GATE CS 2020 Syllabus

Syllabus for General Aptitude (GA):

1. Verbal Ability: English grammar, sentence completion, verbal analogies, word groups, instructions, critical reasoning and verbal deduction.
2. Numerical Ability: Numerical computation, numerical estimation, numerical reasoning and data interpretation.

Computer Science and Information Technology (CS):

1. 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, system 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.

   
   
   Computer Science and Information Technology:
2. Section 2: Digital Logic
   Boolean algebra. Combinational and sequential circuits. Minimization. Number representations and computer arithmetic (fixed and floating point).
3. 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).
4. Section 4: Programming and Data Structures
   Programming in C. Recursion. Arrays, stacks, queues, linked lists, trees, binary search trees, binary heaps, graphs.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Section 7: Compiler Design
   Lexical analysis, parsing, syntax-directed translation. Runtime environments. Intermediate code generation.
8. Section 8: Operating System
   Processes, threads, inter-process communication, concurrency and synchronization. Deadlock. CPU scheduling. Memory management and virtual memory. File systems.
9. 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.
10. 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.

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