Apple offers three certification training courses for those experts who look to support Mac OS X clients. So if you want to be Mac OS X Trained professional, the following article will familiarize you about Macintosh training.

You have to go through the following Macintosh training courses which Apple offers at its Authorized Training Centers.

1. Training Description: Mac OS X Support Essentials vs 10.4This is a three day handy Macintosh training program which deals with an intensive and deep study about various matters of troubleshooting on Mac OS X. This Macintosh training program enables you to have a good idea about the broad functionality of Mac OS X and amount of support to the user.

This Macintosh training course has a practical approach, as it is a combination of lectures and short study exercises.

The Macintosh training course is especially designed for you if you are a help desk specialist, technical coordinator or a service technician. If you are a technical coordinator, then you will be able to manage computer networks of Mac OS X in your company or organization. In case you are a service technician, this Macintosh training module offers its services for you to support Mac OS X customers.

Before going through this Macintosh training course, it is compulsory that you have prior knowledge of these:

(a) Basic Mac OS X knowledge

(b) Basic troubleshooting experience

2. Training Description: Mac OS X Server Essentials vs 10.4If you are a help desk specialist, technical coordinator or beginning stage administrator, then Apple offers a four day Macintosh training course for you on Mac OS X Server Essentials. It specially deals to offer tools, skills and knowledge to technical coordinators and beginning stage administrators to maintain Mac OS X Server-based system. In this Macintosh training course you will come across of installation and configuration of Mac OS X Server to provide network based services. You will also learn about the file sharing, its identification and printing. Like Mac OS X Support Essentials vs 10.4, this course is also a mixture of lectures and handy exercises.

You must have the following prior knowledge before attending the class.

(a) Understanding of Mac OS X

(b) Experience with Mac OS X in a network environment

(c) Basic troubleshooting experience or Mac OS X Support Essentials v10.4

3. Directory Service Integration and Administration vs 10.4This is another four day long Macintosh training course suitable for system administrators or highly professional IT experts. If you are specifically interested knowledge of directory services and configuration of Mac OS X computers to directory services, then this course is ideal for you. Further this Macintosh training course will make you able to configure Mac OS X Server to provide directory services in a combined platform environment. This Macintosh training course is also a combination of lecture and handy case study exercises which reveal sense of practical experience to you.

The following prior knowledge is essential for before the commencement of training.

(a) Completion of Mac OS X Support Essentials v10.4 and Mac OS X Server Essentials v10.4, or equivalent knowledge

(b) Understanding of basic IP networking, including IP address, subnet masks, ports, and protocols

(c) Working familiarity with the command line interface.

If you want to know about detail of Macintosh training then please visit Apple’s official website http://training.apple.com.