BCS Written ICT case studies
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The ICT paper in the BCS Written Examination is a descriptive, essay-style test taken by candidates who have already cleared the preliminary screening stage of Bangladesh's civil service recruitment process. It is intended for generalist cadre aspirants rather than computer science graduates, so the paper rewards clear structured writing and practical understanding over memorised technical trivia. The BCS Written ICT case studies are 5 cases and about 2,523 words.
1District Office Refresh on a Fixed Budget
A district office has 60 desktop PCs, all 8 years old, running a 32-bit operating system on 4 GB RAM and 500 GB mechanical hard disks. Staff use a browser-based land record system (needs 8 GB RAM recommended), office suites, and occasional large scanned PDFs.
599 words, about 3 min2Campus Network Segmentation Decision
A university has a flat /24 network (254 usable addresses) serving 400 devices: administrative PCs, a student Wi-Fi network, an IP camera system, a library public-access lab, and a small data centre with a student records server. Symptoms: the network intermittently slows to a crawl; the IT office suspects broadcast storms from the public lab; the records server was recently reachable from the student Wi-Fi; and cameras are using default passwords.
502 words, about 3 min3Scholarship Portal Database Design Under Load
A government scholarship portal stores applicant records in a single table with columns: applicant id, name, national id, district, school, guardian phone, bank account, application date, status, and a free-text remarks field. About 2.5 million rows exist, growing by 400,000 per cycle.
477 words, about 2 min4Choosing a Delivery Model for a Land Records Service
A land ministry wants a citizen-facing service to check mutation (land transfer) application status. Volumes: about 30,000 checks per day, peaking at 200 requests per second during announcement periods.
488 words, about 2 min5Mobile App for Agricultural Extension Workers
An agriculture department wants a mobile app for 3,000 field extension workers to record crop disease observations. Requirements gathered in two workshops: workers need offline entry because many villages have no data coverage; photos must be attached; supervisors need dashboards by district; and the department's IT unit must maintain the app after handover.
457 words, about 2 min