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