The 2011 Scripting Games Advanced Event 5: Use PowerShell to Determine Upgrade to Windows 7 Eligibility

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April 8th, 20110 0

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Summary: Advanced Event 5 of the 2011 Scripting Games uses Windows PowerShell to determine if a computer is upgradable to the Windows 7 operating system.

About this event

Division

Advanced

Date of Event

4/8/2011 12:15 AM

Due Date

4/15/2011 12:15 AM

Event scenario

Your company is planning an upgrade from Windows XP to Windows 7, and you get to write a script that will determine if a computer meets the requirements for the upgrade. Here are the requirements for the Windows 7 operating system:

  • 1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor
  • 1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)
  • 16 GB available hard disk drive space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)
  • DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
Design points
  • Your solution should work on multiple computers.
  • Your solution should accept piped input for the computer names.
  • You should return a single object for each computer.
  • Your code should be reusable.
  • Your solution should have comment-based Help.
  • Your solution should use error handling.
  • Your solution should implement the –Debug switch.
  • Extra design points if your solution detects if the computer in question would be best upgraded to a 64-bit (x64) or to a32-bit (x86) Windows 7 operating system.

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