Do you manage Windows Server with PowerShell - or are you learning to? These practice tests check what an administrator uses every day: finding commands and reading help, building pipelines that pass objects, filtering, sorting and exporting the results, working with providers, WMI and CIM, writing scripts, functions and modules, remoting, and running Active Directory, Group Policy, DNS, DHCP and IIS from the command line.

You get 4 practice tests with 196 questions in total (50, 46, 50, 50). Every question was checked twice before release: once by the author against the official documentation, and once by an independent reviewer who answered it blind - any disagreement was settled with a source.

What makes the explanations useful

Each answer tells you why the right option is right and why each wrong option is wrong. The wrong options are real features, commands and settings that are easy to pick by mistake - that is where most of the learning is.

How the tests are built

Practice Test 1: PowerShell Fundamentals and the Pipeline: the console and ISE, the help system, finding commands, parameters, -WhatIf and -Confirm, modules, objects and Get-Member, sorting, selecting, filtering, ForEach-Object, pipeline parameter binding, formatting and exporting.
Practice Test 2: Providers, WMI/CIM, Scripting and Remoting: PS providers and drives, the registry, WMI and CIM classes and sessions, execution policy, variables, scopes and operators, scripts, advanced functions, script modules, error handling and remoting.
Practice Test 3: Windows Server Administration with PowerShell: installing roles and features, promoting domain controllers, FSMO roles and the global catalog, users, groups and OUs, Group Policy cmdlets, DNS zones and records, DHCP scopes, IIS and firewall rules.
Practice Test 4: Full Mock Exam: a mixed exam across all three areas - take it last, in one sitting.

Questions use single-answer and multiple-answer formats; the number of answers to pick is always stated. Suggested time: 75 minutes per test.

Versions: Windows PowerShell 5.1 and PowerShell 7 (7.4 and 7.6 LTS), PowerShell ISE, CIM/WMI cmdlets, Windows Server 2022 and Windows Server 2025 (ActiveDirectory, GroupPolicy, DnsServer, DhcpServer, WebAdministration/IISAdministration modules, IIS 10), as of October 2026.

Please note: these are original practice questions written by an instructor. This course is not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft; PowerShell, Windows Server and Active Directory are Microsoft trademarks.