Command Line Utilities

Question 1

Command Line utility: displays the name of or changes the current directory

Answer 1

cd

Question 2

Command Line utility: displays a list of files and subdirectories in a directory

Answer 2

dir

Question 3

Command Line utility: creates a directory

Answer 3

md or mkdir

Question 4

Command Line utility: removes (deletes) a directory

Answer 4

rmdir

Question 5

Command Line utility: removes all directories and files in the specified directory in addition to the directory itself.

Answer 5

rmdir /S

Question 6

Command Line utility: displays only the IP address, subnet mask and default gateway for each adapter bound to TCP/IP.

Answer 6

ipconfig

Question 7

Command Line utility: display full internet configuration information

Answer 7

ipconfig /all

Question 8

Command Line utility: release the IPv4 address for the specified adapter

Answer 8

ipconfig /release

Question 9

Command Line utility: renew the IPv4 address for the specified adapter

Answer 9

ipconfig /renew

Question 10

Command Line utility: purges the DNS Resolver cache

Answer 10

ipconfig /flushdns

Question 11

Command Line utility: pings the specified host

Answer 11

ping [host]

Question 12

Command Line utility: prints the name of the current host

Answer 12

hostname

Question 13

Command Line utility: displays protocol statistics and current TCP/IP network connections

Answer 13

netstat

Question 14

Command Line utility: displays all connections and listening ports

Answer 14

netstat -a

Question 15

Command Line utility: displays dns name of ip address and local gateway

Answer 15

nslookup [IP address]

Question 16

Command Line utility: checks a disk and displays a status report

Answer 16

chkdsk [volume]

Question 17

Command Line utility: displays user accounts for current machine. It allows you to manage your local and even your domain users from the command line. It’s mainly used to quickly add, delete or disable user accounts from the command line

Answer 17

net user

Question 18

Command Line utility: a command line method of mapping network drives to your local computer

Answer 18

net use

Question 19

Command Line utility: displays ‘hops’ and latency of ‘hop’ needed to get from the current IP to the destination IP

Answer 19

tracert [target name or IP]

Question 20

Command Line utility: formats a disk for use with windows

Answer 20

format

Question 21

Command Line utility: copies files and directory trees

Answer 21

xcopy [source] [destination]

Question 22

Command Line utility: copies one or more files to another location.

Answer 22

copy

Question 23

Command Line utility: robust file copy for windows

Answer 23

robocopy

Question 24

Command Line utility: updates multiple group policy settings

Answer 24

gpupdate

Question 25

Command Line utility: displays the resultant set of policy (RSoP) information for a target user and computer

Answer 25

gpresult

Question 26

Command Line utility: shuts down the computer or specified computer with options

Answer 26

shutdown

Question 27

Command Line utility: admin only, scans the integrity of all protected system files and replaces incorrect versions with correct microsoft versions

Answer 27

sfc

Question 28

Command Line utility: starts disk partituon utility

Answer 28

diskpart

Question 29

Command Line utility: traces route and ‘hops’ of user to destination ip

Answer 29

pathping

Question 30

Command Line utility: displays windows version, os build and type of installation, ex win 10 home

Answer 30

winver