Kerala PSC Computer Programmer Syllabus & Exam Pattern 2026 – PDF Download

Kerala PSC has announced the Computer Programmer exam 2026 for Category No. 460/2025 under MATSYAFED. Candidates can now access the official syllabus and exam pattern provided in this blog to begin their preparation. With the exam date already declared, aspirants are advised to review the updated topics and marking scheme to plan their study strategy.

Kerala PSC Computer Programmer Syllabus 2026 PDF

Download the Kerala PSC Computer Programmer 2026 syllabus PDF. The syllabus includes essential computing concepts, programming fundamentals, networking, databases, and software engineering topics.

Kerala PSC Computer Programmer Exam 2026 Key Details

Kerala PSC Computer Programmer Exam Pattern 2026

Total Marks: 100
Total Questions: 100
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Language: English
Marking Scheme:

• +1 for each correct answer

• –1/3 negative marking for each wrong answer

Subject-wise Marks Distribution

Kerala PSC Computer Programmer Detailed Syllabus 2026

Kerala PSC Computer Programmer syllabus 2026 covers core areas like Discrete Mathematics, Digital Electronics, C Programming, OOP (C++/Java), DBMS, Web Programming, Computer Networks, and Software Engineering. Candidates can use this syllabus to understand the exam pattern, marks distribution, and focus areas for preparation.

Discrete Mathematics, Probability and Statistics (12 Marks)

Compound Statements, Truth Tables, The Algebra of Propositions, Logical Arguments, Sets, Operations on Sets, Binary Relations, Partial Orders, Mathematical Induction, The Principle of Inclusion-Exclusion, Probability theory: Sample spaces, Events and probability, Discrete probability: Union, Intersection and Compliment of events, Conditional probability, Baye’s theorem. Linear correlation coefficient, Linear regression, Non Linear regression, Multiple correlation and Multiple regression, Theory of sampling and population

Digital Electronics, Computer Organization and Operating System (14 Marks)

Digital Logic Systems and Microprocessors: Boolean expressions, K-maps, TTL and CMOS logic families, combinational logic design, synchronous sequential system design. Microprocessors: 8086 architecture, data transfer scheme and interfaces, Addressing modes.

Computer Organization and Architecture: Von-Neumann architecture of computers. Registers and micro operations, control logic, processor addressing and bus organization. Processor input/output and DMA. Memory organization and cache coherence.

Operating Systems: CPU scheduling, Deadlocks, Memory management, file
systems, disk scheduling. Process, threads and their synchronization. Real
Time OS: clock synchronization and task scheduling. System initialization,
booting and handling user accounts. Backup and restore, Bourne shell
programming for Linux.

Data Structures and Programming in C (12 Marks)

Data Structures: Linked List, Stack, Queue, Priority Queues, Hashing, Binary trees, Tree traversal, AVL trees, Graphs- shortest paths, minimum spanning trees; Sorting algorithms.

Programming in C: Operators and expressions, Control statements, Storage types, Functions, Arrays, Strings, Structures, Pointers and dynamic memory management, File Handling.

Object Oriented Programming through C++/Java (12 Marks)

Data Abstraction, Encapsulation, classes, constructors and destructors, Classes, and dynamic memory allocation, Inheritance, Polymorphism, generic classes, exception handling and File processing.

Java applets, Java features, Byte codes, Internet classes, wrapper classes, multithreading support classes, vector, stack, interface observer, stream tokenizer, GUI classes, Java I/O, classes, The Applet class, applet architecture, applet display methods and repainting

Database Management System (12 Marks)

Keys, E-R Model, Normalization – 1NF to 5NF; Aggregate functions, Nested Sub queries, Views, Joined Relations, Transaction- ACID properties; Concurrency Control, triggers, stored procedures

Client Server Architectures and Web Programming (12 Marks)

Two and three-tier client server architectures, web servers, HTML & XML, Style Sheets, client side scripting-java script and VB script; Server Side Scripting-php, JSP and ASP.NET programming for creating dynamic web pages using database, forms and session; AJAX and SignalR

Computer networks and Programming (14 Marks)

Computer networks and security: TCP/IP & OSI/ISO reference models, functions and protocols of different layers, characteristics of physical media, multiplexing, medium access protocols, introduction to 802.3, 802.4, 802.5, 802.11 LAN technology, IP protocol including routing and congestion control, TCP and UDP, DNS. Email protocols. Symmetric and asymmetric encryption including DES, AES, IDEA, RSA algorithms, key management in symmetric and asymmetric encryption, viruses and trusted systems, Kerberos.

Network Programming: Sockets Programming: TCP Programming (TELNET, HTTP). UDP Sockets: TFTP, DNS. Secure Sockets (SSL), TLS, SSH, HTTPS, Remote Method Invocation (RMI). Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP), UDDI, and Web Services.

Software Engineering (12 Marks)

System modeling, system engineering process, life cycle models, design and implementation, validation, evolution, automated, process support – software requirements, SRS, feasibility studies – elicitation and analysis – validation – management – system models, context models, behavior models, data models, object models, object-oriented design, design evolution, real-time software design, critical systems specifications – critical system development, software testing.

How to Download Kerala PSC Computer Programmer Syllabus & Exam Pattern

• Go to the Kerala PSC official website.
• Open the Recruitment section.
• Click on Syllabus.
• Search for Computer Programmer in the list.
• Click the Syllabus PDF link.
• Press Download and save it to your device.