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Preparing For The Qiskit Developer Certification Exam

The document provides tips and resources for preparing to take the Qiskit developer certification exam, including recommended skills and topics to study such as defining, executing, and visualizing quantum circuits using the Qiskit SDK; understanding single and multi-qubit gates; and leveraging key Qiskit packages. It outlines a recommended path for preparation involving studying Qiskit textbook chapters, tutorials, and diving deeper into key topics like circuits, registers, simulators, OpenQASM, backends, and visualization.

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Preparing For The Qiskit Developer Certification Exam

The document provides tips and resources for preparing to take the Qiskit developer certification exam, including recommended skills and topics to study such as defining, executing, and visualizing quantum circuits using the Qiskit SDK; understanding single and multi-qubit gates; and leveraging key Qiskit packages. It outlines a recommended path for preparation involving studying Qiskit textbook chapters, tutorials, and diving deeper into key topics like circuits, registers, simulators, OpenQASM, backends, and visualization.

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Preparing for the Qiskit developer certification exam

Here are some hopefully helpful tips and resources as you prepare to take the Qiskit developer
certification exam. The exam contains questions on quantum computing with Qiskit that ensure
competency in areas that include the following:

Defining, executing, and visualizing results of quantum circuits using the Qiskit SDK
Understanding single-qubit gates and their rotations on the Bloch sphere.
Understanding various multi-qubit gates and their effects in quantum circuits.
Leveraging fundamental Qiskit SDK features including commonly-used classes and functions
located in qiskit.circuit, qiskit.execute, qiskit.providers, qiskit.qasm, qiskit.quantum_info,
qiskit.tools, and qiskit.visualization packages.

Ideally, you will have the following skills before taking the exam:

Working knowledge of creating, executing, and visualizing the results quantum of circuits using
the online IBM Quantum Composer https://quantum-computing.ibm.com/composer
Working knowledge of developing examples that highlight features of the Qiskit SDK, such as
those found in the online IBM Quantum Lab https://quantum-computing.ibm.com/lab
Working knowledge of modeling quantum states and evolution with complex vectors and
matrices.
Working knowledge of Pauli matrices.
Working knowledge of quantum state measurement probabilities.
Familiarity with common circuits such as those that result in the Bell states.

Here is a recommended path for preparing to take the exam:

1. Study the Learn Quantum Computation using Qiskit textbook up to, and including, the
Multiple Qubits and Entanglement section https://qiskit.org/textbook

2. Then, it will be helpful to go through some of the tutorials that cover the following areas of the
IBM Quantum Lab:

1. Quantum circuits: https://quantum-computing.ibm.com/lab/files/qiskit-tutorials/tutorials/cir


cuits
2. Quantum simulators: https://quantum-computing.ibm.com/lab/files/qiskit-tutorials/tutorial
s/simulators

3. Then, dive a bit deeper into quantum circuits, which are a combination of quantum gates,
measurements and resets. Initially, make sure you cover the below topics. To understand the
circuits, please go through these websites,

https://qiskit.org/textbook/ch-algorithms/defining-quantum-circuits.html

https://qiskit.org/textbook/ch-states/representing-qubit-states.html

https://qiskit.org/documentation/stubs/qiskit.circuit.Gate.html
https://qiskit.org/documentation/tutorials/circuits_advanced/03_advanced_circuit_visualization.h
tml

1. Using various single-qubit gates : https://qiskit.org/textbook/ch-states/single-qubit-gates.ht


ml
2. Using various multi-qubit gates : https://qiskit.org/textbook/ch-gates/multiple-qubits-entang
led-states.html
3. Using barrier operation : https://qiskit.org/documentation/stubs/qiskit.circuit.library.Barrier
.html
4. Returning the circuit depth : https://arnaldogunzi.medium.com/how-to-calculate-the-depth-
of-a-quantum-circuit-in-qiskit-868505abc104
5. Extending quantum circuits : https://qiskit.org/documentation/stubs/qiskit.extensions.Initial
ize.html
6. Operations around the qiskit version : https://qiskit.org/documentation/install.html
7. Operators :https://qiskit.org/documentation/tutorials/circuits_advanced/02_operators_over
view.html
8. Fidelity: https://qiskit.org/documentation/stubs/qiskit.quantum_info.state_fidelity.html

A topic to study next would be quantum registers. Visiting these resources will shed some
additional light in this area:

https://qiskit.org/documentation/getting_started.html

1. Constructing Quantum Circuits : https://qiskit.org/textbook/ch-algorithms/defining-quantu


m-circuits.html
2. Constructing multi-qubit quantum registers : https://qiskit.org/textbook/ch-gates/multiple-q
ubits-entangled-states.html
3. Measuring quantum circuits into classical registers: https://qiskit.org/documentation/stubs/
qiskit.circuit.Measure.html
4. Classical and quantum registers: https://qiskit.org/documentation/stubs/qiskit.circuit.Quant
umRegister.html
5. Executing a quantum circuit: https://qiskit.org/documentation/apidoc/execute.html

The next topic to consider is simulators. Simulators are used to mimic the actual quantum
device. Below are the links to follow through these topics,

https://qiskit.org/documentation/tutorials/simulators/1_aer_provider.html

https://qiskit.org/documentation/apidoc/providers_basicaer.html

1. Returning the histogram data of an experiment


2. Returning the statevector of an experiment
3. Returning the unitary of an experiment
4. Available simulators
5. Accessing a statevector_simulator backend
6. Accessing a qasm_simulator backend
7. Accessing a unitary_simulator backend
Open QASM is Open Quantum Assembly Language is an intermediate language for quantum
instructions. Below are some resources to understand the Open QASM and how to use it in
Qiskit.

https://qiskit.org/documentation/stubs/qiskit.qasm.Qasm.html

https://medium.com/qiskit/a-new-openqasm-for-a-new-era-of-dynamic-circuits-87f031cac49

https://github.com/Qiskit/openqasm

1. Returning the OpenQASM string for a circuit


2. Reading a QASM file

Qiskit Backend refers to the functions used in IBM Quantum Experience device. To understand
how the Qiskit Backend works, go through the resources below,

https://quantum-computing.ibm.com/docs/manage/account/ibmq

https://qiskit.org/documentation/stubs/qiskit.providers.ibmq.IBMQBackend.html

https://medium.com/qiskit/qiskit-backends-what-they-are-and-how-to-work-with-them-fb66b3b
d0463

1. Monitor the status of a job instance


2. Qiskit Backend Overview

Visualization deals with the plotting various data in Qiskit. Below are some resources to
understand these concepts,

https://qiskit.org/documentation/tutorials/circuits/2_plotting_data_in_qiskit.html

https://qiskit.org/documentation/tutorials/circuits_advanced/03_advanced_circuit_visualization.h
tml

1. Drawing a circuit Plotting a histogram of data


2. Plotting a Bloch multivector
3. Plotting a Bloch vector
4. Plotting a QSphere
5. Plotting a density matrix
6. Plotting a gate map with error rates

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