9L0-422 Online Practice Questions and Answers

You're troubleshooting a Mac.

Which is a valid reason for shutting down AND THEN starting up a Mac instead of selecting Restart from the Apple menu?

A. Mac does a full POST on startup only after a shutdown.

B. Mac loads a clean user session on startup only after a shutdown.

C. Mac performs disk checks on startup only after a shutdown.

D. Mac archives errors from the session to the log only during a shutdown.

Which is a valid reason to start up a Mac in verbose mode?

A. To view the startup process details

B. To present a command-line login

C. To display hints for the recovery key for a FileVault volume

D. To display the firmware password

You've started up a Mac from its Recovery partition.

How do you open the Startup Disk utility?

A. Choose Startup Disk from the Utilities menu.

B. Choose Startup Disk from the Apple menu.

C. Open Startup Disk from the OS X Utilities window.

D. Choose Disk Utility from the Utilities menu then choose Startup Disk from the File menu.

You backed up an OS X computer to a locally connected, unencrypted external hard drive via FireWire.

How did Time Machine store the data?

A. Time Machine stored each file as a record in a database.

B. Time Machine amended the file data from each backup to a CPIO archive.

C. Time Machine copied each file directly to the external hard drive.

D. Time Machine copied each file to a disk image on the external hard drive.

You started up your Mac from its OS X Recovery partition, and you need to repair the hard disk.

Which procedure should you use?

A. In the OS X Utilities window, click Select Volume, click Continue, select the hard disk, and click Verify and Repair.

B. Quit the Recovery app, then open Disk Utility from the /Applications/Utilities/ folder on the OS X Recovery partition, select the hard disk, and click Repair Disk.

C. Select Disk Utility in the OS X Utilities window, click Continue, select the hard disk, and click Repair Disk.

D. Quit the Recovery app, open Disk Utility from the /Applications/Utilities/ folder on the Macintosh HD partition, select the hard disk, and click Repair Disk.

You're logged in on an OS X computer that has multiple user accounts. The Public folder for another user has default permissions. How can you access that folder?

A. You can see its contents, and you can add files to its Drop Box folder.

B. You can see its contents, but you can't add files to its Drop Box folder.

C. You can see its contents and you can add files to it.

D. You can't see its contents, but you can add files to its Drop Box folder.

You want to manage configuration profiles on a Mac with OS X, but the Profiles preferences icon is NOT present in the System Preferences window. What's a possible explanation?

A. You aren't logged in as an administrator.

B. An account wasn't created for the Mac in Profile Manager.

C. There are no profiles installed.

D. Profiles have been disabled in the Security and Privacy pane of System Preferences.

How can you display the serial number for a Mac you're logged in to?

A. Choose About This Mac from the Apple menu.

B. Open System Preferences, then in the General pane, click the Info disclosure triangle to reveal the serial number.

C. Type "serial number" in Spotlight, then scroll through the resulting information until the serial number is displayed.

D. Choose About This Mac from the Apple menu, then click the line of text under OS X until the serial number is displayed.

When Marie logs in to her computer, she sees an error message that the system was unable to unlock her login keychain.

What's a likely explanation for this?

A. Before the current login session, Marie removed Keychain Access from her login items.

B. In a previous login session, Marie's account password was reset in Users and Groups preferences.

C. In a previous login session, Marie enabled FileVault on her account, then reset her account password in Users and Groups preferences.

D. Before the current login session, Marie's account password was reset using the Reset Password utility on the OS X Recovery system partition.

Which OS X tool can you use to create a strong password?

A. Security Audit in Directory Utility

B. Password Audit in Security preferences

C. Password Assistant in Users and Groups preferences

D. Password Checking in Parental Controls preferences