IBPS SO IT Officer Exam 2021

Highlights

IBPS conducts various bank exams almost every year. IBPS Specialist Officer recruitment is one exam drive that is conducted by IBPS. Through this recruitment, you will be posted as a Specialist Officer (SO) under various streams in the Public Sector Banks in India. IBPS SO IT exam is one such post covered under IBPS SO notification. Let’s get further details from below.

IBPS SO (IT) 2021 Highlights

Conducting Authority	IBPS
Official Website	https://www.ibps.in/
Name of the Posts	Specialist Officer (IT Officer)
Mode of application	Online
Stages of Exam	Three Stages- Phase 1- Preliminary Exam Phase 2- Mains Exam Phase 3- Interview
Maximum marks & Time duration	Phase 1 (Preliminary Exam)- 150 marks, 2 hours Phase 2 (Mains Exam)- 60 marks, 45 minutes Phase 3 (Interview)- 100 marks
IBPS SO (IT) Phase I (Preliminary) Online Examination	December 18 & 26, 2021
Number of Vacancies	485 (More Details)
Official Notification PDF	Click Here

Exam Pattern

The IBPS SO exam pattern for the IT stream consists of the following stages as mentioned below.

Prelims
Mains
Interview

A penalty of 0.25 marks will be deducted for every incorrect answer and an unattempted question will not be awarded any marks.

Prelims Exam Pattern

The IBPS SO Prelims exam pattern for the IT stream is an online exam consisting of three sections - Reasoning, English Language & Quantitative Aptitude. For each section, you will be allocated 40 minutes. You need to qualify in each section and the overall merit to qualify for the next stage. The test is bilingual i.e. it can be attempted in either Hindi or English Language. Detailed IBPS SO exam pattern 2021 is provided below.

S. No.	Name of test	Medium of Exam	No.of questions	Maximum Marks	Duration
1	English Language	English	50	25	40 Minutes
2	Reasoning	English & Hindi	50	50	40 Minutes
3	Quantitative Aptitude	English & Hindi	50	50	40 Minutes
	Total		150	125	2 Hours

Mains Exam Pattern

Once you qualify the Prelims you will be called for the IBPS SO Mains exam. IBPS SO Mains exam pattern for IT stream consists of only one section i.e Professional knowledge, where your hold on your respective subject will be tested. The test is bilingual i.e. it can be attempted in either Hindi or English Language. More details on the IBPS SO Mains exam pattern is provided in the table below.

Name of the Test	No. of Questions	Maximum Marks	Medium of Exam	Duration
Professional Knowledge	60	60	English & Hindi	45 minutes

Interview

If you qualify IBPS SO IT Officer Mains exam you will be shortlisted for the Interview. The IBPS SO exam interview will be conducted by the participating organisations in coordination with the Nodal Banks in each State. The final merit will be prepared on the basis of scores obtained in IBPS SO IT Officer Mains exam and Interview. The weightage of the online exam and interview is 80:20. The total marks allotted for the Interview is 100. The minimum qualifying marks for the general category is 40% and 35% for reserved categories.

Syllabus

Before you begin your preparation for IBPS SO exam 2021 for the IT stream, it is essential to go through the detailed IBPS SO exam syllabus. As the questions asked will be mainly from Quantitative Aptitude, Reasoning, General Awareness and your own Subject i.e. IT, so you should be aware of what to study and focus on. Given below is the detailed IBPS Specialist Officer exam syllabus.

Subjects	Topics
DBMS	DBMS Schemas (Hierarchical, Network, Relational), Relational Model Concepts, DML, DDL, Basic SQL, Oracle concepts, Basics of Indexing, Normalization, Entity Relationship Model
Operating Systems	Functions of OS, Basics of Memory Management, DML, DDL, Basic SQL, Oracle, concepts, Process Concept, Threads, Security, Multiprogramming, Synchronization Concepts, Spooling, Page Replacement Policies
Data Communication and Networking	OSI Model, TCP/IP Suit, IPv4 Addressing, IP header, Subnet Mask, Mac Address, ARP and RARP and DHCP, Switching and Routing, Common Network Protocols (Telnet, HTTP, FTP, SNMP, PPP,UDP, ARP etc., Network Devices (Switch, Hub, Repeater, Router, Modem etc), LAN, MAN, WAN, Network Security
Basics of Programming and Data Structures	C, C++, Java Basics, OOPS Concepts, Array, Strings, Heap & Priority Queue, Queue, Linked List, Stack
Software Engineering	Software Development Models(Waterfall, RAD, Prototyping, Spiral), Design and Analysis, Data Flow Diagram, Software Requirement, Software Testing (Black, White, Grey Box), Software Maintenance and CASE tools
Computer Organization & Architecture	8085 and 8086 (Flags and Interrupts), Memory Hierarchy & System Bus
MS Office & Windows and Web Technologies	HTML, Javascript Basics, Cookies, Search Engine Basics Client Server Model
Miscellaneous	Recurrence Relation, Planar Graphs, Relation, Regular Expression, Data Mining, Sorting, Finite Automata, Data Mining, Sorting, Algorithms to Find Shortest Path
Digital Logic	Logic Gates, Combinational Circuits, Number System, Hamming Distance, Basics of Counters
Computer Hardware	ROM/RAM, BIOS, Bootstrap Memory, Hard Disks, Peripheral Devices, Compiler, Assembler, Linker, Macro Processor, Loader, translator

Exam Dates

The IBPS SO recruitment 2021 notification for IT Officer contains all important dates like application link, fee payment date, exam date, result date, and other details. The complete details of the IBPS SO exam date is mentioned in the table below.

IBPS SO Exam Dates 2021

Events	Tentative Dates
On-line registration including Edit/Modification of Application by Candidates	To be notified later
Payment of Application Fees/Intimation Charges (Online)	To be notified later
Download of call letters for Online examination – Preliminary	December 2021
Online Examination – Preliminary	December 18 & 26, 2021
Result of Online exam – Preliminary	January 2022
Download of Call letter for Online exam – Mains	January 2022
Online Examination – Mains	January 30, 2022
Declaration of Result of Online Mains Examination	To be notified later
Download of call letters for interview	To be notified later
Conduct of interview	February 2022
Provisional Allotment	April 2022

Salary

IBPS SO salary is one of the major reasons why lakhs of candidates choose banking as a career. As an IBPS Specialist Officer in the IT stream, you will be entitled to get a handsome salary along with other perks and allowances. Detailed bank Specialist Officer salary for IT stream can be inferred from the table below.

Post	Salary
IT Officer (Scale I)	Pay Scale– Rs. 23700-980/7-30560-1145/2-32850-1310/7-42020 Monthly salary– Rs. 38800/- Approx

Job Profile

The IBPS SO recruitment 2021 is a good chance to work in the Government sector. IBPS SO notification includes vacancies for various streams and IT Officer is one such post covered under it. As an IBPS Specialist Officer in the IT stream you will handle a variety of tasks. Some of the responsibilities that an I.T. Officer (Scale I) need to perform are given below.

Provide data maintenance and support
Hardware, network security
Troubleshooting hardware/software faults
Replacing parts as required providing support, including procedural documentation
Resolve queries related to ATM, Internet and mobile banking

Vacancy

IBPS official calendar for the IBPS SO exam 2021-22 was released way back. As the IBPS SO notification 2021 is not out yet so the exact number of vacancies cannot be told. Till then, you can refer to the below table for the IBPS SO 2020 vacancies.

BANK	SC	ST	OBC	EWS	GEN	TOTAL	Out of Which
BANK	SC	ST	OBC	EWS	GEN	TOTAL	HI	OC	VI	ID
BANK OF BARODA	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	OC	NR	NR	NR
BANK OF INDIA	3	1	5	2	9	20	0	0	0	0
BANK OF MAHARASHTRA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
CANARA BANK	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
CENTRAL BANK OF INDIA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
INDIAN BANK	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR
INDIAN OVERSEAS BANK	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
PUNJAB & SIND BANK	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
PUNJAB NATIONAL BANK	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR	NR
UCO BANK	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
UNION BANK OF INDIA	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	3	1	5	2	9	20	0	0	0	0

Eligibility Criteria

It is advisable to go through the IBPS SO eligibility 2021 for IT stream before to complete your application procedure. The IBPS SO eligibility criteria includes nationality, educational qualification, age limit and age relaxation details. You can check the IBPS SO eligibility criteria from below.

Educational Qualification

You need to possess a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Computer Applications or Information Technology in order to be eligible for the IBPS SO IT exam. Detailed educational criteria for IBPS SO 2021 is provided below.

Post Code	Name of the Post	Educational Qualification
01	I.T. Officer (Scale-I)	4 year Engineering/ Technology Degree in Computer Science/ Computer Applications/ Information Technology/ Electronics/ Electronics & Telecommunications/ Electronics & Communication/ Electronics & Instrumentation OR Post Graduate Degree in Electronics/ Electronics & Tele Communication/ Electronics & Communication/ Electronics & Instrumentation/ Computer Science/ Information Technology/ Computer Applications OR Graduate having passed DOEACC ‘B’ level

Age Criteria

To be eligible to apply for IBPS SO exam 2021, you must lie within a specified age limit bracket so that your candidature does not get cancelled. Also if you belong to a reserved category you can claim age relaxation as per rules, provided you have necessary documents in support of age relaxation claim. These documents, you need to produce during the interview stage.

Post Code	Name of the Post	Age
01	I.T. Officer (Scale-I)	Min- 20 Years / Max-30 Years

Book

IBPS SO (IT) job is a Scale 1 post. To achieve success in the IBPS SO exam 2021, it is important to ensure that you have good resources to study. These resources can be in the form of notes and books. ixamBee brings to you the list of IBPS SO exam books for the IT stream so that you do not waste much time in searching for good study material here and there.

Subject	Author
Data structure	Aron M Tenenbaum
Dbms	Kurth and Sudarshan
Operating system	Galvins
Networking	Andrew S Tenenbaum
SQL	mysql
Algorithms	Thomas h comments
Oops for c++ and Java	The complete reference
Software engineering	Roger s pressman
Data warehousing	Paulraj ponniah

Previous Year Cutoff

Knowing every detail related to the IBPS SO exam, will help you in getting a basic idea of the exam. IBPS SO exam cut-off for previous year will give you a fair idea of the exam. Thus it is extremely important to go through the previous year IBPS SO exam cut-off for IT stream and prepare accordingly.

IBPS SO (IT) Cut Off 2020-21: Maximum Scores (Combined Scores in Online Main Examination and Interview Out of 100) Provisional Allotment

Post	Category
Post	SC	ST	OBC	EWS	UR	HI	OC	VI	ID
IT Officer (Scale-I)	42.60	36.67	54.00	44.67	54.33	NA	49.67	NA	NA

IBPS SO cutoff 2020-21: Minimum Scores (Combined Scores in Online Main Examination and Interview Out of 100) Provisional Allotment

Post	Category
Post	SC	ST	OBC	EWS	UR	HI	OC	VI	ID
IT Officer (Scale-I)	28.53 18/05/1995	26.00 13/05/1993	32.33 07/05/1996	31.00 14/07/1994	41.00 17/08/1999	NA	49.67 10/06/1986	NA	NA

IBPS SO cutoff 2020-21: Minimum Scores (Combined Scores in Online Main Examination and Interview Out of 100) Reserve List

Post	Category
Post	SC	ST	OBC	EWS	UR	HI	OC	VI	ID
IT Officer (Scale-I)	NA	NA	NA	30.33	40.47	25.67	32.67	26.87	NA

Online Course

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Free Mock Tests

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Useful Videos

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