PNP Lateral Entry: Written Competitive Examination (WCE) - IT Officer

PNP Lateral Entry CY: 2017 - 2nd Cycle WCE for aspiring IT Officer was conducted last April 29, 2018 at Camp Crame Elementary School. As per the information I got, there are 245 applicants who are qualified to take the exam but, only 211 applicants took the written competitive examination, and only 20 passed - originally (passing score is 70% as per NAPOLCOM MC 2008-006).

The exam is a multiple-choice type and composed of 150 questions: 50 of which are general knowledge and the remaining 100 are questions relating to the field of expertise (IT). The general knowledge varies from recent events and news that affect the country in relation to the PNP, international events still related to the country such as the Miss Universe 2018, questions related to the government, and questions about the 1987 constitution. Below are some questions that I remembered which are included in the exam about general knowledge(though not exactly as it was, but the question itself answers what is needed to be answered):

• Who is the the Miss Universes 2018?
• What is not included in the PNP anti-drug operation?  (the list include: oplan tokhang and oplan double barrel, oplan double barrel reloaded - I can't remember the other one which is the answer)
• The new PNP Chief is:
• What is not a Constitutional Commission on the list? (COMELEC, COA , CSC, CHR - Answer: CHR)
• Who is the Transportation Secretary?

On questions relating to IT, I was lucky enough since majority of the questions are about networking, firewalling, and cyber security which at the time is my line of work. There also include questions relating to computer hardware, operating system, and programming. Personally, I do believe that the coverage for computer hardware, operating system, and programming will be included in the succeeding upcoming WCE for the next batches and what will change is the set of questions for a certain field (networking, system administration, cyber security, infrastructure, multimedia, etc.).

Here are the passers of WCE last April 29, 2018: