CXD-250 Moving to the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Service on Citrix Cloud Quiz Questions and Answers

Answer :
  • Migrate application settings

Explanation :

Because Storefront & Gateway are optional components, so no need to migrate. Policies can be re-created in Citrix studio or migrated to Microsoft GPO based policies. Delivery groups have to be re-created in Citrix Cloud Studio, so at last Manual application settings have to be migrated to Citrix Cloud, because application settings cannot be imported from on-premises.
Answer :
  • Registration requests are proxied through the Citrix Cloud Connectors to the Citrix Cloud Delivery Controllers.

Explanation :

When using Citrix cloud solution, then we have Delivery Controllers in Citrix Cloud and Cloud Connectors in place of DDCs in Control layer, As VDAs are part of on-premises location, so they must register themselves to Cloud Connectors FQDN, which is then proxied to Cloud Delivery Controllers over outboud port 443.
Answer :
  • subscription License

Explanation :

Because in citrix virtual apps and desktop serviceLicensing is controlled by citrix and uses only Subscription license. Other licensing methods are only for On-prem deplyments. When using citrix cloud only Subscription (per user basis) license is used
Answer :
  • There must be at-least two cloud connectors in a cloud resource location

Explanation :

Two cloud connectors are must in a resource location as citrix updates cloud connectors one-by-one and during up-date process the cloud connector is not operational, so for HA and to avoid downtime, two cloud connectors are recommended by citrix.
Answer :
  • Passwords and authentication tickets are never sent to citrix cloud. Only the user GUID is sent for resource lookup.

Explanation :

Citrix gateway encrypts user credentails using AES-256 encryption mechanism and also generates STA ticket. Only encrypted user's GUID is sent to citrix cloud for resource lookup, STA ticket is returned back to user's machine via Storefront.
Answer :
  • Microsoft Azure

Explanation :

While using Federated Authentication with Azure Active Directory, Citrix Workspace Experience forwards request to Microsoft Azure and Azure presents the logon page to user, where users enter their AD credentials for authentication.
Answer :
  • Eliminates the effort needed to set up and maintain a private datacenter.

Explanation :

In Forklift model, we can have entire harware infrastructure provided by Cloud Vendor and also managed and maintained by the cloud Vendor, so it eliminates the maintainance and management cost and overhead of running a Datacenter.