Exercise 1 - Here is a general outline of qisket circuit template. Transpiled the quantum circuit on the IBM-Q backend and draws the optimized circuit. This is a great first step to visualize what's going on. Custom code is what you input in the commented area and I give you samples for that in the next section. ```python import qiskit # Qiskit quantum circuits libraries quantum_circuit = qiskit.circuit.library.QuantumVolume(5) quantum_circuit.measure_all() quantum_circuit.draw() # prepare your circuit to run from qiskit import IBMQ # Get the API token in # https://quantum-computing.ibm.com/ IBMQ.save_account("YOUR TOKEN") provider = IBMQ.load_account() backend = provider.get_backend('ibmq_quito') optimized_circuit = qiskit.transpile(quantum_circuit, backend) optimized_circuit.draw() # run in real hardware job = backend.run(optimized_circuit) # this is where I put my code retrieved_job = backend.retrieve_job(job.job_id()) result = retrieved_job.result() print(result.get_counts()) ``` [Reference here](https://lab.quantum-computing.ibm.com/hub/spawn-pending/5d798394a5375400195c9658?next=%2Fhub%2Fuser%2F5d798394a5375400195c9658%2Flab%2Ftree%2Fqiskit-textbook%2Fgetting-started%2Fexample.ipynb)