1Y0-312 Advanced Site Architecture — All Questions With Answers

Question 1hardmulti select

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A Citrix architect is planning a global Site deployment across three geographic regions. Which TWO considerations are mandatory for maintaining optimal Site performance and database connectivity?

Question 2mediummultiple choice

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Refer to the exhibit. An administrator is troubleshooting an issue where users in the 'London' zone are experiencing intermittent connection failures. The administrator runs the command shown. Why is this command useful for diagnosing the environment?

Exhibit

Get-BrokerSite -AdminAddress controller1.domain.com | Select-Object -Property ZoneMapping

Question 3hardmultiple choice

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A company is merging with another firm and needs to combine two independent Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops sites. The architect must ensure that the transition causes minimal disruption to the users. Which method allows for the most seamless migration of resources between two distinct sites?

Question 4mediummultiple choice

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In a XenApp and XenDesktop 7.15+ environment, an administrator wants to increase the availability of the Site database. The administrator decides to use SQL Server AlwaysOn Availability Groups. Which configuration is required on the Delivery Controllers?

Question 5mediummultiple choice

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A Citrix architect is designing a site and needs to ensure that the VDA registration traffic is balanced across available Delivery Controllers. Which mechanism is used by VDAs to discover and register with the appropriate Delivery Controller?

Question 6hardmulti select

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Which THREE actions should a Citrix architect perform to optimize performance in a multi-zone environment?

Question 7hardmultiple choice

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A company is implementing a large-scale Citrix environment with over 10,000 VDAs. The architect is concerned about the load on the SQL site database during boot storms. Which feature, when properly configured, can significantly reduce this load?

Question 8hardmultiple choice

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An administrator is configuring a new Delivery Controller and needs to join it to an existing Site. What is the prerequisite for the controller server before running the Citrix installer?

Question 9mediummultiple choice

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An architect is designing a high-availability solution for StoreFront. Which load balancing method is recommended for the StoreFront server group to ensure consistent session persistence?

Question 10hardmulti select

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An administrator is planning the migration of an existing Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 site to a new multi-zone architecture to improve user latency. Which TWO administrative actions must be performed to correctly associate existing VDIs with the newly created Satellite Zones? (Choose two.)

Question 11hardmultiple choice

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Refer to the exhibit. A Primary Zone Delivery Controller has logged the displayed events during a core network instability incident. How does the Local Host Cache architecture handle incoming client connection requests while operating in this state?

Exhibit

[Critical] Controller: CTX-DEL-01 -- Database connection failure detected. Attempting failover to Local Host Cache secondary mode.
[Information] Controller: CTX-DEL-01 -- Local Host Cache successfully activated. Processing incoming user connection requests using local SQL Express cache.

Question 12mediummultiple choice

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Refer to the exhibit. An administrator has configured a Preferred Zone for a group of users in the London office. However, users are reporting that their applications are launching on servers in the Primary Zone instead of the London Satellite Zone. What is the most likely reason for this behavior?

Exhibit

Get-ConfigZone | Select-Object Name, Metadata

Name : London
Metadata : { "PreferredZone" : "True" }

Question 13hardmulti select

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An architect is planning a large-scale Citrix deployment. Which THREE factors should be considered when determining the number of zones required for the Site architecture?

Question 14mediummultiple choice

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A company has a primary data center and a disaster recovery (DR) data center. The architect needs to ensure that if the primary data center fails, the VDAs in the DR site can automatically register with the controllers in that site. What is the most effective way to configure the VDA list for high availability?

Question 15mediummultiple choice

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A Citrix architect is designing a site and needs to ensure that the management database does not become a bottleneck for session launches. Which strategy should the architect employ to optimize database performance?

Question 16mediummulti select

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Which TWO of the following are valid requirements for configuring Zones in a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Site?

Question 17hardmultiple choice

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Refer to the exhibit. A Site is experiencing intermittent database connectivity issues. The Delivery Controllers have entered Local Host Cache mode. What is the impact on administrative tasks in Citrix Studio during this time?

Exhibit

Error Log: 
[2023-10-27 10:05:12] Broker.Database.ConnectionException: Unable to connect to SQL Server at 'sql.corp.local'. 
[2023-10-27 10:05:15] Broker.Service.LocalHostCache: Switching to Local Host Cache mode.

Question 18mediummultiple choice

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An architect is designing a multi-zone Site. The architect wants to ensure that internal users in London connect to the London data center, while external users connect to the Primary data center. How should the architect configure the StoreFront resource aggregation?

Question 19mediummultiple choice

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An architect is designing a site with a high number of concurrent session launches during morning login hours. Which architectural change would best alleviate the load on the Site database during these peak periods?

Question 20hardmultiple choice

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A Citrix architect is implementing a multi-zone Site with high WAN latency between zones. Which setting should be adjusted to optimize VDA registration and heartbeat stability over the WAN?

Question 21hardmulti select

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Which THREE actions are part of the process when a Delivery Controller transitions to Local Host Cache (LHC) mode?

Question 22mediummultiple choice

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An enterprise customer is designing a multi-zone Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops site across two geographically separated datacenters connected via a high-latency WAN link. The primary datacenter houses the SQL database cluster, and the disaster recovery datacenter contains a secondary zone with Virtual Delivery Agents (VDAs). To ensure high availability and prevent site failure during WAN outages, which architecture should the architect implement?

Question 23hardmultiple choice

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A Citrix architect is designing a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 Site that will span three zones: a Primary Zone in Chicago, a Satellite Zone in Denver, and a Satellite Zone in Seattle. The Site database is hosted in Chicago. The architect must ensure that if the Chicago zone becomes completely unavailable, administrators can still manage the Site and users in Denver and Seattle can continue to launch new sessions. Which configuration should the architect implement?

Question 24mediummultiple choice

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A Citrix architect is designing a new Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 site for a company that has strict data sovereignty requirements. All user data and session workloads must remain within the European Union. The company has data centers in Frankfurt and Dublin. The architect proposes a multi-zone site with a Primary Zone in Frankfurt and a Satellite Zone in Dublin. During testing, the architect notices that when the Frankfurt zone experiences a power outage, new session launches fail even though the Dublin zone is healthy. What is the most likely cause?

Question 25mediummultiple choice

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A Citrix architect is designing a new Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 site with a single zone. The company has a strict requirement that the site must remain manageable even if the SQL Server hosting the site database becomes temporarily unavailable for up to 30 minutes. The architect must ensure that administrators can still view and change configuration during this outage. What should the architect implement?

Question 26mediummultiple choice

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A Citrix architect is designing a multi-zone Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 site for a university with campuses in three cities. Each campus will have a Satellite Zone with local VDAs. The Primary Zone will be in the main campus data center. The architect must ensure that user sessions are launched from the VDA closest to the user to minimize latency, but also that if the local zone is unavailable, users can still launch sessions from another zone. Which configuration should the architect implement?

Question 27mediummultiple choice

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A Citrix architect is designing a multi-zone Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 Site. Users in the Tokyo branch office must be able to launch their published applications and desktops even if the WAN link to the Primary Zone datacenter in New York fails. The architect needs to ensure that local users can still authenticate and receive resource enumeration during a WAN outage. What should the architect implement?

Question 28hardmulti select

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A Citrix architect is designing a multi-zone Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 site with a Primary Zone in Data Center A and a Satellite Zone in Data Center B. The zones are connected by a high-latency WAN link. The architect must ensure that users connecting to the Satellite Zone can still launch sessions if the WAN link to the Primary Zone fails. Which two components should the architect deploy in the Satellite Zone? (Choose two.)

Question 29mediummultiple choice

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A Citrix architect is designing a multi-zone Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 site. The primary zone is in the corporate headquarters, and a satellite zone is in a branch office. The branch office has limited bandwidth and experiences occasional WAN outages. The architect needs to ensure that users in the branch office can still launch published applications when the WAN link to the primary zone is down. What should the architect implement?

Question 30hardmultiple choice

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A Citrix architect is designing a multi-zone Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 Site with a Primary Zone in Datacenter A and a Satellite Zone in Datacenter B. The architect needs to ensure that users connecting to the Satellite Zone are automatically directed to the Satellite Zone for session launch, but if the Satellite Zone is unavailable, they should fall back to the Primary Zone. Which configuration should the architect implement?

Question 31mediummultiple choice

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A healthcare company runs a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 Site with a Primary Zone in Chicago and a Satellite Zone in Denver. Clinicians in Denver report that published desktop launches take over 90 seconds, while the same apps launch in 15 seconds in Chicago. The Site database is in Chicago, and all Delivery Controllers reside in the Primary Zone. The Denver zone contains only VDAs and a local StoreFront server. Which action should the architect take first to reduce launch latency for the Denver clinicians?

Question 32mediummultiple choice

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A Citrix architect is designing a multi-zone Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 site. The company requires that users in a Satellite Zone be able to access their applications even if the Primary Zone becomes completely unavailable. The architect has deployed Delivery Controllers in the Satellite Zone and enabled Local Host Cache. However, users report that they cannot launch new sessions during a Primary Zone outage. What is the most likely cause?

Question 33mediummultiple choice

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A Citrix architect is designing a multi-zone Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 Site with a Primary Zone in Singapore and a Satellite Zone in Sydney. Users in Sydney must be able to launch sessions even if the WAN link to Singapore fails. The architect wants to ensure that a zone can operate independently during a datacenter outage. Which configuration should the architect implement?

Question 34hardmultiple choice

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A Citrix architect is designing a multi-zone Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 Site with a Primary Zone in Amsterdam and a Satellite Zone in Singapore. The administrator needs to ensure that the Zone Data Collector election in Singapore is deterministic and that the same dedicated server is always preferred, even after a reboot. Which configuration should the architect implement?

Question 35hardmultiple choice

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A Citrix architect is designing a multi-zone Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 site. The Primary Zone contains two Delivery Controllers and a Cloud Connector, and a Satellite Zone contains two Delivery Controllers and one StoreFront server. The architect must ensure that users can still enumerate and launch published applications if the Satellite Zone's Delivery Controllers become unavailable. What should the architect configure?

Question 36mediummultiple choice

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A Citrix architect is designing a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 site with a Primary Zone in one datacenter and a Satellite Zone in a second datacenter. The architect wants users who connect through the Satellite Zone to have their sessions launched on machines in that same zone whenever possible, to reduce latency. Which setting should the architect configure on the Delivery Group?

Question 37mediummultiple choice

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A Citrix architect is designing a multi-zone Site with a Primary Zone in New York and a Satellite Zone in London. To minimize latency for the Local Host Cache (LHC) and ensure high availability, which component must be deployed within the London Satellite Zone?

Question 38mediummultiple choice

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An administrator notices that the Local Host Cache is not working as expected after a database outage. What is the first thing they should check on the Delivery Controllers?

Question 39mediummultiple choice

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A Citrix architect is designing a DR strategy. They want to ensure that if the entire primary site fails, the secondary site can take over with minimal effort. What is the recommended strategy for database redundancy in this scenario?

Question 40mediummultiple choice

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Which component is responsible for authenticating the user and providing a list of resources to the user in a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops site?

Question 41mediummultiple choice

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An enterprise architect is designing a multi-zone Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops site with a Primary Zone and two Satellite Zones. Each Satellite Zone has local Delivery Controllers and SQL Express instances. A transient WAN outage isolates Satellite Zone A from the Primary Zone configuration database. What functionality remains operational in Satellite Zone A during this outage?

Question 42mediummultiple choice

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An architect is designing a multi-zone Citrix site where resources are distributed across three distinct geographic regions. To optimize user experience and minimize WAN traffic for session launching, which component placement strategy should the architect implement?

Question 43mediummultiple choice

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A Citrix architect is designing a multi-zone Site with a Primary Zone in New York and a Satellite Zone in London. The architect needs to ensure that session launch requests for London users are handled locally if the SQL database connection to the Primary Zone fails. Which configuration should the architect implement to meet this requirement?

Question 44hardmultiple choice

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An architect is reviewing the database configuration for a mission-critical Site. The architect wants to implement a high-availability solution for the SQL database that minimizes recovery time objective (RTO) and recovery point objective (RPO). Which solution is the industry standard for Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7?

Question 45easymultiple choice

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Which component is responsible for collecting and storing historical data in a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops site?

Question 46mediummultiple choice

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An architect is designing a site with a requirement for strict delegated administration. Which approach should be used to restrict an administrator to managing only the resources within a specific Satellite Zone?

Question 47mediummultiple choice

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A company requires that its Citrix environment be compliant with strict auditing regulations. Where should the architect verify the configuration of the 'Configuration Logging' feature to ensure all changes are captured?

Question 48mediummultiple choice

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An enterprise architect is designing a multi-zone Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 site spanning two geographic regions. The primary requirement is to ensure user sessions in the remote zone fail over gracefully to local disaster recovery resources if the WAN link fails, while minimizing administrative overhead. Which architectural component configuration should the architect implement?

Question 49mediummultiple choice

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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?

Question 50easymultiple choice

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A Citrix architect is designing a new Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 site. The company wants to minimize the number of machines required in the data center while ensuring that the site database is highly available. The architect decides to use SQL Server Always On availability groups. What is the minimum number of SQL Server instances required to support this configuration?

Question 51easymultiple choice

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A Citrix architect is designing a multi-zone Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 site. The architect needs to ensure that users in a satellite zone connect to their published applications through the satellite zone's Delivery Controllers and not the primary zone's Controllers. Which feature should the architect configure?

Question 52easymultiple choice

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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?

Question 53mediummultiple choice

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A Citrix architect is designing a multi-zone Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 site. The site database is hosted on a SQL Server in the primary zone. The architect needs to ensure that if the SQL Server becomes unavailable, users can still launch applications. The architect has already deployed Delivery Controllers in each zone. What should the architect do next?

Question 54easymultiple choice

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A retail company is deploying Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 with a single zone in a single datacenter. The IT director asks the architect to explain which component is responsible for tracking VDA registration and brokering user session launches. Which component should the architect identify?

Question 55hardmultiple choice

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A Citrix architect is designing a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 Site with multiple zones. The architect needs to ensure that the Site database remains available if the primary SQL Server fails. The company has a SQL Server Always On availability group configured with one primary and one secondary replica. Which additional configuration is required on the Delivery Controllers to support automatic database failover?

Question 56mediummultiple choice

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A manufacturing company has a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 Site with a Primary Zone in Dallas and a Satellite Zone in Toronto. The company wants to add a new Satellite Zone in Vancouver. The architect must ensure that Vancouver users are served by local infrastructure and that the Dallas zone can still broker sessions if Vancouver controllers are unavailable. Which design approach should the architect use?

Question 57hardmultiple choice

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An engineering firm has a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 Site with zones in New York, London, and Tokyo. The architect is reviewing the Site database placement and controller configuration. The Site database currently resides in New York, and all controllers in all zones connect to it. Users in Tokyo report intermittent delays during morning logon peaks, and the architect observes high database transaction latency from Tokyo controllers. Which action should the architect take to address the database latency without violating Citrix support requirements?

Question 58mediummultiple choice

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A Citrix architect is designing a new Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 environment for a company with two datacenters: one in Chicago and one in Dallas. The company wants users in each location to connect to resources hosted in their local datacenter whenever possible, but also wants to ensure that if the local datacenter becomes unavailable, users can still access their resources from the other datacenter. The architect decides to implement a multi-zone Site with a Primary Zone in Chicago and a Satellite Zone in Dallas. Which statement accurately describes the role of the Zone Data Collector in this design?

Question 59hardmulti select

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A Citrix architect is designing a multi-zone Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 Site that spans two datacenters. The architect needs to ensure that the Site database is highly available and that session brokering continues if the primary database server fails. Which two components should the architect include in the design? (Choose two.)

Question 60mediummultiple choice

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A Citrix architect is designing a new Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 Site that will use a single SQL Server Always On availability group for the Site database. During a planned failover of the database, the Delivery Controllers must continue to function without manual reconfiguration. Which database connection method should the architect configure on the Delivery Controllers?

Question 61easymultiple choice

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A Citrix architect is designing a new Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 Site. The architect needs to determine the minimum number of Delivery Controllers required to provide high availability for the Site database and brokering services. What is the minimum number of Delivery Controllers that should be deployed?

Question 62mediummultiple choice

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A Citrix architect is designing a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 site that will span two datacenters connected by a 15 ms round-trip link. The Site database will be hosted in SQL Server Always On availability groups. The architect must ensure that the Database Connection string in the Site configuration points to a listener that remains valid after a database failover. Which SQL Server feature should the architect specify in the connection string?

Question 63mediummultiple choice

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A Citrix architect is designing a multi-zone Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 Site. The architect wants to ensure that users are automatically connected to the zone that is closest to them to minimize latency, but also wants to allow administrators to manually control which zone a user connects to for testing purposes. Which feature should the architect configure?

Question 64mediummulti select

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A Citrix architect is designing a multi-zone Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 Site with a Primary Zone and two Satellite Zones. The architect must ensure that users are connected to the zone that provides the best experience, and that the environment remains available if a Satellite Zone becomes unavailable. Which two actions should the architect take? (Choose two.)

Question 65easymultiple choice

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A Citrix architect is designing a new Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 Site. The architect needs to ensure that the Site database is highly available and that the Delivery Controllers can automatically reconnect after a database failover without manual reconfiguration. Which SQL Server feature should the architect use?

Question 66hardmultiple choice

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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?

Question 67hardmultiple choice

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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?

Question 68mediummulti select

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A Citrix architect is designing a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 site with multiple zones to improve scalability and fault tolerance. The architect must ensure that the zone design supports high availability of the brokering service. Which two actions should the architect take? (Choose two.)

[Critical] Controller: CTX-DEL-01 -- Database connection failure detected. Attempting failover to Local Host Cache secondary mode. [Information] Controller: CTX-DEL-01 -- Local Host Cache successfully activated. Processing incoming user connection requests using local SQL Express cache.

Error Log: [2023-10-27 10:05:12] Broker.Database.ConnectionException: Unable to connect to SQL Server at 'sql.corp.local'. [2023-10-27 10:05:15] Broker.Service.LocalHostCache: Switching to Local Host Cache mode.