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6 Month Advanced Program in Computer Applications (APCA)
Objective | Highlights | Structure | Contents | Learning Process | Faculty | Eligibility & selection Procedure | Important Dates |   Download Application Form | Admissions |   Entrance Exam Details
Objectives  
  • The IT boom is back and looks more realistic. Non IT students migrating to IT industry will be at rise again.
  • The course will enable an engineering student to migrate to Information Technology and provide dynamic support to the software industy.
  • The program will cover Operating Systems, Internet & Web Technology, Databases and Networking essentials along with emphasis on Software Engineering and Project Management.

Career Target

  • IT sector @ entry level as Software Engineer, Software Programmer, QA & Testing etc.

Highlights

  • 16th batch with completely updated syllabus, driven by current requirement of IT sector.
  • Excellent Faculty from PICT and Industry.
  • Start-of-art IT infrastructure of PICT including lab, the largest library including all IEEE Transactions and data center.
  • Designed on the basis of detailed input given by Resource Heads of leading IT Companies like TCS, Satyam, Persistent Systems, KPIT Cummins.
  • The 6 Month Advanced Program in Computer Application (APCA)is a technology course, strong on advanced fundamentals of Computer Programming. It will comprise both of theory and practice, with a more practical, application oriented approach.
  • Over all, students will have direct contact of 40 hours per week, working 5 days/week.
  • Case studies, technical seminars and practicals are high on the pedagogy, supported by guest speakers and other interfaces with experts. Through seminars, workshops and talks, students will be exposed to the latest in technology subjects, covering current areas.
  • Expert Faculty from PICT and Industry

Structure

HOURS PER SESSION  1.5 
WORKING DAYS PER WEEK 5
SESSIONS PER WORKING DAY 4
NO. OF CONTACT HOURS PER WEEK 30
MAJOR PROJECT 8 Weeks

 

Contents

SESSIONS

Sr. No. Skill Set    
1 Languages Data structures using C++, OOP Advanced programming in C
    Internet Web Basics (HTML, DHTML) XML
    Basic Java and Advance Java Enterprise Java beans using J2EE
      Component technology using COM, DCOM, CORBA
      VB .net & ASP
2 DBMS RDBMS and DBA using Oracle 9i OODBMS
3 Operating System Unix operating system, Linux Windows programming with SDK, MFC
4 Networking   Network essentials, security
5 Software Engineering and QA Introduction to Software Engineering Software Project Management
    System Analysis and Design,SSAD and OOAD with UML Software Quality Assurance (CMM, ISO 19000)
      Rational tools, RUP (Rational Unified Process)
6 Enterprise Solutions Enterprise Solutions (ERP, SCM) Enterprise Solutions ( CRM and PLM )
7 Business Applications

Intranet and groupware, Web sites and Portals MIS
8 Business Process   Business Process Mapping with Visio

Learning Process

The endeavor is on practice as well as theory such that students will gain practical knowledge and experience in solving industry relevent problems.

Based on the needs of each subject/capsule, appropriate pedagogy-mix is used, consisting of:

  • Classroom lectures/training
  • Case studies and Industry reports and analysis
  • Lab assignments
  • Field assignments and projects
  • Theme-paper writing and case material preparation
  • IT packages, to gain hands-on exposure

Individual communication, inter-personal skills and such soft-skills are developed through workshops by industry-experts.

Eligibility

BE /B.Sc or M. Sc/BCS or MCS with first class marks in 10th,12th and graduation.

Those appeared for the final examination in April 2007 can also apply; admission of such candidates will be provisional, subject to their meeting all the criteria before December 2007.

The Admission Process

Step 1:Admission Form and Prospectus
Buy the prospectus-cum-application form for Rs 200/-. These are available at

1. PICT School of Information Technology and Management
Survey No.27, Dhankawadi
Pune-Satara Road
Pune- 411043
Tel- 020 - 243 76189        Ext: 21      Fax-24372106
2. Creative Business Techniques
153, Ramdaspeth
Nagpur.
Tel- (0712)-2525327/2529275
3. Path Finder
Khaparde Garden
Amravati- 444601.
Tel- (0721)-2551334/2663906
4. Kolhapur
Jyoti Computer Services 1817, A-Ward, Sai Chambers Varuntirth Vesh, Kolhapur.
Ph No- 2629409
5. Kolhapur
Dnyanjyoti Academy for Infotech and Success. 'YASHODHAN' 249/44-B, E-Ward,Nagala Park, Kolhapur.
Ph- 3253461
Complete the application form and send it to us, for further processing. On receipt and scrutiny of the above at the Institute office, you will be issued an Admit Card which you will have to furnish at the time of admission test.

OR

Download and print the application form from our website.
Complete the form and send it to us along with the DD for Rs 200/-, for further processing.

Step 2:SITM's Technical & Aptitude Test(TAT)
You will appear for SITM's Technical & Aptitude Test in our campus. For your convenience TAT is scheduled on two days. You can appear for the test on any one of the two dates. This date has to be mentioned in the application form.

Step 3:Lab Practical Test

The same day you will appear for a 90 minute Lab Practical test on C Programming (Turbo C IDE to be used) on our Personal Computer.

Step 4: Interview

You will attend a Technical as well as Personal Interview (TI/PI) immediately after the practical test on tha same day.

Step 5:Selection/Final Admission

Admission to the program is strictly on the basis of performance in the TAT/Lab Practical Test/TI/PI.

Step 6:Declaration of Results

A merit list and a waiting list will be displayed on our website on the day mentioned in the schedule.The same will be intimated to all the selected students individually.

Step 7:Fees

Once the merit list is displayed the selected students will have to confirm their admission by paying Rs. 10,000/- (Rupees Ten Thousand Only) at our office latest by 5th July 2007.

Important Dates:

Details TAT #1 TAT #2
Application Forms Now Available Now Available
Last Date of receipt of application forms    
Test Date    
Practical Test & TI/PI    
Display of Merit List on the website  
Last Date to Pay Rs. 10000/-  
Last Date to pay final installments  
Course Commencement  

Entrance Exam Details

Information on structure and syllabus for the Written Tests and Interview
Advanced Program in Computer Application - June 2007

The selection process, consisting of written tests and interview, has been designed along with some of the leading IT companies - who have also been involved in designing, implementing and assessing all aspects of this Program.

The objective is to assess your knowledge against the pre-requisites for the Program, as desired by the IT sector. The cumulative level of the selected batch, then, forms the base-line to build further knowledge and skills during the Program itself.

SITM's Technical & Aptitude Test(TAT)

You will appear for a SITM's Technical & Aptitude Test (TAT) test in our campus.
For your convenience the TAT is scheduled on 2 days. You can appear for the test on any one of the two dates. This date has to be mentioned in the application form.

Lab Practical Test

The same day you will appear for a 90 minute lab. practical test on "C" programming (Turbo C IDE to be used) on a Personal Computer. The assignment will be on topics from structures, arrays & strings and pointers.

Interview

You will attend a Technical as well as Personal interview (TI/PI) immediately after the practical test on the same day.

SITM's Technical & Aptitude Test(TAT) June 2007

Section I: Computing Fundamentals (10 marks)
Computer organization, Primary and Secondary storage, Input-output devices, Computer software, Operating systems, Data communications and computer networking, Multimedia, Algorithms, 8086 microprocessor block diagram, addressing modes, RISC and CISC architecture, pipelining, Interrupts – types of interrupts, Interrupt Vector Table, Interrupt processing, Operating system functions, Types of operating system, Job scheduling, Memory management – paging, segmentation.
Section II: Programming in C (30 marks)
Introductory concepts, C Fundamentals, Operators and Expressions, Data Input and Output – console I/O, formatted I/O, String I/O, Control statement, Functions, Arrays, Pointers.
Section III: Object Oriented Programming Concepts (10 marks)
Understanding of the object oriented concepts, such as Classes and Objects, Generalizations, Access Modifiers, Polymorphism, Abstract Classes and Re-usability, Operator overloading, function overloading etc.
Section IV: Basics of Internet Programming (10 marks)
Basics of HTML, HTML Tags
Section V:General Aptitude (40 marks)
Questions shall be modeled on GMAT pattern. Aptitude test will have verbal, quantitative, analytical sections.
Books:
1. Computer Fundamentals – P K Sinha
2. Let us C – Y P Kanetkar
3. Object Oriented Programming with C++ - E Balaguruswamy
4. C++ - Complete Reference – Herbert Schildt
5. Let us C++ - Y P Kanetkar 6. HTML, DHTML – Ivan Bayross