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Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure AZ-800 Exam Guide

By : Steve Miles
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Administering Windows Server Hybrid Core Infrastructure AZ-800 Exam Guide

By: Steve Miles

Overview of this book

Written by an Azure MVP and Microsoft Certified Trainer with 20 years of experience in data center infrastructure, this AZ-800 study guide is an essential preparation tool for administrators who want to take the exam and acquire key skills that will help them thrive in their careers. This book will guide you through all the ways Windows Server can be used to manage hybrid solutions on-premises and in the cloud, starting with deploying and managing Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) in on-premises and cloud environments. You’ll then dive into managing virtual machines and containers and progress to implementing and managing an on-premises and hybrid networking infrastructure. The later parts of the book focus on managing storage and file services, concluding with a detailed overview of all the knowledge needed to pass the AZ-800 exam with practical examples throughout the chapters. In the final chapter, you’ll be able to test your understanding of the topics covered with the help of practice exams to make sure that you’re completely prepared for the contents and structure of the exam. By the end of the book, you’ll have gained the knowledge, both practical and conceptual, that's required to administer Windows Server hybrid core infrastructure confidently.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Part 1: Hybrid Identity
6
Part 2: Hybrid Networking
9
Part 3: Hybrid Storage
12
Part 4: Hybrid Compute
18
Part 5: Exam Prep
19
Chapter 14: Exam Preparation Practice Tests

Implementing and managing Windows Server DNS

This section will look at implementing on-premises and hybrid name resolution.

The first skills area we will look at in this section is what is DNS?

What is DNS, and how does it work?

Name resolution is translating or resolving a name to an IP address. IP addresses can also be resolved to a name through a reverse lookup.

DNS is an industry-standard name resolution service and the primary name resolution method used by Windows. Other methods include a host file, an LMHOSTS file, and Windows Internet Name Service (WINS), which is a Network Basic Input/Output System (NetBIOS) name resolution service.

DNS uses resource records to hold the names and information, such as IP addresses and arbitrary text information it holds for that domain. As with phone contacts, people can remember names more easily than they can numbers, especially in the case of multiple numbers (home, work, mobile, and so on) for the same name.

DNS resource...