My Experience with 1Y1-A05

Nice one, I'll have to take a look at XenApp 5 once I have finished XenDesktop.

I've never take a beta exam, perhaps that'll be my aim for next year

Anything new and exciting in XenApp 5?

stupidboy wrote:

Anything new and exciting in XenApp 5?

I'm feeling lazy today: http://www.citrix.com/site/resources/dynamic/salesdocs/Citrix-XenApp-Comparative-Matrix(Aug0

.pdf

astorrs wrote:

179 questions (Citrix beta exams are longer than production exams).

. 179? Really? How lond do you have to answer them? Must be a few hours, I'm sure.

MobilOne wrote:

astorrs wrote:

179 questions (Citrix beta exams are longer than production exams).

. 179? Really? How lond do you have to answer them? Must be a few hours, I'm sure.

More than enough time, the worst was the BEWS 12 beta, it was 240+ questions - it went on and on and on...

240+ questions. OMG!! I can believe there's an IT test that's got that many questions. It should be called the BEWS 12 beta Endurance test. So you have like 3-4 days to answer them all??

BTW, Andrew, seems like your going to set a world record for having the most certs. Quite frankly, some of your more recent ones are a bit vague for me. But I know that when an IT guy gets to the stage your at, most things are relatively easy and your brain acts like a sponge, absorbing anything remotely related to IT. Right?

MobilOne wrote:

240+ questions. OMG!! I can believe there's an IT test that's got that many questions. It should be called the BEWS 12 beta Endurance test. So you have like 3-4 days to answer them all??

The worst part was that since it was a beta they were asking questions about the same thing in a few different ways, so not only did it go on forever, but it was repetitive.

MobilOne wrote:

BTW, Andrew, seems like your going to set a world record for having the most certs. Quite frankly, some of your more recent ones are a bit vague for me. But I know that when an IT guy gets to the stage your at, most things are relatively easy and your brain acts like a sponge, absorbing anything remotely related to IT. Right?

Not really, I have yet to actually learn anything new, all I've been doing is filling in the gaps in my knowledge about the products I have implemented and for those projects that are listed on my resume. At some point down the road I'll decide to pick something new to dive into... at this point it's a toss up between the RHCE and SCNA (I do have a few years of Solaris experience but it dates back to the SunOS 4/5 & Solaris 2.6 days). I look forward to then, but I felt it was most appropriate to focus on the things I know (since it just backs up my resume further).

Jeez, Solaris! I envy the SCSA guys a bit, pretty hard to find, alteast here in Melbourne. At Mobil, we had only the one guy managing the entire South Pacific region for the company. That's fair dinkum responsibility.

So what made you switch to MS from Sun/Solaris.

P.S. Please have a read of a question I posted in the 291 section. Royal answered the initial question, but I have another...

MobilOne wrote:

So what made you switch to MS from Sun/Solaris.

P.S. Please have a read of a question I posted in the 291 section. Royal answered the initial question, but I have another...

Got a 3 contract to do a couple of process control migration from VMS and VAXeln to Windows NT 4 for some large industrial plants.

And I was working in an environment with Solaris, IRIX, Windows NT, Mac OS, hell even some NEXT terminals (I'm sure I left a few out)... my early career was very heterogeneous.

P.S. I'll have a look.

Sounds cool. Does someone still switch from something to NT4 these days, or is this from the good ol' days?

MobilOne wrote:

Sounds cool. Does someone still switch from something to NT4 these days, or is this from the good ol' days?

LOL, that was 1999.

P.S. Your question was answered right? I saw royal's follow-up.

astorrs wrote:

MobilOne wrote:

Sounds cool. Does someone still switch from something to NT4 these days, or is this from the good ol' days?

LOL, that was 1999.

P.S. Your question was answered right? I saw royal's follow-up.

Yes, it was. Thanks.

The beta exams now free for everyone and not just those with invites:

http://community.citrix.com/blogs/citrite/keirad/2008/09/15/Get+certified+on+XenApp+5+at+NO+COST+for+a+limited+time

astorrs wrote:

The beta exams now free for everyone and not just those with invites:

http://community.citrix.com/blogs/citrite/keirad/2008/09/15/Get+certified+on+XenApp+5+at+NO+COST+for+a+limited+time

SWEET! I am down on this, booked for the 08/10/08 as there seems to be no time limit

Anything better than the admin guide out there?

undomiel

Booked it for the end of October for me. Time to start learning! I haven't done an exam for a while now so I hope I'm not too rusty and don't embarrass myself like with the 2008 Virtualization exam.

stupidboy wrote:

Anything better than the admin guide out there?

Honestly? No.

Grab the admin guides (for all the components) and pickup an eval and get that lab running...

astorrs wrote:

pickup an eval and get that lab running...

I think the office Xen Server/play thing (HP DL385, 32GB RAM + 2 Quad core AMDs) is due in this week, I think I have a plan

stupidboy wrote:

astorrs wrote:

pickup an eval and get that lab running...

I think the office Xen Server/play thing (HP DL385, 32GB RAM + 2 Quad core AMDs) is due in this week, I think I have a plan

Throw XenServer 5 on that guy, the new XenCenter looks great.

Oh and does XenServer support NPT on the Quad AMDs?

Edit: Looks like 4.1 and later do, http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/feature.asp?contentID=1297948 nice.

astorrs wrote:

Throw XenServer 5 on that guy, the new XenCenter looks great.

BUGGER, missed that one! Looks like I'll be installing that next week (have 1 customer that likes to be bleading edge, even he missed this ... very odd).

astorrs wrote:

Oh and does XenServer support NPT on the Quad AMDs?

Edit: Looks like 4.1 and later do, http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/feature.asp?contentID=1297948 nice.

Actually this is something that Citrix neglect to even mention, but it does not surprise me Xen Server does support this. Much of the speed comes from hardware support thus not wasting CPU cycles watching.

stupidboy wrote:

astorrs wrote:

Throw XenServer 5 on that guy, the new XenCenter looks great.

BUGGER, missed that one! Looks like I'll be installing that next week (have 1 customer that likes to be bleading edge, even he missed this ... very odd).

astorrs wrote:

Oh and does XenServer support NPT on the Quad AMDs?

Edit: Looks like 4.1 and later do, http://www.citrix.com/English/ps2/products/feature.asp?contentID=1297948 nice.

Actually this is something that Citrix neglect to even mention, but it does not surprise me Xen Server does support this. Much of the speed comes from hardware support thus not wasting CPU cycles watching.

Some screenshots for you: http://community.citrix.com/blogs/citrite/barryf/2008/09/16/XenCenter+5+in+Pictures

The NPT support will make a big difference (ESX 3.5 supports it too) when working with CPS workloads since the high context switches won't be a debilitating factor.

I too have taken the 179 monster exam today, I am no longer a beta virgin

I had 30mins left at the end and very sore eyes.

There was a handy button on the exam (next to the back and next buttons) marked terminology which has a table with old and new names.

Has everyone had their results on this exam yet?

Did anyone pass?

Took a look at the site today (after your reminder):

Pearson VUE wrote:

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 at 08:45:AM
1Y0-A05: 1Y0-A05 Implementing Citrix XenApp 5.0 for Windows Server 2008
pass

Sweet...

astorrs wrote:

Took a look at the site today (after your reminder):

Pearson VUE wrote:

Wed, 10 Sep 2008 at 08:45:AM
1Y0-A05: 1Y0-A05 Implementing Citrix XenApp 5.0 for Windows Server 2008
pass

Sweet...

Congratulations, it was a painful (physically and mentally) exam.

I too have passed, I would just like to see the score sheet now and see just how much by. (I passed all my PS4 exams with over 82% and considered CCI)

roberto.alves

roberto.alves wrote:

Congratulations, like I have already said, it was a painful exam.

I have been thinking and remember commenting on a number of questions and can remember 2 that were totally wrong (correct answer not an option). Did you find you spent some time writing comments?

I am very happy as I did not get any where near enough time to study this one.

I'll post my score when it comes through.

Mishra

Congrats you lucky SOBs.

I want to pass free beta exams and get random certifications...

90-85005 Terminating Firewire Devices in Network LANs that had 4 DHCP servers certification

undomiel

Congratulations! I signed up for that exam but then they had to reschedule me and I couldn't find the time due to the new job transition so it just fell through the cracks.

I've just had the hard copy (yuck!) posted through the door.

The passing score was 68% and I scored 77%, my new Citrix low :0)

roberto.alves

stupidboy wrote:

The passing score was 68% and I scored 77%, my new Citrix low :0)

I got the same score! 77%

Tonight I will put here the score for each subject to you compare by subject!

May be they had problems with some questions and supposed that we were wrongs... May be they gave the same score to everybody that passed...

Conspiration ideas...