Praxis Computer Science 5652 Study Guide 2026–2027 | CS Teacher Certification Exam Prep | 200 Practice Questions | Printable PDF

A complete study guide for the Praxis Computer Science (5652) test, the ETS exam many states use to license secondary computer science teachers. It follows the five ETS content categories and uses the same pseudocode style the test uses.

What's Inside:

• Impacts of Computing: equity and access, accessibility, intellectual property and Creative Commons, open-source licenses, ethics, privacy, and security
• Algorithms and Computational Thinking: abstraction, decomposition, number bases, flowcharts and pseudocode, searching and sorting, Big-O, recursion, and randomization
• Programming: control structures, operators and Boolean logic, data types, procedures, OOP, stacks, queues and maps, event-driven programs, debugging, testing, APIs, IDEs, and compilers vs interpreters
• Data: bits and bytes, file-size calculations, encoding vs encryption, databases and SQL, spreadsheets, simulation and modeling, and data collection
• Computing Systems and Networks: hardware, operating systems, logic gates, the fetch-decode-execute cycle, networks and protocols, DNS, IPv4/IPv6, the cloud, security, and the Web
• 2 full-length practice tests with 200 exam-level questions (code tracing, missing code, Boolean equivalence, calculations, and select-all-style items), weighted like the real test
• Detailed answer explanations for every question
• Exam overview, 1-, 2-, and 3-month study schedules, test-taking strategies, FAQ, and a final review checklist
• 87 tables plus diagrams, trace tables, and flowcharts for quick review

Format:

• Digital PDF, 160 pages, instant download
• Printable on US Letter paper

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