C-CAT(Pre Dac) Test Papers and Syllabus

Admissions to all PG Diploma courses of C-DAC are done through C-DAC's Computerized Common Admission Test (C-CAT). Candidates have to apply for C-CAT online at www.cdac.in or   acts.cdac.in. Every year, C-CAT is usually conducted in June (for August admissions) and December (for February admissions).

C-CAT has three sections (Section A, Section B, Section C) of one hour duration each. depending on the category of courses selected  by the candidate, he/she will have to either appear for just one test paper (Section A) or two test papers (Section A and Section B) or all the three test papers (Section A, Section B and Section C). The medium of C-CAT is English.

Important Note: A candidate can appear only for the specific section(s) in C-CAT as per the category of the courses opted by him/her at the time of filling the online application form. 

Every section in C-CAT will have 50 objective-type questions. Each objective-type question will have four choices as possible answers of which only one will be correct. There will be +3 (plus three) marks for each correct answer, -1 (minus one) for each wrong answer, and 0 (zero) marks for each un-attempted question. The maximum marks a candidate can obtain in any one section of C-CAT is 150.

   Categories of PG Diploma courses and the corresponding test paper(s) in C-CAT.

	COURSE NAME	C-CAT PAPER(S)
I	PG Diploma in Geoinformatics (PG-DGi)	Section A
II	PG Diploma in Advanced Computing (PG-DAC)	Section A + Section B
	PG Diploma in Big Data Analytics (PG-DBDA)
	PG Diploma in IT Infrastructure, Systems & Security (PG-DITISS)
	PG Diploma in Internet of Things (PG-DIoT)
	PG Diploma in Artificial Intelligence (PG-DAI)
	PG Diploma in Mobile Computing (PG-DMC)
	PG Diploma in System Software Development (PG-DSSD)
	PG Diploma in Advanced Secure Software Development (PG-DASSD)
	PG Diploma in HPC System Administration (PG-HPCSA)
III	PG Diploma in Embedded Systems Design (PG-DESD)	Section A +  Section B +  Section C

Indicative syllabus of the different sections of test papers in C-CAT.

TEST PAPER	TOPICS	DURATION
Section A	English, Quantitative Aptitude, Quantitative Aptitude & Reasoning	1 hour
Section B	Computer Fundamentals, C Programming, Data Structures, Data Communication & Networking, Object Oriented Programming Concepts, Operating Systems	1 hour
Section C	Computer Architecture, Digital Electronics, Microprocessors	1 hour

C-CAT Syllabus for section A. 

English: Any High School Grammar Book (e.g. Wren & Martin)

Quantitative Aptitude & reasoning: Quantitative Aptitude Fully Solved (R. S. Aggrawal) 

C-CAT Syllabus for section B.

Computing Fundamentals

• Evolution of Computers
• Computer Generations
• Computer Organization
• Primary and Secondary Storage
• Input and Output Devices
• File Organization
• Computer Memory
• Input and Output Devices
• Interaction between User and Computer
• Definition of Computer Virus, Types of Viruses, Use of Antivirus software

Data Communications and Computer Networking

• Introduction to Networks
• The Internet, Protocols and standards
• Network Models, Layered Tasks
• Physical and layered Media
• Data and Signal
• Analog and Digital Signals
• Network Architecture and the OSI Reference Model
• Analog and Digital Communications Concepts
• Data Link Layer: Framing
• Flow Control
• Error Control 
• Network Layer and Routing Concepts

C Programming with Data Structure

• Introductory Concepts
• C Fundamentals
• Operator and Expressions 
• Data Input and Output
• Operator and Expressions 
• Statements (control, conditional, looping)
• Functions
• Arrays
• Pointers
• Structures and Unions 
• Trees
• Stack
• Queues
• Linked Lists 

Object Oriented Concepts

• Object
• Class
• Inheritance
• Polymorphism
• Abstraction
• Encapsulation