DEP-2025 Sample Questions & Answers
Topics range across planning a deployment, ownership and enrollment approaches, Apple Business and School Manager and Apple Configurator, setup assistant configuration, device and content security, identity services, network integration, and software updates.
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- Question 1Intermediate
Prepare Your Environment · Network requirements and ports
During a network readiness assessment for a new Apple device deployment, the security team insists on strictly limiting outbound firewall rules. Which specific outbound TCP port must be open to the 17.0.0.0/8 address block to ensure devices reliably receive MDM wake-up notifications?
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Correct answer: C
TCP port 5223 is the primary port used by Apple devices to maintain a persistent connection to the Apple Push Notification service (APNs). This connection is required for devices to receive wake-up notifications from the MDM server. The 17.0.0.0/8 block is assigned to Apple. While port 443 is used as a fallback for APNs on Wi-Fi, 5223 is the dedicated, primary port that must be open for reliable APNs communication on enterprise networks.
- Question 2Intermediate
Prepare Your Environment · Mac Evaluation Utility
You are preparing a corporate environment to support a large fleet of macOS devices. Users have reported intermittent issues connecting to Apple services and downloading software updates. Which Apple tool should you use to comprehensively evaluate the network environment and generate a report on its readiness for Apple services?
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Correct answer: B
The Mac Evaluation Utility is an official Apple tool designed specifically to evaluate an enterprise network environment's readiness to support Apple devices. It checks connectivity to required Apple hosts (like APNs, software update servers, and iCloud), verifies network configurations, and generates a comprehensive report highlighting potential issues, such as blocked ports or SSL inspection interfering with Apple services.
- Question 3Intermediate
Prepare Your Environment · Wi-Fi coverage and capacity
Vanguard Logistics is planning to deploy 2,000 iPads to warehouse workers for inventory management. The devices will heavily rely on real-time database queries and ARKit-based barcode scanning.
During the environment preparation phase, the network engineering team presents the current Wi-Fi architecture, which primarily utilizes the 2.4 GHz band to maximize physical coverage across the large warehouse space. They plan to use standard WPA2 Personal authentication to simplify deployment.
As the Apple deployment specialist, you must recommend architectural changes to ensure deployment success.
graph TD Internet((Internet)) --> FW[Corporate Firewall] FW --> Core[Core Switch] Core --> WLC[Wireless LAN Controller] WLC --> AP1[AP - 2.4GHz Only] WLC --> AP2[AP - 2.4GHz Only] WLC --> AP3[AP - 2.4GHz Only] AP1 -.-> iPad1[iPad Fleet] AP2 -.-> iPad1 AP3 -.-> iPad1Which recommendation is the MOST critical to ensure the iPads maintain reliable connectivity and performance in this environment?
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Correct answer: C
When planning Wi-Fi for a massive fleet of modern Apple devices (especially those running real-time or bandwidth-intensive apps like ARKit scanning), capacity is far more critical than raw coverage. The 2.4 GHz band is highly susceptible to interference and offers limited non-overlapping channels, severely bottlenecking performance in high-density environments. Apple best practices dictate designing enterprise networks for 5 GHz (and 6 GHz for Wi-Fi 6E/7 capable devices) with higher AP density to ensure sufficient capacity, roaming reliability, and throughput.
- Question 4Advanced
Prepare Your Environment · Authentication and SSO planning
You are preparing the identity infrastructure for a new macOS deployment. The organization wants to utilize their existing Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure AD) to provide a seamless login experience at the macOS login window, replacing their legacy on-premises Active Directory binding.
Which technology should you plan to implement to achieve this goal natively on macOS?
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Correct answer: D
Platform Single Sign-On (Platform SSO) is the modern framework built into macOS that allows cloud identity providers (like Microsoft Entra ID or Okta) to integrate directly with the macOS login window. It enables users to unlock their Mac using their cloud IdP credentials and automatically receive tokens for SSO across apps and websites, effectively replacing traditional legacy Active Directory binding. The Kerberos SSO Extension is used for on-prem AD environments.
- Question 5Intermediate
Device Enrollment · Automated Device Enrollment for macOS
When utilizing Automated Device Enrollment (ADE) to provision a new, out-of-the-box Mac, the Setup Assistant communicates with Apple Business Manager to retrieve its enrollment profile. What is a unique capability of ADE on macOS regarding the creation of the initial user account?
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Correct answer: D
A powerful feature of Automated Device Enrollment (ADE) on macOS is the ability to manage local account creation during Setup Assistant. Through the MDM enrollment profile, administrators can dictate that a managed hidden administrator account is created first, and subsequently force the actual user completing Setup Assistant to be created as a standard user rather than an administrator, enforcing principle of least privilege from the moment of unboxing.
- Question 6Beginner
Device Enrollment · User Enrollment for BYOD
An organization is launching a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) program for employees using their personal iPhones. The security team wants to ensure corporate data is protected, but the HR department mandates that IT must not have the ability to view personal apps or track the device's location.
Which enrollment method is specifically designed to meet these exact requirements?
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Correct answer: D
User Enrollment (specifically Account-Driven User Enrollment) is Apple's purpose-built deployment model for BYOD. It cryptographically separates personal and corporate data on the device using a Managed Apple Account. By design, it strictly limits MDM capabilities to protect user privacy: IT cannot view personal apps, cannot track device location, cannot clear the device passcode, and cannot wipe the entire device (they can only remove corporate data).
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