PowerShell Cmdlets for Output Conversion
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What feature in PowerShell allows commands to be connected in powerful one-line sequences?

  • Command concatenation
  • PowerLink
  • Pipeline (correct)
  • Cmdlet chaining

In PowerShell, how is the output of one command passed to another command?

  • By enclosing in square brackets []
  • Using the pipe symbol | (correct)
  • Using the arrow symbol ->
  • By using the keyword 'output'

Which command in PowerShell is used to display a directory listing one page at a time?

  • more (correct)
  • cat
  • view
  • ls

What concept in PowerShell is similar to the way UNIX and Linux shells connect commands?

<p>Piping (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What character is used to represent the pipeline for connecting commands in PowerShell?

<p>| (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What purpose do ConvertTo-CSV and ConvertTo-Xml cmdlets serve in PowerShell?

<p>Translate command output into CSV or XML (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Why is it mentioned that ConvertTo-Html, ConvertTo-CSV, and ConvertTo-Xml don't create files on disk?

<p>To indicate the need for further processing (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is one advantage of using ExportCSV over piping converted output to Out-File in PowerShell?

<p>ExportCSV directly saves the converted output to disk (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

In what scenario might you prefer not to save converted data to a file on disk in PowerShell?

<p>For data transmission to a web service (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What does the command 'Get-Process | Stop-Process' do in PowerShell?

<p>Kill processes (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the purpose of using the -Property parameter with Compare-Object cmdlet?

<p>To focus the comparison on a specific column (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What happens to the processes that match across both sets when using Compare-Object?

<p>They are excluded from the output (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

If you wanted to abbreviate the parameter names -Reference and -Difference further, what could be a more concise option?

<p>-r and -d (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

What is the effect of not providing the -Property parameter in Compare-Object?

<p>It compares all columns of the two sets (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

If you export your current processes to a CLIXML file and then start additional processes, which computer becomes the 'difference computer'?

<p>The computer where additional processes were started (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

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