Center for Development of Advanced Computing anticipates applications for admission to its various post graduate diploma courses for the academic year commencing February 2015.

Eligibility Criteria


1. Graduate in Engg or equivalent (eg. BE/B. Tech/4 years B. Sc Engg./ AMIE/ AIETE/ DoEACC B level etc) in Electronics/ Electrical / Computer Science Engineering (CSE) or related areas.

PG in Engg. Sciences (eg. MCA/M.Sc. Engg, M.Sc. (Computer Science, IT, Electrical Electronics, Electronics, Instrumentation etc)

Post Graduates in Maths or allied areas (eg. Statistics, Applied Maths)
The candidates must have secured a minimum of 50% marks in their qualifying examination.


Examination Section


Section A
English, Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning 1 hour
Section B
Computer Fundamentals, C Programming, Data Structures, Data Communications & Networking, Object Oriented Programming Concepts, Operating Systems 1 hour
Section C
Computer Architecture, Digital Electronics, Microprocessors 1 hour

Examination Pattern

Every section will have 50 objective-type questions of 3 marks each (maximum 150 marks for any one section).

Each objective-type question in C-CAT 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 and -1 (minus one) for each wrong answer


Books for the C CAT Exam


Quantitative Aptitude Fully Solved (R. S. Aggrawal)
Quantitative Aptitude (M Tyara)
Foundations of Computing (Pradeep Sinha & Priti Sinha)
Data Communication & Networking (Forouzan)
C Programming Language (Kernighan & Ritchie)
Let Us C (Yashavant Kanetkar)
Data Structures Through C in Depth (S. K. Srivastava)
Operating System Principles (Silberschatz, Galvin, Gagne)
Test Your C ++ Skills (Yashavant Kanetkar)
Computer Organization & Architecture (William Stallings)
Digital Design (Morris Mano)
Digital Design: Principles & Practices (John Wakerly)
Modern Digital Electronics (R. P. Jain)