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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

Monitoring system resources


If you have already completed CompTIA Server+ certification, then you are familiar with the performance threshold of key system components. If it happens to exceed the defined levels of utilization of key system components, then such a situation will compromise the overall computer's system performance. Therefore, it is recommended that when selecting hardware for the computer system attention is paid to the processor, RAM, hard disk, and network interface. Such a consideration presents the only guarantee that your Windows 10 device will perform optimally even in heavy use.

Computer's baseline

As discussed so far in this chapter, the Task Manager, Resource Monitor and Performance Monitor helps you monitor system resources in general, and key system components in particular. Anyone of these tools, or all together, will enable you to run real-time monitoring of the system resources that can be useful during instant diagnosis. In addition, the same tools enable you...