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Academic Course Management

Develop an academic course management system using inheritance. Create an abstract Course class with

Easy

Agricultural Field Monitor

Implement the applyVegetationFilter method in the AgriculturalFieldMonitor class to classify crop he

Medium

Airline Reservations System

This question involves designing an AirlineReservations class to manage seat reservations on an airp

Extreme

Animal Class Design

Implement the Animal class as described above.

Medium

Animal Sounds Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for representing animals and their sounds.

Easy

Autonomous Vacuum Cleaner

This question involves simulating an autonomous vacuum cleaner navigating a room represented as a 2D

Medium

Bank Account Fee Calculator

Develop a bank account fee calculator using inheritance. Create an abstract BankAccount class with a

Hard

Bank Account Manager

This question requires you to compute interest on a set of bank accounts. You will implement methods

Medium

Bank Transaction Monitor

This question involves designing a BankTransactionMonitor class to process a series of bank transact

Hard

Bank Transaction Summarizer

Design a Bank Transaction Summarizer to sum deposits and filter withdrawals.

Medium

BankAccount Class Design

Implement the BankAccount class as described above.

Medium

Battlefield Troop Counter

The Battlefield class contains a 2D array of integers representing troop counts in different segment

Hard

BattleGrid Analysis

In this question, you will analyze a battleship board represented as a 2D array. Implement methods i

Hard

Blueprint Analyzer

Develop methods in the BlueprintAnalyzer class to rotate a blueprint 90 degrees and to check if it i

Extreme

Book Catalog Manager

Design a Book Catalog Manager to search for books by author and compute the average publication year

Easy

Book Class Design

Implement the Book class as described above.

Easy

Book Collection Manager

This question involves designing a BookCollection class for managing a collection of books, includin

Medium

Book Collection Organizer

This question involves managing a book collection using an ArrayList. You will implement methods to

Medium

Bookstore Inventory Organizer

This FRQ focuses on organizing bookstore inventory data. You will implement methods to sort book tit

Extreme

Bookstore Item Discount Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for bookstore items with discount calculations.

Medium

BudgetTracker

Design a BudgetTracker class that helps manage expenses by category.

Easy

Calendar Event Conflict Resolver

This question involves developing methods for a CalendarScheduler class that manages event schedulin

Medium

CalendarEvent

Design a CalendarEvent class that manages events scheduled by date and time.

Easy

Campus Map Path Finder

This question involves analyzing a campus map represented as a 2D array. Implement methods in the Ca

Hard

Car Class Design

Implement the Car class as described above.

Medium

Chat Message Thread Organizer

This question involves processing chat messages recorded in a forum thread. You will implement metho

Medium

Chess Board Analyzer

This EXTREME question involves analyzing a chess board represented as a 2D array. Implement methods

Extreme

ChessKnight Moves

This question involves calculating all possible moves for a knight on a chessboard from a given posi

Medium

City Grid Energy Consumption Analyzer

Implement a method to identify a high energy consumption area in a city grid by detecting a submatri

Hard

City Metro Routing

This question involves developing methods for a MetroRouter class that assists in finding optimal tr

Hard

City Traffic Simulator

This question involves simulating traffic light updates at city intersections on a 2D grid. You will

Medium

CoffeeOrder Class Design

Implement the CoffeeOrder class as described above.

Easy

Concert Ticket

This question asks you to design a ConcertTicket class to represent tickets for a concert event.

Hard

Conference Attendee Finder

Design search methods to locate conference attendees by their badge numbers using linear and binary

Medium

Contest Ranking System

Implement the sortScoresDescending and findTopTwoScores methods in the ContestRanker class.

Medium

Converter Class

This question involves designing a Converter utility class for converting between various units usin

Easy

Course Enrollment Sorter

Develop methods to sort courses by enrollment numbers using selection sort and merge sort.

Medium

Crop Health Analyzer

This question requires scanning a 2D array representing a farm field's crop health indices to evalua

Medium

Cryptography Tool

This question simulates a simple cryptography tool that uses a Caesar cipher to encrypt messages. Th

Medium

Cybersecurity Intrusion Detector

This question involves detecting potential intrusions by validating IP addresses. You will implement

Medium

Data Encryption Simulator

This question simulates a simple data encryption system using a Caesar cipher. You will implement me

Medium

DataEncryption Utility Class

Implement the DataEncryption class as described below.

Hard

DataFormatter Utility Class

Implement the DataFormatter class as described below.

Medium

DateCalculator Utility Class

Implement the DateCalculator class as described below.

Hard

Digital Art Transformer

This question involves transforming a digital art image represented as a 2D array of grayscale pixel

Hard

Digital Image Edge Detector

Implement a method to detect an edge in a digital image represented as a 2D array of pixel brightnes

Hard

Drone Flight Grid

This question simulates a drone flying over a 2D airspace grid. You will implement methods to naviga

Hard

Dynamic Temperature Monitor

This question involves developing methods for a TemperatureMonitor class to manage and analyze tempe

Medium

E-commerce Order Tracker

Manage e-commerce orders by identifying high-value orders and applying discounts to applicable order

Hard

E-Commerce Price Analyzer

This FRQ involves processing product prices for an e-commerce platform. You will implement methods t

Medium

E-commerce Transaction Validator

This question revolves around the validation of e-commerce transactions using credit card verificati

Hard

E-Mail Filter

Filter an ArrayList of email messages to remove those containing the keyword 'spam'.

Medium

Election Ballot Organizer

This question involves organizing election ballots by sorting them with two different algorithms. Yo

Extreme

Election Vote Counter

Implement the sortCandidatesByName and searchCandidateByName methods in the VoteCounter class.

Hard

Elevator Simulation

This question simulates an elevator system. The ElevatorSystem class tracks the current floor of an

Hard

Email Management System

This question involves sorting emails by date and searching for an email by its subject. You will im

Medium

Emergency Response Routing

This problem simulates the planning of an emergency response route on a city grid.

Extreme

Employee Class Design

Implement the Employee class as described above.

Medium

Employee Payroll

This question asks you to design an Employee class to manage payroll information.

Hard

Employee Record Finder

Sort employee records by salary and implement a binary search method to locate an employee by salary

Hard

Employee Salary Calculation Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy to compute employee salaries.

Hard

Employee Schedules Organizer

Implement the sortShifts and searchShift methods in the EmployeeSchedule class.

Easy

Energy Consumption Tracker

Design an Energy Consumption Tracker to filter erroneous readings and compute peak consumption.

Extreme

EnergyConsumption

Design an EnergyConsumption class that records daily energy usage and computes consumption statistic

Medium

Environmental Impact Calculator

This question involves implementing an ImpactCalculator class to compute the carbon footprint of var

Hard

Environmental Pollution Monitor

This question involves developing a PollutionMonitor class that analyzes environmental pollution dat

Extreme

Environmental Sensor Data Analyzer

Implement the sortReadings and findFirstOutlier methods in the SensorDataAnalyzer class.

Medium

Exam Grader Automation

This question involves designing an ExamGrader class to automatically grade multiple choice exams ba

Easy

ExpressionEvaluator Class

This question involves designing an ExpressionEvaluator utility class to evaluate arithmetic express

Hard

Factory Production Line Monitor

The ProductionMonitor class records machine outputs on a factory floor using a 2D integer array. Imp

Hard

Farm Cluster Detector

This question requires scanning a 2D array representing a farm field to detect clusters of the same

Medium

Farm Crop Yield Predictor

This question involves predicting crop yield across multiple fields. You will implement methods to c

Easy

FileProcessor Class

This question involves designing a FileProcessor utility class that deals with text file content pro

Medium

FilmFrame: Time Lapse Overlap

This question involves designing the FilmFrame class to combine two film frames represented by 2D ar

Easy

Financial Stock Analyzer

This question simulates analysis of stock price data. The StockAnalyzer class processes an array of

Hard

Financial Transaction Processor

Implement the sortTransactionsById and searchTransactionById methods in the TransactionProcessor cla

Extreme

Fitness Activity Calories Calculation Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy to calculate calories burned during fitness activities.

Medium

FitnessTracker

Design a FitnessTracker class that logs workout sessions and provides summary statistics.

Easy

Flight Booking System

Implement the sortBookingsByDeparture and searchBookingByFlightNumber methods in the FlightBookingSy

Hard

Flight Status Tracker

This question involves designing a FlightStatusTracker class to monitor and report the status of var

Medium

Forest Fire Simulator

Implement methods to analyze forest fire spread using a grid. Identify contiguous fire clusters and

Medium

ForestFire: Spread Simulation

This question involves designing the ForestFire class to simulate the spread of fire in a forest rep

Hard

Fuel Consumption Tracker

Analyze fuel consumption readings by removing outlier values and computing the average consumption.

Hard

Game Item Shop

This question involves designing a GameItemShop class to simulate an online shop for virtual game it

Medium

Game of Life Pattern Detector

This question requires scanning a 2D array representing a Game of Life board to count the live neigh

Easy

Game Score Tracker

This question involves implementing a ScoreTracker class to update game scores and retrieve the high

Easy

GameBoardMirror: Invert Puzzle Board

This question involves designing the GameBoard class for a sliding puzzle game. Implement the mirror

Medium

Garden Layout Analyzer

This question requires scanning a 2D array representing a garden to analyze plant distribution patte

Hard

Garden Plot Watering Scheduler

This question involves managing a garden plot represented as a 2D array. Implement methods in the Ga

Medium

Geographic Location Lookup

Develop search methods to filter cities based on population thresholds using linear and binary searc

Medium

GeometryHelper Utility Class

Implement the GeometryHelper class as described below.

Medium

GradeBook

Design a GradeBook class that maintains student scores and computes averages and letter grades.

Hard

Grid Explorer Simulation

This problem simulates an explorer navigating an island grid with treasures, obstacles, and varied t

Medium

Gym Membership Tracker

This question involves implementing a MembershipTracker class to update member statuses and generate

Medium

Healthcare Appointment System

This question involves managing healthcare appointments. You will implement methods to schedule appo

Hard

Heat Map Cluster Detector

Implement methods to analyze a heat map grid. Determine if a cell is hot and compute the largest con

Medium

HeatMap: Smoothing and Normalization

This question involves designing the HeatMap class to process a 2D array of temperature readings. Im

Hard

Hospital Patient Queue

Write two search methods to find patients by emergency level in a hospital queue.

Medium

Hospital Patient System

This question involves a hospital patient management system. You will complete the searchPatient and

Hard

Hospital Patient Wait Times

Develop a Hospital Patient Wait Times analyzer to filter critical waits and compute the average wait

Medium

Image Flipper

Develop methods in the ImageEditor class to flip an image horizontally and vertically.

Medium

Image Rotator

Develop methods in the ImageEditor class to rotate an image by 90 degrees and 180 degrees.

Hard

ImageFilter: Edge Detection Filter

This question involves designing an ImageFilter class to perform edge detection on a 2D array repres

Hard

ImageFlipper: Vertical Flip

This question involves extending the ImageFlipper class to include a vertical flip method. Implement

Medium

ImageRotator: 90-Degree Clockwise Rotation

This question involves designing an ImageRotator class that rotates a 2D array representing an image

Medium

Inventory Item

This question asks you to design an InventoryItem class to represent an item in a store's inventory.

Extreme

Inventory Management System

This question involves managing an inventory system. You need to implement methods that update inven

Medium

Inventory Management System

Implement the sortItemsByID and searchItemByID methods in the InventoryManager class.

Easy

Inventory Management System

This question involves developing methods for an InventoryManager class to manage a retail store's i

Hard

Inventory Manager

This question simulates inventory management in a warehouse. The Inventory class tracks items and th

Medium

Inventory Tracker

This question involves implementing an InventoryTracker class to manage product stocks and trigger r

Hard

Leaderboard Manager

Design a Leaderboard class that dynamically manages player scores and rankings.

Medium

Leaderboard System Simulation

This question involves designing a Leaderboard class to dynamically track players' scores and update

Medium

Library Book Inventory

Process a library's book inventory by counting overdue books and computing total overdue fines.

Medium

Library Book Management System

Implement the sortBooksByTitle and searchBookByTitle methods in the LibraryManager class.

Medium

Library Book Manager

This question simulates a library book manager that handles book search functionality. You will comp

Medium

Library Book Search

This question focuses on designing a Library class that stores Book objects. You will implement a me

Easy

Library Book Sorter

Implement two methods to sort library books by title using Bubble Sort and Insertion Sort.

Easy

Library Catalog

This question involves designing a LibraryCatalog class to manage a collection of books in a library

Easy

Library Catalog Advisor

Implement methods to sort a library catalog by publication year using selection sort and merge sort.

Medium

Library Item Checkout Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for library item checkout.

Medium

Library Item Management

Design a library item management system using inheritance. Create an abstract LibraryItem class with

Easy

Library Loan Duration Analyzer

Create a Library Loan Duration Analyzer to remove overdue loans and compute the average loan duratio

Hard

Library Locator

Implement a method to locate the nearest library in a 2D city map grid.

Medium

Library Management System

This question simulates a library catalog management system. The LibraryCatalog class uses parallel

Medium

LibrarySystem

Design a LibrarySystem class that manages book inventory and tracks book lending.

Extreme

Local Event Scheduler

This question involves implementing an EventScheduler class to manage community events by adding and

Hard

LogFormatter Class

This question involves designing a LogFormatter utility class for formatting and extracting informat

Medium

MathUtil Class

This question involves designing a MathUtil utility class that provides several mathematical computa

Medium

MathUtilities Utility Class

Implement the MathUtilities class as described below.

Medium

Maze Navigator

Implement a method to determine if a path exists through a maze represented as a 2D grid of open ('0

Hard

Maze Navigator

The MazeNavigator class manages a maze represented as a 2D char array, where '#' represents a wall a

Extreme

MazeRobot Navigation

This question involves managing a MazeRobot that navigates a 2D grid maze with obstacles. You will i

Hard

Medical Image Processor

Design methods for processing medical images by enhancing contrast and detecting anomalies.

Extreme

Medical Imaging Tumor Scanner

This question requires scanning a 2D array representing an image to detect tumor regions based on pi

Extreme

MedicalImage: Contrast Enhancement

This question involves designing the MedicalImage class to perform contrast enhancement on a graysca

Hard

Meteorological Observation Grid

This question involves processing a 2D grid of temperature observations. You will implement a method

Medium

Mining Sensor Data Processor

This question involves designing a SensorData class that processes quantitative readings from mining

Hard

Mobile App Notification System

Design a mobile app notification system using inheritance. Create an abstract Notification class wit

Easy

Mobile Phone

This question asks you to design a MobilePhone class to model a smartphone.

Hard

MosaicMaker: Pixelation Effect

This question involves designing the MosaicMaker class to create a pixelated version of an image. Im

Medium

Movie Database Search

This question involves searching for movies by rating in a movie database. You will implement the se

Hard

Movie Recommendation Engine

This question simulates a movie recommendation system. The MovieRecommender class stores movie title

Hard

Museum Security Patrol

This problem simulates a museum guard’s patrol through a grid representing a museum layout.

Medium

Music Playlist Duration Analyzer

Develop a Music Playlist Duration Analyzer to filter short tracks and compute total duration.

Easy

Music Playlist Manager

This question involves managing a music playlist that is maintained in a sorted order based on song

Medium

Music Playlist Organizer

Implement the sortPlaylistAlphabetically and searchSongByTitle methods in the PlaylistOrganizer clas

Medium

Music Playlist Organizer

This question focuses on managing a music playlist stored in an ArrayList. You will implement a meth

Easy

MusicPlaylist

Design a MusicPlaylist class that manages a playlist of songs with basic playback controls.

Easy

MusicTrack Class Design

Implement the MusicTrack class as described above.

Medium

Network Packet Analyzer

This question involves analyzing network packet latencies using array processing techniques. You wil

Extreme

OceanSimulator: Wave Distortion

This question involves designing the OceanSimulator class to simulate wave distortions on a water su

Medium

Office Layout Navigation

This problem simulates an employee navigating through an office layout grid to find the exit.

Easy

Online Course Enrollment

This FRQ deals with managing course enrollment numbers for online classes. You will implement method

Easy

Online Shopping Cart

This question asks you to design a ShoppingCart class to model a shopping cart in an online store.

Hard

Online Survey Analyzer

This question involves analyzing online survey responses. You will implement methods to compute the

Easy

Parking Garage Levels Analysis

The ParkingGarage class models a multi-level parking structure using a 2D array, where each row repr

Extreme

Parking Lot Grid Management

The ParkingLot class models a parking lot using a 2D boolean array where true indicates an occupied

Easy

Parking Lot Manager

This question simulates a parking lot management system. The ParkingLot class manages a grid of park

Medium

Parking Lot Occupancy Detector

This question requires scanning a 2D array representing a parking lot to count empty parking spaces.

Easy

Parking Lot Occupancy Tracker

This question involves determining occupancy information for a parking lot represented as a 2D array

Easy

PasswordGenerator Class

This question involves designing a PasswordGenerator utility class that generates random passwords m

Hard

PasswordValidator Utility Class

Implement the PasswordValidator class as described below.

Hard

Payment Processing Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for processing payments.

Easy

PixelArt: Color Quantization

This question involves designing the PixelArt class to perform color quantization on an image. Imple

Hard

Planet Surface Rover Simulator

This question involves simulating a rover navigating the surface of a planet represented as a 2D gri

Extreme

Plant Growth Analysis

Design a plant growth analysis system using inheritance. Create an abstract Plant class with an abst

Medium

PolynomialEvaluator Utility Class

Implement the PolynomialEvaluator class as described below.

Extreme

PrimeUtils Class

This question involves designing a PrimeUtils utility class that offers methods for prime number ope

Medium

Product Inventory System

This FRQ simulates a product inventory system. You will implement methods to sort an ArrayList of pr

Medium

Production Quality Control

Assess production quality by counting defective items and identifying their indices.

Hard

Public Transportation Scheduler

This question requires you to write methods to compute bus wait times for public transportation. You

Medium

QR Code Processor

Implement methods for processing QR code images by reducing noise and flipping the code vertically.

Medium

Real Estate Listing Analyzer

Implement the sortListingsByPrice and searchListingByPrice methods in the ListingAnalyzer class.

Medium

Real Estate Listings

This FRQ simulates a real estate listings management system. You will implement methods to sort list

Hard

RecipeOrganizer

Design a RecipeOrganizer class that manages a collection of recipes and their ingredients.

Medium

Recycling Center Material Sorter

Implement the sortMaterialsByType and searchMaterialByType methods in the MaterialSorter class.

Easy

Restaurant Menu Sorter

This question involves sorting a restaurant menu by price. You will implement the sortMenuByPrice me

Easy

Restaurant Order Processor

This question involves processing restaurant orders by computing the total cost of items in an order

Easy

Restaurant Order Scheduler

Implement methods to sort restaurant orders by order time and search for an order by its ID.

Hard

Retail Inventory Empty Shelf Detector

Implement a method to check which rows in a retail inventory grid are completely empty.

Easy

Retail Inventory Manager

Implement methods to manage retail inventory by sorting items by stock quantity and searching for an

Easy

Retail Mall Floor Plan Analyzer

Implement a method to detect a cluster of food court cells in a retail mall floor plan grid.

Medium

Retail Store Sales Matrix Analysis

The SalesAnalyzer class manages sales data in a retail store using a 2D integer array, where each ro

Extreme

Road Trip Planner

This question involves creating a RoadTripPlanner class that manages an ArrayList of stops (location

Easy

Robot Navigation Simulator

This question involves designing a RobotNavigator class that simulates movement in a grid and determ

Hard

Robot Vacuum Cleaner

This problem simulates a robot vacuum cleaner navigating and cleaning a room represented as a grid.

Medium

Room Temperature Monitor

This question involves analyzing room temperature data stored in a 2D array. Implement methods in th

Easy

Satellite Image Analyzer

Enhance the analysis of satellite imagery by implementing methods to flip an image horizontally and

Medium

Seating Chart Organizer

This question involves analyzing a theater seating chart represented by a 2D boolean array, where tr

Medium

Security Camera Image Analyzer

Implement the autoEnhance method in the SecurityCameraProcessor class to adjust brightness and contr

Medium

Sensor Data Filter

Filter sensor readings by removing values below a specified threshold.

Medium

Sensor Data Noise Filter

This question involves developing methods for a SensorFilter class to remove noise from sensor data.

Medium

Sensor Data Processor

This question involves designing a SensorDataProcessor class to handle and analyze data from multipl

Extreme

Smart City Parking Assistant

This question involves managing parking spot assignments in a smart city environment. You are to imp

Easy

Smart Device Update Manager

Develop a smart device update manager using inheritance. Create an abstract SmartDevice class with a

Hard

Smart Home Energy Monitor

This question involves developing a smart home energy monitor that computes energy consumption. Impl

Easy

Social Media Engagement Tracker

Develop a Social Media Engagement Tracker to filter trending posts and compute the median number of

Hard

Social Media Feed Analyzer

This question involves developing a SocialMediaFeedAnalyzer class that processes an array of like co

Hard

Social Media Feed Filter

This question involves processing social media posts using an ArrayList. You will implement methods

Medium

Social Media Post

This question asks you to design a SocialMediaPost class to represent posts on a social media platfo

Extreme

Social Media Post Analyzer

Determine the index of the most liked social media post from an array of like counts.

Easy

Social Media Post Scheduler

This question involves scheduling social media posts. You will implement methods for scheduling indi

Medium

Social Media Post Scheduler

This question involves designing a PostScheduler class to manage the scheduling of social media post

Medium

Social Media Post Summaries

Design a social media content system using inheritance. Create an abstract Post class with an abstra

Easy

Social Network Analyzer

This question involves designing a SocialNetworkAnalyzer class to analyze friendship networks and su

Extreme

Sports Statistics Tracker

This FRQ involves tracking sports statistics for a player. You will implement methods to sort game p

Easy

Sports Team Player Evaluation

Develop a sports team player evaluation system using inheritance. Create an abstract Player class wi

Hard

Sports Team Stats

Update player statistics by adjusting scores and identifying the highest scorer.

Extreme

SportsTeam Class Design

Implement the SportsTeam class as described above.

Hard

Spreadsheet Data Analyzer

This question analyzes a 2D array representing spreadsheet data. The SpreadsheetAnalyzer class store

Medium

Stock Market Trend Analyzer

This question involves analyzing stock price data using advanced array manipulation techniques. You

Extreme

StringParser Utility Class

Implement the StringParser class as described below.

Medium

Student Class Design

Implement the Student class as described above.

Medium

Student Grade Analyzer

This question involves designing a StudentGradeAnalyzer class to process student scores. You will im

Medium

Student Grades Analyzer

Analyze student grades using an ArrayList by computing the average and filtering failing grades.

Medium

Student Grades Sorting

This FRQ involves processing a list of student exam scores. You will implement methods to sort score

Easy

Student Record System

This question simulates the management of student records. The StudentRecords class maintains parall

Easy

Student Search Database

Implement linear and binary search methods to locate a student record by ID in a database.

Medium

Sudoku Validator

This question requires you to validate rows and columns in a Sudoku board represented as a 2D array.

Hard

TemperatureConverter Utility Class

Implement the TemperatureConverter class as described below.

Easy

TerrainMap: Elevation Smoothing

This question involves designing a TerrainMap class that smooths a 2D array representing terrain ele

Easy

TextStatistics Class

This question involves designing a TextStatistics utility class that analyzes text data using static

Medium

Ticket Booking System

This question simulates a seat booking system for events. The TicketBooking class manages a two-dime

Hard

TimeConversion Class

This question involves designing a TimeConversion utility class that converts between seconds and HH

Medium

TimeConverter Utility Class

Implement the TimeConverter class as described below.

Easy

Tissue Culture Growth Simulation

This problem involves simulating the growth of tissue culture on a grid over time.

Hard

Traffic Congestion Zone Detector

This question requires scanning a 2D array representing traffic densities to count contiguous zones

Easy

Traffic Data Processor

Process hourly vehicle counts by identifying the peak hour and calculating the average count.

Hard

Traffic Density Analyzer

Develop a Traffic Density Analyzer to process vehicle counts and compute average traffic at intersec

Hard

Traffic Light Simulator

Adjust traffic light timings by adding bonus seconds to those below a given threshold.

Medium

Traffic Light Timing

This question involves implementing a TrafficLightController class to manage traffic light state cha

Medium

Traffic Violation Record Search

Implement the sortRecordsByLicensePlate and searchRecordByLicensePlate methods in the ViolationRecor

Hard

TrainTicket Class Design

Implement the TrainTicket class as described above.

Medium

Transportation Ticket Pricing Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for transportation tickets.

Easy

Transportation Ticketing System

Design a ticketing system using inheritance. Create an abstract Ticket class with an abstract method

Easy

Travel Itinerary

This question asks you to design a TravelItinerary class to represent a planned travel schedule.

Extreme

Travel Time Estimator

Develop a Travel Time Estimator to filter outlier travel times and compute the median travel time.

Hard

VehicleTracker

Design a VehicleTracker class that maintains and updates vehicle locations for logistics.

Medium

Virtual Garden Planner

This question involves developing a method for a Virtual Garden Planner to select plants based on th

Easy

Warehouse Inventory Tracker

The Warehouse class manages a 2D array representing the count of boxes in different warehouse sectio

Medium

Warehouse Pallet Organizer

Develop methods to organize and sort warehouse pallets by weight using selection sort and merge sort

Extreme

Weather Data Analysis

This FRQ focuses on using an ArrayList of temperature readings. You will implement methods to sort t

Medium

Weather Data Analyzer

This question simulates analyzing daily weather data. The WeatherAnalyzer class processes an array o

Medium

Weather Data Analyzer

Analyze temperature readings by filtering out extreme values and computing the average of the valid

Easy

Weather Data Analyzer

This question involves analyzing weather temperature data. You are to implement methods to compute t

Hard

Weather Station Data Processor

This question requires you to process temperature data from a weather station using arrays. You will

Medium

WeatherMap: Temperature Gradient

This question involves designing a WeatherMap class to apply a temperature gradient to a 2D array re

Medium

WeatherReport Class Design

Implement the WeatherReport class as described above.

Medium

Word Search Puzzle Analyzer

This question requires scanning a word search puzzle represented by a 2D character array to locate a

Easy

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Before you start writing out your response, take a few minutes to outline the key points you want to make sure to touch on. This may seem like a waste of time, but it’s very helpful in making sure your response effectively addresses all the parts of the question. Once you do your practice free response questions, compare them to scoring guidelines and sample responses to identify areas for improvement. When you do the free response practice on the AP Computer Science A Free Response Room, there’s an option to let it grade your response against the rubric and tell you exactly what you need to study more.
How do I answer AP Computer Science A free-response questions?
Answering AP Computer Science A free response questions the right way is all about practice! As you go through the AP AP Computer Science A Free Response Room, treat it like a real exam and approach it this way so you stay calm during the actual exam. When you first see the question, take some time to process exactly what it’s asking. Make sure to also read through all the sub-parts in the question and re-read the main prompt, making sure to circle and underline any key information. This will help you allocate your time properly and also make sure you are hitting all the parts of the question. Before you answer each question, note down the key points you want to hit and evidence you want to use (where applicable). Once you have the skeleton of your response, writing it out will be quick, plus you won’t make any silly mistake in a rush and forget something important.