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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

Summary


We can summarize the chapter with the following points:

  • Windows 10 represents another Microsoft's Windows NT family operating system (OS) that merges Windows 7 and Windows 8/8.1 into a single OS
  • Windows 10 new releases are offered through Windows as a service format
  • Clean install (re)builds the OS and its utilities entirely from scratch, thus overwriting all the previous content on a disk
  • An upgrade replaces your existing OS with a new one
  • There are altogether 12 editions of Windows 10, each with unique features
  • The Enterprise and Education editions are the only full-featured editions of Windows 10
  • An installation media is a medium that contains the operating system files
  • Clients are computers that request the resources in a computer network
  • Servers are a network component that provides resources to clients
  • A host is any device with an IP address that requests or provides networking resources to any other host or node on the network
  • A node is any device that can generate, receive, and transmit the networking resources on the computer network and as such it has no communication interface with an IP address