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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 common file flags and extended attributes used by Mac OS X?






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


3. What is the relationship between a network service and a network port?






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


5. Security risk with fast user switching?






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






7. How does the default organization of the filesystem allow users to safely share local files and folder?






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






9. What two dynamic network service discovery protocols are supported by Mac OS X?






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






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






12. What are some security concerns with spotlight?






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






14. What are the four erase options in disk utility?


15. Where does spotlight store its metadata index databases? How about the plugins?


16. How does the spotlight search service use metadata?






17. What is the purpose of IP addresses and subnet masks? What is their format?






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






19. What are the min sys req for BootCamp?






20. What client-sharing services can Mac OS X provide?






21. What is a directory as it relates to directory services?






22. Where are preferences stored? What format is generally used?






23. What are six common system resources? What purpose does each one serve and where are they located?






24. Why is time machine bad at backing up large databases?






25. What do the terms interface - protocol - and service mean in relation to computer networks?






26. What is the sticky bit?


27. What are five application environments supported by Mac OS X and what are they used for?






28. Which two commands can read text files?






29. What does a keychain do?






30. What steps should you take when troubleshooting app issues?






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






32. What backup destinations does Time Machine support?






33. What are the device classes used by Mac OS X to categorize peripherals? What are some examples of each class?






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






35. What does Mac OS X use bundles or packages for?


36. What is authentication and authorization?






37. What are they advantages of code-signing?






38. What is a device driver? What three primary types of device drivers are there?






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






40. What five network file services can you connect to from the Finder's Connect To Server dialog?






41. Difference between disk drives - partition - and volume


42. How does file system journaling work?






43. Default 9 home folder folders?






44. 3 Default items in CLI prompt






45. How does Mac OS X use dynamic network discovery protocols to access network services?






46. How is Disk utility's verify and repair feature used?


47. In the network preferences - how can you tell which interface is currently being used for network activities?






48. Path






49. How does network service order affect network connectivity?






50. What happens during user log-out?