We’re excited to announce that beginning today, January 28, Citrix certification candidates can test from the comfort of their own home or office with online proctored (OP) exams.
OP exams let you conveniently and easily take an exam at your home or office while being monitored by an offsite proctor. Online proctoring combines convenience with an easy-to-use system that you can access from your own computer. All you need is an internet connection, a computer, and a webcam to get started.
Which Citrix exams can I take using online proctoring? All associate-level exams are currently available as online proctored exams. These exams are:
1Y0-203 Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop 7.15 Administration
1Y0-230 Citrix ADC 12 Essentials and Citrix Gateway
1Y0-240 Citrix ADC 12 Essentials and Traffic Management
Where is online proctoring available? Candidates in all countries except the following can take advantage of online proctored exams:
China
Fiji
Hong Kong
India
Indonesia
Malaysia
Pakistan
The Philippines
Singapore
South Korea
Sri Lanka
Taiwan
Thailand
Greeter support, proctor support, and the proctoring software are currently only available in English.
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Saab has a long history of breaking new ground on land, sea and in the air and delivering some of the most innovative products the world has ever seen. Now, the leading military defence and civil security company is pushing the boundaries in the digital world and transforming the way work gets done. At its core, Saab believes that true collaboration leads to better solutions. And with the help of Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CTXS) and DXC Technology (NYSE: DXC), the company has created an intelligent digital workspace in which its 16,000 employees can share technology, ideas and thinking across more than 80 locations in a secure and reliable way to meet the needs of its customers and give its business a competitive edge.
“We work every day with classified information. And while we need to be open in one end, we need to be very closed in another to ensure data integrity for those we serve,” said Mats Hultin, Group CIO, Saab. “That’s the key for us – to balance security and agility.”
And that’s where Citrix and DXC come in.
“Saab has for some years entrusted parts of its IT delivery to DXC Technology, which provides global support for thousands of workplace users around the world and supports Saab’s rapid global expansion through our successful and innovative MyWorkStyle solution,” said Martin Rainer, Industry Leader and General Manager, Manufacturing, DXC Technology, which is a Citrix Systems Integrator and winner of the 2019 Citrix Partner Innovation Award.
To accommodate Saab’s need for technology that could quickly scale to meet both current and future business challenges, Saab and DXC selected Citrix® Workspace to run under DXC’s MyWorkStyle offering and deliver a centralized, flexible workspace that both unites and frees users, while keeping the business in sync real-time.
With Citrix Workspace, Saab can serve up personalized access to the systems, information and tools their employees need, when and how they need them, in a flexible and secure way:
Flexible: Employees can access the ever-increasing list of SaaS, web and mobile apps they prefer to use in one, unified experience.
Secure: IT gets a single control plane through which they can onboard and manage application performance without getting in the way.
And Citrix Workspace can be up and running in a matter of days – a key for growth-oriented companies like Saab.
“The modern platform we have today as a workplace solution really helps us integrate new companies very effectively,” Hultin said. “With the latest company we bought, we were able to give everyone virtual access to the Saab environment two days after commercial signing. And that’s how fast we need to be.”
Among the other results Saab has seen since deploying services based on Citrix Workspace delivered by DXC:
Standardization and simplification – A single, centralized and flexible workspace unites Saab users and keeps the business in sync.
Deployment efficiencies and cost control – IT can more easily and cost-effectively stand up and provision servers, workgroups and new projects.
Greater resilience and security – A flexible, digital perimeter ensures every user is intrinsically secure.
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If you’re moving to Citrix Workspace, implementing VoIP or mission critical apps over the WAN, have limited or unreliable WAN services, moving apps to the cloud, or experiencing site network outages, you need to investigate Citrix SD-WAN.
Here are some of the goodies Citrix SD-WAN 10.2 delivered:
Cloud Connectivity Options
SD-WAN acts as the on-ramp to the Azure cloud with Azure Virtual WAN, enabling Microsoft’s massive customer base to connect securely and easily to its global hub of data centers.
New support of Microsoft APIs allows SD-WAN to minimize latency with direct internet breakout of trusted, latency-sensitive Office 365 traffic from office locations on the first packet.
SD-WAN for Microsoft Office 365
Citrix supports Microsoft’s Office 365 Network Connectivity Principles, with SD-WAN 10.2 providing reliable connections directly from office locations to the nearest Office 365 front doors, reducing latency and improving the user experience in the branch.
With cloud services such as Office 365, traditional WAN architectures no longer make sense. Traditional WAN architectures like MPLS were not meant to handle internet-bound traffic and were architected when apps were housed in data centers inside the security perimeter. But backhauling this traffic through a data center increases latency and has a negative impact on the user experience.
Citrix SD-WAN provides reliable connections directly from office locations to the nearest Office 365 edge nodes. The Microsoft Office 365 Endpoints web service publication provides Microsoft’s Office 365 endpoint URLs and IP addresses. With support for new Microsoft APIs, Citrix SD-WAN uses the endpoint data to enable direct routing of internet traffic from the branch to Office 365 edge nodes. Learn more here.
SD-WAN and Zscaler API Integration
Citrix SD-WAN allows for the creation of policies that enable direct internet breakout from the branch and Zscaler’s Cloud Security Platform. This ensures simple security for IT by inspecting all internet-bound traffic in a cloud service close to where users connect.
Citrix SD-WAN supports Zscaler APIs providing automation for fast configuration of IPsec tunnels to Zscaler Enforcement Nodes (ZENs) in Zscaler’s cloud network. ZENs are full-featured, inline internet security gateways that inspect all internet traffic bi-directionally for malware and enforce security and compliance policies. A more dynamic, secure, and fast connection over the last mile is delivered by Citrix SD-WAN.
The Zscaler API provides the two closest data center locations to each branch, allowing SD-WAN to steer traffic effectively. If one link goes down, the secondary active link provides seamless high availability, ensuring no disruption or security breach.
Together, Citrix SD-WAN and Zscaler enable faster adoption of SaaS and cloud applications in distributed enterprises. Learn more here.
Networking Improvements
Support of PPPoE (point to point protocol over ethernet) and enabling SD-WAN to act as a DNS forwarder allow customers to further consolidate routing infrastructure at the branch by incorporating edge-router functionality.
ISPs use PPPoE to provision DSL services. Tunnels are established over DSL connections to ISP routers and then go directly to the internet. A DSL modem converts these signals to ethernet signals for the router to understand the traffic. PPPoE is used to deploy and monitor these connections. SD-WAN can now act as a PPPoE client allowing it to take over some existing client services router capabilities to enable customers to replace edge routers with SD-WAN.
SD-WAN can redirect the traffic DNS requests to specific servers based on what type of application or domain users are trying to access. For example, a network can have custom apps like ones in yourintranet.net, so SD-WAN can send that DNS request to the local DNS server installed in the data center. If the user wants to access YouTube or Google or a SaaS app, you don’t have to backhaul the DNS requests to the data center; you can redirect the DNS requests to the generic server IP like 8.8.8.8 that Google posts or any ISP DNS server. This will help offload DNS requests from getting backhauled, as well as support any custom domains you use.
Success Secrets: How you can Pass Citrix Certification Exams in first attempt
