Citrix DaaS on Citrix Cloud Practice Test

Skills this practice test covers

• Install Citrix Cloud Connectors in a resource location and verify their link to Citrix Cloud.
• Create Machine Catalogs and Delivery Groups that publish apps and desktops to users.
• Manage and monitor Citrix DaaS with web-based Studio, Director and the Remote PowerShell SDK.
• Choose between on-premises StoreFront and Citrix Workspace, and between an on-premises Gateway and the Citrix Gateway Service.
• Set up Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services as a resource location.
• Plan the move of policies, Machine Catalogs and Delivery Groups from an on-premises site to Citrix DaaS.

7 domains · 28 topics · 135 questions

Requirements

• Required: one of the mandatory Citrix courses, CXD-250, CXD-252, CWS-215 or CMB-318, completed before the exam.
• Recommended: six months or more with Citrix technologies, including hands-on Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops work.
• Recommended: familiarity with virtualization.

About the 1Y0-130 exam

How to earn the certification

Earns

Citrix DaaS on Citrix Cloud Certified (CC-DaaS-CC)Cloud Certified

The credential is valid for three years. Holders renew it by passing the current exam again or by taking a designated Citrix course.

After

• 1Y0-312 Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 Advanced Administration

  An advanced administration exam on the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops track.

• 1Y0-403 Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 Assessment, Design and Advanced Configurations

  A design exam on the same track, covering assessment and advanced configuration.

How to prepare for 1Y0-130

1. 1

   Set up a lab resource location

   Join two machines to a domain and install a Cloud Connector on each from the Citrix Cloud console. Then check their health and see how auto-updates are scheduled.

2. 2

   Publish one desktop end to end

   Create a Machine Catalog with Machine Creation Services, add it to a Delivery Group, and launch the desktop through Citrix Workspace. Service configuration holds the most practice questions in its domain, so repeat this until each step is familiar.

3. 3

   Draw the access paths

   Sketch how a remote user's session flows through Citrix Gateway, StoreFront or Citrix Workspace, and the Cloud Connectors. Mark where authentication happens and where the HDX connection is routed.

4. 4

   Script routine tasks in PowerShell

   Connect to Citrix Cloud with the Remote PowerShell SDK and repeat a few Studio tasks as cmdlets, such as listing Delivery Groups. Seeing one change in both Studio and PowerShell helps with the management domain.

5. 5

   Sit timed runs before booking

   Take the 1Y0-130 practice test in Timed Mode, then review each missed question in Study Mode. When a miss turns on an on-premises versus cloud difference, ask Brainy AI Assistant to compare the two versions of that component.

   Start a timed 1Y0-130run

Citrix requires one of four courses: CXD-250 Moving to the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops Service on Citrix Cloud, CXD-252 for the same move with Microsoft Azure, CWS-215 for on-premises and cloud administration, or the CMB-318 fast-track.

Who 1Y0-130 is for

• Administrators who plan to shift an existing on-premises Citrix deployment to Citrix Cloud.
• IT professionals who already manage Citrix Cloud environments.
• Virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) engineers who build and support hosted desktops.
• Systems administrators who support Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops for their users.

Typical job titles: Citrix administrator · VDI engineer · Systems administrator · Cloud engineer · End-user computing engineer

1Y0-130 glossary

16 terms from the exam objectives and the vendor's official material, each defined in a sentence.

Citrix Cloud Connector

A domain-joined machine in each resource location that links it to Citrix Cloud, using outbound connections only.

Citrix Cloud control plane

The management parts of the deployment that Citrix hosts and updates, such as the site database and the Delivery Controllers.

Citrix DaaS Remote PowerShell SDK

A set of PowerShell cmdlets that manages a Citrix DaaS site from a local machine through Citrix Cloud.

Citrix Director (Monitor)

The monitoring console, shown as the Monitor tab in Citrix Cloud, for sessions, machines and historical trends.

Citrix Gateway Service

Citrix's cloud-hosted gateway that gives remote users secure access without an on-premises Gateway appliance.

Citrix Provisioning Services

A Citrix technology that streams one shared disk image to many machines over the network.

Citrix StoreFront

The store server that lists the apps and desktops a user may open; it can stay on premises with Citrix DaaS.

Citrix Studio (Web)

The web-based console for configuring a Citrix DaaS site: catalogs, groups, policies and administrators.

Citrix Workspace

The cloud service that gives users one place to sign in and open their apps and desktops.

Customer-managed resource locations

The places, such as a data center or a public cloud, where the customer's own machines and Cloud Connectors run.

Delivery Groups

Sets of machines from Machine Catalogs that are assigned to users, together with the apps and desktops those users get.

HDX

Citrix's technology for carrying a session's screen, sound and input between the user's device and the remote machine.

Home zone assignment

Setting the zone where a user's or an app's sessions start first, when machines there are available.

Machine Catalogs

Collections of virtual or physical machines of the same type, created and managed as one unit.

Machine Creation Services

A Citrix feature that builds and updates groups of virtual machines from one master image.

Secure Ticket Authority

A service that issues one-time tickets so Citrix Gateway can confirm that a user's session request is valid.