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ACSP: Apple Certified Support Professional Os X Support

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What are some security concerns with spotlight?






2. How do you further resolve and issue that disappears when the Mac successfully safe-boots?






3. How does resetting the master filevault password affect existing filevault user accounts?






4. What 4 methods can be used to eject a volume from the finder?






5. What items are automatically started by system launchd during the system initialization process?






6. What three common unix commands support Mac filesystem metadata?






7. How can you force quit an app from the GUI?






8. How can you identify which apps are installed on a Mac?






9. What shared items are accessible to any user who connects via FTP?


10. How does file-fault secure a user's data?






11. How does Mac OS X's built-in firewall work? What advanced firewall settings are available?






12. What items are not loaded when Mac OS X safe boots?






13. Best command to list items in a folder?






14. Difference between disk drives - partition - and volume


15. What are they advantages of code-signing?






16. What are the primary system initialization stages and user environment stages in Mac OS X and what order do they start?






17. What are the primary differences between local - network - and mobile accounts?






18. Five types of accounts in 10.6






19. What are four advantages of using network directory services to store account information?






20. How can you identify the MAC Addresses for all of the Mac's network interfaces?






21. What is the difference between launch daemons - startup items - launch agents - and login items?


22. Two primary partition schemes for mac formatted drives?






23. How does the Finder's secure empty trash work?






24. How are the permissions on the shared folder set to allow local user sharing?






25. What does iSync do?






26. Folder/directories






27. How does the spotlight search service use metadata?






28. How does Boot Camp work?






29. How do Mac OS X computers acquire and use link-local TCP/IP addresses?


30. What are some known issues that arise when connecting to network file services?






31. Why does the Finder hider certain folders at the root of the system volume?


32. What files are associated with the computer's website? What about the users' websites?


33. How does Time Machine maintain a backup history of the system?


34. How does the system determine what app to use to open a file?






35. How does the IP addresses use the MAC address to send messages between computers on a LAN?


36. How do you use disk utility to burn an optical disk?






37. Security risks & account types






38. What items are shared by default to all users?


39. What three methods can be used to select the start-up disk?






40. How do you use the finder's burn folder feature?






41. What are four common issues that can interrupt network services on a Mac OS X computer?






42. What are the min sys req for BootCamp?






43. What is the sticky bit?


44. How can you limit a user account?






45. Default 9 home folder folders?






46. How do you identify ownership and permissions of a file or folder in the Finder? In the command line?






47. What four Directory Service types can used in Mac OS X?






48. How does network service order affect network connectivity?






49. What are five common directory services and authentication services troubleshooting techniques?






50. What does CUPS do?