Written exam experience Cybersecurity Project Engineer CDAC - Hyderabad
I have been shortlisted for a preliminary online interview for Project Engineer- (Cyber Security), Advt No. CORP/JIT/ 01/2026-HY (JIT-XII) in CDAC Hyderabad, I have cleared the on-site exam on 19th April and later called for the preliminary interview, scheduled on 4th May.
I won't talk much about the interview experience as I was last in lobby made me wait for 1 hour, interviewer felt in a rush and my interview went for 5 mins by asking intro and cybersecurity. From what I know it is 100% resume based. I am still awaiting for my result, if anyone cleared it let me know.
Back to the "written" exam,
Aptitude questions (total 10) are super super easy like basic class 6th level questions, one question was "144 ÷ 12 = ?", I can't remember much.
Technical questions (total 60) are a bit tough because they require domain knowledge. As per my experience I found questions were mostly only on attacks, theory related along with OSI layer (it is a must prepare well). And some coding samples that too were like "for given piece of code which attack can be performed", needed to review code and tell the output it wasn't a normal DSA question as it required variable and class knowledge so prepare oops and encapsulation questions too, difference between asymmetric and symmetric key strategy, VPN full form, SSH full form, XSS vs CORS, etc all of these are actual MCQs form that paper. These will give some idea, I can't remember tough ones.
So, total questions were 10+60 within 60 minutes and there was NO NEGATIVE marking.
Although it is mentioned written but it was completely CBT based, ⚠️⚠️ since it was running on their local network ppl who had coding questions (some other domain) had compiler issues, even when I was going through MCQs their exam application lags like super hard and timer also glitches so don't waste time they won't help you much for that, try to atleast go through technical well within 5-10 minutes before deadline (because of jitter) since there is no calculation or coding required (in my case) it is achievable.
I hope this helps and all the best.