C-DAC Common Admission Test (C-CAT) 2019 – Admit Card, Exam Pattern, Syllabus, Books

The Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC) is an Autonomous Institute of Scientific Society of Department of Electronics and Information Technology (Deity), Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Government of India.

Common Entrance Exams

The National Centre for Software Technology (NCST), ER&DCI and CEDTI were united into C-DAC in 2003. Central for Development of Advanced Computing declares entry into the career-oriented 24 week’s full-time Post-Graduate Diploma Courses (NSQF level 8). It is given in ICT for Graduate in Engineering /MCA or similar for starting in February 2019.

C-DAC Common Admission Test (CAT) 2019

The dates for CDAC CAT 2019 was announced by the university and the registration for the exam conducted from 23rd October 2018 and the CDAC CAT exam was held on 9th & 16th of December 2018. They can check their result after the exam and download the rank card. The result can be checked through online mode.

Events	Dates
Publishing of Online Registration and Application for C-CAT	23rd Oct 2018
The closing of Online Registration & Application, and Payment of Examination Fee for C-CAT	3rd Dec 2018
Downloading of C-CAT Admit Cards	6th to 13th Dec 2018
C-DAC’s Common Admission Test (C-CAT) date	9th & 16th Dec 2018
Declaration of C-CAT Ranks	27th Dec 2018
Online Selection of Courses and Centres (1st Counselling)	27th Dec 2018 to 3rd Jan 2019
Announcement of 1st Round of Seat distribution	7th Jan 2019
Last Date of Payment of first installment course fee for candidates given seats through the 1st round	16th Jan 2019(till 5 pm)
Declaration of 2nd Round of Seat Allocation	21st Jan 2019
Last Date of Payment of first installment course fee for candidates allocated seats through the second round	28th Jan 2019
Caution deposit payment and online selection of course and centers based on 2nd counseling	30th Jan to 4th Feb 2019
The announcement of 3rd Round of Seat Allocation according to second counseling	6th Feb 2019
Balance course fee payment last date	14th Feb 2019
Registration of Students at Training centers	18th Feb 2019
PG Diploma Courses	19th Feb 2019
Official website	www.cdac.in

CDAC Common Admission Test (CAT) Procedure for Filling Application Form

Registering for CDAC Common Admission Test CAT 2019 can be done online.
Get registered on CDAC official website i.e. cdac.in
After that, an Id and password will get on the registered number or email address.
Login with that number or email
Fill up the details in CDAC Common Admission Test CAT 2019 application form.
Post-filling the personal information and the qualification detail, you will now have to choose the category of the course from among category 1, category 2 and category 3.
Candidates for category 1 are qualified for PG-DGi course.
Candidates for category 2 are qualified for both PG-DGi and category 2
Those applying for category 3 are eligible for PG-DGi, Category 2 and Category 3
Candidates must fill up the details carefully and choose the course wisely.
No detail is altered after submission of the form.

CDAC Common Admission Test (CAT) Registration Fee

Course	CDAC Test CAT 2019	Registration fee with a laptop	Registration fee without the laptop
Category 1	Paper 1	₹1000/- ₹200/-	₹1000/-
Category 2	Paper 1+2	₹1200/- ₹200/-	₹1200/-
Category 3	Paper 1+2+3	₹1400/-₹200/-	₹ 1400/-

CDAC Common Admission Test (CAT) Admit Card

Admit card is issued online for the exam in 2019.
Candidates can download it from the Student Login by filling up the required details like Form Number and Password.
It is very important for the students to carry the print out of the CDAC CAT Admit Card along with valid proof on the day of the examination.
It is suggested to the aspirants to go through all the instructions provided on the CDAC C-CAT Admit Card 2019.

CDAC Common Admission Test (CAT) Exam and Test Papers

The medium of the exam is English. C-CAT has three sections (Section A, Section B, Section C) of one-hour duration each.
Based on the category of courses chose by the candidate they will have to attend for just one test paper (Section A) or two test sections or all the three test sections.
The test will have 50 objective type questions. Every question contains four options as relevant answers of which only one will be correct.
+3 (plus three) marks will be awarded for each correct answer, -1 (minus one) for each wrong answer, and 0 (zero) marks for the un-attempted question. The maximum number marks a candidate can score in any one section of C-CAT is 150.

CDAC Common Admission Test (CAT) Syllabus

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

PG Diploma Courses which are Correlating with Test Papers in CDAC

Category-1 Section A

PG Diploma in Geoinformatics (PG-DGi)

Category-2 Section A & B

PG Diploma in IT Infrastructure, Systems & Security (PG-DITISS)
PG Diploma in Advanced Computing (PG-DAC)
PG Diploma in System Software Development (PG-DSSD)
PG Diploma in Mobile Computing (PG-DMC)
PG Diploma in IT Infrastructure, Systems & Security (PG-DITISS)
PG Diploma in HPC System Administration (PG-HPCSA)
PG Diploma in Big Data Analytics (PG-DBDA)
PG Diploma in the Internet of Things (PG-DIoT)

Category-3 Section A, B & C

PG Diploma in VLSI Design (PG-DVLSI)
PG Diploma in Biomedical Instrumentation & Health Informatics (PG-DBIHI)
PG Diploma in Embedded Systems Design (PG-DESD)

C-CAD List of books for reference

For English: High School Grammar Book
For Quantitative Aptitude&Reasoning: Quantitative Aptitude Fully Solved (R. S. Aggarwal) and Quantitative Aptitude (M Tyara), Barron’s New GRE 2016
For Computer Fundamentals: Foundations of Computing (Pradeep Sinha & Priti Sinha)
For Data Communication & Networking: Data Communication & Networking (Forouzan)
For C Programming: C Programming Language (Kernighan & Ritchie) and Let Us C
Data Structures: Data Structures Through C in Depth (S. K. Srivastava)
For Operating Systems: Operating System principles
For OOP Concepts: Test Your C ++ Skills (Yashavant Kanetkar)
For Computer Architecture: Computer Organization & Architecture (William Stallings)
For Digital Electronics: Digital Design (Morris Mano)
For Digital Design: Principles & Practices (John Wakerly) and Modern Digital Electronics (R. P. Jain)
For Microprocessors: Microprocessor Architecture, Programming & Applications with 8085 (Ramesh Gaonkar) and The Intel Microprocessor (Barry Brey)

CDAC Common Admission Test (CAT) Exam Schedule

Test Paper(Section wise)	Afternoon	Morning
A	2:00 pm – 3:00 pm	9:30 am – 10:30 am
B	3:15 pm – 4:15 pm	10:45 am – 11:45 am
C	4:30 pm – 5:30 pm	12:00 noon – 1:00 pm

CDAC Common Admission Test (CAT) Exam Centers

Below are the centers for the examination for CDAC

Agartala
Ahmedabad
Allahabad
Bengaluru
Bhubaneswar
Chennai
Dhanbad
Hyderabad
Indore
Jaipur
Karad
Kochi
Kolkata
Lucknow
Mohali
Mumbai
Nagpur
Nashik
Navi Mumbai
New Delhi
Noida
Patna
Pune
Raipur
Ranchi
Silchar
Solapur
Thiruvananthapuram
Vijayawada.

Important Instructions

Candidates will have their own choice to use their own laptops for C-CAT. Candidates will have to select the ‘Own Laptop’ in the online application form.
Applicants would be completely responsible for the usage and maintenance of their laptops during C-CAT.
C-DAC retains the right to reject an applicant for C-CAT in case of damage or hanging off his/her laptop.
Candidates who have selected to use their own laptops will have to report one hour before the specified time to start of C-CAT to check and make sure the condition of their laptops.

Post qualification of this course the candidates can get admitted into the Department of Electronics and Information Technology of the Ministry of Communication and IT. Candidates will be enrolled to C-DAC’s PG Diploma courses of February 2019 batch as per the performance in the entrance examination and center/course preferences after clearing the examination December 2018 C-CAT.