Find the DNS service by name in PowerShell
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Write a pipeline, run it against the sample data, and check your result.
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Get-Service -Name 'Dns*'Target
Return the service whose Name matches Dns*.
Expected result
Dnscache
Try the task
Show a worked solution
Reveal one approach
Try it in the lab
Write your pipeline below and run it against the fictional sample data, then check your result against the expected answer.
Follow the objects
Run the command to inspect each stage.
PowerShell skills
Service objects · Wildcard matching
Build the answer in three decisions
Read the pipeline from left to right. Each stage receives objects from the stage before it.
Collect
Get-Service -Name 'Dns*'
Start with 7 fictional service objects. Keep them as objects so later stages can inspect their properties.
Shape
Inspect the source properties
Apply the condition or ordering required by the task. Get-Service accepts a wildcard Name.
Verify
Check the returned names
The fixture should return Dnscache. For this exercise, equivalent matching names can pass even when their order is different.
Reason through the pipeline
The source stage returns 7 service objects. Then the pipeline applies the task condition without converting the objects to display text. That keeps the Name property available for the checker and for any later pipeline stage.
Why common attempts fail
Keep the answer as a pipeline over the fixture instead of typing the expected result directly.
What the checker accepts
The evaluator runs the supported subset against the same fictional fixture. It expects Dnscache. The checker compares the matching names without requiring a specific order. Equivalent supported syntax is accepted.
Verify another attempt
First run Get-Service -Name 'Dns*' by itself and inspect the fixture. Then add one stage at a time and compare how many objects remain. This isolates the stage that changes the result and makes the final pipeline easier to explain and debug.
