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Agricultural Land Analysis

Implement a method to identify the 2x2 submatrix with the highest total crop yield in an agricultura

Hard

Airline Reservations System

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

Extreme

Airline Ticket Price Calculator

This question involves calculating airline ticket prices. You will implement methods to compute the

Easy

Animal Sounds Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for representing animals and their sounds.

Easy

ArrayStatistics Utility Class

Implement the ArrayStatistics class as described below.

Hard

Autonomous Vacuum Cleaner

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

Medium

Bank Transaction Analyzer

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

Hard

Bank Transaction Explorer

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

Hard

Bank Transaction Summarizer

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

Medium

Battlefield Strategy Grid

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

Hard

Battleship Board Scanner

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

Medium

Battleship Navigation

This problem involves simulating the navigation of a battleship through an ocean grid with obstacles

Hard

Beverage Preparation Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for beverage preparation.

Easy

Book Class Design

Implement the Book class as described above.

Easy

Book Collection Organizer

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

Medium

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

Campus Map Building Finder

The CampusMap class represents a campus using a 2D char array where each character represents a buil

Medium

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

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

CipherUtility Utility Class

Implement the CipherUtility class as described below.

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

ComplexNumberOperations Utility Class

Implement the ComplexNumberOperations class as described below.

Hard

Concert Ticket

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

Hard

Converter Class

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

Easy

CreditCardFormatter Utility Class

Implement the CreditCardFormatter class as described below.

Hard

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

Digital Art Transformer

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

Hard

Digital Library Borrowing Data

This FRQ involves analyzing borrowing data from a digital library. You will implement methods to sor

Medium

Digital Media Library

This question asks you to design a DigitalMedia class to represent digital media items in a library.

Extreme

Digital Photo Editor

Implement a brightness adjustment method in the DigitalPhotoEditor class to uniformly increase the b

Medium

Digital Poster Editor

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

Medium

Drone Delivery System

This problem simulates a drone delivery system that navigates through a city grid with obstacles.

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

E-commerce Order System

This question simulates processing customer orders in an e-commerce environment. The OrderProcessor

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 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-Mail Filter

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

Medium

Earthquake Intensity Map Analyzer

This question requires scanning a 2D array representing earthquake intensity readings to identify hi

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

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 Record Finder

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

Hard

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 Salary System

Design an employee salary system using inheritance. Create an abstract Employee class with an abstra

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 Impact Calculator

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

Hard

Environmental Sensor Readings

Develop a sensor reading system using inheritance. Create an abstract Sensor class with an abstract

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 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

Exam Grader Automation

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

Easy

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

FileStatistics Class

This question involves designing a FileStatistics utility class for computing statistical informatio

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 Class Design

Implement the Flight class as described above.

Hard

Flight Reservation System

This question involves designing a FlightReservation class to manage seat bookings, cancellations, a

Extreme

Flight Seating Planner

This question involves planning seating on a flight, using a 2D array to represent seat availability

Medium

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

ForestFire: Spread Simulation

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

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

Garden Plot Watering Scheduler

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

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

Grayscale Image Edge Finder

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

Hard

Healthcare Appointment System

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

Hard

HeatMap: Smoothing and Normalization

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

Hard

Hospital Floor Navigator

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

Hard

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

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 Filter Application

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

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

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

ImageTransformer: Combined Horizontal Flip and 90-Degree Rotation

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

Hard

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 Manager

This question involves designing an InventoryManager class for managing stock levels in a retail set

Medium

InventoryFormatter Class

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

Hard

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

Library Book Search

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

Easy

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

LibraryCard Class Design

Implement the LibraryCard class as described above.

Medium

LibrarySystem

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

Extreme

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

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

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

MatrixOperations Utility Class

Implement the MatrixOperations class as described below.

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

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 Storm Cell Detector

This question requires scanning a 2D array of radar data to identify storm cells based on intensity

Extreme

Movie Database Search

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

Hard

Movie Ratings Analyzer

Compute the average rating from an ArrayList of movie ratings.

Easy

Movie Recommendation Engine

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

Hard

Movie Showtime

This question asks you to design a MovieShowtime class to represent movie screening details.

Medium

Movie Ticket Sorter

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

Medium

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 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

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

Easy

Music Playlist Organizer

Implement the sortPlaylistAlphabetically and searchSongByTitle methods in the PlaylistOrganizer clas

Medium

MusicPlaylist

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

Easy

Ocean Pollution Detector

Analyze a 2D ocean pollution map to detect and segment polluted clusters.

Extreme

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 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

Order Processor

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

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 Detector

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

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 System

Design a payment processing system using inheritance and polymorphism. Create an abstract Payment cl

Medium

Personal Finance Calculator

This question involves implementing a FinanceCalculator class to compute monthly interest and cumula

Hard

Pixel Art Transformer

Implement a method that performs a transformation on pixel art by rotating it and applying a scaling

Hard

Pixel Image Filter

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

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

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

Production Quality Control

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

Hard

Public Transit Scheduler

This question involves creating a TransitScheduler class to determine bus arrival times and update b

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

Race Timing Analyzer

Determine the fastest race time from an array of finish times.

Easy

Rainfall Data Processing

This question deals with processing a 2D array of rainfall data. The RainfallAnalyzer class stores r

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

Recipe Scaler

This question involves implementing the RecipeScaler class with a method that scales ingredient meas

Easy

Reservation System

This question involves designing a ReservationSystem class to manage seat reservations for a venue.

Medium

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

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 Product Pricing

Design a retail product pricing system using inheritance. Create an abstract Product class with an a

Hard

Retail Sales Analyzer

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

Easy

Robot Controller

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

Medium

Robot Navigation Simulator

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

Hard

Robot Task Performance Hierarchy

Design a class hierarchy for robots performing various tasks.

Medium

Robot Vacuum Cleaner

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

Medium

Robot Vacuum Floor Scanner

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

Medium

Room Temperature Monitor

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

Easy

Sales Performance Analysis

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

Hard

Satellite Crop Field Analyzer

This question requires scanning a 2D array representing a satellite image of crop fields to determin

Hard

Satellite Image Analyzer

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

Medium

SatelliteImage: Grid Resizing

This question involves designing the SatelliteImage class to resize a 2D image grid by doubling its

Medium

Score Analyzer

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

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

Smart City Parking Assistant

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

Easy

Soccer League Ranking

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

Hard

Social Distancing Layout Checker

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

Easy

Social Media Friend Finder

Implement the sortFriendsAlphabetically and searchFriend methods in the FriendFinder class.

Medium

Social Media Friend Search

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

Easy

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 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

Social Media Post Sorter

This question involves managing social media posts by sorting them based on the number of likes. You

Hard

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 Team Player Evaluation

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

Hard

Sports Tournament Scheduler

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

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

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 Record

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

Easy

Student Records Processor

This question simulates processing student records using two different search methods: linear search

Hard

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

Survey Data Processor

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

Extreme

TaskManager

Design a TaskManager class that tracks tasks and their completion status for project management.

Medium

TeamStats

Implement methods to sort sports teams by their win-loss records and search for a team by name.

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

TerrainMap: Elevation Smoothing

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

Easy

Thermal Image Converter

Implement a method in the ThermalImageConverter class to normalize thermal data to a 0-255 scale usi

Hard

Ticket Booking System

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

Hard

Traffic Congestion Hotspot

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

Extreme

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

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

Hard

Traffic Pattern Analyzer

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

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

TrainTicket Class Design

Implement the TrainTicket class as described above.

Medium

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

Underwater Volcano Detector

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

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

Vehicle Hierarchy System

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

Medium

VehicleTracker

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

Medium

Virtual Garden Layout Analyzer

Implement a method to count the number of contiguous plant regions in a garden layout grid.

Medium

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

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

Hard

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 Pattern Recognition

Analyze a grid representing meteorological data to detect storm patterns. Implement methods that ide

Hard

Weather Station Data Processor

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

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.