HPSC System Analyst / Senior Programmer & Junior System Analyst Syllabus 2026

Haryana Public Service Commission (HPSC) has published the syllabus and exam pattern for the Subject Knowledge Test for System Analyst/Senior Programmer (Advt. No. 16/2026) and Junior System Analyst/Programmer, HSIIDC (Advt. No. 17/2026).

Exam Pattern

• Subject Knowledge Test: 3 hours, subjective, English medium, minimum 35% qualifying marks.
• Candidates called for interview = 3× number of posts, subject to 35% cut-off.
• No negative marking (subjective paper).

Detailed Syllabus (10 Sections)

1. Engineering Mathematics: Discrete mathematics (propositional/first-order logic, sets, relations, functions, partial orders/lattices, monoids, groups, graphs, combinatorics, recurrence relations, generating functions); Linear algebra (matrices, determinants, systems of equations, eigenvalues/eigenvectors, LU decomposition); Calculus (limits, continuity, differentiability, maxima/minima, mean value theorem, integration); Probability & statistics (random variables, uniform/normal/exponential/Poisson/binomial distributions, mean/median/mode/SD, conditional probability, Bayes theorem).

2. Digital Logic: Boolean algebra, combinational & sequential circuits, minimization, number representations & computer arithmetic (fixed/floating point).

3. Computer Organization & Architecture: Machine instructions & addressing modes, ALU, data-path & control unit, instruction pipelining & hazards, memory hierarchy, I/O interface (interrupt & DMA).

4. Programming & Data Structures: C programming, recursion, arrays, stacks, queues, linked lists, trees, BSTs, binary heaps, graphs.

5. Algorithms: Searching, sorting, hashing, asymptotic complexity, greedy/dynamic programming/divide-and-conquer, graph traversals, MSTs, shortest paths.

6. Theory of Computation: Regular expressions, finite automata, CFGs, push-down automata, pumping lemma, Turing machines, undecidability.

7. Compiler Design: Lexical analysis, parsing, syntax-directed translation, runtime environments, intermediate code generation, optimization, data-flow analyses.

8. Operating System: System calls, processes, threads, IPC, concurrency, deadlock, CPU/I/O scheduling, memory & virtual memory, file systems.

9. Databases: ER model, relational algebra, tuple calculus, SQL, integrity constraints, normal forms, file organization, indexing (B/B+ trees), transactions & concurrency control.

10. Computer Networks: OSI & TCP/IP layering, switching, data link layer, routing protocols, IP addressing/IPv4/CIDR, ARP/DHCP/ICMP/NAT, transport layer (UDP/TCP/sockets), application layer (DNS, SMTP, HTTP, FTP, Email).

Syllabus PDF: Download HPSC Syllabus

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