IBPS RRB Scale 2: Excellent Opportunity for IT Professionals in India

July 1, 2021

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The IBPS RRB Scale 2 Exam is held every year for the recruitment of two types of posts- General Banking Officer and Specialist Officer (SO). Within the Specialist Cadre, there is a post for Information Technology Officers (IT Officers). This job offers eligible candidates an opportunity to couple their passion for IT work with their desire for public service. This article looks at all the relevant details concerning the IBPS RRB Scale 2 IT Officer Exam.

IBPS RRB IT Officer 2021 Exam Overview

Some important information concerning the exam has been provided in the table below.

Name of exam	Institute of Banking Personnel Selection Rural Regional Bank
Website	https://www.ibps.in/
IBPS RRB Notification Release Date	June 7, 2021
Online Application Window	June 8- June 28, 2021 (now closed)
Single-level Exam Date	September 25, 2021
No. of Vacancies for IT Officer	60
Interview	October/November 2021
Final Result/Provisional Allotment	January 2022

IBPS RRB IT Officer 2021 Eligibility

Criteria	Requirement
Education	Bachelor’s degree from a recognized University in Electronics / Communication / Computer Science / Information Technology or its equivalent with a minimum of 50% marks in aggregate. Certificates in ASP, PHP, C++, Java, VB, VC, OCP and such are desirable
Work Experience	One year (in the relevant field)
Age	Between 21 and 32 years of age

IBPS RRB IT Officer 2021 Exam Pattern

There will be a single-level exam for the IT Officer post as is the case for all Scale 2 posts. The exam pattern with all the sections and related details is provided below.

Single-level Examination

Section	Mode of Exam	No. of Questions	Maximum Marks
Reasoning	Hindi/English	40	40
Computer Knowledge	Hindi/English	40	40
Financial Awareness	Hindi/English	40	40
English Language	English	40	20
Hindi Language	Hindi	40	20
Computer Knowledge	Hindi/English	40	20
Quantitative Aptitude & Data Interpretation	Hindi/English	40	40
Total		240	200

The total time allotted is 2 hours and 30 minutes (150 minutes). Candidates can opt for either Hindi or English as the exam language. There will be a negative marking of 1/4^th of the marks assigned to the particular Objective-Type question.

Interview

The candidates who qualify for the written examination will be invited to the Interview. No more than 3 candidates per vacancy will be invited. The IBPS RRB Exam Notification 2021 has announced a total of 60 vacancies for the Scale 2 IT Officer post. So, no more than 180 candidates will be invited to the Interview.

IBPS RRB IT Officer 2021 Syllabus

Their are 6 subjects tested in the single level exam are:

Professional Knowledge
Reasoning
Financial Awareness
English/ Hindi Language
Computer Knowledge
Quantitative Aptitude & Data Interpretation

Provided below is the detailed syllabus for each topic that will be assessed under the Professional Knowledge section for the IT Officer exam. You should also take a look at the detailed syllabus for all the other sections assessed in the exam as well.

Topic	Syllabus
Operating System	System calls, Process concept, Multithreading Programming, Process Scheduling, Synchronization, Deadlock, Memory management concept, Indexes and sequences, File system, Secondary storage, System protection, Cryptography
DBMS	Difference between the file system and RDBMS, Database models, Normalization, keys and constraints, E-R diagram, Transaction, Concurrency control Management, Recovery and backup, Routing, View and Trigger, Cursors, SQL, Miscellaneous concepts (Data dictionary, data warehouse, data mining)
Data Communication and Networking	Types of networks, OSI model and protocols, Error detection and correction, Network devices and Models, Transmission Media, TCP/IP three-way connection, IP addressing, Sorting, CSMA/CD and CSMA/CA, IEEE standards, DNS, Network security, Network Switching, Firewall
Data Structure	Time Complexity and space complexity, Array, Linked List, Stack, Queue, Tree, Graph
OOPS	Introduction, Classes and methods, Encapsulation, Abstraction, Polymorphism, Inheritance
Compiler Design	Linker, Loader, Phases of compilation, Lexical analyzer, parsing theory, Code optimization, Intermediate code generation, Decision making in C
Basic Programming In C	Keywords in C, Format specifiers, Data Types, Variables in C, Types of variables, Constants in C, Operators in C, Loops, Break, continue and Go statement, Array, String in C, Function in C, String Functions, Recursion, Pointer, Structure and Union, File input and output, Dynamic memory allocation and C preprocessor
Software engineering	Software process, SDLC models, Debugging, Cohesion and coupling, Testing, PHP, Pipelining
Web Technology	Web Design, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XML, Priority interrupt, Memory organization
Computer Architecture	CPU organization, General register organization, Interrupt, Modes of transfer, Instruction and program control, Virtual memory

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More than 200 Study notes in PDF format, 75 of which are exclusively for IT professional knowledge.
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