What is Apple certified mac technician?
macOS Support Essentials
The Apple Certified Support Professional (ACSP)
certification is for the help desk professional, technical coordinator, or a power user who manages networks or provides technical support for Mac users.
ACSP certification verifies that an Apple-certified mac technician understand macOS core functionality and
that you can configure key services, perform basic troubleshooting, and support
multiple Mac users.
Taking a certification exam
Certification exams
The macOS Support Essentials exam is delivered through
OnVue—a live, online proctoring solution. You’ll schedule your exam session in
advance, and you should plan to complete the exam in one sitting in a private
space. You’ll need a current, government-issued ID to check in with the proctor
and begin the exam.
Exam policies and information
Apple Exam
Development Process
Development phases
To ensure the validity, reliability, and relevance of Apple
Certification Exams, instructional
designers create the exams in seven phases:
1. Job task analysis
definition: Instructional designers translate tasks into a comprehensive
set of specific and measurable skills. The resulting list of
objectives forms the basis for
developing the exam. The designers transform the objective
domain into a blueprint survey,
in which technical and job function experts rate the
importance of each objective. This helps
determine the appropriate amount and types of questions to
include on the exam.
Contributors are usually Apple Certified Trainers or Apple
Certified Professional candidates
recruited from within Apple or through online forums. Based
on contributor input, the
designers prioritize and weigh the objectives.
2. Question
development: Instructional designers write the exam questions according to
the
prioritized objectives, then review and revise them
according to this criteria:
• Technically accurate
• Clear, unambiguous, and relevant
• Not biased toward any population, subgroup, or culture
• Not misleading or tricky
• Consists of useful knowledge rather than obscure or
trivial facts
3. Alpha review and
question revision: A panel of experts reviews each question for
technical accuracy.
4. Beta exam:
Apple conducts a beta test of the exam. During the beta exam, candidates
comment on questions. The beta exam allows Apple to evaluate
the quality of the questions
in an actual exam situation and helps ensure that only the
best content is included in the
live exam.
5. Question selection
and minimum passing score: The designers analyze the results of the
beta exam to determine which questions should be included in
the live exam. This analysis
focuses on many factors, including question difficulty and
reliability. Apple works with a panel
of experts to review the technical accuracy of questions and
to determine the final set of
questions for the live exam. The panel also determines the
minimum passing score for the
exam. This score may differ from one exam to another because
it is based on the difficulty of
the questions and the expected performance of the minimally
qualified candidate.
6. Publishing: Apple
Certification Exams are published by Pearson VUE.
7. Live exam:
Certification exams are delivered worldwide through OnVUE—a live, online
proctoring solution.
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