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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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Beginner
Last updated
Aug 05, 2025
Duration
1h 35m

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Table of Contents
  1. Challenge

    Get Started in the Lab Environment

    Here are the initial instructions and explanation of the lab environment. Read this while your environment is busy creating itself from nothing. Yes, this violates physics; we know. How fun!

  2. 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.

  3. Challenge

    Add a Self-signed Certificate to a PowerShell Script

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

  4. Challenge

    Configure an Inbound Firewall Rule

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

  5. 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.

  6. 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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