Syllabus

[Sample Questions and Answers]

Group A

Programming languages. C including C++; 

• Languages-declarations, 
• expressions, 
• control statements, 
• arrays, 
• functions, 
• pointers and structures; 

Algorithms and flow charts. 

Introduction to Pascal. 

Informatics. 

• Information systems for decision making; 
• Data management and database management technology; 
• Office automation system-
• LAN, 
• WAN, 
• Electronic mail, 
• Electronic data interchange; 
• Client server technology; 
• Overview of TCP/IP; 
• Information systems for business; 
• Strategic information systems; 
• Information resources management.

GROUP B

Computer basics. 

• History, 
• generations and classification of computers; 
• Number systems; 
• Boolean algebra.

Hardware. 

• Introduction to logic gates an flip flops; 
• components of a computer input/output devices, 
• CPU unit 
• memory unit, secondary storage. 

Software

• System software; 
• Application software; 
• Compilers and translators. 
• Operating systems. 
• Introduction to operating systems;' 
• Types of operating systems and their functions; 
• Popular operating systems-
• MS-DOS, 
• UNIX and 
• Windows; 
• File. management.