How To Prepare CDAC Entrance Exam

I have applied for CDAC C-CAT Entrance exam so can you please tell me how to prepare for this exam?

[Kiran Chandar]

Ok, here I am providing you the tips for the preparation of CDAC C-CAT Entrance exam.

CDAC C-CAT Entrance exam tips

Make a good study plan of preparation

The candidate must be thorough with the basic fundamentals.

The candidate should be clear about the question pattern and also the syllabus of the exam.

They have to go through the previous question papers

Refer the text books of R.S.Agarwal and S.Chand to be clear about the analytical and reasoning sections.

The candidate should be thorough in the core subjects and also programming sections to be comfortable with the technical section.

Give importance to time management as questions will be time bounded.

CDAC C-CAT Entrance exam pattern

C-CAT Paper consist of three sections-

Section A
Section B
Section C

Every section in C-CAT will have 50 objective-type questions.

All the questions are multiple choice.

There will be +3 (plus three) marks for each correct answer

-1 (minus one) for each wrong answer

The maximum marks a candidate can obtain in any one section of C-CAT is 150.

:Section A

Topics: English, Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning
Duration - 1 hour

Section B

Topics: Computer Fundamentals, C Programming, Data Structures, Data Communication & Networking, Object Oriented Programming Concepts, Operating Systems
Duration: 1 hour

Section C

Topics: Computer Architecture, Digital Electronics, Microprocessors
Duration:1 hour

Syllabus

Section A

Topics :English and Quantitative Aptitude
REFERENCE BOOKS: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

Section B

Topics & Reference Books: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)

Section:C

Topics & reference books:
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)
Microprocessors
Microprocessor Architecture, Programming & Applications with 8085 (Ramesh Gaonkar)
The Intel Microprocessor (Barry Brey)