Practice Find stopped Azure VMs

Find stopped Azure VMs: practice drill

Exercise 2 min read Windows PowerShell 5.1 and PowerShell 7

Written and tested by Dhrub Bharali · Updated 02 October 2026

Return the VMs that are stopped, with their resource groups.

The task

Stopped VMs still hold their disks and their costs. List them with their resource groups so the team can decide what to deallocate.

Return the VMs that are stopped, with their resource groups.

PowerState describes the VM's current state. Filtering for 'VM stopped' isolates the machines that are off but still allocated.

Run the source by itself and inspect the sample objects. Add each filter separately, then check the final properties and order.

The browser uses a small fictional dataset. Real results depend on the host, module, account and target environment.

Choose an answer, then check your reasoning.

Worked solution

Reveal one approach

1PS> Get-AzVM -Status | Where-Object PowerState -eq 'VM stopped' | Select-Object Name, ResourceGroupName

Write your pipeline below and run it against the fictional sample data, then check your result against the expected answer.

Your pipeline

Interactive simulation · fictional data