20 Topics to Start Your PhilNITS Review On

A recent visitor (BK) to my blog wanted to know if I had a list of recommended topics to focus on in reviewing for the PhilNITS exam. So I came up with one.

Actually those who have attended my reviews were provided a list of Frequently Appearing Topics/Questions, plus subsequent discussions on them. But since that might be difficult to share here, let me give you a list of the 20 most important topics. As the actual scope of questions of PhilNITS is very wide, I hope this short list will be more manageable and can help get your review going:

1. Radix Conversion
2. Data Structures (Lists, Queues, Trees)
3. Basic Search, and Sort Algorithms
4. Flow-charts and Pseudo-codes
5. Memory Architecture, and Performance Calculations
6. Processor Performance Calculations
7. Auxiliary Storage Capacity and Performance Calculations
8. State Transitions
9. Data Flow Diagrams
10. Basic SQL Commands
11. System Availability (MTBF, MTTR)
12. Software Development Methodologies
13. Testing Methodologies, and Phases
14. OSI Basic Reference Model
15. TCP/IP Addressing, and Common Protocols
16. Database Normalization
17. Public Key Cryptography
18. Basic Accounting (Break-Even, Profit, Loss, Inventory)
19. Seven QC Tools
20. Arrow Diagrams, and Critical Path determination

As for Tips and Techniques on how to prepare for the exam, and how to improve your chances of passing, these past entries may be useful :

http://abrightfit.blogspot.com/2009/04/pointers-on-how-to-pass-philnits-fe.html

http://abrightfit.blogspot.com/2008/07/pointers-on-how-to-pass-philnits-fe.html


The best of luck to you.