How to prepare for ITEE Examination

The Information Technology Engineers Examination (ITEE) is a set of vendor neutral international IT examinations held in multiple Asian countries. These examinations are held by the government of each participating country as their national IT certification through the international IT Professionals Examination Council (ITPEC). These are comprehensive exams related to computer science or IT combined with expected skills for jobs. ITEE is an international certification based on Japanese IT standards and also is a national certification of the Bangladesh Government. 

The examination has multiple levels:

• Level 1: IT Passport Examination (IP)
• Level 2: Fundamental IT Engineer Examination (FE)
• Level 3: Applied IT Engineer Examination (AP)
• Level 4: Advanced Examination (AE)

In Bangladesh, level 1 and level 2 exams are organized by Bangladesh IT Examination Council (BDITEC) under Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC), Bangladesh Government.

Syllabus:

• Level 1: https://bditec.gov.bd/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Syllabus_IP_Ver6.3.pdf
• Level 2: http://bditec.gov.bd/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Syllabus-FE-Ver-8.1.pdf

The exam has no negative marking. Level 1 and 2 have multiple choice questions (MCQ) only. The level 2 (FE) exam has two parts: subject A: morning and subject B: afternoon. Regardless of the performance in the morning exam/subject A, please still attend the afternoon exam/subject B in full. Passing in any part, will help in attending the remaining part during the next two times if required. The exam is held two times a year. Dates and past questions are available at the ITPEC website: https://itpec.org/

CS/CSE students in their 6th semester and onwards are strongly encouraged to register for Level-2: FE Exam (Subject A Morning & Afternoon) from http://registration.bditec.gov.bd/

Students from any department or study program in their 1st to 5th semesters are encouraged to register for Level-1: IT Passport Exam (IP) from http://registration.bditec.gov.bd/ 

I would recommend starting to practice with Bismillah from the past few exam questions:

• IP: https://itpec.org/pastexamqa/ip.html
• FE: https://itpec.org/pastexamqa/fe.html

Good support is available via the Facebook group, ITEE FE(level-2) Candidate only: https://www.facebook.com/groups/itee.fe

Anybody posting a question or its picture there usually gets quick responses. It is a good place to network with past passers as well. Its files sections have some practice materials too: https://www.facebook.com/groups/itee.fe/files/files

Registration and preparation/practice books are at https://registration.bditec.gov.bd/

Free training/e-learning materials are available at Lightboat: https://lightboat.lightworks.co.jp/en-promotion

In-person trainings are organized by BCC in some universities and sometimes at BCC almost every year around the registration month. 

Analysis of some past questions maybe available at the translated website fe-siken.com: https://www-fe--siken-com.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=ja&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

Further recommended reading:

https://www.dhakatribune.com/bangladesh/education/2019/03/22/56-bangladeshis-pass-itee-test

http://www.ugc.gov.bd/site/news/0b4bdf63-6bf0-4ed6-a8ea-2a1dba4cb70f/Workshop-on-skills-development-of-ICT-Engineers-on-13-Nov

http://itpec.org/advantage/advantage-for-passer.html 

Cloud/Utility/Service computing
Slide: https://www.usenix.org/legacy/events/lisa09/tech/slides/fox.pdf

Report: https://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2009/EECS-2009-28.pdf

Audio: https://c59951.ssl.cf2.rackcdn.com/lisa09/fox.mp3

Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK):
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Project_Management/PMBOK

SWEBOK– Software Engineering Body of Knowledge
BOK: https://www.computer.org/web/swebok
Guide: https://www.computer.org/education/bodies-of-knowledge/software-engineering/topics

System reliability and availability:
https://www.eventhelix.com/fault-handling/system-reliability-availability/
http://www.ecs.umass.edu/ece/koren/FaultTolerantSystems/simulator/NonSerPar/nsnpframe.html
https://www.pixelbeat.org/docs/reliability_calculator/

Practice coding
https://towardsdatascience.com/9-distance-measures-in-data-science-918109d069fa
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tf%E2%80%93idf

Various sorting algorithms and their stability
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorting_algorithm#Comparison_of_algorithms

URL spec 

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt

http://username:password@example.com/

Cybersecurity: 

https://www.fortinet.com/resources/cyberglossary/types-of-cyber-attacks

LinkedList item removal: 

https://github.com/mkirchner/linked-list-good-taste

Floating point guide: 

https://floating-point-gui.de/

SQL query join types: 

https://www.atlassian.com/data/sql/sql-join-types-explained-visually

SQL query order:

• https://sqlbolt.com/lesson/select_queries_order_of_execution
• https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/order-of-execution-of-sql-queries/
• https://www.sisense.com/blog/sql-query-order-of-operations/

SAN vs NAS

Cross-platform portable new line:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newline#Representation
• https://www.baeldung.com/java-string-newline
• https://en.cppreference.com/w/cpp/io/c/FILE#Binary_and_text_modes

ASCII
Unicode variants
Data types

Escape sequences
https://annajiat.blogspot.com/2017/10/using-escape-character-sequences-or.html

Code conventions or style guide

• https://annajiat.blogspot.com/2020/08/python-code-convention-or-style-guide.html
• https://annajiat.blogspot.com/2019/08/java-code-convention-or-style-guide.html

Documentation comment: https://annajiat.blogspot.com/2018/02/using-online-javadoc-java-documentation.html
and other discussions

References:

• BDITEC: https://bditec.gov.bd/
• IPA: https://www.ipa.go.jp/en/about/it-talents/itee.html
• IPA: https://www.ipa.go.jp/en/it-examinations/reference.html
• ITPEC: https://itpec.org/
• Exam outline: https://www.ipa.go.jp/en/it-examinations/nph2g600000007uh-att/000009648.pdf
• ITPEC mutual recognition: https://www.ipa.go.jp/en/it-examinations/mutualrecognition.html