PCAP – Programming Essentials in Python Quizzes Final Test Answers

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PCAP – Programming Essentials in Python Quizzes Final Test Answers

  1. The meaning of the keyword argument is determined by:

    • its position within the argument list
    • its value
    • its connection with existing variables
    • the argument’s name specified along with its value
  2. Which of the following sentences is true?

     

       str1 = ‘string’

       str2 = str1[:]

    • str1 and str2 are different (but equal) strings
    • str2 is longer than str1
    • “>str1 and str2 are different names of the same string
    • str1 is longer than str2
  3. An operator able to check whether two values are equal, is coded as:

    • =
    • ==
    • ===
    • is
  4. The following snippet:

       def f(par2,par1):

          return par2 + par1

       print(f(par2=1,2))

    • will output 2
    • will output 3
    • will output 1
    • is erroneous
  5. What value will be assigned to the x variable?

       z = 2

       y = 1

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

    • 0
    • True
    • 1
    • False
  6. What will be the output of the following snippet?

       str = ‘abcdef’

       def fun(s):

          del s[2]

          return s

       print(fun(str))

    • abcef
    • the program will cause an error
    • abdef
    • acdef
  7. What will be the output of the following piece of code?

       x, y, z = 3, 2, 1

       z, y, x = x, y, z

       print(x,y,z)

     

    • 2 1 3
    • 1 2 3
    • 1 2 2
    • 3 2 1
  8. What will be the output of the following snippet?

       a = True

       b = False

       a = a or b

       b = a and b

       a = a or b

       print(a,b)

    • True False
    • True True
    • False False
    • False True
  9. What will be the output of the following snippet?

       def fun(x):

          return 1 if x % 2 != 0 else 2

       print(fun(fun(1)))

    • 2
    • the code will cause a runtime error
    • 1
    • None
  10. What will be the output of the following line?

     

    print(len((1,)))

    • 0
    • the code is erroneous
    • 2
    • 1
  11. What will be the output of the following piece of code?

       d = { 1:0, 2:1, 3:2, 0:1 }

       x = 0

       for y in range(len(d)):

          x = d[x]

       print(x)

    • the code will cause a runtime error
    • 2
    • 0
    • 1
  12. What will be the output of the following piece of code:

       y=input()

       x=input()

       print(x+y)

    if the user enters two lines containing 1 and 2 respectively?

    • 21
    • 12
    • 2
    • 3
  13. What will be the output of the following piece of code?

       print(“a”,”b”,”c”,sep=”‘”)

    • a’b’c
    • abc
    • a b c
    • the code is erroneous
  14. What will be the output of the following piece of code?

       v = 1 + 1 // 2 + 1 / 2 + 2

       print(v)

    • 4.0
    • 3.5
    • 3
    • 4
  15. What will be the output of the following code?

       t = (1,)

       t = t[0] + t[0]

       print(t)

    • (1,)
    • 1
    • (1, 1)
    • 2
  16. What will be the output of the following piece of code?

       x = 16

       while x > 0:

          print(‘*’,end=”)

          x //= 2

    • *****
    • ***
    • *
    • the code will enter an infinite loop
  17. What will be the output of the following snippet?

       d = { ‘one’:1, ‘three’:3, ‘two’:2 }

       for k in sorted(d.values()):

          print(k,end=’ ‘)

    • 1 2 3
    • 3 2 1
    • 2 3 1
    • 3 2 1
  18. What will be the output of the following snippet?

       print(len([i for i in range(0,-2)]))

    • 0
    • 2
    • 3
    • 1
  19. Which of the following lines properly invokes the function defined as:
    def fun(a,b,c=0)?

    • fun(0):
    • fun(b=0,b=0):
    • fun(1,c=2):
    • fun(a=1,b=0,c=0):
  20. What will be the output of the following snippet?

       l = [1,2,3,4]

       l = list(map(lambda x: 2*x,l))

       print(l)

    • 10
    • the snippet will cause a runtime error
    • 1 2 3 4
    • 2 4 6 8
  21. How many stars will the following snippet send to the console?

       i = 4

       while i > 0 :

          i -= 2

          print(“*”)

          if i == 2:

             break

       else:

          print(“*”)

    • 2
    • 0
    • 1
    • the snippet will enter an infinite loop
  22. What will be the output of the following snippet?

       t = (1, 2, 3, 4)

       t = t[-2:-1]

       t = t[-1]

       print(t)

    • 33
    • (3)
    • 3
    • (3,)
  23. What will be the output of the following snippet?

       d = {}

       d[‘2’] = [1,2]

       d[‘1’] = [3,4]

       for x in d.keys():

          print(d[x][1],end=””)

    • 24
    • 13
    • 42
    • 31
  24. What will be the output of the following snippet?

       def fun(d,k,v):

          d[k]=v

       dc = {}

       print(fun(dc,’1′,’v’))

    • None
    • 1
    • the snippet is erroneous
    • v
  25. How many empty lines will the following snippet send to the console?

       l = [[c for c in range(r)] for r in range(3)]

       for x in l:

          if len(x) < 2:

             print()

    • 1
    • 0
    • 2
    • 3
  26. Knowing that the function named m() resides in the module named f, and the code contains the following import statement, choose the right way to invoke the function:

       from m import f

    • the import statement is invalid
    • mod.fun()
    • mod:fun()
    • fun()
  27. The package directory/folder may contain a file intended to initialize the package. Its name is:

    • __init__.py
    • init.py
    • __init.py__
    • __init__.
  28. The folder created by Python used to store pyc files is named:

    • __pycfiles__
    • __pyc__
    • __pycache__
    • __cache__
  29. What will be the output of the following code, located in the file module.py?

        print(__name__)

    • main
    • __module.py__
    • module.py
    • __main__
  30. If you want to tell your module’s users that a particular variable should not be accessed directly, you may:

    • start its name with a capital letter
    • use its number instead of its name
    • start its name with _ or __
    • build its name with lowercase letters only
  31. If there is a finally: branch inside the try: block, we can say that:

    • it won’t be executed if no exception is raised
    • it will always be executed
    • branches is executed
    • it will be executed when there is no else: branch
  32. What will be the output of the following snippet?

       try:

          raise Exception

       except BaseException:

          print(“a”,end=”)

       else:

           print(“b”,end=”)

       finally:

           print(“c”)

    • a
    • ab
    • bc
    • ac
  33. What will be the output of the following snippet?

       class A:

          def __init__(self,name):

             self.name = name

       a = A(“class”)

       print(a)

    • a number
    • a string ending with a long hexadecimal number
    • class
    • name
  34. What will be the output of the following snippet?

       try:

          raise Exception

       except:

          print(“c”)

       except BaseException:

          print(“a”)

       except Exception:

          print(“b”)

    • it will an cause error
    • b
    • c
    • a
  35. What will be the output of the following snippet?

       class X:

          pass

       class Y(X):

          pass

       class Z(Y):

          pass

       x = X()

       z = Z()

       print(isinstance(x,Z),isinstance(z,X))

    • False False
    • True True
    • True False
    • False True
  36. The following code prints:

       x = “\”

       print(len(x))

     

    • 1
    • the code will cause an error
    • 2
    • 3
  37. The following code prints:

       x = “””

       “””

       print(len(x))

     

     

    • 2
    • 1
    • the code will cause an error
    • 3
  38. If the class constructor is declared as below, which one of the assignments is valid?

       class Class:

          def __init__(self):

             pass

    • object = Class(None)
    • object = Class(1)
    • object = Class(1,2)
    • object = Class()
       
  39. What will be the output of the following code?

       class A:

          A = 1

          def __init__(self,v = 2):

             self.v = v + A.A

             A.A += 1

          def set(self,v):

             self.v += v

             A.A += 1

             return

       a = A()

       a.set(2)

       print(a.v)

    • 7
    • 5
    • 1
    • 3
  40. What will be the output of the following code?

       class A:

          A = 1

          def __init__(self):

             self.a = 0

       print(hasattr(A,’A’))

     

    • True
    • 0
    • 1
    • False
  41. What will be the result of executing the following code?

       class A:

          pass

       class B:

          pass

       class C(A,B):

          pass

       print(issubclass(C,A) and issubclass(C,B))

    • it will print True
    • it will raise an exception
    • it will print an empty line
    • it will print False
  42. The sys.stdout stream is normally associated with:

    • the screen
    • a null device
    • the keyboard
    • the printer
  43. What will be the effect of running the following code?

       class A:

          def __init__(self,v):

          self._a = v + 1

       a = A(0)

       print(a._a)

    • it will print 0
    • it will print 1
    • it will print 2
    • it will raise an AttributeError exception
  44. What will be the result of executing the following code?

       class A:

          def __init__(self):

             pass

          def f(self):

             return 1

          def g():

             return self.f()

       a = A()

       print(a.g())

    • it will print 0
    • it will print True
    • it will print 1
    • it will raise an exception
  45. What will be the result of executing the following code?

       class A:

          def a(self):

            print(‘a’)

       class B:

          def a(self):

             print(‘b’)

       class C(A,B):

          def c(self):

             self.a()

       o = C()

       o.c()

     

    • it will print b
    • it will print a
    • it will raise an exception
    • it will print c
  46. The Exception class contains a property named args, and it is a:

    • string
    • tuple
    • list
    • dictionary
  47. What will be the result of executing the following code?

       def I(n):

          s = ”

          for i in range(n):

             s += ‘*’

             yield s

          for x in I(3):

             print(x,end=”)

    • it will print ***
    • it will print ****
    • it will print *
    • it will print ******
  48. What will be the result of executing the following code?

       def a(x):

          def b():

             return x + x

          return b

       x = a(‘x’)

       y = a(”)

       print(x() + y())

     

    • it will print xxxxxx
    • it will print x
    • it will print xx
    • it will print xxxx
  49. If s is a stream opened in read mode, the following line

       q = s.readlines()

     

    will assign q as a:

    • string
    • dictionary
    • list
    • tuple
  50. If you want to write a byte array’s content to a stream, you’d use:

    • the write() method
    • writebytearray() method
    • the writefrom() method
    • writeto() method