APPLE CERTIFICATION CORE EXAM SET 2026/2027
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Manually check for and install a carrier settings update by - ✔✔Going to
Settings>General>About. If an update is available, a dialog will appear.
✔✔The SIM tray is on the _ side for iPhone 12 and up. And on the _ side for IPhone 4-
11. At the _ for 3GS and older. - ✔✔Left, Right, Top
✔✔How many eSIMs can you install on an iPhone and how many phone numbers can
you use at the same time? - ✔✔Eight or more eSIMs and two phone numbers
✔✔If your carrier supports _ you can activate your eSIM when you set up your iPhone. -
✔✔eSIM Carrier Activation or eSIM Quick Transfer
✔✔What is an alternative method to turn off cellular data in Settings? - ✔✔Turn on
airplane mode
✔✔What must be done so that you can connect devices to a Personal Hotspot without
entering a password? (Instant Hotspot) - ✔✔The devices must be signed in with the
same Apple ID and Bluetooth and Wi-Fi must be turned on. (Meet the system
requirements for Continuity)
✔✔Which type of connection does Personal Hotspot use by default? - ✔✔5Ghz
You can turn on Maximize Compatibility to use a 2.4Ghz connection
✔✔What is the order in which macOS, iOS, and iPadOS auto-join networks? -
✔✔Preferred network,
Known networks are scored based on your actions. If you manually switch to a network,
its score increases. If you manually disconnect from a network, its score decreases. The
preferred network is the one with the highest score.
Private networks
Within this category your device reconnects in order of most recently joined.
Public networks
✔✔macOS, iOS, and iPadOS prioritize networks by security level in what order? - ✔✔1.
EAP
2. WPA3
3. WPA2/WPA
4. WEP
5. Unsecured / Open
,✔✔What is the Private Address option when referring to Connecting to Wi-Fi? -
✔✔iPhone and iPad use a different MAC address for each Wi-Fi network they join. This
option is turned on by default. You can turn this setting off for particular networks.
✔✔A device will get a new MAC address if it doesn't connect to the network for _
weeks. - ✔✔Six
✔✔If you make a device forget the network, it will also forget the private address it used
with that network unless it has been less than _ weeks since the last time it was made
to forget that network. - ✔✔Two
✔✔If you forget a Wi-Fi network with iCloud Keychain enabled, what might happen to
other devices using iCloud Keychain? - ✔✔They might also forget the network.
✔✔Apple recommends all bands of a router should have the _ name. - ✔✔Same
✔✔Which option turns off Auto-Login when joining a captive network without valid
credentials on iPhone or iPad? - ✔✔Without Internet
✔✔T or F? Devices need to be on the same Wi-Fi network to use Airdrop. - ✔✔False.
They need to have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth turned on, but they don't have to be on the
same network.
✔✔How close do 2 devices need to be to use Airdrop? - ✔✔Within Bluetooth and Wi-Fi
range - About 40 feet or 13 meters
✔✔To be able to AirDrop a password from iCloud Keychain, the receiving device must -
✔✔Be in the sending device's contact list
✔✔If you're trying to AirDrop and Receiving Off is selected and you can't tap to change
it, what should you do? - ✔✔Go to Screen Time>Content & Privacy Restrictions and
make sure it's turned on.
Note: MDM solutions could prevent your device from being able to Airdrop if the MDM
administrator configured your device to not be able to use AirDrop.
✔✔How can you contact an app's developer using an iPhone? - ✔✔Find the app in the
App Store and tap App Support. This option only appears for Apple ID accounts that
previously downloaded the app.
,✔✔What is a recovery key? - ✔✔A randomly generated 28 character code that you can
use to gain access to your Apple ID should you forget your password and not have
access to your trusted devices.
✔✔How do you create a recovery key? - ✔✔Go to Settings>Your Name>Password &
Security>Account Recovery>Recovery Key
✔✔What are the requirements to become a recovery contact for someone? - ✔✔Must
be running iOS 15, iPad OS 15, or macOS Monterey or Later
Must be over the age of 13
Need two-factor authentication turned on for your Apple ID
A passcode set up on your device
✔✔What app can you use to help someone reset their Apple ID passcode via a
recovery key? - ✔✔The Apple Support app
✔✔Where can you add or change trusted phone numbers on iPad or iPhone? -
✔✔Settings>Apple ID>Password & Security
✔✔Crowd-Sourced Wi-Fi and Cellular Location Services - ✔✔If location services is
enabled, your device will periodically send the geo-tagged locations of nearby wi-fi
hotspots and cell towers to Apple to augment Apple's crowd-sourced database of Wifi
hotspot and cell tower locations. For example, your device might send GPS locations,
travel speed, and barometric pressure information for building Apple's road-traffic and
indoor pressure databases.
✔✔Allowing precise location is necessary for apps like _. - ✔✔Maps to give you exact
directional data.
✔✔What is App Privacy Report? - ✔✔Turn this on to see details about how often apps
access your data - including location, camera, microphone, and more.
✔✔How do I access App Privacy Report? - ✔✔Settings>Privacy>App Privacy Report
✔✔What is included in App Privacy Report? - ✔✔Data & Sensor Access - location,
photos, camera, microphone, etc
Network Activity - domains you've contacted or that have contacted you in the past 7
days
✔✔Mail Privacy Protection - ✔✔Hides your IP address from the sender to help protect
against mail tracking and also prevents the sender from knowing if you opened the
email.
, ✔✔How do you access the Privacy Report within Safari? - ✔✔Open a webpage, click
the Page Settings button (A symbols) and click Privacy Report
✔✔What types of data can a developer or third party collect via apps downloaded from
the App Store? - ✔✔Contact information, health data, location, and identifiers
✔✔Privacy Nutrition Labels - ✔✔Explain app privacy and what kinds of data are
collected
✔✔Where can you access Privacy Nutrition Labels? - ✔✔Search for an app within the
App Store, scroll down to App Privacy then tap See Details to look at the data types that
are collected from the developer.
✔✔After resetting Location Services settings to factory defaults, which settings are
exceptions and don't actually revert to factory settings? - ✔✔Settings for apps that
requested location data reset to Ask and Precise Location
Settings such as Location Sharing from Find My and Messages, Product Improvement,
and Significant Locations
✔✔iCloud Private Relay - ✔✔Prevents websites and network providers from creating a
detailed profile about you by encrypting traffic leaving your device.
✔✔What are the two options you get when turning on iCloud Private Relay for IP
Address Location Settings? - ✔✔Maintain general location or Use country and time
zone
✔✔Safety Check - ✔✔Quickly stop sharing information with individual people and apps.
✔✔Safety Check - Emergency Reset - ✔✔Stops sharing information with everyone and
all apps, resets privacy permissions for all apps, limits messages and FaceTime only to
the device you're currently using
✔✔Lockdown Mode - ✔✔Extreme protection for individuals who might be personally
targeted by some of the most sophisticated digital threats.
Message attachments are blocked, certain web technologies are blocked, incoming
FaceTime calls by unknown callers are blocked, shared albums are removed,
configuration profiles cannot be installed and devices can't be enrolled in MDM (Devices
already enrolled can still have config profiles installed/removed)
✔✔What set of technologies does Location Services use to determine your device
location? - ✔✔GPS signals, Bluetooth connections, local Wi-Fi networks, and the
cellular network
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔Manually check for and install a carrier settings update by - ✔✔Going to
Settings>General>About. If an update is available, a dialog will appear.
✔✔The SIM tray is on the _ side for iPhone 12 and up. And on the _ side for IPhone 4-
11. At the _ for 3GS and older. - ✔✔Left, Right, Top
✔✔How many eSIMs can you install on an iPhone and how many phone numbers can
you use at the same time? - ✔✔Eight or more eSIMs and two phone numbers
✔✔If your carrier supports _ you can activate your eSIM when you set up your iPhone. -
✔✔eSIM Carrier Activation or eSIM Quick Transfer
✔✔What is an alternative method to turn off cellular data in Settings? - ✔✔Turn on
airplane mode
✔✔What must be done so that you can connect devices to a Personal Hotspot without
entering a password? (Instant Hotspot) - ✔✔The devices must be signed in with the
same Apple ID and Bluetooth and Wi-Fi must be turned on. (Meet the system
requirements for Continuity)
✔✔Which type of connection does Personal Hotspot use by default? - ✔✔5Ghz
You can turn on Maximize Compatibility to use a 2.4Ghz connection
✔✔What is the order in which macOS, iOS, and iPadOS auto-join networks? -
✔✔Preferred network,
Known networks are scored based on your actions. If you manually switch to a network,
its score increases. If you manually disconnect from a network, its score decreases. The
preferred network is the one with the highest score.
Private networks
Within this category your device reconnects in order of most recently joined.
Public networks
✔✔macOS, iOS, and iPadOS prioritize networks by security level in what order? - ✔✔1.
EAP
2. WPA3
3. WPA2/WPA
4. WEP
5. Unsecured / Open
,✔✔What is the Private Address option when referring to Connecting to Wi-Fi? -
✔✔iPhone and iPad use a different MAC address for each Wi-Fi network they join. This
option is turned on by default. You can turn this setting off for particular networks.
✔✔A device will get a new MAC address if it doesn't connect to the network for _
weeks. - ✔✔Six
✔✔If you make a device forget the network, it will also forget the private address it used
with that network unless it has been less than _ weeks since the last time it was made
to forget that network. - ✔✔Two
✔✔If you forget a Wi-Fi network with iCloud Keychain enabled, what might happen to
other devices using iCloud Keychain? - ✔✔They might also forget the network.
✔✔Apple recommends all bands of a router should have the _ name. - ✔✔Same
✔✔Which option turns off Auto-Login when joining a captive network without valid
credentials on iPhone or iPad? - ✔✔Without Internet
✔✔T or F? Devices need to be on the same Wi-Fi network to use Airdrop. - ✔✔False.
They need to have Wi-Fi and Bluetooth turned on, but they don't have to be on the
same network.
✔✔How close do 2 devices need to be to use Airdrop? - ✔✔Within Bluetooth and Wi-Fi
range - About 40 feet or 13 meters
✔✔To be able to AirDrop a password from iCloud Keychain, the receiving device must -
✔✔Be in the sending device's contact list
✔✔If you're trying to AirDrop and Receiving Off is selected and you can't tap to change
it, what should you do? - ✔✔Go to Screen Time>Content & Privacy Restrictions and
make sure it's turned on.
Note: MDM solutions could prevent your device from being able to Airdrop if the MDM
administrator configured your device to not be able to use AirDrop.
✔✔How can you contact an app's developer using an iPhone? - ✔✔Find the app in the
App Store and tap App Support. This option only appears for Apple ID accounts that
previously downloaded the app.
,✔✔What is a recovery key? - ✔✔A randomly generated 28 character code that you can
use to gain access to your Apple ID should you forget your password and not have
access to your trusted devices.
✔✔How do you create a recovery key? - ✔✔Go to Settings>Your Name>Password &
Security>Account Recovery>Recovery Key
✔✔What are the requirements to become a recovery contact for someone? - ✔✔Must
be running iOS 15, iPad OS 15, or macOS Monterey or Later
Must be over the age of 13
Need two-factor authentication turned on for your Apple ID
A passcode set up on your device
✔✔What app can you use to help someone reset their Apple ID passcode via a
recovery key? - ✔✔The Apple Support app
✔✔Where can you add or change trusted phone numbers on iPad or iPhone? -
✔✔Settings>Apple ID>Password & Security
✔✔Crowd-Sourced Wi-Fi and Cellular Location Services - ✔✔If location services is
enabled, your device will periodically send the geo-tagged locations of nearby wi-fi
hotspots and cell towers to Apple to augment Apple's crowd-sourced database of Wifi
hotspot and cell tower locations. For example, your device might send GPS locations,
travel speed, and barometric pressure information for building Apple's road-traffic and
indoor pressure databases.
✔✔Allowing precise location is necessary for apps like _. - ✔✔Maps to give you exact
directional data.
✔✔What is App Privacy Report? - ✔✔Turn this on to see details about how often apps
access your data - including location, camera, microphone, and more.
✔✔How do I access App Privacy Report? - ✔✔Settings>Privacy>App Privacy Report
✔✔What is included in App Privacy Report? - ✔✔Data & Sensor Access - location,
photos, camera, microphone, etc
Network Activity - domains you've contacted or that have contacted you in the past 7
days
✔✔Mail Privacy Protection - ✔✔Hides your IP address from the sender to help protect
against mail tracking and also prevents the sender from knowing if you opened the
email.
, ✔✔How do you access the Privacy Report within Safari? - ✔✔Open a webpage, click
the Page Settings button (A symbols) and click Privacy Report
✔✔What types of data can a developer or third party collect via apps downloaded from
the App Store? - ✔✔Contact information, health data, location, and identifiers
✔✔Privacy Nutrition Labels - ✔✔Explain app privacy and what kinds of data are
collected
✔✔Where can you access Privacy Nutrition Labels? - ✔✔Search for an app within the
App Store, scroll down to App Privacy then tap See Details to look at the data types that
are collected from the developer.
✔✔After resetting Location Services settings to factory defaults, which settings are
exceptions and don't actually revert to factory settings? - ✔✔Settings for apps that
requested location data reset to Ask and Precise Location
Settings such as Location Sharing from Find My and Messages, Product Improvement,
and Significant Locations
✔✔iCloud Private Relay - ✔✔Prevents websites and network providers from creating a
detailed profile about you by encrypting traffic leaving your device.
✔✔What are the two options you get when turning on iCloud Private Relay for IP
Address Location Settings? - ✔✔Maintain general location or Use country and time
zone
✔✔Safety Check - ✔✔Quickly stop sharing information with individual people and apps.
✔✔Safety Check - Emergency Reset - ✔✔Stops sharing information with everyone and
all apps, resets privacy permissions for all apps, limits messages and FaceTime only to
the device you're currently using
✔✔Lockdown Mode - ✔✔Extreme protection for individuals who might be personally
targeted by some of the most sophisticated digital threats.
Message attachments are blocked, certain web technologies are blocked, incoming
FaceTime calls by unknown callers are blocked, shared albums are removed,
configuration profiles cannot be installed and devices can't be enrolled in MDM (Devices
already enrolled can still have config profiles installed/removed)
✔✔What set of technologies does Location Services use to determine your device
location? - ✔✔GPS signals, Bluetooth connections, local Wi-Fi networks, and the
cellular network
