Programming concepts to crack AMCAT Exam

‘OOPS! It’s a nightmare’- this is what most of you feel while preparing for competitive exams. Just Relax, it’s not as scary as it sounds. It’s actually a ticket to kick-start your career as an Engineer. You are going to be a part of one of the most sought after Industries in India. All this excitement is going to motivate you in the right direction. So here we go….

I know many of you would be knowing about AMCAT Exam, although there are several websites describing ways to crack it. But, in this blog post, i would definitely not waste much time in formalities and useless discussion.

Programming Concepts in AMCAT Exam- Doorway to IT companies

Programming concepts in an AMCAT Exam are one part of the entire syllabus and are the easiest to answer compared to other sections. All you need to do is to get the basics right. The level of difficulty is moderate and can be easily solved if you have a good grasp of the core concepts. The idea of this exam is to test your exposure to computer programming and does not require you to code.

There are select programming languages on which your knowledge will be tested. You will have to answer 25 questions in 35 minutes. Although each of them has multiple choices, you need to time yourself for this section based on the questions. Some of them could be simple fill in the blanks or guess the output kind of questions. There are some others where you have to identify missing lines of code or replace the wrong code. Puzzle based questions are also common in this exam. Few questions might test your knowledge on the control flows as well. So, irrespective of the format of the questions, you should focus on bracing yourself on the concepts.

To tackle the computer programming section in the exam, just focus on the below sections and the topics under each of one of them.

1. Basic Programming

Data Types

Iteration, Recursion, Decision

Procedure, Functions & Scope

2. Data Structures

Graphs, Linked Lists, Trees, Arrays

Stacks & Queues

Hash Tables

Heaps

3. Object Oriented Programming concepts (OOPs)

OOPs forms a significant part in the programming concepts section. Do pay more attention in this portion.

Polymorphism

Abstraction

Encapsulation

4. Operating System and Computer Architecture

Basics of OS and Computer Architecture

Process Management and Synchronisation

Memory and I/O Management

5. DBMS

Data model

Relational Algebra and SQL

Normalization, Architecture, Indexing

Other Miscellaneous topics

Searching & Sorting

Complexity theory

Advice for Computer Programming Section

This section has fairly easy questions, language independent but you should have basic knowledge of OOPs Concepts and some other important topics such as Pointers, Overloading, Overriding, etc

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Apart from programming, this section has questions from Complexity (Omega / Theta / Pi), go through it thoroughly and some questions from TREEs, best sorting techniques to use out of (Heap/Shell/Insertion/Radix) etc.

Practice, Practice, and Practice.

This should be the mantra. Solve as many sample question papers as possible to get a sense of frequently asked questions and analyse all your wrong answers. If you have average programming skills, you don’t have to worry about programming based questions.

LearnFrenzy has the perfect solution. We have developed a set of practice question papers that are very similar to AMCAT. Now, students can simply practice the question paper. Get ready to crash the exam and come out with flying colours.

Hope, you all now will get a glimpse of how to clear Computer Programming Section in AMCAT Exam, and this blog post will surely help you all.

If you have any questions, you are welcome to post a query/suggestion.

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Saurabh Samir - I have been helping aspirants to clear different competitive exams. LearnFrenzy as a team gave me an opportunity to do it on a larger level an reach out to more students. Do comment below if you have any questions or feedbacks.