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Python Certification: PCAP Mock Test 1
A free practice exam in the shape of the Python Institute's PCAP (Certified Associate in Python Programming): 40 questions in 65 minutes, in the real exam's five blocks and their weights: modules and packages, exceptions, strings, object-oriented programming, and comprehensions, lambdas, closures and files. Some questions have more than one right option; choose them all. One mark for each right answer and none taken off for a wrong one. You need 70%, 28 right, to pass, as in the real exam. Every question has a worked answer.
Python ProgrammingHigh School (11–12)Hard
- questions
- 40
- minutes
- 65
- marks
- 40
- right / wrong
- +1 / 0
questions
minutes
marks
right / wrong
The clock starts when you press Begin, after the instructions.
Exam pattern
| Section | Questions | Marks |
|---|---|---|
| Block 1: Modules and packages | 5 | 5 |
| Block 2: Exceptions | 6 | 6 |
| Block 3: Strings | 7 | 7 |
| Block 4: Object-oriented programming | 14 | 14 |
| Block 5: Comprehensions, lambdas, files | 8 | 8 |
37 with one correct option, 3 with one or more correct options.
Marking
- Right answer: +1
- Wrong answer: 0, nothing taken away
- Left blank: 0
- One or more correct: only right options, but not all of them, earns part of the marks.
Time
65 minutes on one clock, from when you begin.
Syllabus covered
9 chapters
- Classes and Objects
Before you start
- It runs like an online exam: one question at a time, with a palette showing what you have answered, skipped or marked for review.
- The clock starts when you press Begin the test, after you have read the instructions, and keeps running even if you reload or leave. At zero, your saved answers are submitted.
- The test opens in full screen where your device allows it. Leaving full screen or switching to another tab or app is recorded with your attempt, and whoever set the test can see it. Your own count shows at the top of the test.
- Your score, the answers and the explanations show when you finish, with where you stand among everyone who has taken it.