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Guided path

The exam rewards breadth with depth where the weight is. This is the route we recommend — each stop is learn → drill → check, and your progress strip below tells you where you stand.

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The route​

  1. Section 1 — Perform quantum operations (16%) — the mathematical bedrock: Pauli operators, gates, statevectors. Everything else builds on this.
  2. Section 2 — Visualize (11%) — cheap points if you can read a Bloch sphere, QSphere, and histogram at a glance.
  3. Section 3 — Create quantum circuits (18%) — the biggest section: construction, dynamic & parameterized circuits, and transpilation. Give it the most time.
  4. Section 4 — Run quantum circuits (15%) — execution modes (job/session/batch) and running on real hardware.
  5. Section 5 — Sampler (12%) and Section 6 — Estimator (12%) — the Runtime primitives V2. Learn them as a pair: same PUB idea, different outputs.
  6. Section 7 — Results (10%) — result data structures: DataBin, BitArray, expectation-value arrays.
  7. Section 8 — OpenQASM (6%) — small but easy to bank: types, QASM 2 vs 3, Qiskit interop.

When to take the mock exam​

  • First mock: after drilling sections 1–4 — calibrate early, don't wait until you feel "ready".
  • Then loop: mock → section diagnosis → strengthen weakest → mock again. The mock exam mirrors the real thing exactly (68 questions, 90 minutes, pass at 47, official section weights) and every attempt gives you a per-section diagnosis.
  • You're ready when you clear the pass line with margin on two consecutive fresh seeds.

Study tips from how the exam is built​

  • Weights ≠ difficulty: sections 5–7 are mechanical once you've internalized the PUB model — drill until the patterns are reflexive.
  • Read code questions bottom-up: what's measured, what's returned, then what the circuit does.
  • The real exam is closed-book: when you drill here, answer before you peek at the explanations.