CWS-315: Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 Advanced Administration. Designed for experienced IT professionals, this course builds on the foundational implementation and management skills introducing scalability, redundancy, and security configurations.
You will learn to build and combine App Layers to optimize management of your app and desktop images and to implement Workspace Environment Management to improve logon times, centralize user settings management, and optimize the performance of machines. In the advanced troubleshooting section, you will learn techniques to investigate many of the common issues that can affect environment health and how to solve issues more effectively. You will leave this course with a good understanding of how to manage more complex solutions such as multi-location environments with configurations around StoreFront, the Delivery Controllers, Cloud Connectors, and HDX.
Course goals
In this course you will learn these key skills:
• How to implement advanced administration concepts such as backups, disaster recovery, scalability and redundancy for a Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktop 7 Site
• How to configure Workspace Environment Management to improve the end user environment and virtual resource consumption
• App Layering skills to create and administer OS, platform, application, elastic and user layers
• Advanced troubleshooting techniques to troubleshoot Citrix Apps and Desktop 7
• Security considerations and configurations for Citrix Apps and Desktop 7 site including multi-site management using zones
Prerequisites
Strong foundational knowledge of Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7.
Citrix recommends students prepare for this course by taking the following course:
CWS-215 Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 Administration On-Premises and in Citrix Cloud.
Audience
This course is built for experienced IT Professionals that are familiar with Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops 7 in an on-premises environment or Citrix Cloud, and are looking to expand their Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops skills to an advanced level. Potential students include administrators or engineers responsible for the Citrix Apps and Desktop 7 Site.
Certification
This course will help you prepare for Citrix exam 1Y0-311: Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.15 Advanced Administration.
This exam leads to the Citrix Certified Professional - Virtualization (CCP-V) certification.
Important note!
In order to get the CCP-V certification, you first need to have the Citrix Certified Associate - Virtualization (CCA-V) certification.