Command Line tools

Question 1

What is CLI?

Answer 1

Command Line Interface
The terminal

Question 2

What does the dir command do?

Answer 2

Lists files and subdirectories in the current directory or a specified path.

Question 3

What does the cd command do?

Answer 3

Change the working directory.
Enter the full path to switch directories.

Question 4

What commands create a directory?

Answer 4

md or mkdir

Question 5

How do you remove a directory?

Answer 5

rd directory name or rmdir directory name.

Question 6

What does the diskpart command do?

Answer 6

the command-line interface for the Disk Management tool.

Question 7

What command creates a new file system

Answer 7

The format command.

Question 8

What does the chkdsk command do?

Answer 8

Scans the file system and disk sectors for faults and attempts to repair detected problems.

Question 9

What command runs automatically if file system errors are detected at boot?

Answer 9

autochk

Question 10

What does the winver command do?

Answer 10

Provides Windows version information, useful for support.

Question 11

What command is used to safely power off, restart, hibernate, or log out of the system

Answer 11

shutdown /

Question 12

What does the sfc command let you do?

Answer 12

manually verify and restore system files from cache if they are corrupt or damaged

Question 13

What does the whoami command do?

Answer 13

displays current username and domain information.

Question 14

What switch tells you about a command and what it does?

Answer 14

command /?

Question 15

What is the robocopy command and what does it do?

Answer 15

Robust file copy.
Used to copy entire folder structures between volumes or across a network.

Question 16

What does the ipconfig command do?

Answer 16

Displays the IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway (router) for all network adapters to whcih TCI?IP is bound.

Question 17

What does the hostname command do?

Answer 17

Returns the name configured on the local machine.
If configured as a server clients machines can use hostmane to access shared folders and printers.

Question 18

What does the ping command do?

Answer 18

Tests whether a host can communicate with another host on the same network or on a remote network.

Question 19

What does the tracert command do?

Answer 19

Traces the path of a packet and tells the route time and hops it took to get to its destination.
The command can take an IP or FQDN as an argument

Question 20

What is an alternative to tracert?

Answer 20

pathping
It performs a trace and then pings each hop router to measure link latency more accurately, also shows packet loss at each hop.

Question 21

What does the nslookup command do?

Answer 21

Queries DNS servers to find domain names, or other specific DNS records.

Question 22

What does the netstat command do?

Answer 22

Network Statistics.
Investigates open ports and connections on the local host.