Course Objective

Post Graduate Diploma in Information Security and Application Development is a one-year programme under ISEA (Information Security Education Awareness) project of DIT, Min. of Communications & IT, Govt. of India. It comprises of modules in Information security and software application development with one major project. It caters to the Human Resource Development in the area of Information security leading to development of indigenous hardware and software capabilities in the area of Information Security.

 
Course Highlights

• 48 weeks full-time Post-Graduate Course
• Evaluation at the module level followed by an exam at the end of each term
• Intake - 40 seats (maximum)
• Curriculum designed in consultation with industry experts and leading Academicians (Technical Advisory Committee)
• Well-equipped laboratory
• Well-equipped library with access to International Journals
• Extensive hands on sessions
• Limited Internet access
• Exposure to soft skills
• Placement assistance
• ISO Certified training process
• Resourceful Faculty
• Quality Course Material
• Access to state-of-the-art computing facilities
• Hostel Facilities

Eligibility

• M.E / M.Tech / B.E. / B. Tech(CS, IT, Electronics, Electronics & Communication, Electronics & Instrumentation, Electrical, Electrical & Electronics) / MCA / MCM (with B.Sc) / B.Sc (Engg.) / AMIE/ M.Sc.(CS, IT, Instrumentation, Electronics, Electronics & Communication) / MBA (IT, Systems).
• Candidates should have minimum 60% in last qualifying degree. Also Candidates should not have less than 60% in more than one of the academic qualifications. Candidate who have less than 50% in any of the qualifications are Not Eligible. Students who have appeared for final semester Examinations are eligible for this course.

Selection Process & Declaration of Result

• There would be an Online Exam.
• Result will be prepared on the basis of marks secured in Online Exam and past academic record.
• List of selected and waitlisted candidates (if any) would be declared from the Result.
• In case, any selected candidate does not pay first installment of fee by specified date, his/her seat will be treated as vacant. Such vacant seats will be allotted to candidates in waiting list
• Seats from waitlist will be filled only against the vacant seats.
• In case any waitlisted candidate fails to do so his/her seat will allocated to the next candidate in waitlisted merit list.
• Waitlisted candidates will contact CDAC, Noida on specified date and time.
• In case there are vacant seats after the dates for submission of fee by merit and waitlisted candidates is over, they will be filled up from the left over of the selected & wait listed candidates up till one week(5 working days inclusive of the commencement date) from the commencement of the course.
• Since result awaited candidates of eligible qualification may also apply for the programme, they have to submit the final year marksheet or completion certificate. Failure of same may lead to withholding of their PG diploma certificate & such candidates shall not be considered for placement assistance through CDAC.

Course Fees

Fee for the Course is Rs. 71,695/- inclusive of Service Tax @10.3%, payable in two installments (First installment Rs. 38,605/- and Second of Rs. 33,090/- both inclusive of service tax) by Demand Draft in favour of CDAC, NOIDA payable at Noida.. First installment of fee is to be deposited by the selected/waitlisted candidates on or before the specified date. The second installment is to be paid on the first working day of the programme i.e. commencement date of the programme. Course fee is ‘NON-TRANSFERRABLE’. In case a student wishes to transfer from one course to another (subject to qualifying the entrance exam for that course), it would be treated as a refund case and policy of refund given below shall be applicable.

Rules for Refund of Course Fees

The course fees paid by the candidate shall be refunded as per the below mentioned rules:
1. The fees shall be refunded only if the candidate applies for the refund or transfer within one week(5 working days) inclusive of the commencement date of the course. Request shall be accepted till 5 PM on the last date.
2. 25% of the course fees shall be deducted, balance fees shall be refunded within 30 days from the commencement of the course. Such cancelled seat will be allotted to the next waitlisted candidate.
3. Any request for refund of fees shall not be entertained after one week (5 working days) inclusive of the commencement date of the course.

Syllabus for Entrance Test

The Entrance Exam would be conducted in 2 hrs slots and would be of Adaptive Type consisting of Multiple Choice Questions based on the following:
1 - Programming in C
2 - Logical Reasoning
3 - Series Completion
4 - Blood Relation
5 - Quantitative Aptitude
6 - Analogy
7 - Computer Networks
8 - Introduction to Computers
9 - Introduction to Operating Systems
10 - Introduction to DBMS
11 - Introduction to C
12 - English
                                                                                                                                              

Computing Facilities

Evaluation Methodology

The evaluation methodology consists of continuous evaluation by means of class tests, seminars and lab assignment evaluations. There would be one module exam at the end of both terms and project evaluation. The evaluation of the students is based on the following distribution of the marks:

Sr. No.	Categorization of Marks Assessment	Weightage
1.	Written test (class test for each subject + one comprehensive test at the end of each module) (60% of module end exam + 40% of class tests)	40%
2.	Project Evaluation*	25%
3.	Seminar (if any) and Lab Evaluation	25%
4.	Attendance and Discipline	10%
	Total	100%

* Wherein the Project is evaluated only once with the last module and a separate Project Certificate is also awarded.

Further except for last module, other modules are evaluated on 75 marks (project Weightage excluded) and converted to 100 thereafter.
 

Instructions

1.  The student should have total of 75% attendance in classes in order to be eligible for Participation Certificate of the course. In case attendance falls below 75% a student may still be awarded Participation Certificate on the basis of genuine grounds and their approval from Executive Director.

2.  The grade criteria for each module is as follows:

 3. The candidates who would be absent/failed in the module end exams will be given one more chance to re-appear in the exam at the end of the program with the permission of Head of School.
4. Every eligible candidate would be awarded Participation Certificate and Performance Statement (which would include Grade Sheet and Project Certificate).

Project

Students have to do ONE project which is the part of the PGDISAD course at the end of the second term. The project work is thoroughly evaluated. The project work is allotted 50 marks *, the categorization of which is as follows:

The total marks assessment which is also mentioned in Evaluation   Methodology Section.

PLACEMENT ASSISTANCE    

                                                                             
The objective of the Placement Cell is to provide PLACEMENT ASSISTANCE to all the students registered with C-DAC, Noida for Career Courses for a duration of 6 months and above subject to certain criteria. Partial List of our recruiters are:
• DELL-PEROT SYSTEMS
• SAFENET INFOTECH
• TECH MAHINDRA
• MINDFIRE SOLUTIONS
• E-BUSINESSWARE
• ADROIT BUSINESS SOLUTIONS
• SAMSUNG INDIA SOFTWARE OPERATIONS PVT. LTD.
• ERICSSON
• INDUS VALLEY PARTNERS
• BEEHIVES SYSTEMS
• CYBER G
• E-METER
• HCL TECHNOLOGIES
• VINCULUM
• ADROIT BUSINESS SOLUTIONS
• CONTATA SOLUTIONS
• INFOGAIN
• RSYSTEMS
• EON TECHNOLOGIES
• C-DAC,NOIDA
• CONVERGENT TECHNOLOGIES
                                                                                                                                          

 PLACEMENT SCHEDULE (TENTATIVE)

  For details on Placement Activity, please refer to Guidelines

Course Contents
• PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE : Fundamentals, Programming In C++
• COMPUTER NETWORKS: CCNA Exploration (CCNA1,2,3,4)
       o Network Fundamentals: CCNA Exploration 1
       o Routing Protocols and Concepts: CCNA Exploration 2
       o LAN Switching and Wireless: CCNA Exploration 3
       o Accessing the WAN: CCNA Exploration 4
• WEB TECHNOLOGIES: HTML, DHTML , JAVASCRIPT
• CRYPTOGRAPHY
• SOFTWARE ENGINEERING FUNDAMENTALS
• DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS: Introduction to basic Concepts, SQL, PL/SQL
• MICROSOFT .NET CONCEPTS
       o .NET ARCHITECTURE & FRAMEWORK
       o C#, ASP.NET
       o DATABASE CONNECTIVITY USING ADO.NET
       o WEB SERVICES
       o AJAX
• REDHAT ENTERPRISE LINUX – 5
       o Red Hat Linux Essentials: RH-033
       o Red Hat Linux System Administration: - RH-133
       o Red Hat Network Services & Security Administration: RH-253
• PROGRAMMING IN JAVA
       o CORE JAVA: Introduction to JVM, Classes & Objects, Inheritance, AWT, Event Handling, Multi Threading, Java Packages & Collections, Java I/O, Java Applets, Java Foundation Classes (JFC)
       o J2EE: JDBC, SERVLETS, JSP, RMI, STRUTS FRAMEWORK
• OPEN SOURCE TECHNOLOGIES
       o PHP
       o MYSQL
• DATA STRUCTURES
• SYSTEM SECURITY
• NETWORK SECURITY
• WIRELESS SECURITY
• CYBER FORENSICS
       o DEVICE FORENSICS
       o DISK FORENSICS
       o LIVE FORENSICS
       o NETWORK FORENSICS
• EMERGING TRENDS: CLOUD COMPUTING, SERVICE ORIENTED ARCHITECTURE
• APTITUDE SKILLS & PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT
Submission of Application

Registration for the course would be done ONLINE. It is advised to read the General Instructions carefully before filling up the Application Form. Payment for registration can be done through DD or Credit Card mode. Registration fee is Rs. 300/- . If the mode is DD then a demand draft of Rs. 300/- in favour of CDAC, Noida payable at NOIDA has to be prepared. DD prepared should be dated 15th July 2011 or earlier. Any draft prepared after 15th July 2011 shall not be accepted. Candidates have to send a print out of the Application Form along-with self attested photocopies of marksheets and DD (if applicable) so as to reach the venue on or before 18th July 2011.

Course Commencement

In August every year                

Entrance Exam Venue

CDAC, Noida