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Course: AP®︎/College Computer Science Principles > Unit 9
Lesson 3: Practice passage-based questionsPassage-based question format
The AP CSP exam will include a set of five questions that are based on a computing innovation.
The question set will become with a description of the innovation, which may include flow charts describing its functionality.
The questions will revolve around the innovation's use of data plus the benefits and risks of the innovation.
Each question prompt will be based on one of these formats:
- Which of the following input data [must be obtained/is needed] by … ?
- Which of the following data is not [obtained/provided] … but is necessary for …?
- Which of the following data is necessary for … to process in order to enable …?
- Which of the following is [least/most] likely to be included in …?
- Which of the following is considered a potential effect of … rather than a [function/purpose] of …?
- Which of the following is [least/most] likely to be a [benefit/harm] of …?
- Of the following potential benefits, which is [least/most] likely to be provided by …?
- Which of the following may be an unintended effect of the use of …?
- Which of the following is the [least/most] likely data [privacy/security/storage] concern of …?
- Which of the following groups is [least/most] likely to receive …?
- Which of the following statements is [least/most] likely to be true about the tradeoffs of …?
You can read more information about the format and see an example question on page 165 of the AP CSP exam description, then try out the exercises in this lesson to give you more practice with the format.
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