C Coding Specialist Certification 

Candidates for this exam are developers with at least one year of experience programming essential business logic for a variety of application types, hardware, and software platforms using C.

Candidates should also have a thorough understanding of the following:

• Lexical Elements
• Data Types
• Expressions and Operators
• Statements
• Functions
• Strings of characters
• Matrices
• I/O operations
• Linked lists

1. Linked lists

What are lexical elements and how can they be used?

• Identifiers
• Keywords
• Constants

2. Data Types

What are the basic data types and the methods to create derivative types?

• Primitive Data Types
• Enumerations, unions and structures
• Arrays
• Pointers and type qualifiers

3. Expressions and Operators

How can variables and constants be combined such as to create valid expressions?

• Assignment operators and arithmetic operators
• Logical operators
• Pointer operators
• Conditional expressions

4. Statements

How can we make a program to cause actions and to control the flow of these actions?

• Labels and expression statements
• The if and switch statements
• Blocks and while, do and for statements
• The null, goto, break, continue, return and typedef statements

5. Functions

How to create order in programs by separating parts of the code into sub-tasks? How to express recursion?

• Function declarations
• Function definition and calling functions
• Function parameters
• Recursive functions
• Static functions
• Nested functions
• The main() function

6. Strings of characters

How to work with text?

• Declaring and defining strings of characters
• Creating new strings dynamically
• Concatenation, searching, substrings
• Arrays of strings

7. Matrices

How to work with multidimensional arrays?

• Transposition
• Addition, multiplication
• Check for identity
• Sub-matrices

8. I/O operations

How to store and access data in non volatile memory?

• Text and binary files
• Open and read
• Write, append, modify and close
• Using structures and binary files

9. Linked lists

How to work with dynamically allocated data?

• Single linked lists
• Queues, stacks
• Double linked lists

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The minimum system requirements are:

• Operating System: Windows 7/8/10/11, MacOS X 10.0 or newer, or Linux OS. 

• RAM Requirement: Minimum 1GB (higher may be required depending on OS). 

• Processor Requirement: At least 1.0 GHz (higher may be required based on OS and architecture). 

• Display Requirement: Minimum resolution of 1366×768 pixels. 

• Browser Requirement: Latest version of Google Chrome. 

• Internet Access: Stable internet connection required. 

• System Settings: Disable automatic updates, notifications, and popups to prevent disruptions during the exam.