate the site configuration. Which statement about the migration of the site database is true?

Accepted Answer

The site database is not migrated; instead, the configuration data is extracted and imported into Citrix DaaS.. The correct answer is that the site database is not migrated; instead, the configuration data is extracted and imported into Citrix DaaS. Citrix Cloud Migration Service reads the on-premises site database and transfers the configuration to Citrix Cloud. The SQL database itself remains on-premises or can be retired if the site is fully migrated. This approach avoids the complexity of migrating the database and ensures a clean transition to Citrix DaaS's internal database.

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The site database is automatically migrated to a Citrix-managed SQL database in Citrix Cloud.

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The site database is replicated to Citrix Cloud using SQL Server transactional replication.

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The site database must be manually backed up and restored to a Citrix Cloud-managed SQL instance.