Aliases

Question 1

What are the two basic categories of aliases that exist?

Answer 1

Transitional

Convenience

Question 2

A set of aliases that map PowerShell commands to commands that people are accustomed to using in other shells, specifically cmd.eve and the UNIX shells.

Answer 2

Transitional

Question 3

__________ aliases are derived from the names of the cmdlets they map to.
Example: Get-Command becomes gcm, etc….

Answer 3

Convenience

Question 4

For a list of defined aliases, type ____-_____ at the command line.

Answer 4

Get-Alias

Question 5

You can use the ______-______ command to define your own aliases.

Answer 5

Set-Alias

Question 6

PowerShell _______ cannot include parameters, if you need to do something more sophisticated than simple command-name translations, you will have to use shell functions or scripts

Answer 6

Aliases