Is a computer science textbook relevant to the USE and profile entrance interviews?

Question

IT education

They were asked to prepare the guys for admission. My background is quite enough, but you need to know what to prepare for. There are open access

• USE questions for 2014 on the yandex service
  
• the textbook "Computer Science and ICT" edited by Ugrinovich, according to which, as far as I understood and read.
  

The textbook, in my opinion, is already very comprehensive and superficial (in my purely personal opinion, about nothing). In any case, the topics of the exam are not disclosed in the textbook. Please tell me the textbook covering the expectations of the exam and entrance profile interviews. Do not read according to Knuth, it will be too much. Thanks for any advice.

Answer 1

I passed the exam in 2015, I will take it again this year. (I prepared for a total of one week in three subjects, scored a miserable 222 points).
The exam has Python. In addition to it, Pascal, C, Basic and some kind of horror called the Algorithmic Language. In this case, the use of other programming languages ​​is formally allowed, i.e. it is possible that you read a task with Python code, and then wrote a solution in your favorite Clojure.
It is worth paying attention to the fact that there is a task that involves optimization in terms of memory and execution time. You should not be afraid here, simple one-pass algorithms will suffice.
About preparation materials:
Ugrinovich's textbooks do not reveal the subject of the exam at all. Better to just forget about them. I recommend using "Informatics. A complete guide to preparing for the exam" by Bogomolova. It contains all the material of the school curriculum: number systems, graphs, the basics of logic, programming, game theory, etc. Despite the fact that dates like the Unified State Exam of 2012 flashed there, the material is relevant, de facto the number of tasks has changed a little and maybe something else is insignificant. I did not pay attention to this, this year I will prepare according to the same guide. The only thing that did not suit me was the examples in Pascal, the spoiled Python affected.
I almost forgot, I advise you to pay attention to relatively simple tasks from the test part. I was very annoyed when I got the maximum scores for difficult tasks, and in the tests I answered half incorrectly. So it’s worth training your attentiveness and better solving tasks of the same type that seem easy in order to avoid stupid mistakes.