CERTIFICATION REVIEW 2026 TESTED
ANSWERS GRADED A+
⩥ Troubleshooting system resources pg 409.
Answer:
⩥ OSX Font Manager.
Answer: /Applications/Font Book. Auto installs fonts for you and also
has a feature to organize fonts, enable or disable, validate, and resolve
duplicate fonts. Also Font Book automatically validates a font before
installing it.
⩥ Meta Data.
Answer: Metadata is data about data and information used to describe
content.
⩥ Meta Data Forks.
Answer: A file appears as a single item but is actually composed of two
separate pieces: a data fork and a resource fork.
⩥ File System Flags.
,Answer: In general file system flags are primarily used to control user
access
⩥ Extended Attributes.
Answer: Any process or application can add an arbitrary number of
custom attributes. Also allows devs to create new forms of metadata
without having to modify the existing file system.
⩥ File System Tags.
Answer: You can assign custom (user defined) color tags as well as tag
names. You can modify file system tags within any application that
presents the save dialog. The options will appear when saving.
⩥ Spotlight Search.
Answer: Awesome tool that allows nearly instantaneous searches of file
systems, documents, applications and inside application databases,
mathmatic equations, and much more.
⩥ Command Spacebar.
Answer: Spotlight Search Shortcut
⩥ Spotlight Indexing.
Answer: Is able to perform wide and deep searches because it works in
the background to maintain a highly optimized database of indexed meta
, data. This includes time machine, air disk volumes, mail, neta data,
picture/music/video, and other applications. Spotlight indexes
permissions as well and only shows what the user searching has access
to.
⩥ Spotlight Plugins.
Answer: Expand spotlight search capabilities
⩥ Command + Shift + A/U/D/O.
Answer: Shortcuts for Applications, Utilities, Desktop, Documents
⩥ Advanced Spotlight Search pg 431.
Answer:
⩥ Smart Folders pg 437.
Answer:
⩥ Time Machine Disks.
Answer: Time Machine can backup to any locally connected Mac OS
Extended volume that is not the startup volume. Other options include
external USB, Firewire, or thunderbolt disks. You can also used a shared
network volume as your backup disk but it has to be hosted from OSX
Server or Time Capsule wireless access points. If on a shared network it