Misc.

Question 1

& ‘.\some.exe’ /switch | Out-Null

Answer 1

Piping to Out-Null will cause the script to wait until the exe has terminated.

Question 2

How should you run an .exe in a .ps1 script?

Answer 2

& ‘.\some.exe’ /switches

Question 3

What is the file ext. for a Powershell script?

Answer 3

.ps1

Question 4

Get the version of Powershell

Answer 4

$host.version

Question 5

comment multiple lines

Answer 5

>

<#

…

Question 6

Get the computer name

Answer 6

$name = Get-Content env:computerName

Question 7

Change the background color to green

Answer 7

-backGroundColor = green

Question 8

change the font color to black

Answer 8

-foreGroundColor = black

Question 9

what colors work with -backGroundColor and -foreGroundColor

Answer 9

Black DarkBlue DarkGreen DarkCyan DarkRed DarkMagenta DarkYellow DarkGray Gray Blue Green Cyan Red Magenta Yellow White

Question 10

Call a .bat file from within a .ps1

Answer 10

.\batchfile.bat

Question 11

Count and display no. of dirs

Answer 11

$dirs = (get-childItem “c:\path” -name).count

Question 12

&

Answer 12

invocation operator.