Specialist IT Officer exam syllabus

IBPS IT SO 2016 paper will consist of 200 Questions.

Since IT section consists of 75 marks, it is more predictable that people scoring in this section will score more in over all. So, base on the previous years' papers of IBPS IT SO, I am giving a brief syllabus for professional knowledge section in IT.

IBPS Specialist IT Officer Professional Knowledge Syllabus

Data Base Management System (DBMS) – 15-20 Questions-VERY IMPORTANT
1. RDBMS
2. Normalization
3. Overview of SQL queries
4. E- R Diagrams
5. Transaction Management

Data Communication & Networking – 10-15 Questions-VERY IMPORTANT
1. Network Architecture
2. OSI Model
3. TCP-IP Model
4. Data Communication
5. IP Addressing (Subnetting)

Operating System – 4-5 Questions
1. Process
2. Thread
3. Types of OS
4. Semaphore
5. Scheduling
6. Dead Lock
7. Memory Partitioning
8. Page Replacement

Computer organization + Hardware (Microprocessor ) – 4-5 Questions
1. Bus Structure

Network Security – 2 – 3 Questions
1. Cyber Crimes
2. Risk Management
3. Firewall
4. Cryptography
5. Basic knowledge about security algorithms

• RSA
• Encryption/Decryption
• Other concepts

Software Engineering – 2 – 3 Questions
1. Software Development life cycle (SDLC)
2. Types of Testing

• Black box testing
• White box testing
• Other types of testing

3. Software Development Models

• Waterfall Model
• Spiral model
• Other models

Data Structures – 3 – 4 Questions
*Time & space complexity
*recursion & iteration
1. Array
2. Linked List
3. Stacks (operations, terms used etc)
4. queue (types terms, implementation)
5. All types of sorting( just knowledge about basic functioning & complexity, comparisons etc)
6. Graph (search techniques & other terms)
7. Hashing (all terms)
8. Types of tree(height, level etc,traversal, all terms, functioning & implementation

Web Technologies – 1-2 Questions
1. HTML Tags
2. XML
3. Network Security

Compiler – 1-2 Questions
1. Phases of Compiler
2. Functions of compiler
3. Types of Compiler

Programming Languages (basics only) – 1-2 Questions
1. C, C++
2. OOP (Objected oriented Programming)

• Classes
• Encapsulation
• Abstraction
• Polymorphism
• Inheritance
• Virtual Classes
• Constructors & Destructors

NOTE: This is minimum predictable syllabus based on the questions asked in previous papers. I suggest you to go thoroughly through your textbooks for the basic concepts of every subject mentioned above.