Powershell 5

Question 1

What command would display and sort the contents of a directory into alphabetical order?

Answer 1

get-childitem | sort-object

This command defaults to sorting in ascending alphabetical order

Question 2

What are the 4 different ways to examine the Help system in Powershell?

Answer 2

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Question 3

What command would run two previously run commands from the Get-History list? In the example run commands 1 and 2 from the list.

Answer 3

invoke-history 1; invoke-history 2

Question 4

What is the shell as in powerSHELL?

Answer 4

A user interface that gives you access to the operating system.

Question 5

Just by looking at the shell, how would you know whether or not it was opened as Administrator?

Answer 5

It would say ‘Administrator; on the title bar if it was opened as Administrator.

Question 6

What Font is good for Powershell?

Answer 6

A matter of preference, but Lucida Console is a good one to use.

Question 7

What does a parameter do in Powershell?

Answer 7

Parameters alter the command

Question 8

What command would force an update of the help system in Powershell?

Answer 8

update-help -force

Question 9

What would be an easy way to get help on get service but only show the syntax part of the help file?

Answer 9

get-help get-service -showwindow

The above command will open a separate window and will allow you to go into settings and choose what part of the help file you want to see.

Question 10

Parameters alter a command. What character does a parameter always begin with?

Answer 10

Parameters always begin with a dash

eg;

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