Scheme and Syllabus

The examination shall carry 200 marks. There will be two papers . Paper-I shall be of 100 marks and Paper-II shall be of 100 marks.

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Paper-I

1. The question paper will carry a maximum of 100 marks.
2. Duration of the question paper will be 2 hours.
3. The question paper will consist of 100 multiple-choice questions.
4. The paper shall include the following subjects:
   1. Art & Culture, History, Geography, General Science, and Current Affairs of Rajasthan.
   2. General Ability shall include the following topics:
      1. Logical Reasoning and Analytical Ability.
      2. Decision Making and Problem Solving.
      3. General Mental Ability.
      4. Basic Numeracy (Class X level) - Numbers and their relations, orders of magnitude, etc.
      5. Data Interpretation (Class X level) - Charts, Graphs, Tables, Data Sufficiency, etc.
5. Negative marking shall be applicable in the evaluation of answers. For every wrong answer, one-third (1/3) of the marks prescribed for that particular question shall be deducted.
   • Explanation: A wrong answer shall mean an incorrect answer out of multiple choices given for a question.

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Paper-II

1. The question paper will carry a maximum of 100 marks.
2. Duration of the question paper will be 2 hours.
3. The question paper will consist of 100 multiple-choice questions.
4. Negative marking shall be applicable in the evaluation of answers. For every wrong answer, one-third (1/3) of the marks prescribed for that particular question shall be deducted.
   • Explanation: A wrong answer shall mean an incorrect answer out of multiple choices given for a question.
5. The paper shall include the following subjects:
   1. Pedagogy
   2. Mental Ability: Decision making and problem solving, data interpretation, data sufficiency, logical reasoning and analytical ability, major developments in the field of Information Technology.
   3. Fundamentals of Computer: Number system, arithmetic operations, introduction to various categories of computer languages, functional details of input and output devices.
   4. Programming Fundamentals: C, C++, Java, DotNet, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, Python, and Block Chain, programming, data types (built-in and user-defined), scope of variables, precedence of operators, control flow, functions, arrays, pointers, structures and unions, enumerated data types, and file handling, command line arguments.
   5. Object-Oriented Programming using C++ and JAVA: Objects and classes, inheritance, polymorphism, event and exception handling, files and streams.
   6. Data Structures and Algorithms: Abstract data types, arrays as data structures, linked list vs. array for storage, stack and stack operations, queues, binary trees, binary search trees, graphs and their representations, sorting and searching, symbol table.
   7. Algorithms: Tree traversals, branch and bound and greedy methods, complexity of algorithms.
   8. Digital Logic Systems: Boolean expressions, K-maps, TTL and CMOS logic families, combinational logic design using half/full adders, subtractors, and multiplexers, synchronous sequential system design.
   9. Computer Organization and Architecture: Von-Neumann architecture of computers, registers and micro-operations, control logic, processor addressing and bus organization, processor input/output and DMA, memory organization, and cache coherence.
   10. Operating Systems: CPU scheduling, deadlocks, memory management, file systems, disk scheduling, concept of client-server architecture in distributed environments and RPC, process, threads and their synchronization, real-time OS: clock synchronization and task scheduling, system initialization, booting and handling user accounts, backup and restore, Bourne shell programming for Linux.
   11. Database Management System: E-R models, relational algebra, calculus and databases, integrity constraints, triggers, normalization, and indexing, transaction processing, concurrency control, and Relational Database Management System (RDBMS).
   12. Software Engineering: Phases of System Development Life Cycle, system modeling, software requirement specifications, and DFDs, introduction to software testing, software project management.
   13. Data and Computer Networks: Evolution of networking, data communication terminologies, transmission media, network devices, TCP/IP & OSI/ISO reference models, functions of different layers, characteristics of physical media, multiplexing in the physical layer, medium access protocols, introduction to 802.3, 802.4, 802.5, 802.11 LAN technologies, IP protocol including routing and congestion control, TCP and UDP, DNS.
   14. Network Security: Groups, rings, and fields in finite space, Euler and Fermat's theorem, primality testing, security services and mechanisms, symmetric and asymmetric encryption including DES, AES, IDEA, RSA algorithms, key management in symmetric and asymmetric encryption, message authentication and hashing, email security, viruses, and trusted systems, networking (LAN & WAN), security, ethical hacking.
   15. Basics of Communication: Channel capacity, attenuation, communication impairments, propagation of EM waves through free space (excluding free space models), PCM and delta modulation, WDM, brief introduction to GSM and CDMA based communication systems.
   16. Web Development: HTML/DHTML, web page authoring using HTML, document object model concept and importance of document object model, dynamic HTML document and document object model, introduction to Cascading Style Sheet (CSS), Extensible Markup Language (XML), basics of PHP and JavaScript.