PCAP™ – Certified Associate Python Programmer certification focuses on the Object-Oriented Programming approach to Python. It shows that the individual is familiar with the more advanced aspects of programming, including the essentials of OOP, the essentials of modules and packages, the exception handling mechanism in OOP, advanced operations on strings, list comprehensions, lambdas, generators, closures, and file processing.

PCAP™ certification gives its holders confidence in their programming skills, helps them stand out in the job market, and gives them a head start on preparing for and advancing to the professional level.

This exam measures the individual's familiarity with the following concepts:
 

• Modules
• Packages
• PIP
• Character encoding
• Strings/String Processing
• Generators
• Iterators
• Closures
• Files, File Streams, and File processing
• Exception Hierarchies and exception classes and objects
• Working with selected Standard Library modules
• Fundamentals of the Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) approach