About C-CAT :
Admissions to all PG Diploma courses of C-DAC
are done through C-DAC's Computerised 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).
Exam Pattern :
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.
Categories of PG Diploma courses and the
corresponding test paper(s) in C-CAT.
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COURSE
CATEGORY |
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 Mobile Computing (PG-DMC)
|
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|
PG Diploma in System Software Development
(PG-DSSD)
|
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PG Diploma in IT Infrastructure, Systems &
Security (PG-DITISS)
|
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PG Diploma in Big Data Analytics (PG-DBDA)
|
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|
III
|
PG Diploma in Embedded Systems Design (PG-DESD)
|
Section A +
Section B + Section C |
|
PG Diploma in VLSI Design (PG-DVLSI)
|
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|
PG Diploma in Automation & SCADA Systems
(PG-DASS)
|
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PG Diploma in Biomedical Instrumentation &
Health Informatics (PG-DBIHI)
|
Every section in C-CAT will have 50
objective-type questions. Each 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.
C-CAT Syllabus:
Indicative syllabus of the different sections of
test papers in C-CAT.
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TEST PAPER
|
TOPICS
|
DURATION
|
|
Section A
|
English, 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
|
Reference books for the various
topics in C-CAT.
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SECTION
|
TOPIC
|
REFERENCE BOOK
|
|
A
|
English
|
Any High School Grammar Book (e.g. Wren &
Martin)
|
|
Quantitative Aptitude & Reasoning
|
Quantitative Aptitude Fully Solved (R. S.
Aggrawal)
Quantitative Aptitude (M Tyara) Barron’s New GRE 2015 |
|
|
B
|
Computer Fundamentals
|
Foundations of Computing (Pradeep Sinha &
Priti Sinha)
|
|
Data Communication & Networking
|
Data Communication & Networking (Forouzan)
|
|
|
C Programming
|
C Programming Language (Kernighan & Ritchie)
Let Us C (Yashavant Kanetkar) |
|
|
Data Structures
|
Data Structures Through C in Depth (S. K.
Srivastava)
|
|
|
Operating Systems
|
Operating System Principles (Silberschatz,
Galvin, Gagne)
|
|
|
OOP Concepts
|
Test Your C ++ Skills (Yashavant Kanetkar)
|
|
|
C
|
Computer Architecture
|
Computer Organization & Architecture (William
Stallings)
|
|
Digital Electronics
|
Digital Design (Morris Mano)
Digital Design: Principles & Practices (John Wakerly) Modern Digital Electronics (R. P. Jain) |
|
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Microprocessors
|
Microprocessor Architecture, Programming &
Applications with 8085 (Ramesh Gaonkar)
The Intel Microprocessor (Barry Brey) |
