the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing anticipate conducts the CCAT Examination for Admission into the various post graduate diploma course

Eligibility Criteria :


Engg Graduate in any discipline or equivalent (eg. BE/B.Tech/4 years B. Sc Engg./ AMIE/ AIETE / DoEACC B level etc).

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

Post Graduates in Math or allied areas (eg. Statistics, Applied Math)
PG in Physics or Computational Sciences / Post Graduates in Computing or Management are also eligible provided they hold graduation degree in Sciences.

The candidates must have secured a minimum of 50% marks in their qualifying examination.


Examination pattern :

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


Dates of the Examination :

Beginning of Online Registration and Application for C-CAT 08 May 2016
Closing of Online Registration & Application, and Payment of
Examination Fee for C-CAT 09 June 2016
Downloading of C-CAT Admit Cards 16 June to 23 June 2016
C-DAC’s Common Admission Test (C-CAT) 19 June 2016 / 26 June 2016
Announcement of C-CAT Ranks 07 July 2016
Online Selection of Courses and Centres (1st Counselling) 07 July – 12 July 2016
Declaration of 1st Round of Seat Allocation 14 July 2016


Preparation Material:

The names of the Some good Books for the CCAT Examination is given below:

Quantitative Aptitude Fully Solved (R. S. Aggrawal)
Quantitative Aptitude (M Tyara)
Barron’s New GRE 2013
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)
Principles & Practices (John Wakerly)
Microprocessor Architecture, Programming & Applications with 8085 (Ramesh Gaonkar)
The Intel Microprocessor (Barry Brey)