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

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

### **Study Pages**

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*.

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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)

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