L1.4 Certification Exam Details

Exam name: 

PCEP Certified Entry-Level Python Programmer

Exam Code/Exam Version: 

PCEP-30-01  

Exam Level: 

Entry

Pre-requisites: 

None

Duration: 

45 minutes (exam) + approx. 5 minutes (Non-Disclosure Agreement/Tutorial)

Number of Questions: 

30

Format: 

Single-choice and multiple-choice questions, drag & drop, gap fill | Python 3.x

Passing Score: 

70%

Full Exam Price: 

USD 59

Delivery Channel:

OpenEDG Testing Service

Exam Syllabus

Exam consists of five blocks. Each block tests your knowledge on a specific block.

Exam Block Number	Topic covered	Percentage of questions
Exam Block # 1	Basic Concepts	17%
Exam block #2	Data Types, Evaluations, and Basic I/O Operations	20%
Exam Block #3	Control Flow – loops and conditional blocks	20%
Exam block #4	Data Collection – lists, tuples, and dictionaries	23%
Exam block #5	Functions	20%

Exam Block #1: Basic concepts

You should know following concepts for this exam block

• fundamental concepts: interpreting and the interpreter, compilation and the compiler, language elements, lexis, syntax and semantics, Python keywords, instructions, indenting
• literals: Boolean, integer, floating-point numbers, scientific notation, strings
• comments
• the print() function
• the input() function
• numeral systems (binary, octal, decimal, hexadecimal)
• numeric operators: ** * / % // + –
• string operators: * +
• assignments and shortcut operators

Exam Block #2: Data Types, Evaluations, and Basic I/O Operations

You should know following concepts for this exam block

• operators: unary and binary, priorities and binding
• bitwise operators: ~ & ^ | << >>
• Boolean operators: not and or
• Boolean expressions
• relational operators ( == != > >= < <= ), building complex Boolean expressions
• accuracy of floating-point numbers
• basic input and output operations using the input(), print(), int(), float(), str(), len() functions
• formatting print() output with end= and sep= arguments
• type casting
• basic calculations
• simple strings: constructing, assigning, indexing, immutability

Exam Block #3: Control Flow – loops and conditional blocks

You should know following concepts for this exam block

• conditional statements: if, if-else, if-elif, if-elif-else
• multiple conditional statements
• the pass instruction
• building loops: while, for, range(), in
• iterating through sequences
• expanding loops: while-else, for-else
• nesting loops and conditional statements
• controlling loop execution: break, continue

Exam block #4: Data Collection – lists, tuples, and dictionaries

You should know following concepts for this exam block

• simple lists: constructing vectors, indexing and slicing, the len() function
• lists in detail: indexing, slicing, basic methods (append(), insert(), index()) and functions (len(), sorted(), etc.), del instruction, iterating lists with the for loop, initializing, in and not in operators, list comprehension, copying and cloning
• lists in lists: matrices and cubes
• tuples: indexing, slicing, building, immutability
• tuples vs. lists: similarities and differences, lists inside tuples and tuples inside lists
• dictionaries: building, indexing, adding and removing keys, iterating through dictionaries as well as their keys and values, checking key existence, keys(), items() and values() methods
• strings in detail: escaping using the \ character, quotes and apostrophes inside strings, multi-line strings, basic string functions.

Exam block #5: Functions

You should know following concepts for this exam block

• defining and invoking your own functions and generators
• return and yield keywords, returning results,
• the None keyword,
• recursion
• parameters vs. arguments,
• positional keyword and mixed argument passing,
• default parameter values
• converting generator objects into lists using the list() function
• name scopes, name hiding (shadowing), the global keyword