Admissions to all PG Diploma courses of C-DAC are done through C-DAC's Computerized Common Admission Test (C-CAT). Consistently, C-CAT is normally directed in June (for August affirmations) and December (for February confirmations). Applicants who clear the June 2016 C-CAT might be considered for admission to C-DAC's PG Diploma courses of August 2016 cluster on the premise of their C-CAT positions and focus/course inclinations.

Placement test (C-CAT) for the August 2016 cluster might be held in June 2016

C-CAT Test Papers

C-CAT has three segments (Section A, Section B, Section C) of one-hour term each. As appeared in Table, contingent upon the course(s) connected by the competitor, he/she will need to either show up for only one test paper (Section An) or two test papers (Section An and Section B) or all the three test papers (Section A, Section B and Section C). The medium of C-CAT is English.

Essential Note: A competitor can seem just for the particular section(s) in C-CAT according to the course(s) selected by him/her at the season of filling the online application structure.

Each area will have 50 objective-sort questions. Every target sort question in C-CAT will have four options as could reasonably be expected answers of which stand out will be right. There will be +3 (in addition to three) marks for each right answer and - 1 (short one) for every wrong reply, and 0 (zero) marks for every un-endeavored question. The greatest imprints a hopeful can get in any one area of C-CAT is 150.

Rundown of PG Diploma courses and the relating test paper(s) in C-CAT.

Course Category
Course Name
Test Papers

I

PG Diploma in Geoinformatics (PG-DGi)
Section A

PG Diploma in Healthcare Informatics (PG-DHI)

II

PG Diploma in Advanced Computing (PG-DAC)
Section A +

Area B

PG Diploma in Wireless and Mobile Computing (PG-DWiMC)

PG Diploma in System Software Development (PG-DSSD)

PG Diploma in IT Infrastructure, Systems and Security (PG-DITISS)

III

PG Diploma in Embedded Systems Design (PG-DESD)
Section A +

Area B +

Area C

PG Diploma in VLSI Design (PG-DVLSI)

PG Diploma in Automation and SCADA Systems (PG-DASS)

PG Diploma in Integrated VLSI and Embedded Systems Design (PG-DIVESD)

C-CAT Syllabus

Syllabus of the diverse segments of test papers in C-CAT.

Test Paper
Topics
Duration

Area A
English, Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning
1 hour

Area B
Computer Fundamentals, C Programming, Data Structures, Data Communications and Networking, Object Oriented Programming Concepts, Operating Systems
1 hour

Area C
Computer Architecture, Digital Electronics, Microprocessors
1 hour