1Y0-204 Site Health Monitoring Practice Question
An administrator is monitoring a Delivery Group and observes that the 'Capacity' metric is constantly near 100%. Which action will alleviate this issue?
⚠ Common exam trap
Candidates often suggest 'rebooting machines' or 'clearing caches' to fix capacity issues, ignoring the fact that if a group is at 100% capacity, the only structural solution is increasing the resource pool.
Answer choices
Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Add more machines to the Delivery Group.
Capacity management is a core task in maintaining Site health. If a Delivery Group is at capacity, the Citrix broker can no longer place new sessions, leading to user login failures. Adding more machines to the group effectively increases the available resource pool, lowering the overall load percentage. This proactive scaling ensures that users always have a machine available to launch their sessions, maintaining the expected level of service availability.
Answer analysis
Option-by-option breakdown
For each option: why learners choose it and why it is or isn't the right answer here.
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Decrease the session timeout setting.
Why it's wrong here
Decreasing timeouts may force inactive sessions to close, but it does not add capacity to the group. It might actually disrupt legitimate users who are merely taking a break, leading to complaints. Scaling the infrastructure by adding more machines is a better, user-friendly way to handle high session demand.
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Add more machines to the Delivery Group.
Why this is correct
Adding more machines to the Delivery Group is the most direct way to increase capacity. By increasing the number of VDAs, you distribute the user load more effectively, reducing the percentage of used capacity and ensuring that the broker has available resources to handle new connection requests from users.
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Enable 'Maintenance Mode' on the machines.
Why it's wrong here
Maintenance mode prevents new sessions from being brokered to a machine. If you enable this on machines that are currently in use, you further reduce the available capacity, which will exacerbate the problem rather than fix it. This is the opposite of the intended result for a group at capacity.
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Reboot all machines in the group.
Why it's wrong here
Rebooting machines will temporarily clear the load, but the capacity issue will return as soon as users reconnect. This is not a long-term solution for a group that is consistently at 100% capacity. It only creates a temporary window of relief while causing disruption to currently active users.
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Last reviewed September 2026 · checked against the official Citrix exam blueprint
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