ACSP Test - Content

For the months of February to May, we will be concentrating on the content area used for the multiple-choice portion of the AP CSP Exam. The content will be divided into two different sections

This area will comprise content information when applying code so that it can be seen on the internet. Content will delve into the following topics

Section One: Digital information

• Binary Numbers

• Overflow and Rounding

• Representing Text

• Black and White images

• Color Images

• Lossless Compression

• Lossy Compression

• Digital Dilemmas

Section Two: The Internet

• Building a Network

• The Need for Addressing

• Routers and Redundancy

• Packets

• HTTP and DNS

• Internet Dilemmas

Section Nine: Data

• Learning from Data

• Exploring One Column

• Filtering and Cleaning Data

• Exploring Two Columns

• Big, Open, and Crowdsourcing Data

• Machine Learning

• Algorithms (see unit 6) and Algorithmic Bias

• Telling a Data Story

Section Ten: Cybersecurity and Global Impacts

• Project Innovation Simulations

• Data Policies and Privacy

• The Value of Privacy

• Security Risks

• Protecting Data