Post Graduate Diploma in Advanced Software Design & Development

Course Objective

Post Graduate Diploma in Advanced Software Design & Development is a six months (24 weeks) full time programme divided into Core and Specialization modules with one major project. The syllabus of the course has been focused to cover practical engineering applications, presenting the theory behind applications and implementation. The programme prepares skilled Software professionals (System Analysts, Software Engineers/ Programmers, IT Consultants) through classroom lectures and practical training, for design and development of software in latest technology.

The Core module subjects cover the fundamentals & give a base for better understanding of the specialized modules. The Specialization subjects are the upcoming technology in today’s IT industry.

Course Highlights

• 24 weeks full-time Post-Graduate Course

• Evaluation at the module level followed by an exam at the end of each term

• Intake - 80 seats (maximum)

• Curriculum designed in consultation with industry experts and leading academicians (Technical Advisory Committee)

•  Well-equipped laboratory

• Well-equipped library with access to International Journals

• Extensive hands on sessions

• Limited Internet access

• Exposure to soft skills

• Placement assistance

• ISO Certified training process

• Resourceful Faculty

• Quality Course Material

• Access to state-of-the-art computing facilities

• Hostel Facilities
   

Eligibility

• M.E / M.Tech / B.E. / B. Tech(CS, IT, Electronics, Electronics & Communication, Electronics & Instrumentation, Electrical, Electrical & Electronics) / MCA / MCM (with B.Sc)  / B.Sc (Engg.) / AMIE

• M.Sc.(CS, IT, Instrumentation, Electronics, Electronics & Communication) /  MBA (IT, Systems).

• Candidates should have minimum 60% in last qualifying degree. Also Candidates should not have less than 60% in more than one of the academic qualifications. Candidate who have less than 50% in any of the qualifications are Not Eligible. Students who have appeared for final semester Examinations are eligible for this course.

Selection Process & Declaration of Result

• There would be an Online Exam.

• Result will be prepared on the basis of marks secured in Online Exam and past academic record.

• List of selected and waitlisted candidates (if any) would be declared from the Result.
• In case, any selected candidate does not pay first installment of fee by specified date, his/her seat will be treated as vacant. Such vacant seats will be allotted to candidates in waiting list
• Seats from waitlist will be filled only against the vacant seats.
• In case any waitlisted candidate fails to do so his/her seat will allocated to the next candidate in waitlisted merit list.
• Waitlisted candidates will contact CDAC, Noida on specified date and time.
• In case there are vacant seats after the dates for submission of fee by merit and waitlisted candidates is over, they will be filled up from the left over of the selected & wait listed candidates up till one week(5 working days inclusive of the commencement date) from the commencement of the course.

• Since result awaited candidates of eligible qualification may also apply for the programme, they have to submit the final year marksheet or completion certificate before they complete their PGDASDD programme from CDAC. Failure of same may lead to withholding of their PG diploma certificate & such candidates shall not be considered for placement assistance through CDAC.

Course Fees

1. Fee for the Course is Rs. 45,000/- payable in two installments (First installment Rs. 25,000/- and Second Rs. 20,000/-) by Demand Draft in favour of CDAC, NOIDA payable at Noida. First installment of fee is to be deposited by the selected/waitlisted candidates on or before the specified date. The second installment is to be paid on the first working day of the programme i.e. commencement date of the programme. In case a student wishes to transfer from one course to another (subject to qualifying the entrance exam for that course), it would be treated as a refund case and policy of refund given below shall be applicable.

 Rules for Refund of Course Fees

The course fees paid by the candidate shall be refunded as per the below mentioned rules:

1.    The fees shall be refunded only if the candidate applies for the refund or transfer within one week(5 working days) inclusive of the commencement date of the course. Request shall be accepted till 5 PM on the last date.

2.    25% of the course fees shall be deducted, balance fees shall be refunded within 30 days from the commencement of the course. Such cancelled seat will be allotted to the next waitlisted candidate.

3.    Any request for refund of fees shall not be entertained after one week (5 working days) inclusive of the commencement date of the course.  

Syllabus for Entrance Test

The Entrance Exam would be conducted in 2 hrs slots and would be of Adaptive Type consisting of Multiple Choice Questions based on the following: 

(1)       DBMS Concepts

(2)      OS Concepts

(3)      Computer Network concepts

(4)      C Language

(5)      Programming Concepts (Not related with language, only concepts)

(6)      IT fundamentals

(7)      Introduction to Computers

(8)      OOPS Concepts (Not related with language, only concepts)

(9)      General English (Vocabulary (Synonyms/Antonyms))

(10)    General English (Comprehension)

(11)     General English (Fill in the blanks)

(12)    General English (Correct the sentences)

(13)    Analytical Reasoning (Series (Next number in the series based on a pattern),

(14)    Analytical Reasoning (Relationship(if A:B then c:? type questions)

(15)     Analytical Reasoning (Odd man out)

(16)    Analytical Reasoning (Data interpretation)

(17)    Quantitative Aptitude (Number systems)

(18)    Quantitative Aptitude (ratio & proportion)

(19)     Quantitative Aptitude (Percentage)

(20)     Quantitative Aptitude (Profit & loss)

(21)     Quantitative Aptitude (Time and distance)

(22)     Quantitative Aptitude (Time and work)

(23)        Quantitative Aptitude (Problem on ages)
 

Computing Facilities

Evaluation Methodology

The evaluation methodology consist of continuous evaluation by means of class tests, seminars and lab assignment evaluations. There would be one module exam at the end of both modules (Core Module, Specialization module) and project evaluation.

The evaluation of the students is based on the following distribution of the marks:

* Wherein the Project is evaluated only once with the last module and a separate Project Certificate is also awarded.
Further except for last module, other modules are evaluated on 75 marks (project Weightage excluded) and converted to 100 thereafter.
 

 Instructions

1.    The student should have total of 75% attendance in theory and practical classes in order to be eligible for Participation Certificate of the course. In case attendance falls below 75% a student may still be awarded Participation Certificate on the basis of genuine grounds and their approval from Executive Director.

2.    The grade criteria for each module is as follows:               

3.    The candidates who would be absent/failed in the module end exams will be given one more chance to re-appear in the exam at the end of the program with the permission of Head of School.  

4.    Every eligible candidate would be awarded Participation Certificate and Performance Statement (which would include Grade Sheet and Project Certificate)

Project                                                                                                                                     

Students have to do ONE project which is the part of the PGDASDD course at the end of the specialization module. The project work is thoroughly evaluated. The project work is allotted  50 marks *, the categorization of which is as follows:

*  The project is one part of the total marks assessment which is also mentioned  in Evaluation   Methodology Section.

GUIDELINES FOR PLACEMENT

The objective of the Placement Cell is to provide PLACEMENT ASSISTANCE to all the students registered with C-DAC, Noida for Career Courses for a duration of 6 months and above subject to certain criteria. List of companies who have recruited students from this course are:

•         Patni Computer Systems

•         TCS

•         Sopra

•         HCL Technologies

•         Safenet Pvt Ltd

•         C-DAC,Noida

•         Steria

•         Wipro Technologies

•         Vinculium

•         Beehives

•         Sapient

•         Infosys

•         L&T Infotech

•         Satyam

•         Interglobe Technologies

•         Bharti Telesoft

•         R SYSTEM

•         Tech Mahindra

•         Adroit Business Solutions

•         Infogain

•         Intersoft Data labs

•         Bharti Teletech

•         CyberG

•         Zansys Technologies

•         Vault Information Technology

•         Contata Solutions

•         Theikos IT Solutions

•         Agilis International

•         E-Meter

•         Velocis Systems

 PLACEMENT SCHEDULE (TENTATIVE)                 

For details on Placement Activity, please refer to Guidelines

COURSE CONTENTS

TERM – I CORE MODULE

 Linux Shell

·         Introduction to Linux Environment

·         Working with vi editor

·         Linux commands-Basic ,filter and administration commands,

·         Shell Programming – Variables, constructs

·         Advanced Shell Programming – Shell meta characters, command line substitution , arrays and functions, Introduction to awk

Software Engineering

·         SDLC

·         Waterfall model

·         Prototyping model

·         SEI-CMM

·         Software Requirements analysis & specifications

·         SRS need

·         SRS characteristics, Organisation

·         DFD,ERD

·         Software project planning

·         Size estimation like LOC, Function points

·         COCOMO

·         Software design

·         Cohesion

·         Coupling

·         Function oriented design

·         Object oriented design

·         Software metrics

·         Software Quality

·         Quality factors

·         SQA, FTR’s

·         Testing strategies

·         Unit & integration testing

·         Validation & System testing

·         Debugging

·         Testing tactics – White Box testing

·         Black Box testing

·         Software Reliability

·         Software Maintenance

·         Software Configuration mgmt 

·         Software Testing

Database Management Systems

·         Concepts

·         RDBMS Design

·         SQL, PL/SQL

Web Technologies

·         HtML, DHTML, JavaScript

Programming Languages

Programming in C++

·         Programming Language Fundamentals, Revision Of C, Loops & Array, Function & Recursion

·         Class and Objects

·         Constructors and Destructors

·         Inheritance

·         Multiple Inheritances

·         Friend functions and Classes

·         Polymorphism

·         Overloading functions, Run Time Polymorphism

·         Overloading Operators

·         Copy Constructors, Virtual Functions

·         Class and Function Templates

·         Exception Handling

·         Namespaces

·         File Handling

·         STL

·         RTTI

Data Structures using C++

·         Introduction to Data Structures, Stacks

·         Queues, Evaluation of Expressions

·         Singly Link List

·         Doubly link list

·         Trees I

·         Trees II

·         Searching and sorting techniques

·         Graphs I

·         Graphs II

TERM II - SPECIALISATION MODULE                                                                  

Web Technologies & Microsoft .NET

·         HTML, DHTML, XML, JAVASCRIPT

·         .NET Architecture & Framework

·         Common Language Runtime

·         C#

·         Visual Basic.NET

·         ASP.NET

·         Database connectivity using VB.NET & ASP.NET

·         .NET Remoting

·         Localization

·         Windows services

·         Manipulation of XML

·         Web Services

·         AJAX

OPEN SOURCE TECHNOLOGIES

·         PHP

·         MYSQL 

OR

Programming in JAVA

CORE JAVA

·         Introduction to JVM, Classes & Objects

·         Inheritance, AWT

·         Event Handling, Multi Threading

·         Java Packages & Collections

·         Java I/O, Java Applets

·         Java Foundation Classes (JFC)

ENTERPRISE JAVA

·         J2EE Architecture

·         JDBC, Servlets

·         Java Server Pages (JSP)

·         RMI, Struts Framework

·         Java Network Programming

·         Java Mail, EJB

OPEN SOURCE TECHNOLOGIES

• PHP

• MYSQL 

Aptitude Skills & Personality Development

Project Work  :

Project Work  : ( 4 WEEKS ) Open Source Application , e-Governance etc.

Submission of Application

Registration for the course would be done ONLINE. It is advised to read the General Instructions carefully before filling up the Application Form. Payment for registration can be done through DD or Credit Card mode. Registration fee is Rs. 300/- . If the mode is DD then a demand draft of Rs. 300/- in favour of CDAC, Noida payable at NOIDA has to be prepared. DD prepared should be dated 9^th July 2010 or earlier. Any draft prepared after 9^th July 2010 shall not be accepted. Candidates have to send a print out of the Application Form along-with self attested photocopies of certificates/marksheets and DD (if applicable) so as to reach the venue on or before 14^th July 2010.

Course Commencement

In a year, twice as under:

1.    Tentatively 1st Monday of February

2.    Tentatively 1st Monday of August

Entrance Exam Venue

CDAC, Noida