ACSP Practice Exam: Quiz!

Which dynamic service discovery protocol does OS X use to discover devices on a network? 

• Bonjour

• SLP

• DynDNS

• AppleTalk

In OS X Mountain Lion, where do most applications that are NOT sandboxed store their user-specific preferences?

• In application-specific preferences files in ~/Library/Preferences/

• In a preferences database file in /Library/

• In .DS_Store files, at the root level of ~/

• In a preferences database file in ~/Library/

Migration Assistant is open on a Mac with OS X Mountain Lion installed. It CANNOT migrate user files from ________.

• An archive stored on iCloud

• A Time Machine backup on a connected USB hard disk

• Another volume on the same computer

• A Windows XP computer with Service Pack 3 or later installed

On an OS X computer running Mountain Lion, changes made in the Software Update pane of System Preferences apply to ALL users of the system.

• True

• False

An OS X Mountain Lion computer has three local users configured as shown above. Bill Sykes has lost the password to his account.Which procedure will let you reset his password?

• Restart the Mac from the OS X Recovery partition, open Terminal from the Utilities menu, type resetpassword and press Return to open the Reset Password utility, and then reset his password.

• Log in as Bill Sykes using the root password, open Users & Groups preferences, and then reset his password.

• Log in as Chris, open Directory preferences and enable the root user, then authenticate as the root user in Users & Groups preferences, and then reset Bill Sykes' password.

• Log in as Chris, open Reset Password from the Utilities folder, and then reset Bill Sykes' password.

You are logged into a MacBook Pro as a standard user.How can you display the OS X Mountain Lion build number?

• Choose About This Mac from the Apple menu, and then click the text directly under OS X until the build number is revealed.

• Type build_number in Spotlight, and then scroll through the resulting information until the build number is revealed.

• In the General pane of System Preferences, click the Info disclosure triangle to reveal the build number.

• Choose Software Update from the Apple menu, and then choose Build Number from the Update menu.

Which of these is a recovery key storage location that FileVault 2 offers when you enable it? 

• An Apple server

• Your iCloud account

• The System Keychain

• The OS X Recovery partition

You are manually restoring the home folder for a new user account, and see the message shown above. What will happen if you click Cancel?

• You will be returned to the new account sheet in the Users & Group pane.

• The existing home folder's name will be changed to match the one you entered in the new account sheet.

• The account name will be changed to the name of the existing home folder.

• The existing home folder will be displayed in the Finder with the name selected.

• It will be deleted immediately, without being moved to the Trash.

• It will be moved to the Trash.

• "Deleted" will be appended to the home folder name, and it will be archived in Time Machine in a compressed and encrypted file.

• "Deleted" will be appended to the home folder name, and its permissions will be changed to allow administrator user access only.

You are configuring an OS X Mountain Lion computer that will be located in a public space. You want anyone to be able to log in and use Safari, but you do NOT want their Safari browser history to remain on the computer after users log out.

• Enable the Guest account for login.

• Create a Sharing Only account.

Which OS X Mountain Lion tool can help you create a strong password? 

• Password Audit, accessible from Security preferences

• Password Assistant, accessible from Users & Groups preferences

• Security Audit, accessible from Directory Utility

• Password Checking, accessible from Parental Controls preferences

Which statement is true of ALL THREE buses: USB, FireWire, AND Thunderbolt? 

• The bus can operate at speeds of at least 4 Gbps.

• An Intel-based Mac can start up into target disk mode using this bus.

• The bus can host at least 64 peripherals.

• An Intel-based Mac can start up from a drive on this bus.

A new 5 MB file was backed up by Time Machine yesterday. Today the file was edited, and has grown to 6 MB. It is about to be backed up by Time Machine again. How does Time Machine perform this backup?

• Time Machine copies the 6 MB file to the backup drive, and deletes the original backup copy of the file from the backup drive.

• Time Machine copies the 6 MB file to the backup drive, and keeps both the new backup file and the original backup file on the backup drive.

• Time Machine identifies the 1 MB of file changes, copies those changes to a new file on the backup drive, and keeps both the new backup file and the original backup file.

• Time Machine identifies the 1 MB of file changes, copies those changes to a new file on the backup drive, then creates a 500 KB parity file, and keeps all three files: the two new files representing the 1 MB of file changes, and the original backup file.

Review the screenshot of part of a Network Utility window, and then answer the question below. 

• A forward lookup of mainserver.pretendco.com returned the IP address 10.1.0.1.

• A reverse lookup of mainserver.pretendco.com returned the IP address 10.1.0.1.

• A reverse lookup of 10.1.0.1 returned the name mainserver.pretendco.com.

• The DNS server for mainserver.pretendco.com is pretendco.com.

In a default OS X Mountain Lion installation, which permission is assigned to the top level of each user's home folder to make it accessible to Guest users who log in locally?

• Everyone has Read & Write access.

• The staff group has Read & Write access.

• The wheel group has Read only access.

• Everyone has Read only access.

You upgrade a Snow Leopard Mac that has legacy FileVault encryption to Mountain Lion.If a user forgets his login password, how can you help him regain access to his encrypted home folder? 

• Log in to the admin user account, open Keychain Access, open the user's login keychain, and then let the user view the account password.

• At the Login Window, enter an incorrect password three times in a row. When the "forgot your password" dialog appears, click the Arrow next to Master Password. Enter the master password, and then reset the user account password.

• Log in to the admin user account, open Users & Groups preferences, click Reset Password, enter the admin password, and then reset the user account password.

• At the Login Window, enter an incorrect password three times in a row. When the "forgot your password" dialog appears, click the Arrow next to Apple ID. Enter the user's Apple ID, and then reset the user account password.

On a Mac running OS X Mountain Lion, how can you display a list of installed software updates? 

• Open System Information, click System Report, and then in the sidebar under Software, click Installations.

• Open Software Update preferences and click Installed Software.

• Open Installer, choose Show Files from the File menu, and then in the Files section under /var/log/, select install.log.

• Open Software Update and click Receipts.

In what order do these three OS X components load at startup? 

• 1. Firmware 2. Booter 3. Kernel

• 1. Kernel 2. Firmware 3. Booter

• 1. Firmware 2. Kernel 3. Booter

• 1. Booter 2. Kernel 3. Firmware

Review the screenshot of a portion of the Disk Utility application window, and then answer the question below.  Which statement best describes the selected in the screenshot above? 

• It is one of three stripes in a RAID set.

• It is one of three hard disks in a RAID set.

• It is one of three file systems on a partition.

• It is one of three partitions on a hard disk.

Which of these must you know about a corporate VPN server before you can configure the VPN software on an OS X computer to access the corporate network?

• If the corporate VPN server supports DNSSEC

• If the corporate VPN server supports PPPoE

• If the corporate VPN server supports PPTP, L2TP over IPSec, or Cisco IPSec

• If network protocols will be encapsulated by the corporate VPN server

Which process will let you start up a Mac in target disk mode?

• Hold down the S key on the keyboard while the Mac starts up, then enter the command reboot target.

• Open the Startup Disk preferences, click Target Disk Mode, and then click Restart.

• Start up from the OS X Recovery partition, choose Target Disk Mode from the Startup Disk menu, and restart the Mac.

• Hold down the Option key on the keyboard as the Mac starts up, until a dialog appears, then select Target Disk Mode from the dialog.

How do you start up an OS X Mountain Lion computer in Safe Mode? 

• Hold down Shift during startup.

• Open Terminal, type safe_boot, press Return, and then restart the Mac.

• Hold down Command-Option-P-R during startup.

• Start up from the OS X Recovery partition, and then choose Safe Boot from the Startup Disk menu.

An OS X Mountain Lion computer is connected to both an Ethernet and a Wi-Fi network.How can you specify which interface the Mac will use to access the Internet?

• Use Internet Connect to select the preferred interface, and disable the other interface(s).

• Enter a DNS configuration for the preferred interface, and delete the DNS configuration for the other interface(s).

• Assign a public IP address to the preferred interface, and a private IP address to the other interface(s).

• Use the Set Service Order action to move the preferred interface to the top of the Service Order list.

Review the screenshot, and then answer the question below.  If you change the folder privilege for "everyone" to Read & Write, Finder, by default, will change the permissions of items inside the folder to match.

• True

• False

When a user logs in, which task is NOT performed by the user's loginwindow or launchd processes? 

• Configure input device and system settings according to System Preferences.

• Launch items in /Library/LaunchDaemons.

• Launch Login Items specified in Users & Groups preferences.

• Launch Dock and Finder.

You started up a Mac from its OS X Recovery partition to complete a task. When you restarted, the Mac started up from the OS X Recovery partition again. How can you configure it to start up from a different volume?

• Choose Disk Utility from the Apple menu, and select a startup volume.

• Choose Startup Disk from the Apple menu, and select a startup volume.

• Choose Startup Disk in the OS X Utilities window, and select a startup volume.

• Choose Terminal from the Utilities menu, type startupdisk -[volume name] and press Return.

Which folder contains instructions for the launchd process to start certain items when a user logs in to an OS X Mountain Lion computer?

• /etc/launchd/

• /Library/LaunchAgents/

• /var/run/launchd/

• /Library/Extensions/

In OS X Mountain Lion, Safe Boot ________.

• Increases data security by modifying Sharing settings, so only essential protocols are enabled at startup

• Facilitates troubleshooting by preventing loading of third-party components in the operating system at startup

• Increases data security by assigning all standard users Read-only privileges to mounted local volumes

• Prevents users from accessing sensitive system files by loading Simple Finder instead of Finder at startup

How can you find out which application the Finder will use to open a specific document?

• Select the document icon in the Finder, choose Get Info from the File menu, and click the disclosure triangle next to "Open with" in the Info window to reveal the selected application in the pop-up menu.

• Select the document icon in the Finder, and choose Show Default Application from the File menu.

• Control-click the document icon in the Finder, and choose Show Application from the shortcut menu.

• Select the document icon in the Finder, choose Show Inspector from the File menu, click Application Bindings in the Inspector window, and scroll to locate the selected application in the pop-up menu.

You can configure Time Machine to delete versions of files as soon as they reach a specified age. 

• True

• False

How does OS X Mountain Lion handle third-party, 32-bit kernel extensions (KEXTs)? 

• It ignores them.

• It prompts the user with an option to convert them to 64-bit.

• It moves them to /Library/Extensions/Disabled/.

• It runs them in compatibility mode.

The function of journaling in the Mac OS Extended (Journaled) file system is to ________. 

• Protect volume structure integrity in cases of unexpected shutdown

• Provide a backup of user files

• Provide support for resource forks, extended attributes, and metadata

• Provide support for Spotlight searches

You enable Stealth Mode on an OS X Mountain Lion computer's firewall. How does this affect the computer's behavior?

• The Mac will not register any services that are offered via Bonjour.

• The Mac will not allow outgoing connections for non-approved applications.

• The Mac will not respond to incoming connection requests.

• The Mac will not respond to diagnostic probes such as ping.

How can a user with the short name anna exclude the /Users/anna/Downloads/ folder from Time Machine backups?

• Option 1

• Open Time Machine, choose Preferences from the Time Machine menu, click the Exclusions tab, click the Add (+) button, navigate to the /Users/anna/Downloads/ folder, and click Submit.

• Open the Time Machine pane of System Preferences, click Options, and add the /Users/anna/Downloads/ folder to the list of excluded items.

• Control-click the anna account's Downloads folder in the Finder, click the Sharing and Permissions disclosure button, click the Add (+) button, add the Time Machine user to the list of users, and set the Time Machine user's access to "No Access."

• In Terminal, execute the command sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/com.apple.TimeMachine excludedFolders -array-add /Users/anna/Downloads.

On an optional configuration step in the Setup Assistant in OS X Mountain Lion, pressing Command-Q lets you skip the step.

• True

• False

Which of these files will Time Machine, by default, NOT back up? 

• An encrypted file that was created to track passwords

• A file that Time Machine identifies as conflicting with a previously backed-up file

• A Time Machine preference .plist file

• Any file in the Trash

How can you display the contents of a hidden folder on a mounted volume in Finder?

• From the Go menu, choose "Go to Folder," enter the path to the hidden folder, and click Go.

• From the View menu, choose "Show hidden items."

• From the Finder menu, choose Preferences, and select "Show hidden items."

• Select the volume icon and choose "Show hidden items" from the Action menu.

Which utility is on the OS X Recovery partition? 

• Boot Camp Assistant

• Console

• Firmware Password Utility

• Activity Monitor

When a user opens an application, in what order does OS X Mountain Lion search the three Library folders in the local file system for resources that the application needs to access, such as fonts?

• 1. ~/Library/ /Library/ /System/Library/

• 1. /Library/ ~/Library/ /System/Library/

• 1. ~/Library/ /System/Library/ /Library/

• 1. /Library/ /System/Library/ ~/Library/

Which OS X startup keyboard shortcut causes the system to display the most detailed information about the startup process?

• Command-S

• Shift

• F12

• Command-V

Which tool lets you search log files? 

• Network Utility

• Activity Monitor

• Console

• Archive Utility

You have a Mac OS X v10.6.8 computer that has several user accounts.If you install OS X Mountain Lion without first erasing the target volume, what will happen to the 10.6.8 operating system and the existing user accounts?

• The Installer archives the 10.6.8 OS and installs Mountain Lion. It maintains the user accounts.

• He Installer upgrades the 10.6.8 OS to Mountain Lion. It maintains the user accounts.

• The Installer replaces the 10.6.8 OS with Mountain Lion. It archives the user accounts, but they can be restored manually.

• The Installer erases the 10.6.8 OS and installs Mountain Lion. It archives the user accounts, but they can be restored manually.

Which statement about Gatekeeper is TRUE?

• Only the root user can disable Gatekeeper.

• Standard users can bypass Gatekeeper.

• Gatekeeper can ONLY be disabled using a configuration profile.

• Only administrator users can bypass Gatekeeper.

Which statement is TRUE of file and folder permissions in the Finder in OS X Mountain Lion? 

• A user with Read-only permissions to a folder CANNOT rename any files in that folder.

• A user with Write-only permissions to a folder can rename any file in that folder.

• A user with Read-only permissions to a folder CANNOT view any files in that folder.

• A user with Write-only permissions to a folder can delete any file in that folder.

Review the screenshot, and then answer the question below. While attempting to reinstall OS X Mountain Lion in Recovery mode, you get the error message shown above. Your Mac is physically connected to an Ethernet network.Which tool can you use to diagnose the problem further?

• Internet Connect

• Network Preferences

• Network Diagnostics

• Network Utility

What is the role of the launchd process in the startup of an OS X Mountain Lion computer?

• The kernel starts launchd, then launchd starts all the other processes involved in startup.

• The init process starts launchd, then launchd starts the items stored in the StartupItems folder.

• Launchd starts the init process, then init starts all the other processes involved in startup.

• The init process starts launchd, then launchd starts the scripts stored in /etc/chron/.

If you use the Get Info window to change Sharing & Permissions settings on a file or folder, Finder preserves and can revert to the previous settings until the window is closed.

• True

• False

If you did not store the recovery key with Apple, and you lose the FileVault-enabled account passwords AND the recovery key, there is no way to recover user data on a FileVault-encrypted volume.

• True

• False