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Installing and Configuring Windows 10: 70-698 Exam Guide

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Installing and Configuring Windows 10: 70-698 Exam Guide

Overview of this book

The Installing and Configuring Windows 10: 70-698 Exam Guide is designed to confirm what you already know, while also updating your knowledge of Windows 10. With its easy-to-follow guidance, you will quickly learn the user interface and discover steps to work efficiently in Windows 10 to rule out delays and obstacles. This book begins by covering various ways of installing Windows 10, followed by instructions on post-installation tasks. You will learn about the deployment of Windows 10 in Enterprise and also see how to configure networking in Windows 10. You’ll understand how to leverage Disk Management and Windows PowerShell to configure disks, volumes, and file system options. As you progress through the chapters, you will be able to set up remote management in Windows 10 and learn more about Windows update usage, behavior, and settings. You will also gain insights that will help you monitor and manage data recovery and explore how to configure authentication, authorization, and advanced management tools in Windows 10. By the end of this book, you will be equipped with enough knowledge to take the 70-698 exam and explore different study methods to improve your chances of passing the exam with ease.
Table of Contents (25 chapters)
Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
About Packt
Contributors
Preface
Index

What are clients, servers, hosts, and nodes?


When talking about clients, servers, hosts, and nodes, we are actually talking about computer network components.At first glance, it may seem like, more or less, we are talking about the same component, but in fact each component is unique in itself. Hence,to understand these components correctly, the following sections will explain clients, servers, hosts, and nodes.

Understanding clients and servers

As you may know, the network world recognizes two architectures: peer-to-peer (P2P) and client/server architecture. While a P2P network architecture consists of hosts that, depending on network activity, switch roles from client to server and vice versa, in a client/server architecture, hosts have predefined roles where some are clients and some are servers. Clients are the hosts who make requests for network services, whereas the servers are hosts that provide network services. Both clients and servers play an active role in computer networks. In Figure 1.5, the server with a shared printer acts as a print server, and as such it provides print services to the clients in a network. Whereas, the PC, laptop, and smartphone represent the clients that request services:

Figure 1.5 Client/server network architecture

Note

The origin of the word server originates from the word serve. If you search for the word serve in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, among the results you will find is the one that says: to provide services that benefit or help. Thus, a server in a computer network means a computer that provides services to the clients. From that, the server serves the clients.

Understanding hosts and nodes

When talking about hosts and nodes, although their first impression might drive us towards thinking that they are the same thing, in fact, they are not! The difference between hosts and nodes is that while all hosts can be nodes, not every node can act as a host. That way, to every host an IP address is assigned. So, a host is any device with an IP address that requests or provides networking resources to any other host or node on the network. However, there are devices such as hubs, bridges, switches, modems, and access points that have no IP address assigned, but are still used for communication. That said, a node is any device that can generate, receive, and transmit the networking resources on a computer network, and as such it has no communication interface with an IP address. Based on that, in Figure 1.5, the server, smartphone, PC, and laptop are acting as hosts in a network, while the switch and access point (AP) act as nodes.