PowerShell Interview Questions and Answers

Ques 1. What is PowerShell?

PowerShell is a task automation framework from Microsoft, consisting of a command-line shell and associated scripting language.

Example:

Get-Process

Ques 2. Explain the 'Get-Help' cmdlet in PowerShell.

Get-Help is used to retrieve information about PowerShell commands and topics.

Example:

Get-Help Get-Process

Ques 3. What is the purpose of the 'Get-Command' cmdlet?

Get-Command is used to get all commands available in PowerShell.

Example:

Get-Command

Ques 4. Explain the concept of 'Pipelines' in PowerShell.

Pipelines allow the output of one command to be used as the input for another command.

Example:

Get-Process | Stop-Process -Force

Ques 5. How do you iterate through an array in PowerShell?

With foeach loop.