NIC Scientist B Syllabus 2020 & Exam Pattern

NIC Recruitment 2020

• Logical Reasoning,
• Analytical Reasoning Capabilities,
• Quantitative and Qualitative abilities,
• General Aptitude

• Conditional Probability;
• Mean,
• Median,
• Mode and Standard Deviation;
• Random Variables;
• Distributions;
• uniforms,
• normal,
• Exponential,
• Poisson, Binomial,
• Permutations,
• Combinations,
• Counting,
• Summation,
• generating functions,
• recurrence relations,
• asymptotic

• Logic functions,
• Minimization,
• Design and synthesis of combinational and sequential circuits,
• Number representation and computer arithmetic (fixed and floating-point)

• Machine instructions and addressing modes,
• ALU and data-path,
• CPU control design,
• Memory interface,
• I/O interface (interrupt and DMA mode),
• instruction pipelining,
• Cache and main memory,
• Secondary storage.

• Signals and Systems,
• Electromagnetic Fields,
• Network graph,
• KCL,
• KVL,
• Node and Mesh Analysis,
• Transient response of DC and AC Networks,
• Sinusoidal steady-state analysis,
• Resonance,
• Superposition theorem,
• Maximum Power transfer theorem,
• Three Phase Circuits,
• Power and Power factor in AC Circuits.

• Autocorrelation and power spectral density,
• properties of white noise,
• filtering of random signals through LTI systems,
• amplitude modulation and demodulation,
• angle modulation and demodulation,
• spectra of AM and FM,
• Superheterodyne receivers,
• circuits for analog communications,
• information theory,
• entropy,
• mutual information and channel capacity theorem,
• Digital communications,
• PCM,
• DPCM,
• digital modulation schemes,
• amplitude,
• phase and frequency shift keying (ASK, PSK, FSK),
• QAM,
• MAP and ML decoding,
• matched filter receiver,
• calculation of bandwidth,
• SNR and BER for digital modulation;
• Fundamentals of error correction,
• Hamming codes; Timing and frequency synchronization,
• inter-symbol interference and its mitigation;
• Basics of TDMA,
• FDMA and CDMA

• Programming in modern languages viz.,
• Java, .Net,
• Open Source (PHP),
• Python,
• GoLang,
• NodeJS, etc.
• Functions,
• Recursion,
• Parameter passing,
• Scope,
• Binding,
• Abstract data types Arrays,
• Stacks, Queues, Linked Lists,
• Trees,
• Binary search trees,
• Binary heaps,
• Object
• Oriented Programming Concepts- Object,
• Class,
• inheritance,
• Polymorphism,
• Abstraction and Encapsulation.

• Analysis,
• Asymptotic,
• notation,
• Notions of space and time complexity,
• Worst and average case analysis,
• Design;
• Greedy approach,
• Dynamic programming,
• Divide-and-conquer,
• Tree and graph traversals,
• Connected competent,
• Spanning trees,
• Shortest paths;
• Hashing,
• Sorting,
• Searching,
• Asymptotic analysis (best, worst, average cases) of time and space,
• upper and lower bounds,
• Basic concept of complexity classes-P,
• NP, NP-hard, NP-complete.

• Lexical analysis,
• Parsing,
• Syntax directed translation,
• Runtime environments,
• intermediate and target code generation,
• Basics of code optimization.

• Processes,
• Threads,
• lnter-Process communication,
• Concurrency,
• Synchronization,
• Deadlock,
• CPU scheduling,
• Memory management and virtual memory,
• File systems,
• I/O systems,
• Protection and security.

• ER-model,
• Relational Model (relational algebra, tuple calculus),
• Database design (integrity constraints, normal forms),
• Query languages (SQL),
• File structures (sequential files, indexing, B and B+ trees),
• Transactions and concurrency control,
• NoSQL Databases,
• questions on internals of Postgres SQL.

• Information gathering,
• requirement and feasibility analysis,
• data flow diagrams,
• process specifications,
• input/output design,
• process life cycle,
• planning and managing the project,
• design,
• coding,
• testing,
• Implementation,
• maintenance.

• ISO/OSI stack,
• LAN technologies,
• Flow and error control techniques,
• Routing algorithms,
• Congestion control,
• TCP/UDP and sockets,
• IP(v4), IP(v6),
• Application layer protocols, (ICMP, DNS, SMTP, POP, FTP, HTTP, HTTPS),
• Basic concepts of hubs,
• switches,
• gateways, and routers.
• Wireless technologies,
• Network security -basic concepts of public key and private key cryptography,
• digital signature,
• firewalls.

• HTML5,
• CSS3,
• XML,
• basic concept of client-server computing,
• webserver,
• proxy server,
• web application development,
• MVC Architecture,
• web services,
• frontend technologies.

• Secure programming techniques,
• OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities,
• concepts on IoT,
• Blockchain,
• AI, etc..

• Compute,
• Network,
• Storage Management Technologies,
• Edge Computing etc.