The final test

E1 TS 38.108's definition of a satellite access node names one kind of payload, and one architecture study went after the other. Which pair is right?

• It names both kinds, and no study went after either
• It names a transparent payload, and TR 23.700-29 names the regenerative payload architecture as its first aim
• It names a regenerative payload, and TR 23.700-19 names the transparent one as its first aim

E2 A colleague writes "3GPP has 155 satellite work items". What is wrong with the sentence?

• Nothing — 155 is exact
• The number should be 102
• 155 is a count of short names; those sit on 183 rows of the work plan, and any count has to say which of the two it means

E3 Release 19's radio phase 3 has three rows in the work plan. What do their completion values and planned days say together?

• Core and performance at 1, planned to 2025 and 2026; the conformance row at 0.14, planned to 2027
• All three stand at 1, planned to 2025
• All three stand below 0.5

E4 Three separate parts of this subject land in the older 4G core rather than in the 5G one. Which three?

• The requirements, the application layer and the management model
• The internet-of-things architecture work, the phase 3 security result, and phase 4's voice call
• The band items, the conformance tests and the charging records

E5 A document in this record is marked "agreed". What does that tell you about the work item it was filed under?

• That the work item is finished
• That the work item was approved
• Nothing — the word is that document's own fate at one meeting, and no store here holds a status word for a work item

E6 You want to know which group leads `NR_NTN_Ph3`. Where is the answer, and where is it not?

• In the words of the work item's own leadership line, and only there — the `named_in_leadership` list mixes leading and secondary groups together
• In a group entry's `named_in_leadership` list, which holds only the items that group leads
• In a leading-group column of the work plan

E7 TS 38.133 carries 1426 documents of this subject, more than any other specification in the register. What does that number mean?

• That the document was the most contested in the subject
• That it is the general radio resource management specification, and a dozen separate jobs each had to write into it — 30 different short names appear in its change list
• That it was written for satellites

E8 The phase 1 protocol work item's justification states the order this whole subject works in. What is it?

• The radio first, then the protocol, then the requirements
• The protocol first, then the architecture, then the requirements
• Requirements into TS 22.261, then the architecture conclusion in TR 23.737, then the protocol work

E9 Release 20's studies are running or done while the work items that would turn them into rules stand at nothing. Which reading does the record support?

• Homework finished and rule-writing not started, and nothing beyond that, because the plan holds no status word
• That the work was abandoned
• That the rule-writing was refused at a plenary

E10 Which of these can this course answer out of its register?

• Why the phase 3 security result landed in the older core's security document
• Which specifications a work item's own table promises to change
• The day Release 20 freezes

E11 What does TS 38.108 say a Satellite Access Node is?

• A node that terminates the radio protocols towards the device and connects to the 5G core, spanning the payload in orbit and the ground equipment
• The ground station only, at the far end of the feeder link
• The satellite itself, and nothing on the ground

E12 Which industry does the Release 17 internet-of-things justification name first?

• Energy and utilities
• Transport and logistics — maritime, road, rail and air
• Farming and land management

E13 Why do 155 short names sit on 183 work plan rows?

• Because 28 rows were entered into the work plan twice
• Because 28 rows belong to a different subject and were left in
• Because a feature, its core part, its performance part and its conformance part are each a row of their own

E14 Which short name carries more documents than any other in this whole subject?

• NR_NTN_enh-Core, with 3249
• NR_NTN_Ph3-Core, with 2807
• NR_NTN_solutions-Core, with 4346

E15 What is the whole objective of the Release 17 internet-of-things work item?

• To specify support of NB-IoT and eMTC over NTN
• To move the base station into orbit
• To design a new radio built for satellites from scratch