The algebra portion of the exam will be based on the syllabus for Math 250A,B,C.  A short course description and more detailed outline are below, along w/ suggested texts. 

Course Description for 250ABC: Group and rings. Sylow theorems, abelian groups, Jordan-Holder theorem. Rings, unique factorization. Algebras, and modules.  Fields and vector spaces over fields. Field extensions. Commutative rings. Representation theory and its applications.
 
TOPICAL OUTLINE -- sept 8, 9 (probably):
Group Theory: groups as symmetries, homomorphisms, subgroups and quotient groups, group actions, abelian groups. Basic concepts including group actions, Sylow's theorems, classifications of finite abelian groups and groups of small order, the Jordan-Holder theorem.
Introduction to rings, ring homomorphisms and ideals, field of fractions of a commutative domain; polynomial rings; factorial rings; principal ideal domains and Euclidean domains; polynomial extensions of factorial domains. Unique factorization. Free groups, group representations.
TOPICAL OUTLINE -- sept 10, 13 (probably):
Modules and vector spaces. Dual vector spaces, multilinear functions, determinants, bilinear forms, tensor products and tensor algebras, the classification of finitely generated abelian groups and endomorphisms of finite-dimensional vector spaces, field theory and Galois theory. Time permitting also category theory.

texts:
250ABC Textbook: Abstract algebra, Dummit and Foote.
Additional reference books:
    Artin, Algebra.
    Rose, A course on group theory.
    Dixon, Problems in group theory.
    Hall, The theory of groups.