AP ECET 2026 Computer Science and Engineering Syllabus - Download Topic-wise Syllabus

Digital Electronics 

• Number systems, logic gates 
• Boolean algebra and basic combinational circuits  
• Flip flops, counters  and registers 
• Additional combinational circuit 

Software Engineering 

• Basics of software engineering design & life cycle models 
• Software project management 
• Requirement analysis & specifications 
• Software design /coding/ software testing 
• Debugging 
• Reliability  
• Quality management and maintenance 

Computer Organization and Microprocessors 

• CPU organization 
• Information representation and arithmetic operations 
• Memory organization - I/O organization 
• Fundamentals of  8086 and advanced processors  

Data Structure Through C

• Introduction to data structures 
• Searching and sorting 
• Linked storage representation 
• Linked lists 
• Linear data structure 
• Stack 
• Queues non-linear data structures
• Trees 

Computer Networks 

• Introduction to networks 
• LAN components/ Devices/ tools/  network topologies 
• Network addressing and sub-netting 
• Network protocols and management 
• Basic network administration

Operating Systems 

• Introduction to operating system
• Process  management 
• Synchronization and deadlocks 
• Memory management 
• Disk scheduling 
• File management 

DBMS 

• Concepts of DBMS &  RDMS 
• Concepts of SQL 
• Basics of PL/SQL
• Advanced PL/SQL
• Concepts of NoSQL & MongoDB

Object Oriented Programming through C++

• Object-oriented programming concepts 
• Introduction to C++ functions 
• Arrays/ pointers/ references
• Constructors/ destructors/ operator  overloading
• Inheritance and virtual functions 
• C++ I/O  templates 

Java  Programming 

• Basics of java and overloading 
• Concepts of inheritance 
• Overriding/  interfaces/ packages 
• I/O streams &  collections 
• Exception handling and multithread programming 
• Applets/ AWT/ Event handling 

Web Technologies 

• Principles of web designing and HTML introduction 
• Various HTML tags and usage of style sheets  
• Understand XML and client-side scripting using javascript 
• Java script Ajax and J query 
•  Web servers and server-side scripting using PHP

Total Number of Questions in the AP ECET Computer Science and Engineering Paper

200 

Total Number of Questions in each Section 

Physics - 25

Chemistry - 25

Mathematics - 50

Computer Science - 100

Duration of AP ECET Computer Science Exam 

180 minutes 

Mode of the Exam 

Computer-based test 

Type of Questions Asked in AP ECET Computer Science and Engineering Exam 

Multiple-choice questions 

Marking Scheme for the Exam 

Marks awarded for each answer - 1

Negative marking - No