Free Apple 9L0-412 Practice Test & Real Exam Questions

Exam Code/Number: 9L0-412
Exam Name/Title: OS X Support Essentials 10.8 Exam
Certification Provider: Apple
Corresponding Certification: ACSP

Exam Questions: 86
Updated On: Aug 22, 2026

Question #1

Review the screenshot, and then answer the question below.

You are manually restoring the home folder for a new user account, and see the message shown above. What will happen if you click Cancel?

A. You will be returned to the new account sheet in the Users & Group pane.

B. The existing home folder's name will be changed to match the one you entered in the new account sheet.

C. The existing home folder will be displayed in the Finder with the name selected.

D. The account name will be changed to the name of the existing home folder.

Discussion 0

Correct Answer: A Vote an answer

Question #2

You started up a Mac from its OS X Recovery partition to complete a task. When you restarted, the Mac started up from the OS X Recovery partition again. How can you configure it to start up from a different volume?

A. Choose Startup Disk in the OS X Utilities window, and select a startup volume.

B. Choose Startup Disk from the Apple menu, and select a startup volume.

C. Choose Terminal from the Utilities menu, type startupdisk -[volume name] and press Return.

D. Choose Disk Utility from the Apple menu, and select a startup volume.

Discussion 0

Correct Answer: A Vote an answer

Question #3

You are configuring an OS X Mountain Lion computer that will be located in a public space. You want anyone to be able to log in and use Safari, but you do NOT want their Safari browser history to remain on the computer after users log out. Which action will let the computer function in the desired manner?

A. Create a Sharing Only account.

B. Create a Guest account.

C. Enable the Guest account for login.

D. Create a managed account with Parental Controls.

Discussion 0

Correct Answer: B,C,D Vote an answer

Question #4

How do you start up an OS X Mountain Lion computer in Safe Mode?

A. Hold down Shift during startup.

B. Start up from the OS X Recovery partition, and then choose Safe Boot from the Startup Disk menu.

C. Open Terminal, type safe_boot, press Return, and then restart the Mac.

D. Hold down Command-Option-P-R during startup.

Discussion 0

Correct Answer: A Vote an answer

Question #5

On an OS X computer running Mountain Lion, changes made in the Software Update pane of System Preferences apply to ALL users of the system.

A. False

B. True

Discussion 0

Correct Answer: B Vote an answer

Question #6

In OS X Mountain Lion, where do most applications that are NOT sandboxed store their user-specific preferences?

A. In .DS_Store files, at the root level of ~/

B. In a preferences database file in /Library/

C. In application-specific preferences files in ~/Library/Preferences/

D. In a preferences database file in ~/Library/

Discussion 0

Correct Answer: C Vote an answer

Question #7

How can you find out which application the Finder will use to open a specific document?

A. Select the document icon in the Finder, choose Show Inspector from the File menu, click Application Bindings in the Inspector window, and scroll to locate the selected application in the pop-up menu.

B. Control-click the document icon in the Finder, and choose Show Application from the shortcut menu.

C. Select the document icon in the Finder, choose Get Info from the File menu, and click the disclosure triangle next to "Open with" in the Info window to reveal the selected application in the pop-up menu.

D. Select the document icon in the Finder, and choose Show Default Application from the File menu.

Discussion 0

Correct Answer: C Vote an answer

Question #8

When a user logs in, which task is NOT performed by the user's loginwindow or launchd processes?

A. Configure input device and system settings according to System Preferences.

B. Launch Login Items specified in Users & Groups preferences.

C. Launch items in /Library/LaunchDaemons.

D. Launch Dock and Finder.

Discussion 0

Correct Answer: C Vote an answer

Question #9

A new 5 MB file was backed up by Time Machine yesterday. Today the file was edited, and has grown to 6 MB. It is about to be backed up by Time Machine again. How does Time Machine perform this backup?

A. Time Machine copies the 6 MB file to the backup drive, and deletes the original backup copy of the file from the backup drive.

B. Time Machine identifies the 1 MB of file changes, copies those changes to a new file on the backup drive, then creates a 500 KB parity file, and keeps all three files: the two new files representing the 1 MB of file changes, and the original backup file.

C. Time Machine copies the 6 MB file to the backup drive, and keeps both the new backup file and the original backup file on the backup drive.

D. Time Machine identifies the 1 MB of file changes, copies those changes to a new file on the backup drive, and keeps both the new backup file and the original backup file.

Discussion 0

Correct Answer: D Vote an answer

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