Gate Syllabus
Gate Syllabus
Computer Networks
o Concept of layering: OSI and TCP/IP Protocol Stacks
o Basics of the packet, circuit, and virtual circuit-switching
o Datalink layer: framing, error detection,
o Medium Access Control
o Ethernet bridging; Routing protocols: shortest path, flooding, distance vector, and
link-state routing
o Fragmentation and IP addressing, IPv4, CIDR notation
o Basics of IP support protocols (ARP, DHCP, ICMP)
o Network Address Translation (NAT)
o Transport layer: flow control and congestion control, UDP, TCP, sockets
o Application layer protocols: DNS, SMTP, HTTP, FTP, Email.
o COMPLETE PDF STRUCTURE
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Computer Organization and Architecture
o Machine instructions and addressing modes.
o ALU,dataâ€path, and control unit.
o Instruction pipelining, pipeline hazards.
o Memory hierarchy: cache, main memory, and secondary storage;
o I/O interface
o COMPLETE PDF STRUCTURE
03
Digital Logic
o Number System
o Boolean algebra. Combinational and sequential circuits.
o Minimization.
o Number representations and computer arithmetic (fixed and floating-point).
o COMPLETE PDF STRUCTURE
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Theory of Computation
o Numerical Ability
o Verbal Ability