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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 name resolution


The name resolution process is governed by the protocol known as the Domain Name System (DNS). As you know, DNS translates domain names into IP addresses. As a concept, DNS has been available since the ARPANET era. However, as a standard, the first DNS specifications, known as Requests for Comments (RFC) documents, were published at the beginning of the 1980s. In its architecture, DNS is hierarchical and consists of three main components: domain name, domain namespace, and name server. The domain name represents the website and consists of one or more parts called labels that are separated by a period (for example, PacktPub.com). Thedomain namespace is the hierarchical naming scheme of the DNS database organized into zones, where each zone represents a root domain, top-level domains,second level domains, subdomains, and hostnames. The name server is a network server responsible for responding to queries against a directory service by mapping the domain name into...