DRDO CEPTAM-04

Reference about DRDO CEPTAM (Centre for Personnel Talent Management)

Foreword: Refer to the DRDO CEPTAM notification/Advertisement for the latest, up-to-date and appropriate instructions and information.

SCHEME OF EXAMINATION: The written examination will be OMR based and of two hours duration, consisting of 150 objective type multiple choice questions. For STA ‘B’: The written test will consist of

1. 50 questions on
   1. General Awareness
   2. General Intelligence
   3. Reasoning Ability
   4. General Science
2. 100 Questions on Subject concerned

Note: There is no mention of negative marking/ranking in the notification.

Important Instruction from Question Booklet:
1. There is NO negative marking and you can attempt for all the questions. There is no predictable sequence in the answers.
2. Each question carries one mark
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SYLLABUS & MEDIUM OF EXAMINATION:

The syllabus of the examination will be based on the standards of essential qualification required for the post. The medium for Written Examination will be Hindi or English.

 

Notes from observations of CEPTAM-04 Question Paper:

1. The question paper is quite easier and simple.
2. It doesn’t include any computer engineering questions like asking you to write a code/program, algorithm, internals of any specific platform like registry in Windows,
3. Paper is prepared to cover a range of computer science (not engineering) students alone which include Degree (BCA,MCA, Dip. CS, Dip. CS and IT, etc,.).
4. One has to just just prepared for basic computer questioning like devices, architecture, computer usage, types of computers, etc,.

 

MODE OF SELECTION:

1. All the candidates will be called for written examination without scrutiny. However, the Original Certificates/Diploma/Degree will be examined/verified at the time of Document Verification.
2. Candidates will be shortlisted on valid criteria as prescribed and adopted by CEPTAM, and final selection will be based on pooled merit of post/category/sub-category of the candidate which will be based on the marks obtained in Written Examination and Interview taken together. It is reiterated that it is mandatory for shortlisted candidates to pass the prescribed skill/trade/physical/medical tests, as per the norms, wherever
   applicable.

For complete list and details for other posts kindly refer to
CEPTAM-04-Adv.pdf

 

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DRDO CEPTAM Exam Syllabus for CS (Computer Science and Engineering):

Theory of Computation: Regular languages and finite automata, Context free languages and Push-down automata, Recursively enumerable sets and Turing machines, Undecidability; NP-completeness.

Digital Logic: Logic functions, Minimization, Design and synthesis of combinational and sequential circuits; Number representation and computer arithmetic (fixed and floating point).

Computer Organization and Architecture: Machine instructions and addressing modes, ALU and data-path, CPU control design, Memory interface, I/O interface (Interrupt and DMA mode), Instruction pipelining, Cache and main memory, Secondary storage.

Programming and Data Structures: Programming in C; Functions, Recursion, Parameter passing, Scope, Binding; Abstract data types, Arrays, Stacks, Queues, Linked Lists, Trees, Binary search trees, Binary heaps.

Algorithms: Analysis, Asymptotic notation, Notions of space and time complexity, Worst and average case analysis; Design: Greedy approach, Dynamic programming, Divide-and-conquer; Tree and graph traversals, Connected components, Spanning trees, Shortest paths; Hashing, Sorting, Searching.

Compiler Design: Lexical analysis, Parsing, Syntax directed translation, Runtime environments, Intermediate and target code generation, Basics of code optimization.

Operating System: Processes, Threads, Inter-process communication, Concurrency, Synchronization, Deadlock, CPU scheduling, Memory management and virtual memory, File systems, I/O systems, Protection and security.

Databases: ER-model, Relational model (relational algebra, tuple calculus), Database design (integrity constraints, normal forms), Query languages (SQL), File structures (sequential files, indexing, B and B+ trees), Transactions and concurrency control.

Computer Networks: ISO/OSI stack, LAN technologies (Ethernet, Token ring), Flow and error control techniques, Routing algorithms, Congestion control, TCP/UDP and sockets, IP(v4), Application layer protocols (icmp, dns, smtp, pop, ftp, http); Basic concepts of hubs, switches, gateways, and routers.

Reference: DRDO SET Exam Syllabus for CS (Computer Science and Engineering)

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