JKSSB Assistant Programmer Syllabus & Exam Pattern

Official 120-mark recruitment examination syllabus for the post of Assistant Programmer under the Information Technology Department, Government of Jammu and Kashmir. The curriculum comprehensively evaluates advanced computer science, programming paradigms, and software systems across C Programming & Data Structures (zero-based arrays, pointers, address-of operator, recursion, structures vs unions, fopen file I/O, linear search O(n), bubble sort, in-order binary tree traversal, circular queue conditions, and row-major 2D array addressing), Database Management Systems & SQL (E-R modeling, weak entity notation, relational algebra, foreign key referential integrity, GROUP BY with HAVING, query compilation phases, candidate key closures, and prepared statements SQL injection defense), Operating Systems & System Software (process synchronization, race conditions, semaphores, spooling, contiguous allocation, Dijkstra's Banker's algorithm, internal fragmentation, SJF CPU scheduling, Belady's anomaly, and page faults), C++ & Object-Oriented Programming (encapsulation and data hiding, single/multiple and virtual inheritance, function overloading, virtual functions and late binding, and pointer to member functions), Java Programming & JVM Architecture (bytecode execution, JVM platform independence, garbage collection, type casting widening/narrowing, exception handling try-catch-finally, and multithreading Thread.start()), .NET Framework & VB.NET Development (.NET CLR/BCL architecture, Dim variable declarations, Imports namespaces, ListBox multi-selection, DataSet multi-table disconnected architecture, and Try-Catch-Finally), Software Engineering, Testing & Quality Assurance (ISO/IEC 9126 software quality, Agile manifesto, SDLC models Waterfall/Prototyping/Spiral/Agile, CMM process maturity, static code analysis, Formal Technical Reviews, black-box vs white-box control flow testing, Z notation, and COCOMO II scale factors), and Computer Networks, Web Technologies & Cybersecurity (IPv4 loopback 127.0.0.1, APIPA 169.254.x.x, subnetting /23 for 512 hosts, ARP address resolution, TCP/IP internet layer, RSA asymmetric public-key cryptography, SSL/TLS handshake and AES symmetric bulk encryption, hierarchical DNS resolution, HTTP/2 binary framing multiplexing, forward vs reverse proxies, VSAT C/Ku bands, and Blink rendering engine).

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