Check Your Understanding / Deployment and Management Flashcards
What links a device to an MDM (mobile device management) solution?
A. APNs
B. Firewall
C. Restriction
D. Enrollment profile
D. Enrollment profile
Enrollment profiles are the links between devices and the MDM solution.
What does MDM need to operate, specifically for APNs and SSL?
A. Certificates
B. Restrictions
C. Enrollment profiles
A. Certificates
Which Apple device capability allows MDM to secure devices?
A. Location Services
B. Enrollment profiles
C. Built-in device security features
C. Built-in device security features
An MDM solution allows you to use the device’s built-in security features.
Which statement about the Apple management framework is true?
A. It’s built into Apple devices.
B. It doesn’t support personal devices.
C. It provides settings created by third parties to manage Apple devices.
A. It’s built into Apple devices.
Each MDM solution uses the built-in Apple management framework in iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and tvOS to manage features and settings for each platform.
After a device has enrolled with an MDM server, what happens next?
A. The device reports status to the server.
B. The device polls the server for any commands.
C. The server sends push notifications to the device.
C. The server sends push notifications to the device.
After a device enrolls with the MDM server, the server sends push notifications to the device when there are commands to process on the device.
What transformative update to the MDM protocol allows a device to react autonomously to its own state changes and apply management logic to itself without cues from the server?
A. User Enrollment
B. Device Assignment
C. Declarative Management
C. Declarative Management
Declarative management allows the device to be autonomous and proactive, freeing up the server to be lightweight, reactive, and able to subscribe to updates without constant polling.
When is it recommended to test beta software releases?
A. Quarterly
B. Year-round
C. When new devices are added to your organization
B. Year-round
A modern approach to managing Apple devices involves committing to the latest software, testing year-round, and ensuring that everything works together.
In which type of enrollment and ownership model can users personalize apps and data on their managed devices?
A. BYOD, organization-owned
B. Nonpersonalized, organization-owned
C. Personally enabled, organization-owned
C. Personally enabled, organization-owned
The organization assigns devices to users, and after configuration, users can personalize their devices with their own apps and data.
In which type of ownership model can users personalize apps and data on their personal devices?
A. BYOD, User Enrollment
B. BYOD, organization-owned
C. Nonpersonalized, organization-owned
D. Personally enabled, organization-owned
A. BYOD, User Enrollment
BYOD users can customize their personal devices before and after enrolling them in an MDM solution.
In which ownership model can IT administrators restrict the installed apps and personal data on a device meant to be shared with multiple users?
A. BYOD, User Enrollment
B. BYOD, personally enabled
C. Nonpersonalized, organization-owned
D. Personally enabled, organization-owned
C. Nonpersonalized, organization-owned
IT administrators typically centrally configure and manage shared or single-purpose devices.
How do you enroll devices ineligible for automatic enrollment in Apple Business Manager or Apple School Manager?
A. Device Enrollment
B. Automated Device Enrollment
C. Automatic enrollment
D. No enrollment possible
A. Device Enrollment
You can choose to manually enroll devices into your MDM solution by installing an enrollment profile locally on the devices.
Which type of enrollment is ideal for devices you need to distribute to multiple users in multiple regions?
A. Device Enrollment
B. User Enrollment
C. Automated Device Enrollment
C. Automated Device Enrollment
Which type of enrollment do you commonly use for BYOD deployments?
A. Device
B. User
C. Automated device
B. User
BYOD deployments most commonly employ User Enrollment. You can provide BYOD users a customized URL to an enrollment portal.
What do you need to consider when evaluating MDM solutions?
A. Support for watchOS
B. Pricing structure and subscription model
C. A device’s life cycle and trade-in value
B. Pricing structure and subscription model
Understand your organization’s budget and growth projections, then compare MDM solution pricing and subscription options.
Which is a deployment model to consider as part of your device management goals?
A. Application Programming Interface (API)
B. Over-the-air (OTA) enrollment
C. One-to-one
C. One-to-one
Also known as personally enabled, one-to-one is a deployment model you can consider when understanding your organization’s needs.
Which is an important user authentication feature of an MDM solution that you should consider?
A. Support and integration with your identity provider or directory service
B. Support for future versions of macOS, iOS, and iPadOS
C. Support for the BYOD deployment model
A. Support and integration with your identity provider or directory service
Verify if the MDM solution supports your current identity provider or directory service.
Which aspects of your organization’s infrastructure should you evaluate to ensure that it meets the network roaming needs of users throughout a building?
A. Number of devices per user
B. Wi-Fi coverage and capacity
C. Adequate number of access points per device
D. Sources of interference caused by construction materials
B. Wi-Fi coverage and capacity
Evaluating Wi-Fi coverage and capacity helps you strategically place wireless access points that have enough power to meet the roaming needs throughout your organization’s facilities.
Which type of network uses individual user credentials or device- and/or user-based certificates to control who or what devices can use the network?
A. Provisioning network
B. WPA2 Personal network
C. WPA2 Enterprise network
C. WPA2 Enterprise network
WPA2 Enterprise network uses individual user credentials or device- and/or user-based certificates to control who or what devices can use the network.
Which functions require Apple devices to continuously access APNs?
A. Bonjour access, content caching, and internet connection sharing
B. SSO, VPN connectivity, and Wi-Fi network roaming
C. Notifications of operating-system and app updates, MDM policies, and messages
D. Ad and location tracking, Keychain data backup, and app suggestions
C. Notifications of operating-system and app updates, MDM policies, and messages
Apple devices learn of operating-system and app updates, MDM policies, and incoming messages through continuous access to APNs. Make sure that your organization allows network traffic access to Apple’s network on the entire 17.0.0.0/8 address block on port 5223, with a fallback option of port 443.
What should you do to ensure that Apple devices can access APNs and other Apple services on your organization’s network?
A. Configure all devices to auto-establish secure VPN access to Apple’s network.
B. Deploy devices with an SSO payload that are configured to allow access to Apple’s network.
C. Adjust network configurations on web proxies or firewall ports to allow access to Apple’s network.
D. Set up your network to work with Bonjour so that devices can connect to APNs and Apple services.
C. Adjust network configurations on web proxies or firewall ports to allow access to Apple’s network.
For Apple devices to access APNs and Apple services, you might need to adjust network configurations on web proxies or firewall ports to allow network traffic access to Apple’s network. Make sure that your organization allows network traffic access to Apple’s network on the entire 17.0.0.0/8 address block on port 5223, with a fallback option of port 443.
Which is the most commonly deployed authentication technology that both AD and SSO use?
A. Kerberos
B. MSCHAPv2
C. OAuth
D. SAML
A. Kerberos
Kerberos is the most commonly deployed authentication technology that both AD and SSO use.
What is used for personalized setup of a managed device?
A. Apple Configurator
B. MDM solution
C. Setup Assistant
C. Setup Assistant
Setup Assistant is used for personalized setup of a managed device.
Why might you create a security policy that enforces the use of FileVault for data encryption on a managed Mac?
A. This policy ensures that users can’t disable FileVault.
B. When you turn on FileVault using an MDM solution, it adds a Recovery Key to a user’s iCloud account.
C. FileVault is compatible with any Apple device.
D. You can use third-party encryption algorithms to configure FileVault.
A. This policy ensures that users can’t disable FileVault.
Users can’t disable FileVault if it’s enforced with a configuration profile on managed Mac computers.
Which benefit helps IT administrators reduce the need to perform extensive configurations on Apple devices?
A. Many security features are turned on by default.
B. Users can select a security profile in Setup Assistant.
C. IT administrators can deliver and enforce policies without an MDM solution.
D. IT administrators can issue remote commands to devices to erase all private information.
A. Many security features are turned on by default.
Because many security features on Apple devices are turned on by default, administrators save time when they configure devices.
What happens if your Apple device can’t validate the trust chain of a signing CA?
A. The service encounters an error.
B. The CA is added to the unapproved list.
C. The user is asked to enter the device password or passcode.
A. The service encounters an error.
If your Apple device can’t validate the trust chain of a signing CA, the service encounters an error.
Which MDM payload setting can you use to turn off updating certificates wirelessly for iPhone and iPad devices?
A. Automatic sync while roaming
B. Allow users to accept untrusted TLS certificates
C. Allow automatic updates to certificate trust settings
C. Allow automatic updates to certificate trust settings
When you deselect this option and push the payload to your device, you prevent wireless certificate updates.
You’ve installed a payload on your managed Apple device that prevents users from accepting untrusted TLS certificates.
What happens when users try to access a webpage that uses an untrusted TLS certificate and then tap Show Details?
A. They’re asked to contact the issuing CA to validate the certificate.
B. They can tap “view the certificate,” but they can’t trust this certificate or visit the site.
C. They can’t tap “view the certificate,” and they can view only the unsecured version of the webpage.
B. They can tap “view the certificate,” but they can’t trust this certificate or visit the site.
When you deselect the option “Allow users to accept untrusted TLS certificates,” users can’t accept untrusted TLS certificates or visit sites that use untrusted certificates.
How do you configure Custom Apps to appear in the sidebar?
A. In Settings, select Apps and Books, then click Enable next to Custom Apps.
B. In Settings, select Enrollment Information, then click Enable next to Custom Apps.
C. In Roles, choose the role for which to enable custom apps, then select the View Custom Apps checkbox.
B. In Settings, select Enrollment Information, then click Enable next to Custom Apps.
You enable Custom Apps in Settings > Enrollment Information. When you enable the Custom Apps option, it appears below the Content section in the sidebar.
What is the purpose of using federated authentication with Apple Business Manager or Apple School Manager?
A. Federated authentication links to your Google Workspace or Azure AD domain.
B. Federated authentication verifies your organization’s eligibility.
C. Federated authentication verifies ownership of the domains that you use with your portal.
A. Federated authentication links to your Google Workspace or Azure AD domain.
When you link to Google Workspace or Azure AD, users can leverage their user names and passwords as Managed Apple IDs.
You didn’t import user data into Apple Business Manager after configuring federated authentication.
Which Apple Business Manager settings pane can you use to import user data into Apple Business Manager?
A. Accounts
B. Directory Sync
C. Enrollment Information
B. Directory Sync
In the Directory Sync pane, you can sync Apple Business Manager with user data from your Google Workspace or Azure AD.
Which of the following roles has the least user privileges?
A. Staff
B. Administrator
C. Content Manager
A. Staff
The Staff role has the least user privileges.
Which type of additional user should you create immediately after signup is complete?
A. Administrator
B. Device Enrollment Manager
C. People Manager
D. Content Manager
A. Administrator
After signup is complete, you’re the only person who can sign in. Create a second administrator account in case you can’t sign in for some reason.
Which roles must your account have to add or edit locations in Apple Business Manager?
A. Administrator or Site Manager
B. Administrator or People Manager
C. People Manager or Content Manager
B. Administrator or People Manager
Only an Administrator or a People Manager can add or edit locations in Apple Business Manager.
You’ve created a number of users with Content Manager, Device Enrollment Manager, and People Manager roles.
What should you do next to give each user access?
A. Enter a secure password for each user.
B. Ask each user to enroll in your portal.
C. Create sign-in information and email it to each user.
C. Create sign-in information and email it to each user.
You can choose to either email users their sign-in information directly or download it as a PDF or CSV file.
Which statement about adding an MDM server in Apple Business Manager or Apple School Manager is true?
A. Adding an MDM server creates a link to your MDM solution.
B. Adding an MDM server eliminates the need for an MDM solution.
C. Adding an MDM server configures an additional server in your MDM solution.
A. Adding an MDM server creates a link to your MDM solution.
Adding an MDM server establishes a secure relationship between your MDM solution and Apple Business Manager or Apple School Manager.
What’s the purpose of the public key certificate file that you download from your MDM server before you add the server to your Apple Business Manager or Apple School Manager portal?
A. It enables the MDM server to securely send email through the portal.
B. It configures two-step verification between your MDM server and the portal.
C. It contains a public key that the MDM server uses to encrypt the portal server token.
C. It contains a public key that the MDM server uses to encrypt the portal server token.
You upload the public key certificate file to Apple Business Manager or Apple School Manager when you add your MDM server.
After you add your MDM server in your Apple Business Manager or Apple School Manager portal, what must you do so that the MDM server securely connects to the portal?
A. Enter the encryption key that the portal generates into the MDM server.
B. Verify that the secure URL for your MDM server in the portal is correct.
C. Download the server token from the portal and upload it to the MDM server.
C. Download the server token from the portal and upload it to the MDM server.
The server token is a P7M file that your MDM server uses to securely connect to Apple Business Manager or Apple School Manager.
Which Apple Configurator tool do you use to add donated iPhone and iPad devices to Apple Business Manager or Apple School Manager?
A. Device Assignments
B. Blueprints
C. Profile Editor
D. Prepare Assistant
D. Prepare Assistant
You can manually add iPhone and iPad devices to Apple Business Manager or Apple School Manager using Apple Configurator with Prepare Assistant.
What happens if a Wi-Fi payload is not included in a configuration profile when manually adding iPhone or iPad to Apple Business Manager or Apple School Manager?
A. The device is added to Apple Business Manager or Apple School Manager, but won’t be able to connect to Wi-Fi.
B. Adding the device fails with a network error.
C. Apple Configurator continues to try to add the device to Apple Business Manager or Apple School Manager until you click Cancel.
B. Adding the device fails with a network error.
Because iPhone and iPad devices require an internet connection to be added to Apple Business Manager or Apple School Manager, you must install a configuration profile with a Wi-Fi payload.
How can you see more detailed information about devices in Apple Configurator after you start adding them manually?
A. From the Apple Configurator menu bar, choose View > Show Status Bar.
B. From the Apple Configurator menu bar, choose File > Get Info after choosing a device from the Apple Configurator main window.
C. From the Apple Configurator menu bar, choose Window > Activity.
C. From the Apple Configurator menu bar, choose Window > Activity.
The Activity window shows detailed information about the device, including activation status, enrollment status, and errors.
You want to integrate your MDM solution with Apps and Books for managed distribution to your devices.
What must you download in Apple Business Manager and then upload to your MDM solution?
A. A server token
B. A public key certificate
C. A CSV file containing all device serial numbers
D. Your organization’s Apple Customer ID
A. A server token
The server token is a file that connects your MDM solution to the volume purchasing feature.
Your organization wants to retain full ownership and control of apps that you purchased through Apps and Books.
Which license type should you choose?
A. Custom licenses
B. Managed licenses
C. Redemption codes
D. Supervised licenses
B. Managed licenses
Choose Managed when you purchase licenses for managed distribution. Your organization retains full ownership and control of apps through assignment with your MDM solution.
You purchase books and choose licenses for managed distribution.
What happens to ownership of the books when you distribute them?
A. Book ownership always transfers to users. You can’t revoke or reassign books.
B. You choose whether you want to retain or transfer ownership of books when you distribute them.
C. The organization retains full ownership and control, so you can revoke and reassign them later.
A. Book ownership always transfers to users. You can’t revoke or reassign books.
Regardless of whether you choose licenses for managed distribution or redemption codes, book ownership always transfers to the user.
What must multiple subnets share so that a network can use a single content cache, without requiring DNS changes?
A. DNS
B. Subnet
C. Bandwidth
D. Public IP Address
D. Public IP Address
You can set the caching server to provide content caching for subnets of the local network that share a common public IP address.
When an iPhone device on your network tries to download Apple content that could be cached, the Apple content server instructs the device to check with the local network’s cache first.
A. True
B. False
A. True
With content caching, when an iPhone device on your network downloads an iOS update from the App Store, content caching keeps a copy of the update.
Which issue could arise when multiple devices request the same data and caching is NOT turned on?
A. Data becomes less secure.
B. Bandwidth consumption increases.
C. Only the first device can download the requested data.
D. No issue — each device downloads the requested data.
B. Bandwidth consumption increases.
When the second device requests the same content, the bandwidth consumption doubles because the second device also needs to download the content from the internet.
For best results, deploy content caching on a Mac that has a single wired Ethernet connection as its only network connection.
A. True
B. False
A. True
Use an Ethernet connection to the network for best results.
Where do you turn on content caching on your Mac?
A. System Preferences > Security & Privacy
B. System Preferences > Sharing
C. System Preferences > Network
D. System Preferences > Profiles
B. System Preferences > Sharing
Use the Content Caching option in Sharing preferences to manage content caching on your Mac.
Which setting should you select to prevent your computer from going to sleep and interfering with content caching?
A. Wake for network access
B. Put hard disks to sleep when possible
C. Enable Power Nap while plugged into a power adapter
D. Prevent computer from sleeping automatically when the display is off
D. Prevent computer from sleeping automatically when the display is off
Content caching requires the Mac to be turned on.
With internet connection sharing, you can use a Mac computer’s internet connection to cache content for iPhone or iPad devices that are physically connected to the Mac through USB.
A. True
B. False
A. True
A Mac with internet connection sharing turned on and with an Ethernet connection can cache content for iPhone and iPad devices.
Which advanced option do you use to set the cache size?
A. Peers
B. Storage
C. Clients
D. Parents
B. Storage
You view and set the cache size in the Storage tab.
When you use Activity Monitor to check performance statistics for content caching, which comparison can tell you whether content caching is helping?
A. The closer the Maximum Cache Pressure value is to the Data Served value, the more content caching is helping.
B. The further the Maximum Cache Pressure value is from the Data Served value, the more content caching is helping.
C. The closer the Data Served From Cache values are to the Data Served values, the more content caching is helping.
D. The further the Data Served From Cache values are from the Data Served values, the more content caching is helping.
C. The closer the Data Served From Cache values are to the Data Served values, the more content caching is helping.
Comparing the closeness of these two values is the best way to determine how content cache is helping.
Where does the content caching service send log messages?
A. To the main system.log
B. To the subsystem com.apple.AssetCache
C. To the subsystem com.apple.ContentCache
D. To the subsystem com.apple.AssetCacheManagerUtil
B. To the subsystem com.apple.AssetCache
Specifying this subsystem in the log command filters the displayed results to those associated with content caching.
Which command can you use to configure advanced settings for content caching?
A. defaults write
B. AssetCacheManagerUtil status
C. AssetCacheManagerUtil settings
A. defaults write
When used with sudo, the defaults write command allows you to configure advanced settings for content caching.
Which tool can you use to display advanced settings for the content caching service?
A. Activity Monitor
B. Console
C. System Preferences
D. Terminal
D. Terminal
You can use the command line interface in Terminal to configure all settings, both basic and advanced, for content caching.
Which statement about entering Apple Customer Numbers and Reseller Numbers is correct?
A. You can enter both an Apple Customer Number and a Reseller Number.
B. You can enter an Apple Customer Number or a Reseller Number but not both.
C. You can enter only one Apple Customer Number, but multiple Reseller Numbers.
A. You can enter both an Apple Customer Number and a Reseller Number.
You can enter both an Apple Customer Number and a Reseller ID and even add multiple numbers if you need them.
Your organization has multiple MDM servers linked in Apple Business Manager or Apple School Manager.
What should you do to automatically assign iPhone devices and Mac computers to different MDM servers?
A. Choose your preferred assignment method in MDM Server Assignment, then select the default MDM server for each device type.
B. Edit the assignment options in Default MDM Server Assignment settings and choose a different server for iPhone devices and Mac computers.
C. Upload a CSV file containing iPhone device serial numbers and assign them to one MDM server, then Upload a CSV file for Mac computers and assign them to a different MDM server.
B. Edit the assignment options in Default MDM Server Assignment settings and choose a different server for iPhone devices and Mac computers.
If you have linked more than one MDM server, you can choose default assignments by device type in Default MDM Server Assignment settings.
You made multiple orders for new iPhone devices and want the devices from one order assigned to a different MDM server than the others.
What’s the best way to do that?
A. Use MDM Server Assignment to change the Default MDM Server Assignment for iPhone.
B. Select Devices, filter by order number and device type, then select all devices to change assignments.
C. Use MDM Server Assignment to enter a new Reseller Number for the order to filter device assignments.
D. Use Devices to download a CSV file containing iPhone device serial numbers for that order only. Edit the file and upload it with the unique server assignment for the iPhone devices in that order.
B. Select Devices, filter by order number and device type, then select all devices to change assignments.
You can select All Devices to edit the MDM Server assignments of all devices matching the search criteria.
You’re responsible for managing 10 identical iPad devices that your organization uses in a training classroom and networking isn’t available onsite. Each week you need to retrieve the files stored on each device by the recent students and set up the devices for a new class.
Which approach is best for this task?
A. Apple Configurator for Mac
B. Apple Configurator for Mac with Shared iPad
C. Apple Configurator for Mac with your MDM solution
A. Apple Configurator for Mac
You can use Apple Configurator for Mac to create a single backup image that you apply to all the devices at the start of class, and use it to retrieve files at the end.
Which type of content can you assign with Apple Configurator for Mac?
A. Apps
B. User settings
C. Purchased music
D. Podcasts
A. Apps
Distributing apps to multiple Apple devices simplifies deployment.
You can add content to a Blueprint or to devices in Apple Configurator for Mac only by dragging and dropping.
A. True
B. False
B. False
You can also add content to a Blueprint or a device through menu and toolbar options.
Which type of information about iPad can you view in Apple Configurator for Mac?
A. Camera status
B. iPad location
C. Console log
D. Ebook licenses
C. Console log
You can find the Console log by choosing File > Get Info from the Apple Configurator for Mac menu bar.
How do you install the cfgutil tool?
A. From the App Store
B. From Apple Configurator for Mac
C. From Profile Manager
D. From /Applications/Utilities on your Mac
B. From Apple Configurator for Mac
The cfgutil tool is one of the automation tools that you can install from Apple Configurator for Mac.
Which tool can you use to automate configurations with shell scripts?
A. Blueprints
B. Automator app
C. Command-line tool cfgutil
C. Command-line tool cfgutil
The command-line tool cfgutil in the Terminal app helps you write shell scripts and automate specific processes.
Which tool can you use to create your own workflows for bulk deployments?
A. Blueprints
B. Automator app
C. Command-line tool
B. Automator app
You can use the Automator app to create automated workflows for others to use when configuring devices.
Which tool can you use to automate configurations with a template tool to add configuration profiles and apps?
A. Blueprints
B. Automator app
C. Command-line tool
A. Blueprints
Blueprints use template tools to record actions that you can then apply to devices.
What is a configuration profile?
A. A System Report file with hardware and software configuration from a device
B. An automation file to script Apple Configurator actions
C. A file with user data from Apple devices
D. A file with payloads for Apple devices
D. A file with payloads for Apple devices
A profile is a file with payloads that contain settings and authorization information for Apple devices.
Which method can you use to build configuration profiles with payloads specific to macOS?
A. Apple Configurator
B. Apple Business Manager
C. An MDM solution
C. An MDM solution
To create custom configuration profiles that contain settings specific to macOS, use an MDM solution.
Which tool can you use to set up payloads for Apple TV?
A. Profile Editor
B. Prepare Assistant
C. Setup Assistant
D. Blueprints
A. Profile Editor
Use the Profile Editor to create configuration profiles for Apple TV as well as iPhone and iPad devices.
An MDM solution is the only way to create and distribute a configuration profile.
A. True
B. False
B. False
You can also create a configuration profile with Apple Configurator and then distribute it using a message, a web page, Apple Configurator, or an MDM solution.