If you want to deploy Citrix Virtual Apps with minimal admin maintenance while retaining control over VDA machines, which option is recommended?

• A. Service provider
• B. On-premises
• C. Public Cloud-hosted
• D. Citrix Cloud

Answer: (D)

Using a cloud-hosted control plane with Citrix Cloud minimizes admin maintenance by letting Citrix manage the control plane while you retain control over the VDA machines and where they run. In this setup, the management layer (the delivery controllers, license handling, monitoring, and orchestration) is hosted in Citrix Cloud, so you don’t have to deploy or maintain those components on your own. You still own and configure the actual VDA hosts, the images they run from, the network boundaries, and the user access policies, and you connect your on-premises or public cloud resource locations to the Citrix Cloud control plane. This combination gives centralized, scalable management with much less ongoing maintenance, while preserving direct control over the VDA infrastructure. Other options generally shift more control-plane responsibilities to you or a provider, increasing the day-to-day admin workload.