For anyone planning to take the 1Y0-A26 Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administration exam, this is the last blog post of resources for the 1Y0-A26 exam. The following are links to resources for sections seven, eight, and nine of the exam.
For sections four through six, see last Friday's post, 1Y0-A26 Citrix XenServer Resources Part Two. For the first three sections, on Thursday I posted Part One.
Section 7: Configuring Advanced Features
7.1
Objective: Determine when Advanced StorageLink is beneficial to a given environment based on a description of the environment.
Source: Citrix XenServer and NetApp Storage Best Practices, Pages 73 and 74
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX133921
7.2
Objective: Determine when integrated disaster recovery is beneficial to a given environment based on a description of the environment.
Source: Citrix XenServer 6 Administrator's Guide
http://docs.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer/6.0.0/1.0/en_gb/reference.html#id1012038
7.3
Objective: Decide how to correctly set up access control list (ACL) policies on the vSwitch, based on a list of requirements.
Source: Citrix XenServer 6.0 vSwitch Controller User Guide
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX130423
7.4
Objective: Determine when to correctly set up quality of service (QoS) policies on the vSwitch, based on a list of requirements.
Source: XenServer 6.0 vSwitch Controller User Guide, Pages 21 and 24
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX130423
7.5
Objective: Determine when to enable and configure HA based on the needs of a described environment.
Source: Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administrator's Guide
http://docs.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer/6.0.0/1.0/en_gb/reference.html#ha
Source: Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administrator's Guide
http://docs.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer/6.0.0/1.0/en_gb/reference.html#id995890
7.6
Objective: Determine how to configure a virtual appliance (vApp) to work with DR, based on a description of an environment
Source: Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administrator's Guide
http://docs.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer/6.0.0/1.0/en_gb/reference.html#id1013982
Source: Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administrator's Guide
http://docs.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer/6.0.0/1.0/en_gb/reference.html#failback
7.7
Objective: Determine if a VM can use dynamic memory control, given a description of the VM and the environment it is in.
Source: Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administrator's Guide
http://docs.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer/6.0.0/1.0/en_gb/reference.html#ch_dynamic_memory_control
7.8
Objective: Determine how dynamic memory control needs to be configured to meet the needs of a described environment.
Source: Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administrator's Guide
http://docs.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer/6.0.0/1.0/en_gb/reference.html#id1005801
7.9
Objective: Determine which optimization mode(s) to set up on the WLB virtual appliance based on a description of an environment or a list of requirements.
Source: Citrix XenServer Workload Balancing 6.0 Administrator's Guide
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX130429/
Section 8: Backing Up and Restoring
8.1
Objective: Determine how to configure a backup schedule for storage repository metadata, based on a given scenario.
Source: Citrix XenServer Workload Balancing 6.0 Administrator's Guide
http://docs.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer/6.0.0/1.0/en_gb/reference.html#id1012173
Source: Citrix XenServer Workload Balancing 6.0 Administrator's Guide
http://docs.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer/6.0.0/1.0/en_gb/reference.html#id1012173
8.2
Objective: Determine the steps to take to back up a pool given a description of an environment.
Source: Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administrator's Guide
http://docs.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer/5.6.0fp1/1.0/en_gb/reference.html#id895429
Source: Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administrator's Guide
http://docs.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer/6.0.0/1.0/en_gb/reference.html#id1012038
8.3
Objective: Determine when an offline backup of a VM should be performed based on a given scenario.
Source: Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administrator's Guide
http://docs.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer/6.0.0/1.0/en_gb/reference.html#maintenance_backup-restore_guests
8.4
Objective: Determine when an online backup of a VM should be performed based on a given scenario.
Source: Citrix XenServer 6.0 Administrator's Guide http://docs.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer/6.0.0/1.0/en_gb/reference.html#maintenance_backup-restore_guests
8.5
Objective: Determine how to restore a VM based on a description or list of requirements.
Source: Recovering Virtual Machines from a Failed Pool Member
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX132387
Section 9: Troubleshooting
9.1
Objective: Given a description of a networking issue, determine how to resolve the issue.
Source: How to Modify Network Speed and Duplexing
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX117568
9.2
Objective: Given a description of a storage issue, determine how to resolve the issue.
Source: How to Reactivate an Inactive Multipath
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX125888
Source: How to Remove a Storage Repository from XenServer
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX131328
Source: XenServer Storage Management and Troubleshooting
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX125178
9.3
Objective: Given a description of an issue with the XenServer host, determine the root cause of the issue.
Source: Server in a High Availability Enabled Pool is Unresponsive and Does not Self-Fence
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX129815
Source: Error: External Authentication Fails to Enable
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX130592
9.4
Objective: Given a description of an issue with a VM, determine how to resolve the issue.
Source: Citrix XenServer 6.0 Virtual Machine Installation Guide
http://docs.vmd.citrix.com/XenServer/6.0.0/1.0/en_gb/guest.html#troubleshooting
9.5
Objective: Given a Provisioning services issue, determine the root cause of the issue.
Source: Troubleshooting XenDesktop, Provisioning Services and XenServer Integration
http://support.citrix.com/article/CTX125180