1Y0-A05 · Question #216
Which two events could trigger a Data Collector election? (Choose two.) Citrix 1Y0-A05 Exam
The correct answer is A. Restarting the IMA Service D. Loss of communication with the Data Collector. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.
Question
Which two events could trigger a Data Collector election? (Choose two.) Citrix 1Y0-A05 Exam
Options
- ARestarting the IMA Service
- BRestarting the XTE Service
- CPublishing a new application
- DLoss of communication with the Data Collector
How the community answered
(16 responses)- A69% (11)
- B19% (3)
- C13% (2)
Community Discussion
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Ingrid P.Jun 24, 2026The correct answers are A and D. Restarting the IMA Service takes the server temporarily offline from the farm's perspective, which forces the zone to re-run the election process to confirm or replace the current Data Collector. Loss of communication with the Data Collector does the same thing from the other direction, because member servers that can no longer reach the collector treat it as if it has gone offline and initiate an election to pick a new one. The XTE Service handles XML-based communication for web clients and has no role in Data Collector elections, and publishing an application is a configuration change that gets replicated through the existing Data Store and Data Collector without triggering any election. If you are building cards on this topic, I would put the election triggers on one card and the IMA Service responsibilities on a separate card, since IMA comes up repeatedly across different question angles on this exam. The connection between IMA restart and election triggering is exactly the kind of indirect relationship that gets tested, so it deserves its own short interval card rather than being buried in a list.
Isolde G.Jun 26, 2026The XTE service is a red herring here since it handles the XML ticket exchange and dropping it does not affect zone elections at all, and publishing an app just updates the data store without touching collector communication. Restarting IMA (A) forces the server out of the zone and back in, triggering an election, and losing contact with the Data Collector (D) is the classic election trigger every study guide hammers on, so A and D are the ones you need.
Giselle K.Jun 20, 2026Yep, A and D, IMA restart orphans the zone and DC loss forces a re-vote.
Isolde G.Jun 21, 2026Agreed on A and D, and worth flagging for the exam that this whole zone election dance is an on-prem IMA concern only, because in a DaaS resource location your Cloud Connectors register directly to the Citrix Cloud control plane and there is no local Data Collector to orphan or re-elect.
Carlos M.Jun 12, 2026I'm going with B and D on this one. The XTE Service handles the XML-based communication that the Data Collector depends on for zone-wide data exchange, so if you restart it you're effectively cutting the DC off from its ability to coordinate, which forces a re-election. D is the obvious one everybody agrees on, loss of communication triggers it by design. The IMA restart in A sounds tempting but that just brings the service back up on that one server, it does not inherently force a zone-wide election the way a communication breakdown does. Two answers, B and D, that is my final call and I am sticking with it going into test day.
Ingrid P.Jun 13, 2026Carlos, the XTE Service restart in B does not trigger a zone election because XTE handles XML ticket exchange, not zone membership, so the Data Collector stays active and no re-election occurs. The IMA restart in A is correct because when IMA goes down on the current Data Collector, that server drops out of the zone and a new election kicks off automatically, same as the communication loss in D.