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GATE 2020: Syllabus for Computer Science and Important Dates

PUBLISH DATE 17th October 2019

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi will conduct Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) 2020 in February 2020. GATE 2020 would be a Computer Based Test (CBT) which is scheduled to be held in various cities across India and six cities abroad.

IIT Delhi commenced the registration process for GATE 2020 examination on September 3 and ended on October 5, 2019. According to the tentative schedule available on the official website, GATE 2020 result would be declared on March 16, 2019.

IIT Delhi has released the syllabus for GATE 2020 on the official website. Candidates are advised to learn and understand the syllabus thoroughly to make your exam preparation easy-peasy.Computer Science and Information Technology syllabus for GATE 2020

Section 1:

Engineering Mathematics Discrete Mathematics: Propositional and first order logic. Sets, relations, functions, partial orders and lattices. Groups. Graphs: connectivity, matching, coloring. Combinatorics: counting, recurrence relations, generating functions.

Linear Algebra: Matrices, determinants, systems of linear equations, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, LU decomposition.

Calculus: Limits, continuity and differentiability. Maxima and minima. Mean value theorem. Integration.

Probability: Random variables. Uniform, normal, exponential, poisson and binomial distributions. Mean, median, mode and standard deviation. Conditional probability and Bayes theorem.

Section 2 – 10: Computer Science and Information Technology- Section 2: Digital Logi- Boolean algebra. Combinational and sequential circuits. Minimization. Number representations and computer arithmetic (fixed and floating point).

Section 3: Computer Organization and Architecture Machine instructions and addressing modes. ALU, data‐path and control unit. Instruction pipelining. Memory hierarchy: cache, main memory and secondary storage; I/O interface (interrupt and DMA mode).

Section 4: Programming and Data Structures -Programming in C. Recursion. Arrays, stacks, queues, linked lists, trees, binary search trees, binary heaps, graphs.

Section 5: Algorithms -Searching, sorting, hashing. Asymptotic worst case time and space complexity. Algorithm design techniques: greedy, dynamic programming and divide‐and‐conquer. Graph search, minimum spanning trees, shortest paths.

Section 6: Theory of Computation -Regular expressions and finite automata. Context-free grammars and push-down automata. Regular and context-free languages, pumping lemma. Turing machines and undecidability.

Section 7: Compiler Design- Lexical analysis, parsing, syntax-directed translation. Runtime environments. Intermediate code generation.

Section 8: Operating System -Processes, threads, inter‐process communication, concurrency and synchronization. Deadlock. CPU scheduling. Memory management and virtual memory. File systems.

Section 9: Databases -ER‐model. Relational model: relational algebra, tuple calculus, SQL. Integrity constraints, normal forms. File organization, indexing (e.g., B and B+ trees). Transactions and concurrency control.

Section 10: Computer Networks

Concept of layering. LAN technologies (Ethernet). Flow and error control techniques, switching. IPv4/IPv6, routers and routing algorithms (distance vector, link state). TCP/UDP and sockets, congestion control. Application layer protocols (DNS, SMTP, POP, FTP, HTTP). Basics of Wi-Fi. Network security: authentication, basics of public key and private key cryptography, digital signatures and certificates, firewalls.

GATE 2020: Important Dates

Event Date
GATE 2020 application process commenced 03.09.2019
GATE 2020 application ended on 05.10.2019
Last Date to request examination city change 15.11.2019
GATE 2020 Admit Card 03.01.2020
GATE 2020 Examination February 1,2,8 & 9, 2020
Announcement of the Results 16.03.2020

GATE 2019 cut-off marks

Category Qualifying Marks
General 29.5
OBC (NCL) 26.6
SC/ST/PwD 19.7

 


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