College Board AP® Computer Science Principles Exam Questions By Topic

Collaboration & Innovation, Collaborative Development, Interpersonal Skills

Purpose of a computing innovation, Program Functionality

Program Inputs, Program Outputs, Development Process, Program & UI Design, Purpose of a code segment, Code Attribution

Error Identification, Error Correction

Bit Representation, Consequences of using bits: overflow and rounding errors, Binary Numbers

Compression Algorithms

Data Analysis & Patterns, Metadata, Challenges associated with processing data

Programmatic Data Extraction, Data Insights

Variables & Assignment, Lists, Strings, List Operations

Algorithm Expression, Sequential Code, Arithmetic Expressions

Boolean Expressions & Operators

Conditionals, Iteration & Loops

Algorithm Development

Linear Search, Binary Search

Calling Procedures, Developing Procedures

Appropriate libraries or APIs

Relationship between simulations & real-world

Efficiency of an algorithm

Existence of undecidable problems in computing

Network Devices, The Internet works, How data moves through the Internet, Differences between the Internet & WWW

Fault Tolerance

Computing Models, Parallel & Distributed Solutions

Beneficial & Harmful Effects, Unintended Impacts

Digital Divide, Computing Bias, Crowdsourcing

Legal & Ethical Concerns

Risks to privacy, Resource Protection, Unauthorized Access