Apple Device Support 2k25 Study Notes Flashcards
(163 cards)
What information is included in an Encrypted backup?
- Your saved passwords
- Wi-Fi Settings
- Website history
- Health data
- Call history
What is not included in an encrypted backup?
Face ID, Touch ID, or Device passcode data
(True or False) Your backup is encrypted by default.
False
How do you make an encrypted backup?
use Finder(Mac) or Apple Devices App(PC)> Connect device via USB> Select device in app> General/Summary Tab select “Encrypt local back”> Set Password
Exactly from Apple documentation:
1. Open Finder on your Mac or open the Apple Devices app on your PC. If your PC doesn’t have the Apple Devices app, or your Mac is using macOS Mojave or earlier, open iTunes instead.
2. Connect your device to your computer with the included USB cable
3. Locate your device on your computer.
4. From the General tab or the Summary tab, select Encrypt local backup under the Backups section
5. When asked, make a password
Note: After you confirm your password, the backup will start and immediately overwrite and encrypt your pervious backups.
(True or False) In Finder or Apple Devices app, under the General tab and then the Manage Backups button, a lock icon next to your devices name means that the backup is encrypted.
Ture (You should also see the date and time the backup was created)
(True or False) If you forget your encrypted backup password, you can reset it and have access to previous encrypted backups?
False (while you can change your password through the Finder or iTunes, you can only access new encrypted backups but nothing prior unless you remember your old password)
When was the Private Address Setting introduced? (What version of iOS, iPadOS, watchOS etc.)
iOS 14, iPadOS 14, watchOS 7, visionOS, and macOS 15 is turned on by default.
If a device cannot connect because the organization’s Wi-Fi network doesn’t allow a device to join using a private address, what does it use instead of a private address?
Hardware MAC address.
What are the three types of software updates?
minor software updates, major software upgrades and Rapid Security Responses (also known as supplemental updates).
What are the three possible alerts you would see on your Mac after a program loaded or tried to load a system extension signed by the developer of that extension?
Note: Some system extensions aren’t compatible with current versions of macOS or won’t be compatible with a future version of macOS. This section helps you learn what to do if you see an alert about system extensions or kernel extensions.
- Open Privacy & Security settings to allow the extension. You may also need to restart your Mac.
- Contact the developer for support because the extension needs to be updated or will be incompatible with a future version of macOS.
- Inform you that it will damage your computer and has been blocked.
(True or False) System Integrity Protection is designed to help prevent potentially malicious software from modifying protected files and folders on your Mac.
True
What file types/locations does System Integrity Protection actually protect?
- /System
- /usr
- /bin
- /sbin
- /var
- Apps that are pre-installed with the Mac OS
With System Integrity Protection in mind, what paths and apps can third-party apps and installers continue to write to?
- /Applications
- /Library
- /usr/local
What do you need to back up your iPhone or iPad to iCloud?
Other than Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and connection to power source.
Available iCloud storage space
(Make sure you have enough iCloud storage space for your data and content)
(True or False)iCloud automatically backs up your iPhone or iPad every day
True
When you connect your iPhone or iPad to a computer, how is the backup started?
1. Automatically starts when locted in Finder(Mac) or Apple Devices/iTunes(PC)
2. You have to maunally initiate the backup
3. Automatically starts as soon as the device is connected via the provided USB and placed in recovery mode
- You have to maunally initiate the backup
What is the most important thing to do after creating an encrypted backup?
This ensures that you can access your backups later
Store the password somewhere safe.
(If you create an encrypted backup, write down the password and store it somewhere safe. You have no way to recover encrypted backups without this password)
When are you most likely to use Apple Configurator for Mac to back your iPhone or iPad and restore the back up?
1. When you need to back up your personal Mac devices and are running macOS Ventura or later?
2. In device deployment scenarios or when working with organization owned devices?
3. When your device is locked and you don’t remember the password?
- In device deployment scenarios or when working with organization owned devices.
(Organizations use apple configurator to back up organization owned devices and to restore the backup to other devices to maintain the same configurations across them.)
Where in Apple Configurator do you go to enable encrypted backups?
Actions> Advanced> Enable Encrypted Backups
Your phone will automatically back up to iCloud everyday as long as what conditions are met?
When your device is connected to Wi-Fi, is plugged into power and is on the lock screen.
How do you change your password or picture on your Mac?
- Apple menu> System Settings, then click Users & Groups in the sidebar (you may need to scroll down)
- Click the info button next to the user in the list, then do any of the following:
a. Click Change to change your login password, or click Reset to change another user’s password.
b. Click a user picture to change the user’s login picture
How do you change DNS settings on Mac?
Apple menu> System Settings, click Network in the sidebar, click a network service (i.e., your home Wi-Fi network), click Details, then click DNS. (You may need to scroll down)
(True or False) You change the order that your Mac uses network services? (i.e. Wi-Fi or ethernet)
True:
1. Choose the Apple menu> System Settings, then click Network in the sidebar.
2. Click the Action pop-up menu (Ellipsis …) then choose Set Service Order
3. Drag Services into the order you want.
4. Click OK
(True or False) You can change where VPN is in the order of Network Services your Mac uses.
False:
You can’t change the order of virtual private network (VPN) connections because they already take priority over non-VPN connections.