Scenario: A Citrix Engineer is designing a Provisioning Services environment based on the following environmental factors:
A large number of physical target devices are part of a single subnet.
The target device machines are of the same specialized model and have been designed for use with Provisioning Services. A security mandate prohibits the use of TFTP.
Which Provisioning Services boot method is appropriate for the target devices?
A. DHCP Options
B. PXE
C. BDM Disk Partition
D. BDM ISO
E. BIOS Embedded
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E: Bios Embeded
https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/provisioning/7-15/managing-target-device/bootstrap-bios-embedded.html
The Correct Answer is E:
The clues to this are :
A security mandate prohibits the use of TFTP–That essentially narrows it down to BDM or BIOS embedded
-A large number of physical target devices–that would likely eliminate BDM which you could do but likely won’t because of the large number of machines you’d need to touch to do BDM vs. Bios Embedded
–The target device machines are of the same specialized model and have been designed for use with Provisioning Services. –that’s the KICKER and is obviously pointing you towards Bios Embedded as the correct option because the OEM has designed a specialized model for use with PVS–https://docs.citrix.com/en-us/provisioning/7-15/managing-target-device/bootstrap-bios-embedded.html
BDM could be used but as the question asks–which method is appropriate
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E is the correct answer in this case due to the fact that the question asks, “A large number of physical target devices”, and “The target device machines are of the same specialized model and have been designed for use with Provisioning Services”
But this is a stupid question since both C and E are correct.
You can convert a physical machine to use BDM Partition by running the Boot Device Manager tool on an attached USB thumb drive and boot it from said thumb drive.
BIOS Embedded works as well as long as the machines are provided from the OEM with that functionality.
Citrix isn’t asking what makes most sense, but what is the “Citrix” way of doing things.
E for all the same reason stated by Anonymous Physical servers means their not booting off a network, well at least not right away 🙂
E is correct because “Physical Devices” and “are of the same specialized model and have been designed for use with Provisioning Services.”
It is hard to use “BDM Disk Partition” it may not even possible on physical device
Anwer C is correct.
Question says “A security mandate prohibits the use of TFTP.”
As of XenDesktop version 7.x, when using XenDesktop setup wizard we can create and assign a small BDM hard disk partition, which will be attached to the virtual machine as a separate virtual disk. Using this method the above mentioned two-stage approach is no longer needed because partition already contains all the PVS drivers. This way all the information needed will be directly available without the need of PXE,TFTP & DHCP.
Can someone please explain why Answer C is here correct and not Answer E
Because the correct answer is C, see: https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX227725