PCEP-30-02 Practice Test Compendium – Exam Block #2

Exam block #2: Control Flow – Conditional Blocks and Loops

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Objectives covered by the block:

PCEP 2.1 Make decisions and branch the flow with the if instruction

• conditional statements: if, if-else, if-elif, if-elif-else,

• multiple conditional statements,

• nesting conditional statements.

PCEP 2.2 Perform different types of iterations

• the pass instruction,

• building loops with while, for, range(), and in,

• iterating through sequences, expanding loops with while-else and for-else,

• nesting loops and conditional statements,

• controlling loop execution with break and continue.

This exam block is the second section that appears in the exam. It constitutes a maximum of 28% of the overall exam score. It contains eight (8) exam items, each graded a maximum of 20, 30, or 40 points.

Specifications

• Section weight: 28%

• Max raw score: 280

• Questions drawn: 8

• Question types: single- and multiple-choice, drag & drop, sorting, code ordering

• Points per question: 4+4+4+4+4, 6+6+6+6+6, 7+6+7 (drag & drop, sorting, code ordering), 20, 30 (single-choice), 10+10, 20+20, 10+20, (multiple-choice)