A macOS user reports seeing a spinning round cursor on a program that appears to be frozen. Which of the following methods does the technician use to force the program to close in macOS?

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D. The technician opens the Apple icon menu, selects Force Quit, selects the frozen application in The Apple icon menu in the top-left corner provides a 'Force Quit' option that opens a dialog listing running applications; the user selects the frozen app and clicks Force Quit. This is the standard macOS mechanism equivalent to Task Manager on Windows. The spinning beachball cursor is macOS's indicator that an application is not responding.

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A. The technician presses the Ctrl+Alt+Del keys to open the Force Quit menu, selects the frozen Ctrl+Alt+Del is a Windows keyboard shortcut that opens the security screen or Task Manager and has no function in macOS.

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B. The technician clicks on the frozen application and presses and holds the Esc key on the Holding the Esc key does not force quit applications in macOS; it only cancels certain dialogs or exits full-screen mode.

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C. The technician opens Finder, navigates to the Applications folder, locates the application that is Navigating to the Applications folder in Finder shows application files on disk but does not allow the user to terminate a running process.

A macOS user reports seeing a spinning round cursor on a program that appears to be frozen. Which of the following methods does the technician use to force the program to close in macOS?

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