Friday, 30 January 2009 10:29 | 
Author: Nico van Meurs | 
I just got certified on Citrix XenDesktop by passing the Citrix exam 1Y0-A03.. yeah! :)
For anyone who is planning to take this exam in the near future, here are my experiences:
The exam contains 60 questions. Most are multiple choise and a few are dragging and dropping certain tasks in the right order. I found the exam pretty easy. I passed with 79% without having any reallife experience with the product. I do have quite some experience with Provisioning Server and XenServer.
The exam covers the full XenDesktop suite, so this includes XenServer, Desktop Delivery Controller, Provisioning Server, XenApp, Access Gateway Standard and Wanscaler. Most of the questions are about XenServer, Desktop Delivery Controller and Provisioning Server. I think WanScaler only showed up in one question.
For the exam to pass, knowing the complete communication flow between all products is very important. You also need to know the exact role of any component and how this role fits in the complete suite.
As preparation for the exam I used the following documents;
- Desktop Delivery Controller Admin Guide
- Provisioning Server Admin Guide
- XenDesktop Getting Started Guide
- Best Practises XenDesktop with Provisioning Server
- XenServer Admin Guide
Next to that my advise is to install the product in a lab environment and play around with it a little. Make sure you run through the admin consoles and check every option. A lot of questions are about installing and configuring the product. When installing the product use the XenDesktop getting started guide, if you run through this guide you'll cover most of the questions being asked at the exam.So for anyone that's going to take the exam, good luck!! And feel free to let me know if this info was of any use…
For anyone who is planning to take this exam in the near future, here are my experiences:
The exam contains 60 questions. Most are multiple choise and a few are dragging and dropping certain tasks in the right order. I found the exam pretty easy. I passed with 79% without having any reallife experience with the product. I do have quite some experience with Provisioning Server and XenServer.
The exam covers the full XenDesktop suite, so this includes XenServer, Desktop Delivery Controller, Provisioning Server, XenApp, Access Gateway Standard and Wanscaler. Most of the questions are about XenServer, Desktop Delivery Controller and Provisioning Server. I think WanScaler only showed up in one question.
For the exam to pass, knowing the complete communication flow between all products is very important. You also need to know the exact role of any component and how this role fits in the complete suite.
As preparation for the exam I used the following documents;
- Desktop Delivery Controller Admin Guide
- Provisioning Server Admin Guide
- XenDesktop Getting Started Guide
- Best Practises XenDesktop with Provisioning Server
- XenServer Admin Guide
Next to that my advise is to install the product in a lab environment and play around with it a little. Make sure you run through the admin consoles and check every option. A lot of questions are about installing and configuring the product. When installing the product use the XenDesktop getting started guide, if you run through this guide you'll cover most of the questions being asked at the exam.So for anyone that's going to take the exam, good luck!! And feel free to let me know if this info was of any use…
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