PowerShell Hands-On Exercises Primer 1

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PowerShell Hands-On Exercises Primer 1

In this lab, you’ll create a user and generate a self-signed certificate. You will also create a script, and add a self-signed certificate to it. After that, you will practice creating an inbound firewall rule. Finally, you will generate a system information report, and gather the performance data. All these tasks will be done using PowerShell.

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Lab Info

Level

Beginner

Last updated

Oct 14, 2025

Duration

1h 45m

Challenge

Create a Local User and Add Them to a Local Group

You will start this lab by creating a local user and adding it to a local administrative group. You will also learn how to list the existing users, and how to set a user's password, all using PowerShell.
Challenge

Add a Self-signed Certificate to a PowerShell Script

Create a PowerShell script, and add to it a self-signed certificate.
Challenge

Configure an Inbound Firewall Rule

You will configure an inbound firewall rule to disable file sharing (SMB) connections.
Challenge

System Information Report

Now, you will generate some system information and save it to a text file. This will be done with a PowerShell script.
Challenge

Memory and Disk Performance Data

To finish this lab, you will write a script that collects and displays memory and CPU performance data every 10 seconds.

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