Control Structures and Iteration GPYC Practice Questions (Page 1)

Questions 1–5

1. 1application · easy

   A developer is writing a function that will be implemented later. They need to define the function now so the script parses without syntax errors, but the body is not yet written. Which statement should be used as a placeholder in the function body?

   • Apass
   • Bcontinue
   • Cbreak
   • Dreturn None
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2. 2foundation · easy

   Given a = 10 and b = 20, which condition is True?

   • Anot (a > 5) or b > 15
   • Ba == 10 and b == 10
   • Ca < 5 and b > 15
   • Da != 10 or b != 20
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4. 3foundation · easy

   What is the purpose of the pass statement in Python?

   • AIt raises an exception.
   • BIt exits the current loop.
   • CIt is a placeholder that does nothing.
   • DIt skips the rest of the current iteration.
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5. 4foundation · medium

   Which statement correctly describes how to iterate over a dictionary in Python to access both keys and values?

   • Afor item in my_dict: yields key-value pairs as tuples, similar to .items().
   • Bfor key in my_dict: accesses keys; use my_dict[key] inside the loop to get values.
   • Cfor value in my_dict: accesses values directly; use value to get the associated key.
   • Dfor key, value in my_dict: is valid and unpacks each key-value pair directly.
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6. 5foundation · easy

   What is the output of the following code? for i in range(5): if i == 3: break print(i) else: print('done')

   • A0 1 2 3 done
   • B0 1 2 done
   • C0 1 2 3
   • D0 1 2
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