DEP-2026 Sample Questions & Answers
Device security, from encryption to recovery keys, carries the heaviest weight, ahead of device enrollment tied with Apple Business and School Manager, network integration and software updates, and the rest spread across planning, setup and configuration.
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- Question 1Intermediate
Prepare Your Environment · MDM Migration
A university is migrating from a legacy MDM vendor to a new, modern MDM solution. They have a fleet of 5,000 Mac computers running macOS Tahoe 26. To ensure a seamless transition without requiring users to manually unenroll and re-enroll, which new feature introduced in macOS Tahoe should the IT team utilize?
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Correct answer: A
macOS Tahoe 26, along with iOS/iPadOS 26, introduces the device management service migration feature. This allows Apple School Manager and Apple Business Manager to seamlessly migrate eligible devices to a new device management service and enforce enrollment deadlines without requiring a factory reset or manual unenrollment.
- Question 2Beginner
Prepare Your Environment · Content Caching
True or False: By default, the Content Caching service on macOS automatically provides cached content to client devices across all different subnets in the organization, without requiring any custom DNS or IP configuration.
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Correct answer: B
False. By default, Content Caching only serves clients on the same public IP address and the same local subnet. To serve clients across different subnets, administrators must explicitly configure custom public IP address ranges or use DNS TXT records to map the caching server to specific subnets.
- Question 3Beginner
Prepare Your Environment · Content Caching
A school IT administrator needs to configure a Mac to share its internet connection and cached Apple software updates with a cart of 30 iPads connected via USB. This specific configuration is known as ________ caching.
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Correct answer: C
Tethered caching is a feature of macOS Content Caching that allows a Mac to share its internet connection and cached content directly with iOS/iPadOS devices connected to it via USB. This is highly efficient for updating carts of iPads.
- Question 4Advanced
Prepare Your Environment · Network Infrastructure
An organization is deploying Apple TVs in conference rooms across multiple VLANs. The IT director wants users on the employee Wi-Fi VLAN to be able to discover and AirPlay to the Apple TVs located on the AV VLAN. To support this cross-subnet discovery natively without third-party directory tools, which networking protocol MUST be properly routed or reflected across the firewalls?
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Correct answer: D
Apple devices use Bonjour, which relies on Multicast DNS (mDNS), to discover services like AirPlay, AirPrint, and Content Caching on a local network. Because multicast traffic typically does not cross subnet boundaries, network hardware must be configured with a Bonjour gateway or mDNS reflector to allow discovery across different VLANs.
- Question 5Beginner
Device Enrollment · Enrollment Types
Which enrollment type provides the highest level of management capabilities, ensures the MDM profile cannot be removed by the user, and is exclusively available for devices purchased directly from Apple or participating Apple Authorized Resellers?
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Correct answer: B
Automated Device Enrollment (ADE) is designed for organization-owned devices. It automatically enrolls devices into MDM during Setup Assistant, enforces supervision, and can make the MDM profile non-removable. It requires devices to be in Apple Business Manager or Apple School Manager.
- Question 6IntermediateSelect 2
Device Enrollment · Enrollment Types
When implementing account-driven enrollment for macOS devices, administrators can configure environments for either account-driven User Enrollment or account-driven Device Enrollment. Which TWO statements accurately describe the differences or capabilities of these enrollment methods? (Select TWO)
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Correct answers: A, C
In both account-driven User Enrollment and account-driven Device Enrollment, the workflow begins with the user navigating to Settings (iOS/iPadOS) or System Settings (macOS) and signing in with their Managed Apple Account.
Account-driven Device Enrollment establishes the device as organization-owned, granting the MDM comprehensive management capabilities, including supervision features not available in User Enrollment.
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