Adding properties to objects in PowerShell - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

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easy

Complete the code to add a new property 'Age' with value 30 to the object $person.

PowerShell

$person | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name 'Age' -Value [1]

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A'Age'

BNoteProperty

C$person

D30

Attempts:

3 left

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Common Mistakes

Using the property name instead of the value for the -Value parameter.

Confusing the -Name and -Value parameters.

The -Value parameter sets the value of the new property. Here, 30 is the correct value to add.

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medium

Complete the code to add a property 'City' with value 'Seattle' to the object $employee.

PowerShell

$employee | Add-Member -MemberType [1] -Name 'City' -Value 'Seattle'

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AScriptProperty

BNoteProperty

CAliasProperty

DPropertySet

Attempts:

3 left

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Common Mistakes

Using ScriptProperty which requires a script block instead of a fixed value.

Using AliasProperty which creates an alias, not a new property.

NoteProperty is used to add a simple property with a fixed value to an object.

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hard

Fix the error in the code to add a property 'Department' with value 'HR' to $staff.

PowerShell

$staff | Add-Member -MemberType NoteProperty -Name [1] -Value 'HR'

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A'Department'

BDepartment

C'HR'

DName

Attempts:

3 left

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Common Mistakes

Not quoting the property name causes a syntax error.

Confusing the property name with the property value.

The -Name parameter expects the property name as a string, so it must be quoted.

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hard

Fill both blanks to add a property 'Salary' with value 50000 to $worker.

PowerShell

$worker | Add-Member -MemberType [1] -Name [2] -Value 50000

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ANoteProperty

B'Salary'

DScriptProperty

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using ScriptProperty instead of NoteProperty.

Not quoting the property name.

Use NoteProperty as the member type and quote the property name 'Salary'.

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hard

Fill all three blanks to add a property 'Title' with value 'Manager' to $employee.

PowerShell

$employee | Add-Member -MemberType [1] -Name [2] -Value [3]

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ANoteProperty

B'Title'

C'Manager'

DScriptProperty

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using ScriptProperty instead of NoteProperty.

Not quoting the property name or value.

Use NoteProperty for the member type, quote the property name 'Title', and quote the value 'Manager'.