IT Officer Syllabus - Professional Knowledge (IBPS Specialist Officer 2015)

Dear readers, we have received lot of queries regarding the syllabus and topics of professional knowledge part of IT Officer Exam which is going to be held in February 2015.

IBPS IT Officer consists of 200 Questions (Reasoning - 50, English - 50, Quantitative Aptitude - 50, IT Professional Knowledge - 50) and each question of IT Professional Knowledge is of 1.5 Marks (IT Professional Knowledge Mark = 50x1.5 = 75). We are providing the list of important topics which cover major portion of professional knowledge section. It will give you insight into the professional knowledge part so that you can prepare accordingly. .

Some of the major topics which come in professional knowledge section are given below (Although, approximately 60-70 % of  questions is dominated by the first two topics.) -

1. Data Base Management System (DBMS) – 15-20 Questions

1. RDBMS

2. Normalization

3. Overview of SQL queries

4. E- R Diagrams

5. Transaction Management

2. Data Communication & Networking – 10-15 Questions

1. Network Architecture

2. OSI Model

3. TCP-IP Model

4. Data Communication

5. IP Addressing (Subnetting)

3. 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

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

1. Bus Structure

5. Network Security – 2 – 3 Questions

1. Cyber Crimes

2. Risk Management

3. Firewall

4. Cryptography

6. Software Engineering – 2 – 3 Questions

1. Software Development life cycle (SDLC)

2. Software Development Models

7. Data Structures – 3 – 4 Questions

1. Array

2. Linked List

3. Stacks

8. Web Technologies – 1-2 Questions

1. HTML Tags

2. XML

3. Network Security

9. Programming Languages (BASIC)  – 1-2 Questions

1. C, C++

2. OOP (Objected oriented Programming)