Hi all. we have received some communiaction from CDAC regarding a entrance test. The entrance test for CDAC's DAC course is conducted off campus with some fees and is mandatory for admission to the 6 month course.
They have offered to conduct the test on campus for free.
details are as below. Dates of the test will be announced by the college and respective departments soon. Since it is a full time course it should be noted that only BE passouts 2011 batch will be eligible.
There is no academic criteria for the test.
DIPLOMA IN ADVANCED COMPUTING (DAC) AUGUST 2011 admissions BATCH
The Process for conducting Campus CET for August 2011 batch of Diploma in Advanced
Computing (DAC) course at various educational institutions that are part of Tech-Sangam
programme is as follows
MET College will conduct the Campus CET preferably online as per the schedule given below.
IMPORTANT DATES
Date of test - Anytime before May 15, 2011 (date will be finalised soon and communicated to you all)
Final Result to students May 17, 2011
Last date of payment of 10% of course fee May 20, 2011 (To hold the campus CET score as valid for admission, the student has to pay 10% fees.. queries regarding refunds should be made directly to the CDAC representative when paying the token amount)
Commencement date of DAC course August 16, 2011
CAMPUS CET PROCESS:
Campus CET will be conducted at our institute. Preferably online CET will be conducted.
Campus CET can be conducted at any date before the end date as per schedule
mentioned above.
Students appearing for campus CET through this drive are eligible to
take admission for DAC Course at MET College, Mumbai only and not any other CDAC centre and hence the rules regulations and placements etc will all be applicable as per MET college, Mumbai.
Students of can apply for Campus CET free of cost and admission choice will be voluntary.
Students will only get to know their eligibility to appear for Stage II & III process.
Stage II & Stage III will be conducted for these students as per the normal procedures after
the result declaration of the campus CET. In any case stage II & III shall not exceed after
May 15, 2011.
After confirmation of admission, students need to deposit 10% of course fee to secure the
seat at given centre on or before the last date given above.
Balance amount of course fee should be deposited on or before course commencement
date.
All the payments should be done through demand draft only, drawn in favour of C-DAC
ACTS, and payable at Pune.
In any case students have the option open for appearing to the regular off campus CDAC CET , in order to enable themselves for the choice of centre at national level by paying the fees as per off campus CET rules.
scholarships are available for Campus CET students only.
The committee constituted by C-DAC shall select the eligible candidate for scholarship.
The students getting scholarship will also be awarded with a Certificate of Merit.
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Syllabus for Common Entrance Test (CET)
Section I : Computing Fundamentals (10 marks)
Evolutions of computers, Computer generations, Computer organization, Primary and
Secondary storage, Input-output devices, Computer software, Operating systems, Data
communications and computer networking, Multimedia, Classification of computers, etc.
Section II : Fundamentals of Programming (15 marks)
Algorithms, Flowcharts, Computer languages, System implementation and operation, File
organizations and Data processing, etc.
Section III : Programming in C (50 marks)
Introductory concepts, C Fundamentals, Operators and Expressions, Data Input and Output,
Control statement, Functions, Arrays, Pointers, Structures and Unions, Arrays, Stacks,
Queues and Linked Lists (Single, double, Circular), etc.
Section IV: Basic of OOPS and C++ programming (25 marks)
Understanding of the object oriented concepts, such as Classes
Generalizations, Polymorphism, Abstract Classes and Re-usability, etc.
Section V : General Aptitude (50 marks)
Questions shall be modeled on GMAT pattern
Recommended Textbooks
1. Foundations of Computing - PK Sinha and Preeti Sinha (BPB)
2. Programming in ANSI C - E Balaguruswamy (TMH)
3. The Object-Oriented Thought Process - Matt Weisfeld (Techmedia)
