PowerShell

Question 1

Active Directory Module:

Answer 1

The Active Directory module for Windows PowerShell provides cmdlets to manage and automate Active Directory.

Question 2

Get-ADUser

Answer 2

Retrieves one or more Active Directory

Code:

Get-ADUser -Identity “Username”

Question 3

Set-ADUser

Answer 3

Modifies properties of an Active Directory

Code:

Set-ADUser -Identity “Username” -Title “New Title”


Question 4

New-ADGroup:

Answer 4

Creates a new Active Directory

New-ADGroup -Name “GroupName” -GroupScope Global -Path “OU=Groups,DC=domain,DC=com”

Question 5

Add-ADGroupMember:

Answer 5

Adds one or more members to an Active Directory

Code:

Add-ADGroupMember -Identity “GroupName” -Members “Username”

Question 6

Networking Module:

Answer 6

The Networking module provides cmdlets to manage network settings on Windows.

Code:

Get-NetIPAddress -InterfaceAlias “Ethernet”

Question 7

New-NetIPAddress

Answer 7

Configures a new IP address on a network interface

Code:

New-NetIPAddress -InterfaceAlias “Ethernet” -IPAddress “192.168.1.100” -PrefixLength 24 -DefaultGateway “192.168.1.1”

Question 8

Set-DnsClientServerAddress:

Answer 8

Configures the DNS server addresses of a network interface

Code:

Set-DnsClientServerAddress -InterfaceAlias “Ethernet” -ServerAddresses “8.8.8.8”,”8.8.4.4”

Question 9

Hyper-V Module:

Answer 9

The Hyper-V module allows you to manage Hyper-V virtual machines

Question 10

New-VM

Answer 10

Creates a new virtual machine.

Code:

New-VM -Name “VMName” -MemoryStartupBytes 1GB -NewVHDPath “C:\VMs\VMName\disk.vhdx” -NewVHDSizeBytes 20GB -Generation 2

Question 11

Start-VM

Answer 11

Starts a virtual machine.powershell

Code:

Start-VM -Name “VMName”

Question 12

Stop-VM

Answer 12

Powers off a virtual machine

Code:


Stop-VM -VM “VMName”

Question 13

Configuration Manager Module:

Answer 13

The Configuration Manager module for PowerShell is used to automate SCCM/MECM tasks.

Question 14

Get-CMDevice

Answer 14

Retrieves devices managed by Configuration Manager

Code:

Get-CMDevice -Name “DeviceName”

Question 15

Invoke-CMSoftwareUpdateScan

Answer 15

Initiates a software update scan on a client device

Code:

Invoke-CMSoftwareUpdateScan -CollectionName “DeviceCollection”