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Academic Course Management

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

Easy

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

Animal Sounds Hierarchy

Design an animal sounds system using inheritance and polymorphism. Create an abstract Animal class w

Easy

Ant Colony Simulation

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

Extreme

Appliance Efficiency Analyzer

Design an appliance efficiency analyzer using inheritance. Create an abstract Appliance class with a

Medium

ArrayStatistics Utility Class

Implement the ArrayStatistics class as described below.

Hard

ArrayUtilities Class

This question involves designing an ArrayUtilities utility class for performing operations on intege

Easy

Art Exhibit

This question asks you to design an ArtExhibit class to represent an art exhibition show.

Extreme

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 Transaction Analyzer

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

Hard

Bank Transaction Analyzer

Analyze bank transactions by summing deposits and withdrawals from an array of transaction amounts.

Medium

Bank Transaction Explorer

This question involves searching for transactions by transactionID in a bank system. You will implem

Hard

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 Analysis

This question involves a simplified Battleship game board represented by a 2D char array. In this bo

Easy

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

Bike Sharing System

This question simulates a bike-sharing system. The BikeShare class maintains a HashMap to track the

Medium

Blueprint Analyzer

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

Extreme

Book Collection Manager

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

Medium

Book Inventory Manager

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

Easy

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

Campus Map Path Finder

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

Hard

Car Rental Service

This question asks you to design a CarRental class to model a car available for rent.

Medium

Chat Message Thread Organizer

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

Medium

ChatBot Response System

This question involves designing a ChatBotResponseSystem class to simulate basic conversational resp

Hard

ChatRoom

Design a ChatRoom class that simulates a messaging environment for users.

Medium

Chess Knight Moves

This problem involves simulating the moves of a knight on a chessboard.

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 Congestion

Develop a City Traffic Congestion analyzer to filter intersections with high delays and compute the

Hard

City Traffic Simulator

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

Medium

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

Coffee Shop Order

This question asks you to design a CoffeeOrder class to manage orders at a coffee shop.

Easy

CoffeeOrder Class Design

Implement the CoffeeOrder class as described above.

Easy

Conference Attendee Finder

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

Medium

Container Shipping Scheduler

This question simulates scheduling container shipments in a logistics system. The ShippingScheduler

Extreme

Contest Ranking System

Implement the sortScoresDescending and findTopTwoScores methods in the ContestRanker class.

Medium

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

Cuisine Dish Preparation Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for cuisine dish preparation.

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 Elevation Map Analyzer

This question involves analyzing a digital elevation map represented by a 2D array of integers. You

Extreme

Digital Mosaic Generator

Develop methods in the DigitalMosaicGenerator class to create a mosaic effect by computing block ave

Extreme

DigitalArt: Invert Colors

This question involves designing the DigitalArt class to invert the colors of a grayscale image. Imp

Easy

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 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

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

Email Management System

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

Medium

Employee Class Design

Implement the Employee class as described above.

Medium

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

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

EnergyConsumption

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

Medium

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

Event Registration System

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

Easy

Event Scheduler

This question involves designing an EventScheduler class to manage and organize events on a timeline

Medium

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

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 Field Irrigation

This question involves managing a farm field's moisture levels represented as a 2D array. Implement

Hard

FilmFrame: Time Lapse Overlap

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

Easy

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

Fitness Activity Calories Calculation Hierarchy

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

Medium

Fitness Tracker Data

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

Easy

Flight Class Design

Implement the Flight class as described above.

Hard

Flood Fill Algorithm

This problem involves implementing a flood fill algorithm on a 2D grid representing an image.

Hard

Forest Fire Simulator

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

Medium

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

GameBoardMirror: Invert Puzzle Board

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

Medium

Gaming Leaderboard Management

This FRQ involves managing a gaming leaderboard. You will implement methods to sort player scores in

Extreme

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

Geometric Shapes Hierarchy

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

Easy

GeometryUtil Class

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

Easy

Grayscale Image Edge Finder

This question requires scanning a 2D array representing a grayscale image to detect edge pixels base

Hard

Grid Explorer Simulation

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

Medium

Heat Map Cluster Detector

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

Medium

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

HospitalPatient Class Design

Implement the HospitalPatient class as described above.

Extreme

HTTPStatusHelper Class

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

Easy

Image Edge Enhancer

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

Hard

Image Flipper

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

Medium

Image Smoothing Filter

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

Hard

ImageFlipper: Horizontal Flip

This question involves designing an ImageFlipper class to perform a horizontal flip on a 2D array re

Easy

ImageFlipper: Vertical Flip

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

Medium

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 Item Locator

This question involves searching for items in an inventory system. You will implement the searchItem

Easy

Inventory Management System

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

Medium

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 Manager

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

Medium

InventoryFormatter Class

This question involves designing an InventoryFormatter utility class that formats inventory data int

Hard

Labyrinth Diagonal Pathfinder

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

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 Manager

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

Medium

Library Catalog Advisor

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

Medium

Library Floor Navigation

In this question, you will analyze a library floor plan represented as a 2D array. Implement methods

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 Navigation Assistant

This question involves assisting with navigating a library, whose layout is represented as a 2D grid

Medium

Library Shelf Arrangement

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

Medium

LibraryCard Class Design

Implement the LibraryCard class as described above.

Medium

LogFormatter Class

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

Medium

Logistics Delivery Routing

This question involves optimizing logistics delivery routes. You will implement methods to sort deli

Hard

Matrix Sum Calculator

This question involves writing methods to compute the sums of each row and column in a given matrix.

Easy

MatrixOperations Class

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

Extreme

Maze Navigator

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

Extreme

Maze Navigator

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

Hard

Maze Solver

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

Hard

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

Mining Sensor Data Processor

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

Hard

MosaicMaker: Pixelation Effect

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

Medium

Movie Ratings Analyzer

Compute the average rating from an ArrayList of movie ratings.

Easy

Movie Ticket Sorter

Develop methods to sort movie showings by start time using selection sort and merge sort.

Medium

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 Manager

This question involves designing a MusicPlaylistManager class to organize and manage a playlist of s

Easy

Music Playlist Organizer

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

Easy

Music Playlist Organizer

Implement the sortPlaylistAlphabetically and searchSongByTitle methods in the PlaylistOrganizer clas

Medium

Music Playlist Simulator

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

Easy

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

Online Course Enrollment

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

Hard

Online Course Feedback Analyzer

Implement the sortFeedbackScores and searchFeedbackScore methods in the FeedbackAnalyzer class.

Hard

Online Quiz System

This question involves implementing a QuizManager class to manage quiz questions, add new questions,

Hard

Online Review Analyzer

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

Easy

Online Shopping Cart

This question involves managing an online shopping cart. You will implement methods to compute the t

Medium

Pac-Man Maze Simulation

This problem involves simulating Pac-Man's movement in a maze to collect pellets.

Medium

PacMan Maze Simulation

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

Extreme

Park Ranger's Patrol

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

Hard

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

PasswordGenerator Utility Class

Implement the PasswordGenerator class as described below.

Extreme

Payment Processing Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for processing payments.

Easy

Pixel Image Filter

This question involves processing an image stored as a 2D array of grayscale pixel values (ranging f

Hard

PixelArt: Color Quantization

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

Hard

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

Product Class Design

Implement the Product class as described above.

Easy

Product Price Sorter

Design and implement two sorting methods to order a list of products by price.

Hard

Product Pricing Sorter

This question involves sorting product objects by price using two distinct sorting algorithms: selec

Medium

Product Review Analyzer

This question involves analyzing product reviews by sorting them based on ratings. You will complete

Medium

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

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 Order Processor

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

Easy

RestaurantOrder Class Design

Implement the RestaurantOrder class as described above.

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 Sales Analyzer

Develop a Retail Sales Analyzer to filter low sales and compute sales statistics.

Easy

Robot Vacuum Floor Scanner

This question requires scanning a 2D array representing a home floor plan to simulate a robot vacuum

Medium

Sales Performance Analysis

This FRQ involves analyzing sales figures. You will implement methods to sort sales figures in desce

Hard

Satellite Image Analyzer

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

Medium

Score Analyzer

This question involves implementing the ScoreAnalyzer class to compute average scores and count the

Medium

SecurityCam: Blur Filter

This question involves designing the SecurityCam class to apply a blur filter on a grayscale securit

Medium

Sensor Data Filter

Filter sensor readings by removing values below a specified threshold.

Medium

Sensor Data Processor

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

Extreme

Smart Device Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for smart devices.

Hard

Soccer Field Tactics Simulator

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

Easy

Soccer League Ranking

This question involves managing a soccer league. You will implement methods for the SoccerLeague cla

Hard

Social Media Friend Search

Design search methods to find user profiles by username using linear and binary search.

Easy

Social Media Post Summaries

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

Easy

SocialNetwork

Design a SocialNetwork class that manages user registrations and friend relationships.

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 Ranking

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

Easy

Sports Team Stats

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

Extreme

Sports Tournament Scheduler

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

Extreme

StatisticsHelper Class

This question involves designing a StatisticsHelper utility class to compute basic statistical metri

Hard

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

Design a StockTracker class that records stock prices and computes moving averages.

Hard

StockTracker Simulation

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

Hard

StringAnalyzer Class

This question involves designing a StringAnalyzer utility class that performs various string manipul

Easy

StringParser Utility Class

Implement the StringParser class as described below.

Medium

Student Class Design

Implement the Student class as described above.

Medium

Student Grade Processor

Develop a Student Grade Processor to filter passing grades and compute the median grade.

Hard

Student Grades Sorting

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

Easy

Student Record

This question asks you to design a Student class to record student information.

Easy

Student Record System

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

Easy

Student Test Score Analyzer

This question involves analyzing student test scores by sorting and searching them. You will complet

Extreme

Survey Data Processor

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

Extreme

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

Traffic Congestion Zone Detector

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

Easy

Traffic Flow Analyzer

This FRQ involves analyzing traffic data by managing vehicle count numbers. You will implement metho

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 Monitoring System

Develop methods to sort traffic data by vehicle speed and search for a vehicle with a specific speed

Hard

Traffic Violation Record Search

Implement the sortRecordsByLicensePlate and searchRecordByLicensePlate methods in the ViolationRecor

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 Ticketing System

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

Easy

Underwater Volcano Detector

This question requires scanning a 2D array representing ocean floor elevation to identify volcano pe

Extreme

UnitConverter Utility Class

Implement the UnitConverter class as described below.

Easy

Urban Building Cluster Analyzer

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

Medium

Vehicle Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for vehicles.

Medium

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

Virtual Garden Planner

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

Easy

Virus Spread Simulation

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

Extreme

Warehouse Inventory Tracker

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

Medium

Weather Data Analysis

This question involves analyzing weather temperature data using sliding window techniques. You will

Hard

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

This question involves analyzing weather data represented as a 2D array of temperature readings. You

Medium

Weather Data Analyzer

Implement the sortTemperatures and getTemperatureRange methods in the WeatherDataAnalyzer class.

Hard

Weather Forecast Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for weather forecasts.

Hard

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

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  • Of course, make sure to run through College Board's past FRQ questions!
  • Once you’re done with those go through all the questions in the AP Computer Science AFree Response Room. You can answer the question and have it grade you against the rubric so you know exactly where to improve.
  • Reddit it also a great place to find AP free response questions that other students may have access to.
How do I practice for AP AP Computer Science A Exam FRQs?
Once you’re done reviewing your study guides, find and bookmark all the free response questions you can find. The question above has some good places to look! while you’re going through them, simulate exam conditions by setting a timer that matches the time allowed on the actual exam. Time management is going to help you answer the FRQs on the real exam concisely when you’re in that time crunch.
What are some tips for AP Computer Science A free response questions?
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.