Foundation Exam Information
UPCOMING EXAM
5thJune 2022
14:00 - 17:00
Foundation Level Exam
Price: ₹3500/-
Last date to register: 23rd May 2022
THE DATA STRUCTURE CERTIFICATION IS BEST SUITED FOR
Programming students
3rd & final year students looking to evaluate their basics in DSA.
Professionals
Entry-level professionals in the software industry.
ELIGIBILITY & OTHER CRITERIA
Eligibility
Knowledge of any one of the 50+ languages available on CodeChef that include Java, C++, C, Python, PERL, Ruby, PASCAL, and C#.
Validity
It’s a lifetime certification that does not change with technological advancements.
Recommended preparation time
3-4 weeks
Qualifying score
Around 350 out of 750. Exact score will be on the exam page.
EXPECTED OUTCOMES POST CERTIFICATION
- A realistic assessment of yourself on foundational concepts of DSA
- Better employability as course structure is industry-oriented
- Eligibility to take the Advanced level
Data Structure Foundation Syllabus
- Asymptotic analysis (Big-O notation)
- Arrays
- Strings
- Stack and Queue
- Basic math operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, exponentiation)
- Euclid’s GCD Algorithm
- Prime Numbers, divisibility of numbers
- Basic Recursion
- Greedy Algorithms
- Dynamic programming (Basic DP)
- Naive string searching
- Sorting
- Binary Search
Foundation Data Structure Learning Resources
RESOURCES INCLUDES
Exam Details
EXAM FORMAT
- Exam Duration - 3 Hours
- Protected (Invigilated) Environment, Also there will be no access to the internet
- 5 problems of varying difficulty level
- Each problem will have multiple test files on which your submission will be evaluated.
- You will get partial points for whichever test files that you solve correctly.
- Your submission with the highest score will be considered, and your final score will be the sum over all the problem scores.
- Your total score should be more than the passing score to get Certified.
- There will be no penalties for incorrect submissions
- This is a proctored exam and hence you will be strictly monitored by our Proctors.
- There will be no access to any resource, online or offline, made available during the exam. The only exceptions are the language documentations listed below.
- Your submitted code will be run through a plagiarism detection tool to determine if you have cheated during the exam
EXAM ENVIRONMENT
- Ubuntu 18.04
- CPU: Intel Core i3 or above
- RAM: 4/8GB
- The Internet will be restricted and you will only be able to access codechef.com website.
- CodeChef IDE
- Code::Blocks
- Clion
- Eclipse
- IntelliJ
- Notepad++
- Sublime text
- PyCharm