[March 20, 2025] Master the 1Y0-205 Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Administration Exam with Free Questions
The 1Y0-205 Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Administration exam is a crucial certification for IT professionals looking to validate their expertise in managing, maintaining, and troubleshooting Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops environments. This certification demonstrates your ability to deploy, configure, and manage Citrix solutions to deliver a seamless virtual desktop experience. If you are preparing for the 1Y0-205 exam, this blog post will provide you with an overview of the exam, key topics, and free practice questions to test your knowledge before taking the official exam.
Free 1Y0-205 Practice Questions
1.Which PowerShell command can be used to display all the Citrix services installed on the Delivery Controller?
A. Get-Service -DisplayName *site*
B. Get-Service -DisplayName *Citrix*
C. Get-Service -DisplayName *controller*
D. Get-Service -DisplayName *broker*
Answer: B
2.Which tool can a Citrix Administrator use to collect information to investigate issues with session performance?
A. CDF Control
B. HDX Monitor
C. Citrix Scout
D. Citrix Health Assistant
Answer: A
3.Which two features within Citrix Director can a Citrix Administrator use to view historical resource utilization for a machine running the Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA)? (Choose two.)
A. Alerts
B. Dashboard
C. Applications
D. Search
E. Trends
Answer: C, E
Explanation:
Reference: https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/xenapp-and-xendesktop/7-15-ltsr/director/troubleshoot-machines.html
4.A user calls the help desk to report that when launching any application from within their published desktop session, it takes a long time and the overall performance is poor.
Which Citrix Director report can a Citrix Administrator use to initiate the investigation of the issue?
A. Machine Utilization in Machine Details
B. Launch Failures in Trends
C. Load Evaluator in Trends
D. Session Data in Filters
Answer: C
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2014/09/22/citrix-director-trends-explained/
5.Which tool should a Citrix Administrator use when a user reports “event ID 1022: The Citrix Desktop Service Failed to register with any controller”?
A. HDX Monitor
B. VDA Cleanup Utility
C. Citrix Scout
D. Citrix Health Assistant
Answer: D
Explanation:
Reference: https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX207624
6.Which three methods can a Citrix Administrator choose from when creating a Featured App Group for a set of applications? (Choose three.)
A. Application names
B. Installed locally
C. Keyword
D. Application category
E. Delivery Group
Answer: A, C, D
Explanation:
You can create product featured app groups for your end users that are related to or fit in a specific category. For example, you can create a Sales Department featured app group containing applications that are used by that department. You can define featured apps in the StoreFront administration console by using application names or by using keywords or application categories that were defined in the Studio console.
Reference: https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/storefront/current-release/manage-citrix-receiver-for-web-site/manage-app-groups.html
7.Scenario: A Citrix Administrator needs to reduce costs by limiting users’ printing sources. The administrator needs to stop automatic creation of all client printers in a session and map printers based on the floor of the building from which the user’s session connects.
Which two policies should the administrator configure to complete this task? (Choose two.)
A. Printer properties retention
B. Auto-create client printers
C. Direct connections to print servers
D. Session printers
Answer: C, D
Explanation:
Reference: https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX232031
8.Scenario: A Citrix Administrator has enabled an HDX Session printers policy within a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Site. The administrator added a printer to a print server and assigned the printer to all users through a session printer policy. In addition, several local client printers are auto-created within HDX sessions. No other printing policies are configured.
How will print jobs be routed when users send print jobs to a printer managed by the print server?
A. Directly to the network print server and then to the specified printer.
B. Over the HDX virtual channel to the specified printer attached to the print server.
C. Directly from the session Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) machine to the printer.
D. Over the HDX virtual channel, through the endpoint, and then to the print server.
Answer: A
Explanation:
Reference: https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX227534
9.Scenario: A Citrix Administrator is enabling TLS Secure connections between the Cloud Connectors and on-premises StoreFront. After configuring the TLS certificate on all Cloud Connectors and disabling
HTTP connections, the administrator finds that no resources are being enumerated.
Which extra step does the administrator need to take to allow enumeration to work between on-premises StoreFront and Citrix Cloud?
A. Configure Internet Information Services (IIS) on the StoreFront server to use HTTPS.
B. Change transport type to HTTPS in the StoreFront store DDC list.
C. Configure Cloud Connectors to allow unsecured connections.
D. Install Internet Information Services (IIS) on the Cloud Connector.
Answer: B
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.exam4training.com/which-extra-step-does-the-administrator-need-to-take-to-allow-enumeration-to-work-between-on-premises-storefront-and-citrix-cloud/
10.Which PowerShell command should a Citrix Administrator run to obtain the name of a deployment, the local host cache configuration and the license level?
A. Get-BrokerCatalog
B. Get-BrokerController
C. Get-BrokerResource
D. Get-BrokerSite
Answer: D
Explanation:
Reference: https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-virtual-apps-desktops/manage-deployment/local-host-cache.html
11.Scenario: Users report that they are receiving new sessions instead of reconnecting to their disconnected sessions. A Citrix Administrator investigates the issues and finds the sessions are in a disconnected state when the users leave work.
What should the administrator configure to allow the users to reconnect to their disconnected sessions while roaming?
A. Session Pre-launch
B. Workspace Control
C. Session Lingering
D. Session Timeout
Answer: B
Explanation:
Reference: https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-virtual-apps-desktops/manage-deployment/sessions.html
12.Scenario: A Citrix Administrator has been advised that additional Windows users will need to access the on-premises Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop Site. The Site utilizes Citrix Profile Management for all users. The new users have been using Windows Roaming Profiles and will need their existing profile information when they use the Citrix Site. The administrator enables the Profile Management policy setting for ‘Enable Migration of Existing Profiles’.
At which stage will the new users’ Roaming Profiles be migrated to the existing Profile Management store?
A. When the new policy is updated automatically in Active Directory after 90 minutes
B. When the new users initiate their first domain authentication
C. When the Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) machines configured with the new policy are restarted
D. When the new users initiate their first logon to a Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) machine
Answer: A
13.Which three Citrix Virtual Desktops Site components are managed by Citrix, when using Citrix Cloud as the hosting platform? (Choose three.)
A. Applications and Desktops
B. Hypervisor
C. License Server
D. Site Database
E. Delivery Controller
Answer: C, D, E
14.How can a Citrix Administrator guarantee the availability of resource locations in a Citrix Cloud deployment?
A. Deploy at least two Cloud Connectors for each resource location and load-balance them using Citrix ADC.
B. Deploy at least two Cloud Connectors for each resource location.
C. Convert one Cloud Connector to a template and deploy it when another Cloud Connector goes down.
D. Deploy one Cloud Connector in each resource location.
Answer: B
Explanation:
Reference: https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-cloud-government/system-requirements/cloud-connector-requirements.html#deployment-scenarios-for-cloud-connectors-in-active-directory
15.Scenario: A Citrix Administrator has deployed machines using Machine Creation Services (MCS). A user logs on to a desktop from a random/non-persistent pool of Windows 10 desktops. During the session, the user installs Microsoft Office 2016.
To which disk is the Microsoft Office installation data written during the session?
A. Differencing
B. Identity
C. Temporary
D. Personal
Answer: A
16.Scenario: A Citrix Administrator is working on a published application. The network connection remains active for 240 seconds but is interrupted and applications become unusable. The session then prompts for authentication. After the administrator successfully authenticates, the session is reconnected.
Which policy makes this possible?
A. Load Management
B. Auto Client Reconnect
C. Session Reliability
D. ICA Keep Alive
Answer: C
Explanation:
Reference: https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-virtual-apps-desktops/policies/reference/ica-policy-settings/session-reliability-policy-settings.html
17.How can a Citrix Administrator enable the ability to monitor application failures for Desktop OS machines running the Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA)?
A. By installing an Application Probe Agent on the Desktop OS VDA machines
B. By entering a PowerShell command on a Delivery Controller
C. By upgrading to premium licenses
D. By configuring a Citrix policy
Answer: A
18.Scenario: A Citrix Administrator is configuring the Workspace Experience to provide users with access to their applications and desktops. The administrator deployed Microsoft Azure Active Directory (AD) already and wants to leverage it to support user access to the Workspace Experience.
Which two steps does the administrator need to take to enable users to authenticate using Azure AD to the Workspace Experience? (Choose two.)
A. Add Cloud Connector information to the Azure AD console.
B. Enable Azure AD authentication under Workspace Configuration in Citrix Cloud.
C. Add Azure AD Account under Identity Providers in Citrix Cloud.
D. Deploy Cloud Connectors to support Azure AD authentication.
Answer: B, C
Explanation:
Reference: https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/citrix-cloud/workspace-configuration.html#change-authentication-to-workspaces
19.A user calls the help desk and states that launching a pooled random desktop takes as long as five minutes.
Which Citrix Director report can a Citrix Administrator review to find out what might be causing the delay?
A. Resource Utilization
B. Connection Failures
C. Logon Performance
D. Load Evaluators
Answer: C
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2013/09/20/director-logon-duration-explained/
20.A Citrix Administrator is in the process of installing Citrix Cloud Connector, but the installation fails.
What could be causing the Citrix Cloud Connector installation to fail on the machine?
A. It is in sync with UTC time instead of local time.
B. Enhanced Security Configuration (ESC) is set to ‘off’.
C. It cannot run on a machine template cloned across multiple machines.
D. It is NOT joined to the domain.
Answer: D
21.On which two components must the Secure Ticket Authority (STA) server locations be configured if a Citrix Administrator wants to configure secure external access to a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Site? (Choose two.)
A. Citrix Workspace app
B. Citrix Gateway
C. Delivery Controller
D. StoreFront
E. Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA)
Answer: B, D
22.After creating a new machine catalog using the Machine Creation Services (MCS) wizard in Citrix Studio, a Citrix Administrator determines that Windows activation fails for all new machines in that catalog.
Which two conditions can cause this to happen? (Choose two.)
A. The base image rearm count has been exceeded.
B. The Microsoft License Server is unreachable.
C. The version of Windows installed uses Multiple Activation Key (MAK) licensing.
D. The version of Windows installed is Windows Server 2012 R2.
Answer: B, C
23.What is the minimum built-in delegated administration role required to create an Application Group?
A. Host Administrator
B. Delivery Group Administrator
C. Help Desk Administrator
D. Machine Catalog Administrator
Answer: B
Explanation:
Reference: https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/xenapp-and-xendesktop/7-15-ltsr/director/permissions.html
24.For which three components can Citrix Director capture utilization statistics? (Choose three.)
A. CPU
B. IOPS
C. Disk space
D. Network
E. Memory
Answer: A, B, E
Explanation:
Reference: https://www.citrix.com/blogs/2016/06/13/citrix-director-cpu-memory-usage-and-process-information/
25.Scenario: A Citrix Administrator ran the Get-BrokerSite PowerShell command on the primary Delivery Controller to obtain overview information of the infrastructure.
The administrator received the error as shown in the exhibit. Click on the Exhibit button to view the error.
Why did the administrator receive this PowerShell error?
A. The Get-BrokerSite PowerShell command was performed with a syntax error.
B. The Get-BrokerSite PowerShell command was performed before running the Add-PSSnapin Citrix* command.
C. The incorrect PowerShell command for retrieving Site information was performed.
D. The Get-BrokerSite PowerShell command was performed without Administrator privileges in PowerShell.
Answer: B
26.Scenario: A Citrix Administrator has deployed a Citrix Cloud-managed Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Site with one on-premises resource location and two Cloud Connectors. An on-premises StoreFront server group is used to access published resources. During user acceptance testing, due to adverse weather conditions, network connectivity between the on-premises location and Citrix Cloud was broken for several hours.
Which statement describes what will occur in this scenario?
A. One of the Citrix Cloud Connectors at the resource location is elected to be the primary broker and uses its Local Host Cache to broker new sessions and manage existing HDX connections.
B. Users will NOT be able to access published resources, and existing sessions will be disconnected until network connectivity to Citrix Cloud is restored.
C. The Citrix Cloud Connectors at the resource location will continue to manage existing sessions, but no new sessions can be initiated until network connectivity to Citrix Cloud is restored.
D. Each Citrix Cloud Connector at the resource location will continue to broker new connections, for certain FlexCast models, using Connection Leasing and existing HDX connections will NOT be impacted.
Answer: A
27.Which tool should a Citrix Administrator use to monitor the overall daily performance of a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Site?
A. Citrix Studio
B. HDX Monitor
C. Citrix Director
D. CDF Traces
Answer: C
28.Which step does a Citrix Administrator need to take to enable Citrix XML Service trust for user access within a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops infrastructure?
A. Enable XML Service trust using the StoreFront console.
B. Run the Set-BrokerSite -TrustRequestsSentToTheXMLServicePort $true PowerShell command from within a Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) machine.
C. Run the Set-BrokerSite -TrustRequestsSentToTheXMLServicePort $true PowerShell command from within a Controller.
D. Configure the appropriate XML Service trust settings using HDX policy within Citrix Studio.
Answer: C
Explanation:
Reference: https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/storefront/current-release/plan/user-authentication.html
29.Scenario: A Citrix Administrator needs to review the current state of specific machine sessions and application instances that are running in a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Site. The administrator also needs to power-manage sessions. The Site is a premium licensed Site.
Where should the administrator navigate to within Citrix Director to obtain this information?
A. Filters
B. Trends
C. Dashboard
D. Alerts
Answer: A
30.Which three policy settings can a Citrix Administrator configure to improve HDX session performance for high-latency, low bandwidth user connections? (Choose three.)
A. Maximum number of sessions
B. View window contents while dragging
C. CPU usage
D. Target frame rate and color depth
E. Limit video quality
F. Application launch wait timeout
Answer: B, D, E
Explanation:
Reference: https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX138404
31.Scenario: A Citrix Administrator received reports from users regarding published applications freezing and crashing randomly within their Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) machine sessions. The administrator would like to review the history of applications that have crashed recently.
Which step can the administrator take to gather the necessary information from within Citrix Director?
A. Review Failed Server OS Machines under Dashboard.
B. Configure Application Faults under Trends.
C. Configure Application Errors under Trends.
D. Review Citrix Alerts under Alerts.
Answer: B
Explanation:
Reference: https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX223927
32.Scenario: A Citrix Administrator needs to power-manage a group of Server OS Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) machines that are all in the same Delivery Group. The administrator needs all the machines to be restarted once a week during the weekend. Additionally, a subset of the machines should be restarted every day during non-peak hours.
Which feature must the administrator change from the default values in order to fulfill the requirements?
A. Restart duration
B. Weekday and weekend hours
C. Peak and non-peak hours
D. Tag restrictions
Answer: D
Explanation:
Reference: https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/xenapp-and-xendesktop/7-15-ltsr/install-configure/delivery-groups-manage.html
33.A user complains to a Citrix Administrator that application load time is long when they log on at the beginning of the work day.
Which feature can the administrator enable to reduce the perceived start time of the user’s application?
A. Application Limits
B. Application Keyword
C. Application Lingering
D. Application Prelaunch
Answer: D
Explanation:
Reference: https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/receiver/windows/current-release/optimize/session-prelaunch.html
34.Which two statements are valid when using Citrix Profile Streaming? (Choose two.)
A. Registry entries and files in the pending area are fetched when accessed.
B. Profile Streaming is disabled by default.
C. The files and folders are fetched on demand.
D. Profile Streaming will delay the logon process.
Answer: A, B
35.Scenario: A Citrix Administrator needs to deploy 300 virtual Windows 10 desktops in an environment. The deployment should have a low impact on the existing network infrastructure. The environment also requires user-installed applications and persistency.
Which Citrix technology can the administrator use to provision the desktops?
A. Citrix Provisioning
B. Existing Machines
C. Machine Creation Services
D. Manual Provisioning
Answer: C
Explanation:
Reference: https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/tech-zone/design/reference-architectures/image-management.html
36.Which component can optionally be hosted in Citrix Cloud or in a customer-controlled resource location, when using the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service?
A. Citrix License Server
B. Citrix Gateway
C. Site database
D. Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) machines
Answer: B
37.Scenario: A Citrix Administrator would like to better monitor traffic within the Citrix Gateway and Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Site. The administrator decides to implement the Citrix Application Delivery Management appliance for use with Citrix Director.
Which three additional pieces of infrastructure information can the administrator now review within Citrix Director? (Choose three.)
A. Latency and bandwidth effects for applications and desktops.
B. Peak Connected Sessions information for specific user sessions.
C. Latency and bandwidth information for specific user sessions.
D. Average ICA round trip time for specific user sessions.
E. Peak Concurrent Total Sessions for specific applications and desktops.
Answer: C, D, E
38.Scenario: A Citrix Administrator configures the ‘Auto connect client drives’ user settings to map client drives within the HDX session for all published desktops. The setting is configured in a Baseline Group Policy Object (GPO) and linked to an Organizational Unit (OU) that contains all of the published desktops.
When a user launches the desktop, client drives are NOT mapped.
What is a possible reason?
A. gpupdate /force needs to be executed on all of the machines.
B. Loopback processing is NOT enabled.
C. The GPO needs to be linked to the User OU.
D. Desktops need to be restarted for the policy to be applied.
Answer: B
39.Which console can a Citrix Administrator use to provide customized permissions to a junior administrator for adding applications?
A. Citrix Studio
B. StoreFront
C. Citrix Director
D. Citrix Application Delivery Management
Answer: A
40.Scenario: A Citrix Administrator needs to deploy Citrix Virtual Apps. Project requirements dictate that management and maintenance should be minimized for the administrator, while still maintaining control of the Virtual Delivery Agent (VDA) machines.
Which hosting platform should the administrator choose to meet these requirements?
A. Service provider
B. On-premises
C. Public Cloud-hosted
D. Citrix Cloud
Answer: D
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