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Each IPv4 address is made up of 4 of these.
What is an octet?
This is the "brain" of a PC. It handles all of the processing operations for the device.
What is a CPU?
This server role is responsible for handing out IP Addresses and other network information.
What is DHCP?
This on-prem solution, which has been known by many names, is Microsoft's legacy device management platform
What is Configuration Manager?
The future of endpoint management is cloud! This is Microsoft's cloud-based unified endpoint manager.
What is Intune?
If you wanted a computer to call home, you would send it to this address.
What is 127.0.0.1?
This component is responsible for messages entering and leaving a device.
What is a NIC?
This Microsoft service is responsible for managing authentication, identities, and object hierarchy.
What is Active Directory?
This is a group of users or devices that deployments, queries, and tasks can be targeted to.
What is a collection?
This Microsoft 365 service provides a data and document storage backbone and interfaces for organizations to share and collaborate.
What is SharePoint Online?
When written in "slash notation", 192.168.0.0/24, the /24 represents this.
What is the subnet mask?
This component, also known as "volatile memory", holds information only when the device is powered on.
What is RAM?
This Microsoft server role is responsible for keeping track of what address is attached to what name.
What is DNS?
This Configuration Manager role allows the system to interface with WSUS to gather, package, and deploy Microsoft and Third-Party updates.
What is the Software Update Point?
This Microsoft 365 storage service provides a personal storage space for users to upload documents as well as share and collaborate on them.
What is OneDrive?
A piece of networking gear is responsible for directing messages between networks. These guys really don't like broadcast messages.
What is a router?
This chip soldered onto the motherboard is responsible for managing the cryptographic keys related to things like BitLocker encryption.
What is the TPM?
This component is responsible for assigning rules for security, configuration, and behavior to users and devices in a domain or on a local machine.
What is Group Policy?
This mechanism can be applied to a device collection to dictate when installations and required tasks are able to be performed.
What is a maintenance window?
This is the collective name given to all of Microsoft's data collaboration tools in the cloud.
If you needed a host pool of 500 IPv4 addresses, you would use this subnet mask.
What is 255.255.254.0?
In its gen 4 version 2 iteration, this connector standard is capable of bandwidths of up to 80Gbps.
What is USB C?
This Active Directory group has permissions for all the domains in a forest.
What is Enterprise Admin?
This Configuration Manager mechanism can be used to implement a set of steps in a specific order and determine behaviors based on "if/then" statements and variables. Great for things like imaging.
What is a task sequence?
This Platform as a Service offering is the umbrella for a large number of Microsoft's cloud services such as identity management, virtual machines, and virtual networking.
What is Azure? or What is Entra?