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ACSP: Apple Certified Support Professional Os X Support

Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Security risk with fast user switching?






2. Absolute path






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






4. What does iSync do?






5. How does network service order affect network connectivity?






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






7. Min hardware requirements for 10.6






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






9. What does CUPS do?






10. What does the firmware do? What is the POST?


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






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






13. What does 'ignore volume ownership' do in the Finder?






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






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


16. How does resetting a user's password as an admin user affect their keychain?






17. How do kerberos and keychain system differ for managing authentication services?






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






19. What is authentication and authorization?






20. What are three common authentication methods?






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


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


23. How does the IP transfer messages between computers on a WAN?


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






25. Four prep steps before installing






26. What are some common file flags and extended attributes used by Mac OS X?






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






28. Account attributes






29. How can you limit a user account?






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






31. Why might a previously backed-up item no longer be available in Time Machine?






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






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






34. What are the three primary steps for setting up bootcamp?






35. Five types of accounts in 10.6






36. Path






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






38. Four methods to access CLI






39. How do you share printers with other Mac and Windows users?


40. Default install packages






41. What functionality does 10.6 support with AppleTalk?






42. What is Rosetta and what types of items are not supported by Rosetta?






43. What is the difference between safe boot - safe mode - and safe login?






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






45. What are the visual or audible cues for each system initialization stage?






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






47. Relative path


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






49. What is a Kerberos Ticket and KDC?


50. What are the min sys req for BootCamp?