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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

Configuring and supporting IPv4 and IPv6 network settings


As you may know, for a computer to be able to communicate in a computer network, it requires two logical elements. They are a computer name and an IP address. Unlike the computer name, which is alphanumeric, the IP address is all numeric. A computer name in Windows 10 can be of two types: hostname and NetBIOS name. The IP address can be of version v4 (IPv4) or version v6 (IPv6). Just as your computer gets a default name while installing Windows 10, similarly the network interface of your computer receives an IP address, either from the DHCP server or an APIPA. These and many other tasks related to the network represent the common administrative tasks of the help desk member. That necessarily implies that help desk staff are required to know how to configure and troubleshoot network connections in order to be able to perform common tasks in the organization's infrastructure.

IPv4 network addresses

As specified in the Internet Engineering...