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• Identify the various components included in the XenDesktop 7 architecture
• Determine how the various components communicate and which protocols they are using
• Apply architectural understanding to desktop virtualization solutions
• Troubleshoot desktop virtualization design

• Identify specific business drivers for multiple verticals
• Facilitate a discussion with the project team at an organization to prioritize business drivers

• Identify best strategy for data collection given a specific organizational environment.
• Identify the types of application data to collect, the method for collecting them, and application data collection tools

• Identify the different FlexCast models
• Identify considerations in selecting the most appropriate method for segmenting users

• Understand the process of application assessment
• Demonstrate rationalization of applications in a given case organization
• Assess a suite of applications based on business needs and compatibility to a given XenDesktop delivery model.

• Understand the importance of project management for a successful implementation
• Identify roles for a project plan

• Make key decisions regarding user groups and device (endpoint) design
• Organize user groups for Design document
• Identify and prioritize top user issues
• Design user profile strategy
• Design a printing strategy

• Define how applications will be delivered
• Design Citrix Receiver deployment and maintenance

• Identify recourse requirements
• Make key design decisions regarding resource recommendations

• Design an authentication point (Storefront and NetScaler Gateway) strategy
• Determine session and access policies, including user authentication and remote access
• Design virtual desktop operating systems access
• Calculate bandwidth for the desktop virtualization solution

• Make key design decisions regarding machine catalogs and groups
• Design a personalization strategy including user profiles, user policies and personal vDisk usage.
• Design an appropriate printing strategy

• Design a solution that meets application inventory and integration requirements
• Identify characteristics of the applications that will impact placement as well as the application delivery architecture for the XenDesktop environment
• Design an application delivery strategy

• Design a Desktop delivery topology, including Sites, XenDesktop Controllers per site, and load balancing
• Design the underlying infrastructure, including database selection, license servers and Active Directory Integration
• Identify the XenDesktop user and virtual desktop baseline policies

• Make key high availability design decisions
• Integrate the XenDesktop infrastructure with the network infrastructure
• Understand WAN optimization, Multistream ICA, and DHCP functionality

• Make key design decisions regarding storage solutions
• Identify the features and differences between PVS and MCS
• Design a provisioning strategy with either PVS or MCS

• Make key design decisions regarding the hypervisor to be used in desktop virtualization solutions
• Make accurate hardware calculations, including VDI hardware, shared hardware, application hardware, and control hardware

• Understand potential migration approaches
• Design a system monitoring strategy
• Make key design decisions regarding decisions regarding application delivery
• Migration approach
• Backup and System Monitoring
• Backup
• System Monitoring

• Verify assess and design decisions using Citrix online tools
• Develop a complete stakeholder presentation
• Effectively present and support design decisions
• Capstone Exercise