POWERSHELL Hands-on Labs
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POWERSHELL · Hands-on practice
POWERSHELL Hands-on Labs — practise in a simulated Windows PowerShell console
Learn it. Practise it. Make it stick.
36 practical tasks + 4 troubleshooting challenges. Familiar administration workflows, gradual hints and explanations. Independent simulation — no real tenant, device or cloud resources.
First five tasks are free, repeatable and have no expiry · No credit card required.
Access options
One-time payments, no automatic renewal. The first five tasks stay free either way.
Certificate of Completion
Finish the course. Prove it.
Complete all 36 labs and you can download a certificate of completion with your name, the skills you practised and a unique ID. Challenges are optional. Anyone can check it on a public verification page — and add it to LinkedIn in one click.
- Not self-declared. Before issuing, our server re-runs the grader on every lab you saved, so a checkbox in your browser is not enough.
- Verifiable. Every certificate has its own page at examitlab.com/verify/<ID>.
- Honest. It certifies that you completed this course. It is not a Microsoft certification and is not endorsed by Microsoft — there is no official exam for PowerShell itself.
ExamIT Lab
Certificate of Completion
PowerShell for Administrators
Hands-on skills course · 36 graded labs
Alex Morgan
has completed every hands-on lab of the course. Each task was graded on the resulting state of a simulated Windows estate — including scripts written by the learner and executed against unseen inputs.
Object pipelineScripting & advanced functionsModules & PesterPowerShell 7Active DirectoryScheduled tasksNTFS ACLsWinRM remoting
Completed
4 October 2026
4 October 2026
36/36labs
Certificate ID
PS-7K4Q-2M9D-X8
PS-7K4Q-2M9D-X8
Verify at examitlab.com/verify/PS-7K4Q-2M9D-X8. This is a certificate of course completion issued by ExamIT Lab. It is not a Microsoft certification and is not endorsed by Microsoft.
Sample certificate — name and ID are fictional.
Your learning path
Work through the tasks in order — each one builds on the last.
LAB 01 · FREE
Pipeline and objects: a top-processes report
Pipeline · Objects · Output · 10–12 min
Open lab →LAB 02 · FREE
Services: stop, disable, repair and document
Services · Change control · 10–12 min
Open lab →LAB 03 · FREE
Files, folders and text: log triage with Select-String
File system · Text processing · 12–15 min
Open lab →LAB 04 · FREE
Your first script: param(), objects out, execution policy
Scripting · Execution policy · 15–18 min
Open lab →LAB 05 · FREE
Active Directory: new starters from a CSV, with a group
Active Directory · Bulk operations · 15–18 min
Open lab →LAB 06 · LOCKED
Treasure hunt: Get-Help, Get-Command and Get-Member
Discovery · Help system · 10–12 min
Included with full POWERSHELL lab access
LAB 07 · LOCKED
Aliases, providers and PSDrives: the same verbs everywhere
Providers · Environment · Profile · 12–15 min
Included with full POWERSHELL lab access
LAB 08 · LOCKED
Formatting and output: tables, lists, HTML and JSON
Output · Reporting · 12–15 min
Included with full POWERSHELL lab access
LAB 09 · LOCKED
CSV and JSON round trips
Data · CSV · JSON · 12–15 min
Included with full POWERSHELL lab access
LAB 10 · LOCKED
Hashtables, PSCustomObject and splatting
Data structures · Scripting · 12–15 min
Included with full POWERSHELL lab access
LAB 11 · LOCKED
Calculated properties and Group-Object
Pipeline · Aggregation · 12–15 min
Included with full POWERSHELL lab access
LAB 12 · LOCKED
Audits with Compare-Object and Measure-Object
Auditing · Comparison · 12–15 min
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LAB 13 · LOCKED
Control flow: if, switch, foreach and while
Scripting · Control flow · 12–15 min
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LAB 14 · LOCKED
Error handling: try/catch, -ErrorAction and the ErrorRecord
Scripting · Error handling · 15–18 min
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LAB 15 · LOCKED
Advanced functions: [CmdletBinding()], pipeline input and ValidateSet
Scripting · Functions · 15–18 min
Included with full POWERSHELL lab access
LAB 16 · LOCKED
Modules: .psm1, a manifest and PSModulePath
Scripting · Modules · 15–18 min
Included with full POWERSHELL lab access
LAB 17 · LOCKED
Comment-based help and Write-Verbose
Scripting · Documentation · 12–15 min
Included with full POWERSHELL lab access
LAB 18 · LOCKED
PowerShell 7: ternary, null-coalescing, chains and -Parallel
PowerShell 7 · Compatibility · 12–15 min
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LAB 19 · LOCKED
Pester tests for your own function
Scripting · Testing · 15–18 min
Included with full POWERSHELL lab access
LAB 20 · LOCKED
Local users and groups
Local accounts · Security · 10–12 min
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LAB 21 · LOCKED
Registry: read, create and set values with the provider
Registry · Configuration · 10–12 min
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LAB 22 · LOCKED
Event logs: Get-WinEvent filters, export and your own events
Event logs · Monitoring · 12–15 min
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LAB 23 · LOCKED
Scheduled tasks that run your scripts
Scheduling · Automation · 15–18 min
Included with full POWERSHELL lab access
LAB 24 · LOCKED
Processes: find, stop, start and report
Processes · Troubleshooting · 10–12 min
Included with full POWERSHELL lab access
LAB 25 · LOCKED
File system ACLs with Get-Acl and Set-Acl
Security · NTFS permissions · 15–18 min
Included with full POWERSHELL lab access
LAB 26 · LOCKED
Networking: addresses, ports, DNS and firewall rules
Networking · Firewall · 12–15 min
Included with full POWERSHELL lab access
LAB 27 · LOCKED
CIM/WMI inventory across the estate
CIM · Inventory · 15–18 min
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LAB 28 · LOCKED
Archive, hash and clean up safely
File management · Integrity · 10–12 min
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LAB 29 · LOCKED
Query Active Directory: -Filter, -SearchBase and -Properties
Active Directory · Queries · 12–15 min
Included with full POWERSHELL lab access
LAB 30 · LOCKED
Groups and membership
Active Directory · Groups · 12–15 min
Included with full POWERSHELL lab access
LAB 31 · LOCKED
Account lifecycle: unlock, expire, move, reset
Active Directory · Accounts · 12–15 min
Included with full POWERSHELL lab access
LAB 32 · LOCKED
Computers and OUs: bulk changes with pipelines
Active Directory · Computers · OUs · 12–15 min
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LAB 33 · LOCKED
Invoke-Command on the servers: one-off, sessions and $using:
Remoting · Invoke-Command · 12–15 min
Included with full POWERSHELL lab access
LAB 34 · LOCKED
Enter-PSSession: interactive troubleshooting on SRV02
Remoting · Troubleshooting · 15–18 min
Included with full POWERSHELL lab access
LAB 35 · LOCKED
Fan-out inventory of every server
Remoting · Reporting · 12–15 min
Included with full POWERSHELL lab access
LAB 36 · LOCKED
Capstone: onboarding automation end to end
Scripting · AD · Remoting · Scheduling · 25–30 min
Included with full POWERSHELL lab access
Troubleshooting challenges
Inspect evidence, identify the cause, make a safe fix and verify it. 4 separate exercises, included with full POWERSHELL lab access.
"The script works for me but not for the help desk"
8–10 min
Locked · Full lab access required
"The report comes back empty"
10–12 min
Locked · Full lab access required
"The service will not stay stopped"
10–12 min
Locked · Full lab access required
"Invoke-Command to SRV02 is denied"
12–15 min
Locked · Full lab access required
POWERSHELL hands-on labs — questions
- Can I practise PowerShell without a Windows server or a domain?
- Yes. ExamIT Lab gives you 36 guided PowerShell labs in a simulated Windows PowerShell console against a fictional Windows estate — a workstation, two servers and a domain controller. Nothing runs on a real machine, so there is no lab to build, no licence to buy and nothing you can break.
- Are the POWERSHELL labs free?
- The first 5 labs in the learning order are free, repeatable and never expire — no credit card and no sign-up required to start. The full course of 36 labs plus 4 troubleshooting challenges is a one-time purchase with no subscription.
- What does a POWERSHELL lab look like?
- Each lab opens a realistic simulation of a simulated Windows estate — a Windows 11 workstation with RSAT, two Windows Server 2022 member servers and a domain controller — with Windows PowerShell 5.1 and PowerShell 7: the object pipeline, discovery with Get-Help/Get-Command/Get-Member, CSV/JSON reporting, scripts and advanced functions you write in the editor and the grader executes, modules, Pester tests, services, processes, registry, event logs, scheduled tasks, local accounts, NTFS ACLs, networking, CIM, Active Directory users, groups, OUs and computers, and WinRM remoting. You get a task brief, a guided or independent mode, progressive hints and a "Check configuration" button that grades the actual end state you left behind — not just the buttons you clicked.
- Is there a PowerShell certification exam?
- No — Microsoft has no exam for PowerShell itself, which is why this is a skills course rather than exam prep. It covers the PowerShell that AZ-800, AZ-801, AZ-104, MD-102 and SC-300 assume you already know: the pipeline, scripting, Active Directory, remoting and scheduling, graded on what your commands and scripts actually did.
- Is there a certificate at the end?
- Yes. When all 36 labs are complete you can issue a certificate of completion in your account: a PDF with your name and a unique ID, an Add to LinkedIn link and a public verification page. Before issuing, the server re-runs the course grader on every lab you saved, so it reflects work you really did. It certifies completion of this course; it is not a Microsoft certification.
- How is this different from running PowerShell on my own PC?
- Your PC has no domain, no servers and no safe way to break things. These labs give you a pre-built estate with fictional users, services and logs, a clear goal per task, hints when you want them, and a grader that runs your scripts with different parameters and checks the resulting state — so you learn the real administration workflows, not just the syntax.
Access is per course. Sign in for account progress. After paid access expires, your saved progress is retained and the first five tasks remain free.