Summary: Advanced Event 1 of the 2012 Scripting Games asks you to review a coworker’s script.
About this event
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Division |
Advanced |
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Date of Event |
4/2/2012 12:01 AM |
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Due Date |
4/9/2012 12:01 AM |
Event scenario
You work as a network administrator for a large company. You are part of a team of other network administrators that monitor several mission critical applications. Your coworker has convinced your boss that he knows everything about Windows PowerShell. As a result, whenever any scripting needs to be done, he always gets the nod. Recently, however, your boss has begun to have some doubts, and the boss has asked you to do a code review of the script that is shown here:
MonitorNotepadFor10Seconds.ps1
$notepad = Get-Process notepad
for ($i = 1 ; $i -le 10 ; $i++)
{
start-sleep 1
$notepad
}
When you run the script, you receive the output that is shown here:
Design points
- If no changes are required to the script, put “No changes” in your entry for this event.
- If changes are required:
- Make the minimum number of changes to the script. Points will be deducted if you make too many changes.
- Consider the performance of the script when you make changes.
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Ed Wilson, Microsoft Scripting Guy