Citrix Certified Expert - Virtualization: Assessment and Design key terms

Grouping users by relevant workloads, locations, endpoints and requirements so design and testing represent meaningful differences instead of an assumed average user.

An agreed observable condition used to decide whether a requirement is met, with the workload, measurement and context defined before the test.

A recorded connection between each requirement, the design decision addressing it and the evidence or test used to validate the result.

A limit on available design choices, such as an approved hosting platform or required identity integration, distinguished from an untested assumption.

The process of identifying and presenting resources available to an authenticated user, distinct from establishing the eventual application or desktop session.

Selecting and arranging a suitable eligible resource for a launch through the delivery infrastructure, rather than rendering every frame of an established session.

A Citrix service supporting certificate-based VDA single sign-on in a configured trusted architecture when the original authentication does not provide Windows credentials.

The actual network route carrying session interaction between endpoint and workload through the components selected for that deployment architecture.

The rule determining which machine a user receives, which must be considered separately from disk persistence and the storage of personal user state.

Retention of relevant user settings and data across sessions through an appropriately supported profile design, not a substitute for protected backups.

Returning machines to a previously prepared image state through a supported process, with separate consideration of user data and infrastructure changes.

A service, storage, network or configuration requirement needed for the chosen machine/image delivery mechanism to work as intended.

A grouping of machines with relevant shared characteristics and provisioning arrangements, from which compatible machines can be allocated for resource delivery.

An object defining delivered resources and access using machines selected from compatible catalogs, with each machine belonging to one delivery group at a time.

A defined set of management activities an administrator may perform, applied together with scopes identifying the objects under that permission.

The effective settings for the applicable machine or session after evaluating relevant policy sources, scopes, filters and precedence rather than inspecting one definition.

A test workload reflecting the important actual application, concurrency, user and operating conditions for which the design must provide service.

Additional usable capacity that allows a design to meet a defined demand after the specified component or fault-domain loss.

A set of components sharing a potential failure cause, such as a physical host, storage service or network dependency.

A concentrated arrival of session or machine-start requests that can stress dependencies differently from a stable population of already running sessions.

The agreed target duration for restoring the defined usable service after a specified disruption, including relevant dependencies and validation.

The agreed limit on lost data or changes measured back from a disruption to a suitable recoverable point.

Information used by supported Workspace service-continuity mechanisms for resource launch during particular outages, distinct from a full replica of the site configuration.

A documented set of decisions, responsibilities, steps, dependencies and verification actions for restoring and returning a defined service to normal operation.