Bhutan Civil Service Main Examination (ICT Category) study plan

Map every topic in Domains 1 and 2 against the official syllabus and mark each as strong, shaky, or unknown

Explain process scheduling, memory paging, and deadlock handling by drawing at least three worked diagrams from memory

Trace and dry-run five short C-style programs covering pointers, arrays, and recursion, writing the output before checking

Summarize the OSI and TCP/IP layering in your own words and locate where each Domain 1 concept (file systems, interrupts, virtual memory) sits

Implement from scratch, without reference notes, insertion sort, merge sort, quicksort, and binary search, and state the time and space complexity of each

Build and traverse a singly linked list, stack, queue, and binary search tree, writing insert, delete, and search operations by hand

Solve three complexity-analysis exercises by deriving big-O from loop structure rather than memorizing answers

Compare array versus linked-list trade-offs in a short written table covering access, insertion, memory, and cache behavior

Draw ER diagrams for three small scenarios (a hospital, a school, a government office) and convert each to relational schemas in third normal form

Write and execute at least fifteen SQL queries covering joins, grouping, subqueries, and views against a small self-created database

Explain ACID properties, transaction states, and two concurrency-control problems with a worked example of each

Distinguish normalization forms 1NF through BCNF and demonstrate one decomposition that removes a partial dependency

Subnet at least six IPv4 networks by hand, computing network address, broadcast, host range, and mask for each

Compare TCP and UDP, and describe the handshake, flow control, and congestion control in your own words

Explain the roles of DNS, DHCP, ARP, HTTP, and TLS in loading a single web page, in correct order

Identify and describe at least four routing and switching concepts, including static versus dynamic routing and VLAN basics

Apply the waterfall and agile life cycles to one government software scenario and justify a chosen model in 150 words

Produce a context diagram, a level-1 data flow diagram, and a use-case diagram for the same scenario

Classify at least ten security threats (phishing, SQL injection, ransomware, insider misuse, and others) by attack vector and countermeasure

Explain symmetric versus asymmetric encryption, hashing, digital signatures, and PKI with one correct use case each

Build a small responsive web page using semantic HTML, CSS layout, and JavaScript form validation, and explain each layer

Describe the request-response cycle for a REST API and distinguish authentication from authorization with an example

Compare native, hybrid, and cross-platform mobile development approaches on performance, cost, and offline support

Define cloud service and deployment models and classify five Bhutan-relevant use cases (hosting, backup, analytics) correctly

Explain IoT architecture, big-data characteristics, and the difference between machine learning, deep learning, and generative AI in plain language

Summarize the structure and functions of Bhutan's ICT governance bodies and the national ICT policy framework from official sources

List at least eight flagship e-government services and state the citizen problem each addresses

Outline Bhutan's constitutional and parliamentary structure, including the roles of the King, the National Council, and the National Assembly

Review twelve months of Bhutanese current affairs and record twenty dated facts relevant to ICT, governance, and public administration

Explain data protection, cybersecurity, and digital identity obligations for Bhutanese public agencies

Take two full-length timed mock papers under exam conditions and score them against the syllabus weighting

Re-teach your three weakest subtopics from memory on blank paper, then verify against notes

Compress each domain into a single revision card of no more than twenty key points

Rehearse structured answers for two essay-style policy questions within a strict time limit