Apple certified repair certification
To become Apple certified , you have to jump through some hoops—specifically, you must successfully complete Apple’s Macintosh Service Certification Exam and the Mac OS X 10.8 Lion Troubleshooting Exam, each of which retails for $150. You must score 80 percent or better on each test, and achieve perfect scores in certain areas (namely, Embedded Battery Safety and Electrostatic Discharge Precautions on the Macintosh Service Certification Exam, and any and all Apple environmental policy questions that may surface). Get full details at Apple’s ACMT Certification website, which hooks into training materials and testing centers as well. A lot of work Getting Apple certified is no small effort, but certification also gives you some definite benefits. First, it allows you to repair Macs that are currently under AppleCare warranty without risk of violating that warranty. Next, you’ll be able to order parts for your clients’ machines via Apple’s Global Service Exchange (GSX)—including the obscu...