Saturday 7 January 2017

KERALA PSC WORKSHOP INSTRUCTOR/INSTRUCTOR GRADE II/ DEMONSTRATOR/DRAFTSMAN GRADE II - COMPUTER HARDWARE AND MAINTENANCE - TECHNICAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT - CATEGORY NO 636/14 - SYLLABUS

KERALA PSC WORKSHOP INSTRUCTOR/INSTRUCTOR GRADE II/ DEMONSTRATOR/DRAFTSMAN GRADE II - COMPUTER HARDWARE AND MAINTENANCE - TECHNICAL EDUCATION DEPARTMENT - CATEGORY NO 636/14 - FULL SYLLABUS

Name of the DepartmentTechnical Education
Exam Date: 02/03/2017 Thursday
Time: 07.30 AM to 09.15 AM

Full Syllabus:
Part I: General Knowledge, Current Affairs and Renaissance in Kerala
Salient Features of Indian Constitution 
Salient features of the Constitution - Preamble- Its significance and its place in the interpretation of the Constitution.
Fundamental  Rights  -  Directive  Principles  of  State  Policy  -  Relation  between Fundamental Rights and Directive Principles - Fundamental Duties. Executive  -  Legislature  -  Judiciary  -  Both  at  Union  and  State  Level.  -  Other Constitutional Authorities. Centre-State Relations - Legislative - Administrative and Financial.
Services under the Union and the States. Emergency Provisions.
Amendment Provisions of the Constitution.

Social Welfare Legislations and Programmes
Social  Service Legislations  like Right  to Information Act,  Prevention of  atrocities against Women & Children, Food Security Act, Environmental Acts etc. and Social Welfare Programmes like Employment  Guarantee Programme,  Organ and Blood Donation
etc.

RENAISSANCE IN KERALA
Towards A New Society
Introduction  to  English  education  -  various  missionary  organisations  and  their functioning- founding of educational institutions, factories.printing press etc.

Efforts To Reform The Society

(A) Socio-Religious reform Movements
SNDP  Yogam,  Nair  Service  Society,  Yogakshema  Sabha,  Sadhu  Jana  Paripalana Sangham, Vaala Samudaya Parishkarani Sabha, Samathwa Samajam, Islam Dharma Paripalana Sangham, Prathyaksha Raksha Daiva Sabha, Sahodara Prasthanam etc.

(B) Struggles and Social Revolts
Upper  cloth  revolts.Channar  agitation,  Vaikom  Sathyagraha,  Guruvayoor Sathyagraha,  Paliyam  Sathyagraha.  Kuttamkulam  Sathyagraha,  Temple  Entry Proclamation, Temple Entry Act .Malyalee Memorial, Ezhava Memorial etc. Malabar riots, Civil Disobedience Movement, Abstention movement etc.

Role Of Press In Renaissance
Malayalee,  Swadeshabhimani,  Vivekodayam,  Mithavadi,  Swaraj,  Malayala Manorama, Bhashaposhini, Mathnubhoomi, Kerala Kaumudi, Samadarsi, Kesari, AIAmeen, Prabhatham, Yukthivadi, etc

Awakening Through Literature
Novel,  Drama,  Poetry,  Purogamana  Sahithya  Prasthanam,  Nataka  Prashtanam, Library movement etc.

Women And Social Change
Parvathi  Nenmenimangalam,  Arya  Pallam,  A  V  Kuttimalu  Amma,  Lalitha Prabhu.Akkamma Cheriyan, Anna Chandi, Lalithambika Antharjanam and others

Leaders Of Renaissance
Thycaud  Ayya  Vaikundar,  Sree  Narayana  Guru,  Ayyan  Kali.Chattampi  Swamikal, Brahmananda Sivayogi, Vagbhadananda, Poikayil Yohannan(Kumara Guru) Dr Palpu, Palakkunnath Abraham Malpan, Mampuram Thangal, Sahodaran Ayyappan, Pandit K P Karuppan,  Pampadi  John Joseph, Mannathu Padmanabhan,  V T Bhattathirippad, Vakkom Abdul  Khadar  Maulavi,  Makthi  Thangal, Blessed Elias Kuriakose Chaavra, Barrister  G P Pillai,  TK Madhavan,  Moorkoth Kumaran,  C. Krishnan,  K P  Kesava Menon, Dr.Ayyathan Gopalan, C V Kunjuraman, Kuroor Neelakantan Namboothiripad, Velukkutty Arayan, K P Vellon, P K Chathan Master, K Kelappan, P. Krishna Pillai, A K Gopalan, T R Krishnaswami Iyer, C Kesavan. Swami Ananda Theerthan , M C Joseph, Kuttippuzha Krishnapillai and others

Literary Figures
Kodungallur  Kunhikkuttan  Thampuran,  KeralaVarma  Valiyakoyi  Thampuran, Kandathil  Varghese Mappila.  Kumaran Asan,  Vallathol  Narayana Menon,  Ulloor  S Parameswara Iyer, G Sankara Kurup, Changampuzha Krishna Pillai, Chandu Menon, Vaikom Muhammad Basheer.  Kesav Dev, Thakazhi  Sivasankara Pillai,  Ponkunnam Varky, S K Pottakkad and others

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE AND CURRENT AFFAIRS

General Knowledge and Current Affairs
Part II a: Technical Mathematics
I. Matrices – Identification of Matrices, matrix operations, adjoint and inverse.
II. Determinants – Evaluation of second and third order, minors and cofactors, solutions of simultaneous linear equation in three unknown using Cramer’s rule.
III. Binomial Series – Expansions using Binomial theorem.
IV. Trigonometric functions – Signs of functions in each quadrant. Trigonometric values of  angles, properties of  trigonometric functions,  applications of  the identities sin (A ± B), cos (A ± B) and tan (A ± B).
V. Coordinate geometry – Equations to a straight  line – slope-intercept  form, intercept  form,  Angle between  two  lines,  condition  for  two  lines  to  be perpendicular, parallel.
VI. Differentiation – Limits and continuity, derivatives of  functions,  equation to tangents and normals. Maxima and minima of functions of one variable.
VII. Integration of functions – Integration of different types of functions.
VIII. Applications  of  integration  –  Area  bounded  by  a  curve  and X or  Y  axis, solutions of differential  equations using the method of  variable separable, solutions of linear differential equations of first order.

Part II b: Basic Civil Engineering
Materials:  Brick – varieties and strength, characteristics of good brick. Cement – varieties and grade of cement and its uses. Steel – types of steel for reinforcement bars,  steel  structural  sections.  Aggregates  –  types  &  requirements  of  good aggregates.  Concrete –  grades  of  concrete as  per  IS code,  water  cement  ratio. Workability, mixing, batching, compaction and curing.
Construction:  Parts  of  building  –  foundation  –  types  of  foundations  –  spread footing, isolated footing, combined footing, Raft, pile and well foundations. Masonry – types rubble masonry, brick masonry, English bond and Flemish bond. (One brick wall).
Surveying: Chain surveying – principles, instruments, ranging, and chaining survey lines, field work and field book, selection of survey stations, units of land area.
Levelling:  Levelling instruments,  different  types,  bench mark,  reduced level  of points,  booking of field notes, reduction of levels by height of collimation method (simple  problem).  Modern  survey  –  instruments  –  Total  station,  Electronics theodolite, Distomat.

Part II c: Basic Mechanical Engineering
The importance of IC Engines: Definition, classification – two stroke engines, four stroke engines, working of two stroke engines and four stroke engines with the help of  line  sketches,  comparison  between  two  stroke  and  four  stroke  engines, comparison  between  petrol  and  diesel  engines,  function  of  fly  wheel,  clutch, gearbox, propeller shaft and differential in power transmission, explain with sketch the working of  differential,  briefly explain power  transmission of  4 wheel  vehicle with line diagram.
The importance of Power Plants:  Introduction,  classification of power plants – working of hydroelectric power plant with schematic sketches – working of thermal (Steam and Diesel) power plant with schematic sketches – working of nuclear power plant with schematic sketches.

Part II d: Basic Electrical Engineering
Review  with  discussion  of  electric  current,  potential  difference,  power,  EMF, resistance and its laws,  Ohms law and series  parallel  circuit,  electromagnetism, generation of AC and DC supply.
Idea of Basic electrical  circuit:  Electrical  supply and load and its functioning, division of  voltage and current in a parallel  and series circuit – simple problems, units  of  power  and  energy,  solution  of  DC  circuit  with  calculation  of  energy consumption in an installation.
Circuit parameters: Resistance, Capacitance and inductance. AC circuit with R, L, C. Simple solution of typical AC circuit with resistance, impedance, power and power factor.
Electrical circuit of an installation: Earthing, lightning protection.

Part II e: Essentials of Electronics Engineering
Active and passive devices – review only. LED – working, applications, comparison of LED lighting and CFL lighting.  Full  wave rectifier – diagram and explanation,  5 V power  supply  –  with  bridge  rectifier  and  7805.  SMPS  –  block  diagram  and advantages. Integrated circuits. SMDs –advantages. Static electricity – precautions in handling electronic circuits.
Switches: ON / OFF, push to ON, push to OFF, push to ON / OFF, SPST, SPDT, DPDT. Working and application of limit switches, proximity switches, relays.
Microcontrollers: Simple block diagram of 8 bit microcontrollers – application.
Mobile technology: CDMA and GSM. Compare – 2G and 3G technologies.
Inverter & UPS:  Block diagram. Compare – inverter and UPS. Online and off line UPS – differentiate. Battery selection for UPS and inverter.
E-waste: Health hazards of e-waste.

PART III – CORE SUBJECT
MODULE – I( Digital Electronics and Microprocessor)              
Number System and Boolean algebra- binary codes, other codes like ASCII, EBCDIC, etc, binary arithmetic, Introduction to logic gates, Universal property of  NAND and NOR gates, the sum of products (SOP) expression, product of sum (POS) expression, Logic simplification and logic families, Boolean theorems and postulates, SSI, MSI, LSI, VLSI and ULSI, existing logic families, positive and negative logic, TTL, TTL inverter, ECL, high threshold logic, CMOS logic  family,  Comparison of  logic  families,  Combinational  Logic Circuits  -  multiplexer/data selector, Encoders and decoders.  Sequential Logic Circuits – Shift registers, counters.
Microprocessors  -  General  Architecture  of  a  Computer  System -  evolution  of  Intel microprocessor architecture- Software Architecture of 8086 - Memory Address Space and Data Organization - Data Types Segment Registers and Memory Segmentation  Dedicated, Reserved and General  Use  of  Memory,  registers,  Generating a  Memory  Address,  stack,  Input/Output Address Space-Addressing Modes of 8086.  Hardware Structure of 8086 – Minimum Mode and Maximum Mode Operation-Bus Cycles and Time states- Hardware organization of the Memory Address Space Memory Control Signals,  Isolated and memory mapped I/O Instruction Set  of 8086 – clearing, Setting and Toggling Bits of an operands,  isolating the value of a Bit  in an operand,  Alignment  of  data  in  operands,  Subroutines  and  Subroutine  Handling,  Assembly Language  Programming  concepts,  Interrupts,  Interfacing  with  –  Programmable  Peripheral Interfac,  DMA  Controller,  Keyboard  and  Display  Interfacing,  Pentium  Processors Architecture,Introduction  to  MMX,  Intel  Pentium  II,III,  IV Processor  –  Hyper  Threading Technology .

 Module II ( System Hardware and System Administration)
       
Motherboard organization, Form Factors, Processor Slots and Sockets.  CMOS & BIOS Plug
and Play(PnP), Expansion Bus Architecture – North and South Bridges,Expansion cards – Processor and cache,  Chipsets and Controllers,  CPU Over clocking and Throttling, SMPS & connectors,  Video RAMs,  Memory  Packages,  Memory  Parity and ECC, Memory  Mapping, Storage  devices, Seek  time  Latency  time,  acess  time,  Drive  Controllers  and  Interfaces  – construction of hard disk, recording and reading of Optical Storage Devices, Super Disks , Zip Drives,  Thumb Drives,  Flash Drives  and SD cards,  need of  backups,  Input Devices,  IRQs, DMAs, I/O addresses, Keyboard organization and encoding methods, construction and working of  Mouse  and other  input  devices,  Video Display Devices,  working of  CRT,  Video display standards, LCD LED , working of  different types of printers,  Disk Partitioning, file systems FAT 16, FAT 32, NTFS,  HPFS,  Linux File System,  System assembling procedure – different types of OS and their installation procedure, Trouble shooting & Maintenance systems, computer faults, network faults, data recovery tools, POST , error codes and beep codes, bench marking techniques.
The  role  of  system administrator,  different  linux  distributions,  man pages  and other documentation, Linux file system hierarchy,  Basic File & Directory management  commands, streams,  pipes  filters  and  redirection,  Basic  shell  programming  constructs.   Variables, expressions,  if  for  etc;  Job  and  Process  Control  Adding  new users,  groups,  permissions, Managing  File  Ownership  and  File  Permissions,  File  System Concepts,  ext3  etc,  Creating Partitions and File systems, File System mounting and unmounting, Maintain the integrity of file systems, GNU/LINUX booting sequence.  Bootloader,  kernel,  init system,  run levels, Demons/ Services, adding/editing services to run levels,Automating and Schedule System  Administration tasks.   Data Backup Strategy,  Configure and use system log files,  Software  Installation and Management, Printing Services, Recovering from a crashed system – reinstalling boot loader etc,
Kernel of Linux System and Drivers-Configuring/compilation/updating Kerne

 Module III (Data Communication and Computer Networks)  
Basic terminologies of Communication, different topologies, LAN, MAN,&WAN, analog and  digital  transmission,  protocol  architecture,  ISO-OST,  TCP/IP  structures-  various transmission impairments,  guided transmission media,  wireless  transmission, signal  encoding methods, various digital modulation – PCM – Frequency and Analog modulation, errors during communication, error detection and correction, Multiplexing, RS 232C standard-simplex .HDX and FDX transmission, Advantages of wireless communication - point to point and multi point configuration  –  switching  techniques,  polling  techniques,  data,  security-ciphers-public  key algorithm-RSA-Digital signatures.
Computer  networks - applications,  overview of ISO-OSI architecture,  Data link layer, framing, error control,  flow control,  MAC sub layer,  Aloha-CSMA-CSMA/CD-Ethernet-LLCATM networks, Network layer – routing algorithms, congestion control algorithms, IP protocol, flow control  crash  recovery,  Application  layer,  DNS-email,Network  management  service  – Virtual  LAN,Wireless  technology,  Wireless  Access  Point,  IEEE  802.11  standard,  bluetooth protocols.

Module IV(Programming using C&Java and Database Management Systems)
C  Language-Date  types,  Tokens,  Control  structures,  arrays,  strings,  user  defined & library  functions,  storage  class,  Structures,  Nested structures,  Arrays  of  structures,  pointers, dynamic  memory  allocation(DMA).   File  handling – Data  organization,  File  attributes,  File Operations,  Text  and  Binary   files,  streams,  working  with  streams,  Direct  access  file  – Preprocessors and macors, Command Line arguments, Error handling and Graphics
Java Language  – Object  oriented Programming,  POP and OOPs,  concepts  of  OOPs, Overview of Java , Classes, objects and methods, constructors, Operator overloading, Function overloading, Inheritance,  Polymorphism, Visibility Controls in Java, Interfaces, Multithreading and Exception Handling , Java API Packages,  System packages,  creating packages,  Accessing Packages,  Threads, Exception handling ,  Files  in java,  Concepts  of streams,  Stream classes, Applet programming, Applet life cycle.
Windows  and  AWT,  URL,  Sockets,  server  side  programming  method,  client  side programming method, Remote class and interfaces.
Database  Systems  – Entity tuple  attribute,  advantages  and disadvantages,  application Areas,  database  Users,  Three  sachems,  Data  Independence,  Physical  and  logical  data independence,  Data models,  Database Languages,  ER model ,  ER diagram,  Relational-modelconcepts-keys Relational algebra, Relational database Design, Mapping E-R Model to Relational Model ,Constraints, Referential integrity, Foreign keys, Functional dependency, Normalization, Transaction  management  –  Transaction  concept,  Properties  of  transactions,  Concurrent Executions, Serializability, SQL -Features of SQL, Data types in SQL, keys, referential Integrity, Transaction commands,  Views,  Triggers  ,  Cursers,  stored procedures  and functions,  database connectivity – ODBC, JDBC.

MODULE V  (  Computer Architecture and Operating Systems)   
Computer  Types,  Functional  units,  Basic  Operational  Concepts,  Bus  Structures, performance,  Multiprocessor  and  Multiprogramming,  Memory  Operations,  Instructions  and Instruction sequencing,  Assembly Language,  Basic  Input/Output  Operations.   Accessing I/O Devices,  Interrupts,  Direct  Memory Access,  Buses,  Interface Circuits,  standard I/O Interfaces, Memory System Basic concepts, Semiconductor RAM Memories, Read-only Memories, Cache Memories, Virtual Memories, Secondary Storage, Fundamental Concepts of CPU, Execution of a Complete  Instruction,  Multiple  Bus  Organization,  Hardwired  Control,  Micro  Programmed Control, Pipelining.
System software-assembler,  loader,  compiler  ,  OS,  types  of  operating  systems,  OS components.   Process  Management  concepts,  CPU  scheduling  concepts,  process synchronization,  critical  section  problem,  deadlock  Memory  management  concepts,  paging, segmentation, virtual memory, Files Systems, I/O systems and management

UNIT VI (Mobile computing and Embedded Systems)      
Introduction  to mobile  computing – application-  cellular  systems,  internet  working, Hidden&Exposed  terminals,  Near  and  Far  terminals,  SDMA,  FDMA,TDMA,CDMA,GSM Architecture, handover , Satellite Systems – Applications, GEO,LEO,MEO Broadcast systems, cyclic  repetition,  digital  audio  and  video  broadcasting  Wireless  LAN  –  infrared/radio transmission,  IEEE 802.11-architecture,  Blue  Tooth  –  applications,  standard,  usage  models, Piconets, Scatternets, WAP, Wireless Local Loop(WLL),Virtual Private Networks(VPN),CDMA 2000, Wimax,WIFI,Voice Internet Protocol(VOIP), Mobile operating systems.
Need  for  Microcontroller,  comparison  with  microprocessor,  concept  of  embedded systems, features of AVR family, Block diagram of AVR Microcontroller, Comparison of AVR with other controllers, data memory of the AVR Microcontroller, 10 Memory (SFRS), Internal memory  in  AVR  Chips,  AVR  status  register,  General  purpose  registers  of  the  AVR Microcontroller, Instructions of AVR, Assembly programming,  Structure of assembly program, program counter and program ROM space in AVR Microcontroller, Harward architecture in the AVR Microcontroller,  RISC architecture  in  the  AVR Microcontroller,  AVR time  delay  and instruction pipeline, 10 port pins of AVR, Different addressing modes, Accessing EEPROM in AVR, Macros,  Macros Vs Subroutines.   AVR Programming in C, Data types and time delays programs in C, I/O programming, Logic operations,  AVR interrupts,  Serial Communication of AVR, Interfacing different Ics/peripherals with AVR.

NOTE: - It may be noted that apart from the topics detailed above, questions from other topics prescribed for the educational qualification of the post may also appear in the question paper. There is no undertaking that all the topics above may be covered in the question paper.

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