Scenario: A company's Senior Citrix Administrator requested that an administrator reconfigure the printing policies in a test XenApp 6.5 farm. The Citrix Universal Printer Driver will be used…

Viktor S.Mar 12, 2026

The correct answers are B and D, and the reasoning is not complicated once you understand what the scenario is actually asking for. The goal is two things: use the Universal Printer Driver exclusively, and minimize auto-created printers. Option B gets you the first goal by enabling the generic universal printer, which presents a single printer object to the user session that routes output through the Citrix UPD without needing to replicate every client-side printer individually on the server. Option D gets you the second goal directly, because if you configure auto-create to not create client printers at all, you eliminate the resource overhead of spawning printer objects for every device a user has locally. The reason E looks tempting but is wrong is that driver mapping and compatibility handles what happens when a native driver is encountered, it does not by itself stop printers from being auto-created or enforce UPD-only behavior end to end. A is wrong because disabling client printer redirection entirely cuts off printing access for the session, which is not what they asked for. C is a print preview setting and has nothing to do with either requirement. If you got this wrong, you were probably pattern-matching on keywords like "Universal" and picking E, which is exactly what a bad exam prep site trains you to do. Read the requirements first, then eliminate.

Orla P.Mar 21, 2026

B and D are right. Generic universal printer plus no auto-creation covers both goals cleanly.

Dervla O.Mar 25, 2026

The stem gives you two distinct requirements, so you need two distinct policy actions, one for each goal. Read those requirements separately and eliminate options that only address one of them or address neither. Option A throws out all client printer redirection, which is overkill and breaks the scenario's intent, and E targets driver compatibility mapping rather than the universal printer feature itself. C is a distractor with no connection to either requirement. That leaves B to satisfy the exclusive use of the Universal Printer Driver by enabling the generic universal printer policy, and D to satisfy the resource conservation goal by stopping auto-creation of client printers at logon. Here is my genuine question for the group: do you understand why enabling the generic universal printer in policy B is what makes the Universal Printer Driver available session-wide, rather than relying on the driver compatibility mapping in option E to do that job? Knowing the functional difference between those two mechanisms is what makes B obviously correct once you see it.

Thekla S.Mar 8, 2026

Took this exact scenario in my 1Y0-A20 sitting back when I was still managing a mid-size XenApp 6.5 environment, and the wording tripped me up for a second because I kept second-guessing whether the generic universal printer policy alone was enough, but then I remembered that enabling it without suppressing individual client printer auto-creation still leaves you with resource overhead from all those mapped queue objects. B and D together is the only combination that gets you to minimal server-side printer objects while keeping the universal driver path intact, and that is exactly what Citrix expects you to know cold before you touch production printing policy.

Wesley A.Mar 17, 2026

The trick here is understanding that B and D work together as a pair to hit both goals at once. Enabling the generic universal printer gives every user one single printer that already uses the Citrix Universal Printer Driver, so the driver requirement is covered without any per-client driver mapping needed. Stopping auto-creation of client printers with D is what actually keeps resource usage low, because without it the server would still spin up individual printer objects for every device the client has mapped locally. A lot of people pick E thinking they need to map drivers to the Universal driver explicitly, but if you already disabled auto-created client printers and enabled the generic universal printer, there are no individual client printers left to map drivers for in the first place. I had this exact scenario on my second sitting and I remember staring at A and D for too long because my first instinct was that disabling client printer redirection entirely would solve the resource problem, which is technically true but it also kills all printing capability, and the question says the Universal driver will be used, not that printing is going away. Once I reframed it as "minimum printers, Universal driver still in play," B and D jumped out immediately. Marked them both and moved on without second-guessing it.