SBI SCO Admit Card 2024: Release Soon, Exam Dates Out and 1497 Vacancies

Vijendra Kumar

5 months ago

SBI SCO Exam Dates Out 2024 – The SBI (State Bank Of India) is responsible for conducting SCO (Special Cadre Officer) exam. The SBI SCO Exam will be held on November 23, 2024. The Authority will release admit card 10 – 15 days before the exam dates. There are total of 1497 vacancies for filling this recruitment. The Candidates Can download Call Letter/ Admit Card for online examination from the official website by entering their registration number and Password/date of birth, from the Bank official website. Call Letter/Admit Card not will be sent by Post. Here 70% marks weightage is given for written test and 30% marks weightage is given for interview.

Also Read This :- Rajasthan CET Graduation Level Answer Key 2024: Release Soon

Important Dates

Events	Dates
SBI SCO Admit Card	November 2024
Exam Dates	November 23, 2024
Previous Events
Application Status	September 14 to October 14, 2024

Exam Pattern

Test	No. of Questions	Marks
General Aptitude	Test of Reasoning	15	15
	Quantitative Aptitude	15	15
	English Language	20	20
Professional Knowledge	General IT Knowledge	60	100
General Aptitude Test Duration – 45 minutes Professional Knowledge – 75 minutes. There will be no negative marking

Questions Distribution according Subjects

Subject	Number of Question	Total Marks
Software Development	20	33
Infra Support	20	33
Networking	10	17
Cloud Operations	10	17
Total	60	100

Exam Centre (Tentatively)

Guntur, Kurnool, Vijaywada, Vishakhapatnam, Guwahati, Silchar, Muzaffarpur, Patna, Chandigarh/ Mohali, Raipur, Bilaspur (Chhattisgarh) , Delhi/ New Delhi, Faridabad, Hissar, Ghaziabad, Greater Noida, Gurugram, Panaji, Ahmedabad, Vadodara, Ambala, Hamirpur, Jammu, Shimla, Jamshedpur, Ranchi, Bengaluru, Hubli, Mangalore, Kochi, Thiruvananthapuram, Bhopal, Indore, Aurangabad (Maharastra), Mumbai/ Thane/Navi Mumbai, Nagpur, Pune, Imphal, Shilong, Aizawl, Kohima, Bhubaneshwar, Sambalpur, Puducherry, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Jaipur, Udaipur, Bardang/ Gangtok, Chennai, Madurai, Tirunelveli, Hyderabad, Warrangal. Agartala, Prayagraj (Allahabad), Kanpur, Lucknow, Meerut, Varanasi, Dehradun, Asansol, Greater Kolkata, Siliguri centres.

Merit List & Marks Weightage

Merit List: The final merit list will be arrived at after aggregating the marks (out of 100 marks) and interview (out of 25 marks). Weightage of score will be as under

Marks Weightage

Written Test – 70%
Interview – 30%

Selection Process

The selection will be made from the Top ranked candidates in descending order of Merit, in each category
In case more than one candidate score the cut-off marks (common marks at cut-off point), such candidate will be ranked according to their age in descending order in select list.
If number of applications is less, Bank reserves the right to consider selection of the candidate(s) through short listing and interview, instead of Online written test & interview.

Download notification pdf of SBI SCO recruitment 2024 (1497 Vacancies)

SBI SCO Recruitment Syllabus pdf 2024 will be released soon on official website of SBI.

Syllabus

Software Development

Data-Structures and Algorithms – Questions based on Arrays, Linked List, Stacks, Queues, Binary Tree, Binary Search Tree, Heaps, Hashing and Recursion, Searching and Sorting Algorithms along with their Space-Time Complexities.
Object Oriented Programming Concepts – Abstraction, Association, Encapsulation, Composition, Polymorphism, Aggregation, Inheritance, Message Passing.
Web/ Application Development – HTML5/ CSS and Java Script, HTTP/HTTPS, AJAX and REST APIs (get, Post, Put, delete, Cookies, Version control Systems like Git for source code management.
Software Engineering.

Software Development Lifecycle Phases (Requirement analysis, In Depth Planning, Product Design, Coding, Testing, Development, Post-Production maintenance).
Basic Software Testing Concepts (Black Box Testing, White Box Testing, Unit/ Integration/ Regression Testing and UAT).
Design Patterns and SOLID Principles.

Databases
Basis Database Concepts – Relational DBMS, ER Diagram, Transactions (ACID Properties), Keys (Primary, Foreign, Candidate, Alternate etc.), Indexes, Normalization and Joins.
Basic Questions based on different types of web application Attacks like – Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF), Injection Attacks, DDoS (Distributed Denial-of-Service), Brute Force Attack etc.

Tree Traversal Strategies like Breadth and Depth First Search.
Questions Based on Data Structure with code snippets
Digital Signatures use case and importance
Publice- private Key Encryption Symmetric and Asymmetric Keys
Digital Signatures use case and importance
Public – Private Key Encryption
OWASP Web – Security Risks
Database related Question based on – DDL, DML and TCL Commandas, Basic of SQL Functions, Views Triggers and Cursors.
Monolith vs Microservice architecture.

Infra Support
Basic of Operating Systems
- System calls, processes, threads, inter‐process communication, concurrency and synchronization. Deadlock. Memory management and virtual memory.
- CPU scheduling Algorithms (FCFS, SJF, SRTF, Round Robin etc.).
- Types of memories: cache, main memory and secondary storage.
- Concept of Paging and Page Replacement Algorithms: (FIFO, Optimal page replacement, LRU etc.)
- I/O Scheduling algorithms (FCFS, SSTF, SCAN, LOOK, CSCAN, CLOOK etc.)

Basic Of virtual machines, storage solutions and networking components.
Infra related concepts like processors, Clock Cycle, Cache Memory, HDD, SSD etc.
Backup and Recovery practices
Best Practices Pertaining to security and compliance controls.
Windows and Unix/ Linux Computing environments.
Networking

Type of Networks (LAN, WAN, MAN etc)
Network Topologies (Ring, Mesh, Bus, Star, etc)
Network Devices (Hub, Bridge, Routers, Gateway)
OSI Data Model, TCP/ IP Model
Subnets and SUpernets
UDP, TCP, Sockets and ports.
IPv4 vs IPv6
Classed inter-domain routing.
IP Support protocols (ARP, DHCP, ICMP), Network Address Translation (NAT)
Application layer protocols- DNS, SMTP, HTTP, FTP, etc.
Application layer protocols- DNS, SMTP, HTTP, FTP etc.
Internet Application Protocols (FTP, Telnet, SMTP, SNMP< POP3 etc.
Different Types of Network Security Protections- Firewall, Access Control, Remote Access VPN, Types of Firewall, Access Control.
Cloud