Citrix Updated 1Y0-204 Exam Questions and Answers by elio

 According to the Reference Architecture: Image Management, Machine Creation Services (MCS) is a disk-based provisioning approach that works with major hypervisors and leading cloud platforms. The clones include a differencing disk and an identity disk linked from a base disk. MCS configures, starts, stops, and deletes virtual machines using the hypervisor APIs. When a Random/Non-Persistent desktop machine is restarted, the differencing disk will be updated from the base image, discarding any changes made by the user. This ensures that the desktop machine is always in a clean state and consistent with the master image.

 Profile streaming ensures that only the files and folders that a user needs are downloaded to the VDA during logon and logoff. This reduces logon and logoff times and allows users to access their profiles in the event of network interruptions or VDA failures1

1: https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/profile-management/current-release/configure/profile-streaming.html

The Applications and Trends features within Citrix Director can be used to view historical resource utilization for a machine running the VDA. The Applications feature shows the application usage and resource consumption of each application on a specific machine2. The Trends feature shows the historical trends of various metrics such as CPU, memory, disk, and network utilization for a specific machine3.

According to the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service documentation1, the Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops service allows administrators to manage on-premises resources from the cloud, while providing users with secure access to those resources from any device. The Citrix Gateway service2 provides secure remote access to the on-premises resources through the Citrix Cloud Connector. The Citrix Provisioning service3 enables administrators to stream a single desktop image to multiple virtual machines, reducing storage and maintenance costs.