Admission Exam Announcement for PhD Programs – Computer Science Department (Spring 2025)
The Faculty of Computing and Information Technology announces the admission exam schedule for the PhD program in the Computer Science Department for Spring 2025.
Exam Date and Time:
- Day: Tuesday
- Date: 19/8/1446 AH corresponding to 18/2/2025
- Time: From 11:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Exam Locations:
- Female Students: Lab No. 138, Female Campus, Building 61 – King Abdulaziz University (KAU)
- Male Students: Lab No. 10, Faculty of Computing and Information Technology (FCIT), Building 31 – King Abdulaziz University (KAU)
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PhD Admission Exam Syllabus – Computer Science Department
The following outlines the syllabus, including weight, textbooks, topics covered, and specific chapters for each subject.
Discrete Structure
- Weight: 12.5%
- Textbook: Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications, McGraw-Hill; 7th edition (2006). ISBN: 978-0073383095
- Topics Covered: Functions, relations, and sets; Basic logic; Proof techniques; Basics of counting and number theory; Graphs and trees; Discrete probability
- Chapters: Chapter 1, Chapter 6 (6.1, 6.3), Chapter 7, Chapter 10, Chapter 11
Programming
- Weight: 12.5%
- Textbook: Java How To Program (Late Objects), Pearson, 10th Edition. ISBN: 978-0132575652
- Topics Covered: Programming fundamentals; Basic algorithms and problem-solving; Fundamental data structures; Recursion; Object-oriented programming
- Chapters: Chapters 1-11, 18, and 19
Algorithms and Complexity
- Weight: 12.5%
- Textbook: Introduction to the Design and Analysis of Algorithms, Pearson Education, 3rd Edition. ISBN: 9780273764113
- Topics Covered: Advanced data structures and algorithms; Algorithmic strategies; Distributed algorithms; Basic computability and complexity
- Chapters: Chapters 1-7
Architecture
- Weight: 12.5%
- Textbook: Computer Organization and Design, David Patterson and John Hennessy, 4th Edition. eBook ISBN: 9780080922812
- Topics Covered: Digital logic and digital systems; Machine-level representation of data; Assembly-level machine organization; Interfacing and communication
- Chapters: Chapters 1-6
Operating Systems
- Weight: 12.5%
- Textbook: Operating System Concepts, 10th Edition, by Abraham Silberschatz et al., John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Topics Covered: Operating system principles; Concurrency; Scheduling and dispatch; Memory management
- Chapters: Chapters 1, 5-7, 9, and 10
Networking
- Weight: 12.5%
- Textbook: Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach, by James F. Kurose and Keith W. Ross, 6th Edition
- Topics Covered: OSI layer; TCP/IP protocol; Wired and wireless LAN technologies; IP addressing; Routing and switching algorithms
- Chapters: Chapters 1-6
Software Engineering
- Weight: 12.5%
- Textbook: Object-Oriented Software Engineering: An Agile Unified Methodology, McGraw-Hill, 2014. ISBN: 978-0073376257
- Topics Covered: Software requirements, specifications, design, validation, and management
- Chapters: Chapters 4, 5, 7, 9, 13, 14, 20, and 23
Database Systems
- Weight: 12.5%
- Textbook: Fundamentals of Database Systems, by Ramez Elmasri and Sham Navathe, Addison-Wesley, 6th Edition (2011)
- Topics Covered: Database systems and data modeling
- Chapters: Chapters 2, 3, and 7
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