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only for Windows. Both macOS and Linux require patch management, and

I’ll cover those needs as well.

Windows Patch Management

Microsoft’s primary distribution tool for handling patch management is a

Settings tool or Control Panel applet called Windows Update. In its twodecade+

history, Windows Update has gone through many iterations;

fortunately CompTIA cares only that you know how it works on Windows 7

and newer.

In Windows 7, Windows Update separates fixes into distinct types:

updates and service packs. Updates in Windows 7 are individual fixes that

come out fairly often, on the order of once a week or so. Individual updates

are usually fairly small, rarely more than a few megabytes. A service pack is

a large bundle of updates plus anything else Microsoft might choose to add.

Service packs are invariably large (hundreds of megabytes) and are often

packaged with Windows, as shown in Figure 14-1.

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