10 interview question you are likely to be asked in Citrix XenApp Interview-1

Question 1 – Which network port does the ICA protocol use by default?
Ans- 1494 for Connections without session reliability or 2598 if session reliability is used.

Question 2– What is the purpose of the Data Collector?
Ans- The zone data collector is simply a Presentation Server which is performing the data collector role in a particular zone. The Presentation Server maintaining the data collector role is responsible for directing all requests from ICA clients launching published applications

Question 3– Is the information kept in the XenApp Data Store best described as static or dynamic?

Ans- Static

Question 4– What happens to existing, active user sessions in XenApp when the IMA service is restarted?

Ans- Nothing, if the service is restarted active sessions remain connected. (In earlier versions i.e Presentation Server 4.0 user sessions get disconnected when IMA is restarted because that also restarted the dependent Citrix XTE Service, which is used for Session Reliability.)

Question 5 – Can you name the feature that allows users to disconnect from their session and resume using it later from a different endpoint device?

Ans- Workspace control

Question 6– Which Citrix service is used for communication between XenApp servers?

Ans- Citrix XML service

Question 7– How to modify the Citrix License Port Number and Vendor Daemon Port Number ?

Ans- By default in License Server Version 11.5 Citrix License Manager Daemon communicates over port 27000 and the Citrix Vendor Daemon runs in 7279. You should not change this port number unless you have a firewall that uses another port number, or if this number is already in use

Question 8– What are different load evaluators are available in Citrix XenApp ?

Ans-

1. Default Load Evaluators

2. Advance Load evaluators.

3. Custom load evaluators.

Question 9– How do you repair the IMA local host cache?

Ans- dsmaint recreatelhc from cmd prompt.

Question 10– What is ICA and what are the advantage of ICA?

Ans- ICA - Independent Computing architecture.

it provides better compression and transmits High-level windows display information using low bandwidth.

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