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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

Animal Class Design

Implement the Animal class as described above.

Medium

Ant Colony Simulation

This problem simulates the movement and pheromone updating of an ant colony on a terrain grid.

Extreme

Apartment Class Design

Implement the Apartment class as described above.

Easy

Autonomous Vacuum Cleaner

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

Medium

Bank Account

This question requires you to design a BankAccount class that models a simple bank account.

Hard

Bank Account Manager

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

Medium

Bank Transaction Analyzer

Implement search methods to analyze bank transactions by amount and transaction ID.

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 Strategy Grid

This question involves determining line-of-sight on a battlefield grid to decide if a unit can attac

Hard

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

Battleship Board Scanner

This question requires scanning a 2D array representing a Battleship game board to identify ship clu

Medium

Beverage Preparation Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for beverage preparation.

Easy

Blueprint Analyzer

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

Extreme

Book Inventory Manager

This question asks you to design a Book class to manage book details in an inventory system.

Easy

Bookstore Inventory Organizer

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

Extreme

BudgetTracker

Design a BudgetTracker class that helps manage expenses by category.

Easy

Building Evacuation Plan

This question involves developing an evacuation plan for a building modeled as a 2D grid. You will i

Hard

Bus Route Scheduler

This question simulates managing a bus route schedule. You will implement methods to search for a bu

Medium

CalendarEvent

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

Easy

Campus Navigation Helper

This question involves finding the shortest route on a campus map represented as a 2D grid. You will

Medium

Car Class Design

Implement the Car class as described above.

Medium

Car Rental Reservation Checker

Implement the sortReservationsByConfirmation and searchReservationByConfirmation methods in the Rese

Medium

Chess Board Analyzer

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

Extreme

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 Traffic Grid Analysis

This question uses a 2D character array representing a city traffic grid, where 'C' indicates a car

Hard

City Weather Report

This question asks you to design a CityWeather class to represent weather reports for a city.

Medium

Classroom Seating Analyzer

This question requires scanning a 2D array representing classroom seating to determine the size of t

Easy

CoffeeOrder Class Design

Implement the CoffeeOrder class as described above.

Easy

ComplexNumberOperations Utility Class

Implement the ComplexNumberOperations class as described below.

Hard

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 Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for course enrollments.

Medium

Cryptography Tool

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

Medium

Data Compression Implementation

This question involves implementing simple data compression and decompression methods using run-leng

Hard

DateCalculator Utility Class

Implement the DateCalculator class as described below.

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

Digital Poster Editor

Enhance the digital poster editing experience by implementing brightness adjustment and horizontal m

Medium

Drone Delivery Navigation

This question simulates route planning for drone delivery. You will implement methods to compute the

Extreme

Drone Flight Grid

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

Hard

Dynamic Shopping Cart Simulator

This question simulates an online shopping cart scenario in which you must implement methods to dyna

Medium

Dynamic Temperature Monitor

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

Medium

E-commerce Order Management

Develop an e-commerce order management system using inheritance. Create an abstract Order class with

Hard

E-Commerce Price Analyzer

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

Medium

E-Commerce Product Sorter

Implement the sortProductsByName and searchProductByName methods in the ProductSorter class.

Medium

E-commerce Review Sorter

Implement methods to sort product reviews by rating and search for a review with a specific rating.

Medium

E-commerce Transaction Validator

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

Hard

Educational Institution Application

Design an educational institution application system using inheritance. Create an abstract Instituti

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

Election Vote Tally

This question involves tallying votes from multiple precincts stored in a 2D array. Implement method

Medium

Employee Records Search

This FRQ involves managing employee records represented as strings. You will implement methods to so

Easy

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

EncryptionHelper Class

This question involves designing an EncryptionHelper utility class that performs simple Caesar ciphe

Medium

Energy Consumption Tracker

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

Extreme

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

Environmental Sensor Readings

Design an Environmental Sensor Readings analyzer to filter valid readings and compute standard devia

Medium

Event Registration System

This FRQ focuses on managing event registration data. You will implement methods to sort participant

Easy

Event Scheduling Simulator

Manage event schedules by detecting conflicts and removing conflicting events.

Hard

Event Seating Analyzer

Implement a method to count horizontal contiguous sequences of empty seats in an event seating chart

Easy

Event Timer and Alarm

This question involves managing alarm times in a sorted ArrayList. You will implement a method to in

Easy

Farm Cluster Detector

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

Medium

FileProcessor Utility Class

Implement the FileProcessor class as described below.

Medium

Financial Portfolio Manager

This question involves designing a FinancialPortfolioManager class to track and analyze a portfolio

Hard

Financial Transaction Processor

Implement the sortTransactionsById and searchTransactionById methods in the TransactionProcessor cla

Extreme

Fire Evacuation Simulator

This problem simulates an evacuation scenario within a building during a fire, represented by a grid

Hard

Fitness Activity Calories Calculation Hierarchy

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

Medium

Fitness Tracker

This question asks you to design a FitnessTracker class to represent the data collected by a wearabl

Hard

Fitness Tracker Data

Create a Fitness Tracker Data analyzer to compute minimum steps and summary statistics.

Easy

Fitness Tracker Data Analysis

This question simulates analyzing daily step count data from a fitness tracker. The FitnessTracker c

Easy

Flight Class Design

Implement the Flight class as described above.

Hard

Flight Status Tracker

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

Medium

Floor Plan Transformer

Develop methods in the FloorPlanEditor class to rotate a floor plan 90 degrees and mirror it horizon

Extreme

Forest Fire Simulation

This problem simulates the spread of a forest fire in a 2D grid representing a forest.

Medium

Fuel Consumption Tracker

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

Hard

Game Level Map Editor

Implement the rotateLevel method in the LevelEditor class to rotate a game level map 90 degrees.

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 Planner

This question involves planning a garden layout represented as a 2D grid and evaluating sprinkler co

Easy

Garden Plant Height Analysis

The GardenAnalyzer class manages a 2D array representing the heights of plants in a garden. Implemen

Medium

Garden Plot Watering Scheduler

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

Medium

Gardening Tool Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for gardening tools.

Medium

Geographic Location Lookup

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

Medium

Geometric Shapes Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for calculating the area of geometric shapes.

Easy

GeometryHelper Utility Class

Implement the GeometryHelper class as described below.

Medium

GeometryUtil Class

This question involves designing a GeometryUtil utility class that calculates areas of common geomet

Easy

GPS Navigation Assistant

This question simulates a GPS navigation assistant. The NavigationSystem class computes distances be

Hard

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

Hospital Floor Navigator

This question involves navigating the complex layout of a hospital floor represented as a 2D grid. Y

Hard

Hospital Patient Queue

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

Medium

Hospital Patient Record Management

This FRQ involves processing patient waiting times in a hospital. You will implement methods to sort

Hard

House Listing

This question asks you to design a House class to model real estate listings.

Medium

HTTPStatusHelper Class

This question involves designing an HTTPStatusHelper utility class that maps HTTP status codes to th

Easy

Ice Cream Flavor Finder

This question involves analyzing an ice cream parlor’s flavor distribution grid. Implement methods t

Medium

Image Edge Enhancer

Implement a method in the ImageEditor class that enhances the edges in an image by applying an edge

Hard

Image Filter Application

In this question, you will work with a grayscale image represented as a 2D array of pixel values. Im

Medium

Image Rotator

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

Hard

Image Smoothing Filter

Enhance the ImageEditor class by developing a smoothing filter that reduces noise in an image throug

Hard

ImageFilter: Edge Detection Filter

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

Hard

ImageTransformer: Combined Horizontal Flip and 90-Degree Rotation

This multi-part question involves designing an ImageTransformer class that performs multiple transfo

Hard

Inventory Item

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

Extreme

Inventory Management System

Manage an inventory by removing expired items and computing the total value of the remaining stock.

Medium

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

InventoryManager

Design an InventoryManager class that tracks products and their quantities in a store.

Hard

Labyrinth Diagonal Pathfinder

This question focuses on diagonal traversal of a 2D array representing a labyrinth. Implement method

Medium

Lawn Mower Simulator

This problem simulates a lawn mower navigating a garden grid that includes obstacles such as flower

Easy

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 Finder

This question simulates a library system that retrieves books by their ISBN. You will complete the f

Easy

Library Book Inventory

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

Medium

Library Book Management

This FRQ focuses on managing a collection of library books. You will implement methods to sort books

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 Advisor

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

Medium

Library Item Management

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

Easy

Library Shelf Arrangement

The LibraryShelves class manages book placements on shelves using a 2D String array, where non-empty

Medium

LibrarySystem

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

Extreme

MathUtil Class

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

Medium

MatrixOperations Class

This question involves designing a MatrixOperations utility class for performing matrix multiplicati

Extreme

Maze Solver

This question involves designing a MazeSolver class that finds a path through a maze represented by

Hard

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

Messaging System Interface

Design a messaging system using inheritance. Create an abstract Message class with an abstract metho

Easy

Meteorological Observation Grid

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

Medium

Mobile App Notification System

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

Easy

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 Rating Aggregator

This question involves writing a MovieRatingAggregator class that collects and processes movie ratin

Easy

Movie Theater Seat Reservation

This question examines seating arrangements in a movie theater using a 2D array. Implement methods i

Easy

Museum Exhibit Organizer

This question involves organizing museum exhibits by their estimated age. You will implement the mer

Medium

Museum Security Patrol

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

Medium

Music Playlist Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for music playlists.

Extreme

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 sorting methods to organize songs in a playlist by duration using bubble sort and merge so

Easy

Music Playlist Organizer

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

Easy

Music Playlist Simulator

This question involves developing a method to simulate a music playlist using an ArrayList. You will

Easy

Musical Instruments Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for musical instruments.

Medium

MusicPlaylist

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

Easy

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

Office Temperature Monitor

Implement a method to detect potential hot zones in an office by scanning for 2x2 submatrices where

Hard

Online Course Enrollment

This question involves managing course enrollments in an online learning system. You will implement

Hard

Online Course Enrollment

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

Easy

Online Course Feedback Analyzer

Implement the sortFeedbackScores and searchFeedbackScore methods in the FeedbackAnalyzer class.

Hard

Online Review Analyzer

Design an Online Review Analyzer to filter positive reviews and compute the average rating.

Easy

Order Processor

This question involves designing an OrderProcessor class to manage online orders and calculate total

Hard

PacMan Maze Simulation

This question involves simulating a PacMan maze where both PacMan and ghosts move through a 2D grid.

Extreme

Parcel Delivery Optimization

This FRQ involves the management of parcel weights in a delivery system. You will implement methods

Easy

Park Ranger's Patrol

This problem simulates a park ranger patrolling a park grid to monitor potential hazards.

Hard

Parking Lot Grid Management

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

Easy

Parking Lot Occupancy Tracker

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

Easy

ParkingLotManager

Design a ParkingLotManager class that tracks parked cars and available parking spots.

Easy

PasswordValidator Utility Class

Implement the PasswordValidator class as described below.

Hard

Payment Processing Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for processing payments.

Easy

Planet Surface Rover Simulator

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

Extreme

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 Class Design

Implement the Product class as described above.

Easy

Production Quality Control

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

Hard

Public Transport Usage Analyzer

Analyze public transport usage by identifying routes with unusual surges based on passenger counts.

Medium

Public Transportation Scheduler

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

Medium

Race Times Analysis

This FRQ involves analyzing race times stored in an ArrayList. You will implement methods to sort ra

Medium

Real Estate Analyzer

This question involves implementing a RealEstateAnalyzer class to compute the average property price

Medium

Real Estate Listing Analyzer

Implement the sortListingsByPrice and searchListingByPrice methods in the ListingAnalyzer class.

Medium

Recipe Ingredient Calculator

This question simulates scaling recipe ingredients for different serving sizes. The RecipeCalculator

Easy

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 Processing

This FRQ entails managing restaurant orders represented as monetary amounts. You will implement meth

Medium

Restaurant Order Scheduler

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

Hard

Restaurant Order System

This question asks you to design a RestaurantOrder class to manage orders in a restaurant.

Easy

Restaurant Table Reservation Grid

The ReservationSystem class uses a 2D boolean array to represent table reservations in a restaurant,

Easy

Retail Inventory Manager

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

Easy

Retail Store Sales Matrix Analysis

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

Extreme

Robot Controller

This question involves designing a RobotController class to simulate a robot navigating a grid-based

Medium

Robot Maze Navigation

This problem simulates navigating a robot through a maze with obstacles.

Hard

Satellite Image Analyzer

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

Medium

Sea Temperature Analyzer

This question requires scanning a 2D float array representing sea surface temperatures to locate a h

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

Shape Area Calculator

Develop a shape hierarchy using inheritance. Create an abstract Shape class with an abstract method

Medium

Smart Device Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for smart devices.

Hard

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 designing an EnergyMonitor class that processes smart home energy usage data

Medium

Soccer Field Tactics Simulator

This question involves determining if a clear path exists between two points on a soccer field repre

Easy

Social Distancing Layout Checker

Implement a method to count pairs of people seated too close in a 2D seating grid.

Easy

Social Media Analytics

This FRQ centers on social media post analytics. You will implement methods to sort post 'like' coun

Medium

Social Media Engagement Tracker

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

Hard

Social Media Post Analyzer

This question examines the analysis of social media posts for specific hashtags. The PostAnalyzer cl

Easy

Social Media Post Scheduler

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

Medium

Sports Team Ranking

This question involves ranking sports teams by their number of wins. You will implement the selectio

Easy

Sports Tournament Scheduler

Design a Sports Tournament Scheduler to update team points and determine the top team.

Extreme

Spreadsheet Data Analyzer

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

Medium

Stock Market Analyzer

This question involves designing a MarketAnalyzer class that processes daily stock prices and uses s

Extreme

Stock Market Trend Analyzer

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

Extreme

StockTracker Simulation

This question involves designing a StockTracker class to monitor the stock prices of various compani

Hard

Student Grade Analyzer

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

Medium

Student Record System

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

Easy

Student Scores Analyzer

Implement the methods in the StudentScoreAnalyzer class.

Hard

Student Search Database

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

Medium

Submarine Sonar Anomaly Detector

Implement a method to detect a linear anomaly pattern in submarine sonar data represented as a 2D gr

Extreme

Sudoku Validator

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

Hard

Survey Data Processor

Analyze survey responses by computing frequency distribution and determining the most common respons

Extreme

Temperature Data Analyzer

Develop a Temperature Data Analyzer that manipulates an array of temperature readings.

Medium

TemperatureConverter Utility Class

Implement the TemperatureConverter class as described below.

Easy

Terrain Elevation Map

This question involves analyzing a terrain elevation map stored as a 2D array. Implement methods in

Hard

Terrain Map Editor

Implement methods to process a terrain map represented as a 2D array by flipping it vertically and s

Hard

Ticket Booking System

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

Hard

Tissue Culture Growth Simulation

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

Hard

Traffic Congestion Hotspot

Detect traffic congestion hotspots in a city grid by analyzing submatrix averages.

Extreme

Traffic Data Processor

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

Hard

Traffic Flow Analyzer

This question involves developing a TrafficFlowAnalyzer class to evaluate traffic data collected by

Medium

Traffic Grid Simulator

This problem involves developing a simulation for vehicle movement within a city traffic grid.

Extreme

Traffic Light Timing

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

Medium

Traffic Monitoring System

In this question, you will process traffic data to determine if traffic conditions are safe. You are

Easy

Traffic Pattern Analyzer

Implement methods to process a traffic video frame by flipping it horizontally and detecting traffic

Hard

TrafficMap: Route Highlighter

This question involves designing the TrafficMap class to highlight a route on a city grid represente

Medium

TrafficMonitor

Design a TrafficMonitor class that tracks vehicle counts on various roads and identifies peak traffi

Hard

Transportation Ticket Pricing Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for transportation tickets.

Easy

Travel Itinerary Planner

This question involves developing methods for an ItineraryPlanner class that organizes travel destin

Medium

Travel Time Estimator

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

Hard

Underwater Drone Explorer

This question involves simulating an underwater drone exploring a 2D grid representing the ocean flo

Extreme

University Course

This question asks you to design a UniversityCourse class to represent a course offered at a univers

Medium

Urban Building Cluster Analyzer

This question requires scanning a 2D array representing a city map to count clusters of a specified

Medium

UrbanPlanner: Map Rotation and Reflection

This multi-part question involves designing the UrbanPlanner class to manipulate a city map represen

Extreme

Vaccine Distribution Center Analyzer

This question requires scanning a 2D array representing vaccine storage bins to detect clusters of e

Hard

Vehicle Hierarchy System

Design a vehicle hierarchy using inheritance and polymorphism. Create an abstract Vehicle class and

Medium

VideoGame Class Design

Implement the VideoGame class as described above.

Hard

Virus Spread Simulation

This question simulates the spread of a virus over a series of days. You will implement methods to p

Extreme

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

Implement methods to process weather station data by sorting stations by temperature and searching f

Hard

Weather Data Processing

This question involves implementing a WeatherAnalyzer class to process daily temperature readings an

Easy

Weather Station Data Analyzer

This question involves analyzing weather station data records. You will implement methods to sort te

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

Wildlife Tracking System

Create a Wildlife Tracking System to manage animal species and their sighting counts.

Medium

Word Search Detector

This question simulates a word search puzzle pattern detection. Implement methods to locate a target

Easy

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.