Module I : General Knowledge and Current Affairs
Salient Features of Indian Constitution
Salient features of the Constitution - Preamble- Its significance and its place in the
interpretation of the Constitution.
Fundamental Rights - Directive Principles of State Policy - Relation between
Fundamental Rights and Directive Principles - Fundamental Duties.
Executive - Legislature - Judiciary - Both at Union and State Level. - Other
Constitutional Authorities.
Centre-State Relations - Legislative - Administrative and Financial.
Services under the Union and the States.
Emergency Provisions.
Amendment Provisions of the Constitution
Module II (a): Technical Mathematics
I. Matrices – Identification of Matrices, matrix operations, adjoint and inverse.
II. Determinants – Evaluation of second and third order, minors and cofactors,
solutions of simultaneous linear equation in three unknown using Cramer’s
rule.
III. Binomial Series – Expansions using Binomial theorem.
IV. Trigonometric functions – Signs of functions in each quadrant. Trigonometric
values of angles, properties of trigonometric functions, applications of the
identities sin (A ± B), cos (A ± B) and tan (A ± B).
V. Coordinate geometry – Equations to a straight line – slope-intercept form,
intercept form, Angle between two lines, condition for two lines to be
perpendicular, parallel.
VI. Differentiation – Limits and continuity, derivatives of functions, equation to
tangents and normals. Maxima and minima of functions of one variable.
VII. Integration of functions – Integration of different types of functions.
2VIII. Applications of integration – Area bounded by a curve and X or Y axis,
solutions of differential equations using the method of variable separable,
solutions of linear differential equations of first order.
Module VI :
Object Oriented Programming through Java: OOPs concepts, POP and
OOP, Benefits of OOP, objects, classes and methods, constructors, operator and
function overloading, Inheritance and Polymorphism, Multi-threading and exception
handling, Programming in Java – JAVA API, System package, Naming conventions,
Creating and accessing packages, Threads in Java, Thread exception, Files in Java,
String classes, Applet programming.
Data Structures: Stack – Array representation, Push and Pop operations, Infix,
prefix and postfix conversion, Queue – insertion and deletion, circular queue, Priority
queue, De-queue, Dynamic memory allocation, Linked lists, Insertion, deletion,
traversal of Linked lists, Doubly linked lists and circular lists, Binary tree
representation, Binary search tree, insertion, deletion, and traversal on BST
expression tree and threaded binary tree, Graph – directed graph, Adjacency Matrix
and Adjacency List representation, graph traversal algorithms – BFS and DFS.
5Software Engineering: Software life cycle models, Project planning – LOC,
COCOMO, PERT / CPM, Gantt Chart, SRS, Data flow diagrams, Testing – Black
box and white box, Software reliability, Reliability metrics, ISO 9000, SEICMM,
CASE.
Full Syllabus
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