Bank Exams - Specialist Officers (IT) Syllabus

There are five important chapters in IBPS Specialist Officers (IT) Syllabus viz, Networking, Operating Systems, DBMS / RDBMS, Security System Terminology and Basics of Programming. The sub topics of the chapters are as follows.

1. Networking:
   i. OSI Model, TCP/IP Model and Line Configuration
   ii. Topologies
   iii. Transmission Modes
   iv. Categories of Networks
   v. Circuit Switching, Packet Switching and Message Switching
   vi. Frame Relay - Overview
   vii. ATM - Overview
   viii. Types of Errors – Single Bit, Burst, Error Detection – VRC, LRC, CRC, Checksum, Error Correction – Hamming code
   ix. Repeaters, Bridges and Routers
   x. Gateways
   xi. Transport Layer Services, Elements of Transport Layer protocols and TCP.
   xii. UDP
   xiii. ATM AAL Layer Protocols (Optional)
   xiv. ICMP, FTP, DNS, DHCP, SNMP, Email, SMTP, WWW.
   xv. Point to Point Protocol (PPP), ISDN, Physical layer stuff, baud rate,
   xvi. Manchester encoding etc
   xvii. Cryptography Fundamentals, Public Key Algorithms and Secret Key Algorithms
   xviii. Authentication Protocols
   xix. Digital Signatures
   xx. 802.3 Ethernet, 802.4 Token bus and 802.5 Token Ring
   xxi. FDDI
   
   
2. Operating System
   i. Introduction of OS
   ii. Linux
   iii. Process States
   iv. Transition
   v. Context Switches
   vi. Process Control
   vii. Files & Database System
   viii. Device Independent I/O
   ix. IPC
   x. Memory Management
   xi. Virtual Memory
   xii. Paging
   xiii. Segmentation
   xiv. Dead Lock
   xv. Scheduling
   
   
3. DBMS
   i. Data Base
   ii. DBMS
   iii. FPS
   iv. Data Abstraction
   v. Integrity Rules
   vi. Data Independence
   vii. PDI
   viii. LDI
   ix. Data Model
   x. ER Model
   xi. Object Oriented Model
   
   RDBMS
   i. SQL
   ii. P/L SQL
   iii. DB in Oracle
   iv. DB Trigger
   v. Storage Management
   vi. Buffer Management
   vii. Transaction Management
   viii. File Management
   ix. COLD & HOT Backup
   
   
4. Security System terminology
   i. Introduction - Computer Security, Threats to security, History of Computer security, Computer System Security and Access Controls (System access and data access).
   ii. Threats - Viruses ,worms, Trojan horse, bombs, trap doors, spoofs, email virus, macro viruses, remedies, Intruders, Malicious software, Firewalls, vulnerabilities & threats, Network Denial of service attack.
   iii. Communication security- Encryption, classical encryption techniques, data encryptions standards, advances encryption techniques.
   
   
5. Basics of Programming
   i. C, C++
   ii. Core Java
   iii. Java

Published date : 29 Oct 2015 02:26PM