9/13/2006 9:20 PM Best way to clear Citrix interview :)

1. Clearly explain your current setup, Farm design - 50%

No of Farms.
No of servers in each farm.
How users are connecting - PN \ Web Interface
Secure Gateway..if you have one
2. Toughest problem you have faced with solution - 20%
Internet is always there for this
3. Questions on Data Collector \ Datastore - 10%
What is a DC \ DS.
How many DC \ DS we can have for a farm.
Recovery procedure & What will happen if DC \ DS goes down.
4. Printing - 5%
6. Licensing - 5%
Concurrent\Connection & Product licenses.
Difference between Standard, Enterprise versions of Citrix MF.
7. Webinterface\N-Fuse - 5%
Now a days they are asking on this also...
8. Migration Experience \ Citrix installation procedure - 5%
TOTAL = 100% - Based on this you will be evaluated, according to my own intervie
w experiences Not applicable to all.
Mail me to Sathya.Narayanan1@ge.com if you have any queries...
Eswar 9/19/2006 2:49 AM Some Questions on Interview
Q. Through which three management tools or utilities can shadowing be enabled fo
rusers of Presentation Server?
A. Presentation Server Console, Presentation Server Installation and Citrix Conn
ection Configuration Utility
Q. What is the purpose of the local host cache?
A. It ensures that pertinent data is accessible locally even of the data store d
atabase is unavailable
Q. Which three types of persistent data are contained in the Presentation Server
farmdata store?
A. Printer drivers and mappings, Published application configurations, Presentat
ion Server administrator accounts
Q. What is contained in the data store database?
A. Persistent data for all servers in a given server farm

WILL POST MORE QUESTIONS LATER...

Regards.........Eswar Suryanarayanan
Ramandeep 9/19/2006 3:49 AM Interview tips
As mentiond by Sathya and Eswar...U might get success but dont stop reading citr
ix scraps from brian madden site/dough brown and citrix knowledge base....that t
he best material you can get to enhance your citrix knowledge...and if you have
knowledge then passig an interview is not a big deal....
Good work sathya/Eswar...
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Ramandeep 9/27/2006 3:13 PM I dont remember the full name of the book butit sta
rts from ACE intervie guide....excelent book for all IT professionals....really
good...too much to learn from that book...i do recommend that book to everyone..
doesn't mater if yu are guru or wot but that book will add more stars
I lost that pdf but i m trying to get it frm my friend...if he has it then you w
ill see the link or ur email id request in my next scrap here
Eswar 10/7/2006 5:03 AM Questions can be also from Commands on Citrix... These
are some commands:-
acrcfg - Configure autoreconnect settings
altaddr - Specify server alternate IP address
app - Run application execution shell
apputil - Add servers to Configured Servers list for published applications (FR3
Only)
auditlog - Generate server logon/logoff reports
change client - Change ICA Client device mapping
chfarm - Change the server farm membership of the server
clicense - Maintain MetaFrame XP licenses
cltprint - Set the number of ICA Client printer pipes
ctxxmlss - Change the XML Service port number
driveremap - Remap the server s drive letters
dscheck - Validate the server farm s data store s integrity
dsmaint - Configure the server farm s data store
dsverify - Clean errors in the farm s data store
icaport - Configure TCP/IP port number
imaport - Change IMA ports
migratetomsde - Migrate the server farm s data store from a Microsoft Access datab
ase to an MSDE database (FR3)
mlicense - Add multiple MetaFrame licenses to the server farm s data store
query - View information about server farms, processes, servers, ICA sessions, a
nd users
tskill - Ends a process.
twconfig - Configure ICA display settings
querydc - Use this utility to determine the data collector for a given zone
queryds - Command-line utility is provided to query the current information on t
he local zone data collector.
queryhr - Use this utility to display information about member servers in the fa
rm.
qprinter - Not sure
msghook - Execute msghook only if information is requested by a Citrix Technical
Support