Here are all the questions and answers from the PDF in a text format:

Question 1

Question: Consider the following Python code snippet. What will the contents of
my_numbers be after execution?

Python

my_numbers = [10, 20, 30, 40, 50]

for i in range(4):

my_numbers.insert(i, my_numbers[-1])

print(my_numbers)

Answer: [50,10, 50, 20,50, 30,50, 40]

Question 2

Question: In the context of a function call in Python, what determines the meaning of a
positional argument?

Answer: Its position within the argument list

Question 3

Question: Analyze the following Python code snippet

Python

alpha = [4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42]

beta = alpha[:]

beta[2] = 99

Which of the following statements are true regarding the code above? (Select two answers)

Answers:
 • The beta list is of the same length as the alpha list, but their contents are not
identical.

• alpha and beta are separate lists; the alpha list remains unchanged after the
modification.

Question 4

Question: An operator able to check whether two values are not equal is coded as

Answer: !=

Question 5

Question: Given the Python code segment below:

Python

def compute_square(x):

return x * x

def compute_quad(x):

return compute_square(x) * compute_square(None)

print(compute_quad(4))

What will be the output of the code?

Answer: The code will cause a runtime error.

Question 6

Question: The result of the following division: 11/12

Answer: is equal to 0.9166666666666666

Question 7
Question: Consider the Python function defined below:

Python

def raise_power(base, exponent):

return base ** exponent

print(raise_power(exponent=3, 2))

What is the result of executing this code?

Answer: The code will output 8.

Question 8

Question: What value will be assigned to the variable x?

Python

z=0

y = 10

x = y < z and z > y or y < z and z < y

Answer: False

Question 9

Question: Review the following identifiers and select the ones that are reserved keywords
in Python and would cause a SyntaxError if used as variable names. (Select two answers)

Answers:

• continue

• class

Question 10

Question: What is the expected output of the following Python code?

my_values = [3 * i for i in range(5)]

def modify_list(values):

del values[values[2] // 3]

return values

print(modify_list(my_values))

Answer: [0, 3, 9, 12]

Question 11

Question: What is the output of the following piece of code?

Python

x=1

y=2

x, y, z = x, x, y

z, y, z = x, y, z

print(x, y, z)

Answer: 1 2 2

Question 12

Question: What will be the output of the following snippet?

Python

a=1

b=0

a=a^b
b=a^b

a=a^b

print(a, b)

Answer: 0 1

Question 13

Question: What is the output of the following Python code snippet?

Python

def custom_function(value):

if value % 3 == 0:

return 1

else:

return 2

print(custom_function(custom_function(4)))

Answer: 2

Question 14

Question: Consider the following Python code snippet and determine which statement is
correct:

Python

inventory = ['apple', 'banana', 'cherry']

backup_inventory = inventory

del backup_inventory[:]

Answer: Both inventory and backup_inventory contain the same number of items.
Question 15

Question: Consider the following Python code, where only integer inputs are allowed:

Python

first_integer = int(input("Enter an integer: "))

second_integer = int(input("Enter another integer: "))

first_integer = first_integer + second_integer

first_integer = first_integer - second_integer

second_integer = second_integer % first_integer

print(second_integer)

Which condition1 will ensure that the code runs successfully without a runtime error?

Answer: first_integer must be larger than second_integer (at the point of the modulo
operation, first_integer cannot be zero).

Question 16

Question: Assuming the user enters 5 on the first line and 0 on the second line, what is the
output of the following Python code?

Python

first_input = input("Enter first number: ")

second_input = input("Enter second number: ")

print(second_input + first_input)

Answer: 05

Question 17

Question: What is the output of the following piece of code?

Python

print("a", "b", "c", sep="sep")

Answer: asepbsepc
Question 18

Question: What is the output of the following piece of code?

Python

x = 1 // 5 + 1 / 5

print(x)

Answer: 0.2

Question 19

Question: What is the result of trying to execute the following code snippet if sample_tuple
is a tuple that has been previously defined with at least two elements?

Python

sample_tuple[0] = 5

print(sample_tuple)

Answer: A TypeError will be raised because elements of a tuple cannot be reassigned.

Question 20

Question: What is the output of the following piece of code if the user enters two lines
containing 2.0 and 4.0 respectively?

Python

x = float(input())

y = float(input())

print(y ** (1 / x))

Answer: 2.0

Question 21

Question: What is the expected output of the following code snippet?

my_list = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

value = my_list[2]

for i in range(my_list[value - 1]):

value = my_list[value - 1]

print(value)

Answer: 4

Question 22

Question: How many elements are in the list my_list?

Python

my_list = [i for i in range(5)]

Answer: 5

Question 23

Question: Which of the following function calls correctly invoke the function named
my_function? (Select two answers)

Python

def my_function(x, y):

return x + y

Answers:

• my_function(y=1, x=2)

• my_function(1, 2)

Question 24

Question: What is the output of the following snippet?

x = 10

if x == 10:

print("Ten")

else:

print("Not Ten")

print(x + 1)

Answer: The snippet will cause a runtime error.

Question 25

Question: How many times will the following snippet loop?

Python

i=0

while i < 1:

i += 1

print(i)

else:

print("Done")

Answer: One

Question 26

Question: What is the output of the following Python code snippet?

Python

my_tuple = (1, 2, 3)

my_tuple = (my_tuple[0], my_tuple[2], my_tuple[1])

print(my_tuple)
Answer: (1, 3, 2)

Question 27

Question: Examine the following Python code: print("Hello, world!", "Python is fun!")

Which of the following statements is correct regarding this code?

Answer: The print() function with two arguments displays two values.

Question 28

Question: What is the output of the following code?

Python

dct = {}

dct[1] = 10

dct[2] = 20

for k, v in dct.items():

print(k, end=" ")

Answer: 1 2

Question 29

Question: What is the output of the following snippet?

Python

my_list = [1, 2, 3]

del my_list[3]

print(my_list)

Answer: IndexError (This would be a runtime error, specifically an IndexError, not a

Question: How many times will the * symbol be emitted onto the console by the following
code snippet?

Python

matrix = [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9]]

count = 0

for row in matrix:

for element in row:

if element % 2 == 0:

count += 1

print(count * '*')

Answer: Zero

Question 31

Question: What is the expected output of the following Python program?

Python

my_list = ['a', 'b', 'c']

my_list.insert(0, my_list.pop(2))

print(my_list)

Answer: ['c', 'a', 'b']

Question 32

Question: What is the expected output of the following Python snippet?

Python

x = 10
y=3

x=y/x

print(x)

Answer: The value of x will be 0.3

Question 33

Question: What is the expected behavior of the following program?

Python

a = 10

b=0

c=a/b

print(c)

Answer: The program will cause a ZeroDivisionError exception.

Question 34

Question: What is the output of the following?

Python

print(())

Answer: ()

Question 35

Question: What is the expected behavior of the following program?

Python

my_tuple = (1, 2)

my_tuple.append(3)

print(my_tuple)
Answer: The code will raise a TypeError exception.