Exam C1000 – 112 IBM Certified Associate

Developer - Qiskit v0.2X

1. Which statement will create a quantum circuit with four quantum

bits and four classical bits?

A. QuantumCircuit(4, 4)
B. QuantumCircuit(4)
C. QuantumCircuit(QuantumRegister(4, 'qr0'),
QuantumRegister(4, 'cr1'))
D. QuantumCircuit([4, 4])

2. Given this code fragment, what is the probability that a

measurement would result in |0> ?

qc = QuantumCircuit(1)
qc.ry(3 * math.pi/4, 0)

A. 0.8536
B. 0.5
C. 0.1464
D. 1.0
3. Assuming the fragment below, which three code fragments
would produce the circuit illustrated?

inp_reg = QuantumRegister(2, name='inp')

ancilla = QuantumRegister(1, name='anc')
qc = QuantumCircuit(inp_reg, ancilla)

# Insert code here

A. qc.h(inp_reg)
qc.x(ancilla)
qc.draw()
B. qc.h(inp_reg[0:2])
qc.x(ancilla[0])
qc.draw()
C. qc.h(inp_reg[0:1])
qc.x(ancilla[0])
qc.draw()
D. qc.h(inp_reg[0])
qc.h(inp_reg[1])
qc.x(ancilla[0])
qc.draw()
E. qc.h(inp_reg[1])
qc.h(inp_reg[2])
qc.x(ancilla[1])
qc.draw()
F. qc.h(inp_reg)
qc.h(inp_reg)
qc.x(ancilla)
qc.draw()
4. Given an empty QuantumCircuit object, qc, with three qubits and
three classical bits, which one of these code fragments would
create this circuit?

A. qc.measure([0,1,2], [0,1,2])
B. qc.measure([0,0], [1,1], [2,2])
C. qc.measure_all()
D. qc.measure(0,1,2)
5. Which code fragment will produce a maximally entangled, or
Bell, state?

A. bell = QuantumCircuit(2)
bell.h(0)
bell.x(1)
bell.cx(0, 1)
B. bell = QuantumCircuit(2)
bell.cx(0, 1)
bell.h(0)
bell.x(1)
C. bell = QuantumCircuit(2)
bell.h(0)
bell.x(1)
bell.cz(0, 1)
D. bell = QuantumCircuit(2)
bell.h(0)
bell.h(0)
6. Given this code, which two inserted code fragments result in the
state vector represented by this Bloch sphere?

qc = QuantumCircuit(1,1)
# Insert code fragment here

simulator = Aer.get_backend('statevector_simulator')
job = execute(qc, simulator)
result = job.result()
outputstate = result.get_statevector(qc)
plot_bloch_multivector(outputstate)

A. qc.h(0)
B. qc.rx(math.pi / 2, 0)
C. qc.ry(math.pi / 2, 0)
D. qc.rx(math.pi / 2, 0)
qc.rz(-math.pi / 2, 0)
E. qc.ry(math.pi, 0)
7. S-gate is a Qiskit phase gate with what value of the phase
parameter?

A. π/4
B. π/2
C. π/8
D. π
8. Which two code fragments, when inserted into the code below,
will produce the statevector shown in the output?

from qiskit import QuantumCircuit, Aer, execute

from math import sqrt

qc = QuantumCircuit(2)

# Insert fragment here

simulator = Aer.get_backend('statevector_simulator')
result = execute(qc, simulator).result()
statevector = result.get_statevector()
print(statevector)

Output:

[0.707+0.j 0.+0.j 0.+0.j 0.707+0.j]

A. v = [1/sqrt(2), 0, 0, 1/sqrt(2)]
qc.initialize(v,[0,1])
B. qc.h(0)
qc.cx(0,1)
C. v1, v2 = [1,0], [0,1]
qc.initialize(v1,0)
qc.initialize(v2,1)
D. qc.cx(0,1)
qc.measure_all()
E. qc.h(0)
qc.h(1)
qc.measure_all()
9. Which code fragment will produce a multi-qubit gate other than
a CNOT ?

A. qc.cx(0,1)
B. qc.cnot(0,1)
C. qc.mct([0],1)
D. qc.cz(0,1)

10. Which code fragment will produce a multi-qubit gate other

than a Toffoli?

A. qc.ccx(0,1,2)
B. qc.mct([0,1], 2)
C. from qiskit.circuit.library import CXGate
ccx = CXGate().control()
qc.append(ccx, [0,1,2])
D. qc.cry(0,1,2)

11. Which two options would place a barrier across all qubits
to the QuantumCircuit below?

qc = QuantumCircuit(3,3)

A. qc.barrier(qc)
B. qc.barrier([0,1,2])
C. qc.barrier()
D. qc.barrier(3)
E. qc.barrier_all()
12. What code fragment codes the equivalent circuit if you
remove the barrier in the following QuantumCircuit?

A. qc = QuantumCircuit(1,1)
qc.h(0)
qc.s(0)
qc.h(0)
qc.measure(0,0)
B. qc = QuantumCircuit(1,1)
qc.measure(0,0)
C. qc = QuantumCircuit(1,1)
qc.h(0)
qc.t(0)
qc.tdg(0)
qc.h(0)
qc.measure(0,0)
D. qc = QuantumCircuit(1,1)
qc.h(0)
qc.z(0)
qc.h(0)
qc.measure(0,0)
13. Given the following code, what is the depth of the circuit?

qc = QuantumCircuit(2, 2)

qc.h(0)
qc.barrier(0)
qc.cx(0,1)
qc.barrier([0,1])

A. 2
B. 3
C. 4
D. 5
14. Which code snippet would execute a circuit given these
parameters?

1) • Measure the circuit 1024 times,

2) • use the QASM simulator,
3) • and use a coupling map that connects three qubits linearly

qc = QuantumCircuit(3)

# Insert code fragment here

result = job.result()

A. qasm_sim = Aer.get_backend('qasm_simulator')
couple_map = [[0, 1], [1, 2]]
job = execute(qc, backend=qasm_sim, shots=1024,
coupling_map=couple_map)
B. qasm_sim = Aer.getBackend('ibmq_simulator')
couple_map = [[0, 1], [0, 2]]
job = execute(qc, loop=1024, coupling_map=couple_map)
C. qasm_sim = Aer.get_backend('qasm_simulator')
couple_map = [[0, 1], [1, 2]]
job = execute(qc, backend=qasm_sim, repeat=1024,
coupling_map=couple_map)
D. qasm_sim = Aer.get_backend('qasm_simulator')
couple_map = [[0, 1], [1, 2]]
job = execute(backend=qasm_sim, qc, shot=1024,
coupling_map=couple_map)
 15. Which of these would execute a circuit on a set of qubits
which are coupled in a custom way?

from qiskit import QuantumCircuit, execute, BasicAer

backend = BasicAer.get_backend('qasm_simulator')
qc = QuantumCircuit(3)

# insert code here

A. execute(qc, backend, shots=1024,

coupling_map=[[0,1], [1,2]])
B. execute(qc, backend, shots=1024,
custom_topology=[[0,1],[2,3]]
C. execute(qc, backend, shots=1024,
device="qasm_simulator", mode="custom")
D. execute(qc, backend, mode="custom")

16. Which three simulators are available in BasicAer?

A. qasm_simulator
B. basic_qasm_simulator
C. statevector_simulator
D. unitary_simulator
E. quantum_simulator
F. quantum_circuit_simulator
17. Which line of code would assign a statevector simulator object to
the variable backend ?

A. backend = BasicAer.StatevectorSimulatorPy()
B. backend =
BasicAer.get_backend('statevector_simulator')
C. backend =
BasicAer.StatevectorSimulatorPy().name()
D. backend =
BasicAer.get_back('statevector_simulator')

18. Which code fragment would yield an operator that represents a

single-qubit X gate?

A. op = Operator.Xop(0)
B. op = Operator([[0,1]])
C. qc = QuantumCircuit(1)
qc.x(0)
op = Operator(qc)
D. op = Operator([[1,0,0,1]])
19. What would be the fidelity result(s) for these two operators, which
differ only by global phase?

op_a = Operator(XGate())
op_b = numpy.exp(1j * 0.5) * Operator(XGate())

A. state_fidelity() of 1.0
B. state_fidelity() and average_gate_fidelity() of
1.0
C. average_gate_fidelity() and process_fidelity() of
1.0
D. state_fidelity(), average_gate_fidelity() and
process_fidelity() of 1.0

20. Given this code fragment, which output fits most closely with the
measurement probability distribution?

qc = QuantumCircuit(2, 2)
qc.x(0)
qc.measure([0,1], [0,1])
simulator = Aer.get_backend('qasm_simulator')
result = execute(qc, simulator, shots=1000).result()
counts = result.get_counts(qc)
print(counts)

A. {'00': 1000}
B. {'01': 1000}
C. {'10': 1000}
D. {'11': 1000}
Answer Key:

1) A
2) C
3) A,B,D
4) A
5) A
6) A,C
7) B
8) A,B
9) D
10) D
11) B,C
12) A
13) A
14) A
15) A
16) A,C,D
17) B
18) C
19) C
20) B