The final test

E1 What is a standard, in the plainest terms?

• A law that equipment makers have to obey
• A description with a unique name saying how to do a thing, if you want to do it
• A test certificate a product earns after being checked

E2 In 3GPP, who approves a change to a specification that is under change control?

• The Support Team, who edit the text
• The Working Group agrees it and the parent TSG approves it
• The rapporteur, who owns the document

E3 What is a Release?

• The set of specifications a whole mobile system can be built from
• The yearly meeting where new features are chosen
• The moment a specification is put on the file server

E4 A Release has been frozen. What may still be changed in it?

• Anything, as long as the TSG agrees
• Nothing at all
• Only essential corrections

E5 How does the IETF decide a technical question?

• By counting votes in the working group
• By rough consensus, judged by the chair
• By a ruling of the Internet Architecture Board

E6 What does a standard oblige a company to do?

• Nothing by itself — it says how, not that you must
• Build the thing it describes, once published
• Buy a licence before implementing it

E7 In 3GPP, what is a Working Group?

• A company's internal team preparing its proposals
• The permanent staff who edit the documents
• An official subgroup of a Technical Specification Group, reporting to it

E8 A 3GPP specification is approved for Release 4. What version does it get?

• 1.0.0, and it counts up from there
• 3.0.0, the next number after 2.0.0
• 4.0.0 — the first digit is the Release, so 3.y.z never exists

E9 You are handed the file 29341-420.zip. What is inside it?

• Change Request 420 against specification 29.341
• Release 4 of the 29-series, part 20
• Specification 29.341, version 4.2.0

E10 In 3GPP wording, which word marks something you have to do?

• should
• must
• shall