Important topics to Resivise for IBPS IT Specialist Officer- Professional Knowledge Part-2

This article is about the important topics of Professional knowledge section for IBPS IT Specialist Officer exam. This is part-2 of the article.

Part-1 of this article can be found here. CLICK HERE. It contains important revision topics for DBMS, Networking & Data Structure

NOTE: Topics mentioned here are considered to be most important topics only based on previous papers of IBPS IT Specialist Officer & are for revision purpose only. Syllabus is a lot more than this comprising of all topics of graduation.

Operating System

• Memory hierarchy, OS Structure
• Batch, Interactive, Time sharing (Multitasking), Real Time, Multiprocessor, Multiuser, Multiprocess, Multithreaded Systems- carefully
• System calls- all types & their functions
• CPU Scheduling- Short term, medium term, long term, criteria for scheduling
• Scheduling algorithms- FCFS, SJFS, PS, Round Robin S, multiprocessor S--with their Gantt charts
• Process Control block
• Critical Section problems & semaphores, types of semaphores
• Synchronization problems (bounded buffer, readers-writers)
• Deadlock, necessary conditions for deadlock (all 4 on tips)
• Deadlock prevention, avoidance detection & recovery methods (thoroughly), Resource allocation graph
• Paging, segmentation, virtual memory, swapping, thrashing, fragmentation, page replacement algorithms- these concepts are very easy if revised well
• RAID, File system concepts

Digital circuits & systems, Microprocessor

• Boolean Algebra concepts-conversions, applications (Every one is expert in this but there is no harm in revising it again)
• Logic gates too included
• K-maps
• Adders, Encoders & Decoders (thoroughly)
• Multiplexers & De-multiplexers (thoroughly)
• Micro-controller & microprocessor
• 8085 & 8086 microprocessors, memory, interrupts like RST, TRAP etc basic things about these (IBPS seems to be too much interested in microprocessors-last two years' papers)

Software Engineering

• Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) 
• Models: Water Fall Model, Prototype Model, Spiral Model
• SRS, needs, DFDs, SQA
• Concepts of Software design
• Coupling and Cohesion Measures
• Software Measurement and Metrics
• Testing (All types from a standard book)- Unit, Integration, acceptance, regression, top down, bottom up, black box (functional), white box( glass box or structural), alpha, beta etc--ALL TYPES
• CASE tools
• Verification & validation
• other concepts- because there are too many

Cryptography & Network Security

• Encryption & Decryption concepts
• Concepts related to Network security-- Too many
• Public& private key etc
• Basic concepts of security algorithms: DES, RSA, SHA etc
• Digital signatures, Kerberos, PGP, S/MIME
• IP Security, SSL
• Types of Viruses, phases of virus lifetime
• Intrusion, firewalls etc

Other random topics which I find important (including Basic programming concepts, Compiler & Web technology)

• Types of flip flops, their implementations, conditions
• TTL, ECL, MOS, CMOS & related definitions
• Pipelining concepts
• ASCII, UNICODE, EBCDIC (just definition & used for)
• RISC vs CISC
• Cache hit, miss
• Port numbers used by important protocols
• Object oriented programming concepts (Everybody knows what concepts)
• Constructor, destructor, Virtual classes & other concepts (need not say)
• Compiler phases, types of compilers, tools used
• Hamming code formulae for error detection & correction
• typecasting (in case a program for output is asked)
• Dynamic loading & linking
• Formulae for depth, number of nodes etc in tree, same in case of graphs
• Some basic file commands in C language
• Automata- just basic definitions like Finite,deterministic etc, types of grammar
• Data warehousing basics, Data mining, OLAP, OLTP

I have written these topics here so one does not simply miss any of these while revising. I hope everyone clears the written of IBPS IT Specialist Officer exam this year.