This is the official curriculum of the Apple High Sierra 101: OS X Support Essentials 10.13 course and preparation for Apple Certified Support Professional (ACSP) 10.13 certification—as well as a top-notch primer for anyone who needs to support, troubleshoot, or optimize macOS High Sierra. This guide provides comprehensive coverage of High Sierra and is part of the Apple Pro Training series—the only Apple-certified books on the market. Designed for support technicians, help desk specialists, and ardent Mac users, this guide takes you deep inside macOS High Sierra. You will find in-depth, step-by-step instruction on everything from installing and configuring High Sierra to managing networks and system administration. Whether you run a computer lab or an IT department, you’ll learn to set up users, configure system preferences, manage security and permissions, use diagnostic and repair tools, troubleshoot peripheral devices, and more—all on your way to preparing for the industry-standard ACSP certification. This is a step-by-step guide that works through lessons designed to teach practical, real-world tasks, with lesson files let you practice as you learn.
This is the eBook of the printed book and may not include any media, website access codes, or print supplements that may come packaged with the bound book. Apple Pro Training Series: macOS Support Essentials 10.12 The Apple-Certified Way to Learn This is the official curriculum of the macOS Support Essentials 10.12 course and preparation for Apple Certified Support Professional (ACSP) 10.12 certification—as well as a top-notch primer for anyone who needs to support, troubleshoot, or optimize macOS Sierra. The only Apple-certified book on the market, this guide is designed for support technicians, help desk specialists, and ardent Mac users and takes you deep inside the macOS Sierra operating system. You’ll find in-depth, step-by-step instruction on everything from installing and configuring macOS Sierra to managing networks and system administration—all on your way to preparing for the industry-standard ACSP certification. Covers updated system utilities and new features of macOS Sierra, including Siri and Optimized Storage. Features authoritative explanations of underlying technologies, troubleshooting, system administration, and much more. Focused lessons take you step by step through practical, real-world tasks. Lesson files and bonus material available for download—including lesson review questions to help prepare you for the Apple certification exam. Web Edition provides full text of the book available online as part of our Content Update Program with revised content for significant software updates.
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macOS Support Essentials 10.15 - Apple Pro Training Series The Apple-Certified Way to Learn This is the official book for the macOS Support Essentials 10.15course and you can use it to prepare for the Apple Certified Support Professional (ACSP) 10.15 exam. It’s a top-notch primer for anyone who needs to support, troubleshoot, or optimize macOS Catalina, such as IT professionals, technicians, help desk specialists, and ardent Mac users. This is the only Apple Pro Training Series book that covers macOS Catalina. You’ll find in-depth, step-by-step instructions on everything from upgrading, updating, reinstalling and configuring macOS Catalina to configuring network services like the Content Caching service. This book covers updated system utilities and new features in macOS Catalina, including Voice Control and other accessibility features, user privacy settings, notarized apps, Startup Security Utility, and the separation of the startup disk into a read-only APFS System volume and a read write APFS Data volume. This book includes the following content: Authoritative explanations of underlying technologies, troubleshooting, system administration, and much more Focused lessons that take you step by step through practical, real-world tasks A Web Edition that provides the full text of the book online The Apple Pro Training Series includes self-paced learning tools and is the official curriculum of the Apple Training and Certification program. After you complete this book, take the macOS Support Essentials 10.15 exam as a step towards becoming an Apple Certified Support Professional. Work through this book independently or attend a class at an Apple Authorized Training Provider or both to prepare for the exam. To learn more, visit training.apple.com. Also in the Apple Pro Training Series: Final Cut Pro X Logic Pro X
An in-depth look into Mac OS X and iOS kernels Powering Macs, iPhones, iPads and more, OS X and iOS are becoming ubiquitous. When it comes to documentation, however, much of them are shrouded in mystery. Cocoa and Carbon, the application frameworks, are neatly described, but system programmers find the rest lacking. This indispensable guide illuminates the darkest corners of those systems, starting with an architectural overview, then drilling all the way to the core. Provides you with a top down view of OS X and iOS Walks you through the phases of system startup—both Mac (EFi) and mobile (iBoot) Explains how processes, threads, virtual memory, and filesystems are maintained Covers the security architecture Reviews the internal Apis used by the system—BSD and Mach Dissects the kernel, XNU, into its sub components: Mach, the BSD Layer, and I/o kit, and explains each in detail Explains the inner workings of device drivers From architecture to implementation, this book is essential reading if you want to get serious about the internal workings of Mac OS X and iOS.
The Apple-Certified Way to Learn macOS Support Essentials 11, the official book for macOS support, is a top-notch primer for anyone who needs to support, troubleshoot, or optimize macOS Big Sur, such as IT professionals, technicians, help desk specialists, and ardent Mac users. This is the only Apple Pro Training Series book that covers Big Sur. You'll find in-depth, step-by-step instructions on everything from upgrading, updating, reinstalling and configuring macOS Big Sur to setting-up network services like the Content Caching service. This book covers updated system utilities and new features in macOS Big Sur, including security and privacy enhancements, Control Center and Notification Center, Safari, system extensions, macOS Recovery, Startup Security Utility, and the Signed System Volume (SSV). This book includes the following content: Authoritative explanations of underlying technologies, troubleshooting, system administration, and much more Focused lessons that take you step by step through practical, real-world tasks A Web Edition that provides the full text of the book online The Apple Pro Training Series is Apple's official self-paced learning resource. Books in this series offer downloadable lesson files and an online version of the book. Additional information on this and other books in this series can be found at www.peachpit.com/apple. For more on certification, visit training.apple.com.
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macOS Support Essentials 12, the official book for macOS support, is a top-notch primer for anyone who needs to support, troubleshoot, or optimize macOS Monterey, such as IT professionals, technicians, help desk specialists, and ardent Mac users. This is the only Apple Pro Training Series book that covers Monterey. You'll find in-depth, step-by-step instructions on everything from upgrading, updating, reinstalling and configuring macOS Monterey to setting-up network services. This book covers updated system utilities and new features in macOS Monterey: Passwords System Preference Live Text Voice Control User privacy settings Notarized apps Startup Security Utility And more! This book includes the following content: Authoritative explanations of underlying technologies, troubleshooting, system administration, and much more Focused lessons that take you step by step through practical, real-world tasks A Web Edition that provides the full text of the book online The Apple Pro Training Series is Apple's official self-paced learning resource. Books in this series offer downloadable lesson files and an online version of the book. Additional information on this and other books in this series can be found at www.peachpit.com/apple. For more on certification, visit training.apple.com.
This is the official curriculum of the Apple Mojave 101: OS X Support Essentials 10.14 course and preparation for Apple Certified Support Professional (ACSP) 10.14 certification–as well as a top-notch primer for anyone who needs to support, troubleshoot, or optimize macOS Mojave. This guide provides comprehensive coverage of Mojave and is part of the Apple Pro Training series–the only Apple-certified books on the market. Designed for support technicians, help desk specialists, and ardent Mac users, this guide takes you deep inside macOS Mojave. Readers will find in-depth, step-by-step instruction on everything from installing and configuring High Sierra to managing networks and system administration. Whether you run a computer lab or an IT department, you’ll learn to set up users, configure system preferences, manage security and permissions, use diagnostic and repair tools, troubleshoot peripheral devices, and more–all on your way to preparing for the industry-standard ACSP certification. This is a step-by-step guide that works through lessons designed to teach practical, real-world tasks, with lesson files let you practice as you learn.
