2.1. Network Addressing

When studying for the Microsoft 70-642 certification exam, you spent much of your time understanding how to administer and maintain a Windows network and the problems and challenges that can occur when doing so. Now, you'll take a broader look at the technologies available and develop an overall scheme that you can deploy in your Windows-based environment. You'll do this by using various addressing techniques, subnets, scopes, and variable-length subnet masking for host assignment.

2.1.1. Addressing Techniques

For the most part, you have used three different types of IP addressing techniques: automatic private IP addressing (APIPA), static, and dynamic (via DHCP).

2.1.1.1. APIPA

APIPA addressing is a Windows default ...

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