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📋 PCAP Exam Format at a Glance

Questions

65 min

Time Limit

70%

Passing Score

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📚 PCAP Topics to Study (21)

✍️ Sample PCAP Questions & Answers

1. What does `str.strip()` do?

✓ Removes leading and trailing whitespace

`strip()` removes whitespace (or specified characters) from both ends of the string.

2. How do you check if a key exists in a dictionary?

✓ if key in dict:

The in keyword is used to check if a key exists in a dictionary

3. Which exception is raised when accessing an index that does not exist in a list?

✓ IndexError

`IndexError` is raised when a sequence subscript is out of range.

4. What does `file.readlines()` return?

✓ A list of strings, one per line

`readlines()` reads all lines and returns them as a list of strings including newline characters.

5. What is a decorator in Python?

✓ A function that wraps another function to add behavior

A decorator is a callable that takes a function and returns a new function with added behavior.

6. What does the `zip()` function do?

✓ Combines multiple iterables element-by-element into tuples

`zip()` pairs elements from multiple iterables into tuples, stopping at the shortest iterable.

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