NC4 PROGRAMMING EXAM CONTENTS

As far as i know, you need to have two CoC's (Certificate of Competency) to be granted an NC4. CoC 1 is for Object Oriented Programming and CoC2 is for Procedural Programming. In short, in order to be eligible for an NC4 certificate, you need to pass the CoC 1 exam and the CoC 2 exam.

As stated above, CoC1 is for Object Oriented Programming. Since most programming languages being used today are capable of being Object Oriented, this is quite in a broad sense. To be more specific, COC1 requires the creation of a GUI-based database application.

CoC2 is Procedural Programming. Although it implies that you need to use procedural programming languages, like Basic and Cobol (i think), this is not the case. You can use any programming language, even OO languages like Java. But why did they call it Procedural Programming? I guess TESDA is referring to the output to be generated. That's right, output should be DOS-based and text-only, no fancy GUI's, etc.

Since i haven't taken the exam yet, I can't specifically tell you the entire coverage of the exam. All I know at this time is that in CoC1, applicants are asked to design a LIBRARY SYSTEM using a database as a backend, while in CoC2, they are asked for a WEEKLY PAYROLL REPORT using text files as data sources. I'll post more later.