Telecoms and IT Services

Which combination of major groups belongs to division G, information and communications, of the Japan Standard Industrial Classification?

1. Communications, broadcasting, information services, video picture, sound information, character information production and distribution, advertising, scientific and development research institutes, wholesale trade
2. Communications, broadcasting, information services, advertising, printing and allied industries, video picture, sound information, character information production and distribution, electricity
3. Communications, broadcasting, information services, internet-based services, video picture, sound information, character information production and distribution
4. Communications, broadcasting, electricity, water

Which establishment is classified under major group 39, information services, of the Japan Standard Industrial Classification?

1. An establishment providing mobile phone lines
2. An establishment producing custom-built software under contract
3. An establishment broadcasting television programmes
4. An establishment publishing a newspaper

Which is the correct description of an MNO in the guidelines of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (総務省)?

1. A telecommunications carrier that provides fixed telephone lines only and does not provide mobile services
2. A company that manufactures and sells communications equipment
3. A telecommunications carrier that itself establishes or operates the radio stations used for its mobile services
4. A telecommunications carrier that owns no radio stations and provides mobile services by borrowing another company's facilities

Which matches the requirement for an MVNO set out in the guidelines?

1. Setting its charges lower than an MNO's and offering them to users
2. Running the business without either notification or registration under the Telecommunications Business Act
3. Neither establishing nor operating the radio stations used for its mobile services
4. Building radio stations such as base stations itself, and establishing and operating them itself

In which year was Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation privatised and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (日本電信電話株式会社) founded?

1. 1985
2. 1979
3. 1990
4. 1999

Which combination of companies was set up in the 1999 reorganisation of the NTT group?

1. NTT Communications, NTT Data, NTT Urban Development
2. NTT East, NTT West, NTT Docomo
3. NTT East, NTT West, NTT Communications
4. NTT Docomo, NTT Data, NTT Facilities

Which three companies merged in October 2000 to form the body that later became KDDI?

1. DDI, Japan Telecom and IDO
2. DDI, KDD and Japan Telecom
3. DDI, KDD and IDO
4. KDD, Teleway Japan and Tu-Ka

In which year did DDI Corporation, formed by the merger, change its name to KDDI Corporation?

1. 2001
2. 2005
3. 2000
4. 2003

Which company started the first internet connection service in Japan in 1993?

1. Internet Initiative Japan Inc.
2. Tokyo Electron Limited
3. SAKURA Internet Inc.
4. Nomura Research Institute, Ltd.

Which is correct about the establishment of NEC Corporation (日本電気株式会社)?

1. It was established in 1950 as a joint sales company for communications equipment
2. It was established in 1935 on taking over a factory sold off by the government
3. It was established in 1970 with joint investment from three electrical manufacturers
4. It was established in 1899 as the first foreign-affiliated company in Japan, a joint venture with foreign capital

Which comes closest to the role of a company called a system integrator?

1. Laying communications lines and leasing them to other companies
2. Listening to what the client wants, combining equipment and software into a system, and delivering it
3. Selling a service it has planned itself to a large, unspecified body of users
4. Designing semiconductors and outsourcing their manufacture to other companies

What is the name for the pattern in which a prime contractor passes part of the work to another company, which passes part of it on again?

1. A joint venture of several companies
2. Vertical integration, keeping the processes in-house
3. Mutual access, with facilities lent to one another
4. A layered subcontracting structure

Which correctly states what a contract for work (請負) is under the Civil Code (民法)?

1. A contract to lend a thing and receive rent for it
2. A contract entrusting the handling of affairs, under which remuneration is paid for the affairs handled whether or not the work is completed
3. A contract under which one party promises to complete work and the other promises to pay remuneration for the result of that work
4. A contract to dispatch workers to another company and have them work under that company's direction

Which is correct about the quasi-mandate (準委任) under Article 656 of the Civil Code?

1. It sets out how far the client's direction reaches under a worker dispatch contract
2. It provides for a contract in which one party promises to complete work
3. It applies the provisions on mandate mutatis mutandis to the entrustment of affairs that are not juridical acts
4. It is a special provision on the sale of goods

On distinguishing a worker dispatch business from a business carried out under a contract for work, which is the correct view shown in the notification?

1. If the contract is headed as a contract for services, it is treated as a contract for work whatever the actual working arrangement is
2. If the work is done outside the client's building, it is necessarily a contract for work
3. It is a contract for work if the contractor directly uses the labour of the workers it employs itself and handles the work independently of the counterparty
4. If remuneration is paid monthly, it is a contract for work

Which correctly states the difference between contract development and developing one's own service?

1. In developing one's own service no design stage is set at all, and building may start from requirements definition alone
2. Contract development builds to a specification the client has set, while an in-house service is built to a specification the company sets itself
3. Contract development is always carried out as worker dispatch, and contracts for work or quasi-mandates are never used
4. In contract development no invoice is issued to the client

What does the unit called the person-month, used in estimating contract development, express?

1. The volume of work, the number of people multiplied by the number of months
2. The usage fee for using a service on a monthly basis
3. The number of users who used the service in a month
4. The monthly salary paid per engineer

In which year was Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. (株式会社野村総合研究所) established?

1. 1988
2. 1965
3. 1975
4. 1955

Which company merged with Nomura Research Institute, Ltd. in 1988?

1. Nomura Trust and Banking Co., Ltd.
2. Nomura Real Estate Holdings, Inc.
3. Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.
4. Nomura Computer Systems Co., Ltd.

Which is correct about the beginning of Fujitsu Limited (富士通株式会社)?

1. It was established in 1950 as a company for manufacturing and maintaining communications equipment, split off from the state's electrical communication laboratory
2. It was established in 1935 as Fuji Tsushinki Manufacturing Corporation, spun off from the telephone division of Fuji Electric
3. It was established in 1918 as a light bulb manufacturer
4. It was established in 1970 with joint investment from three electrical manufacturers

What is the name for internet advertising placed while adjusting where it appears and how much is spent through bidding and automated delivery?

1. Tie-up advertising (タイアップ広告)
2. Transit advertising (交通広告)
3. Managed advertising (運用型広告)
4. Reserved advertising (純広告)

Which combination of businesses does CyberAgent, Inc. (株式会社サイバーエージェント) list in its company outline?

1. Banking, securities, and underwriting life and non-life insurance
2. Media and IP, internet advertising, and games
3. Semiconductor design, electronic component manufacturing, selling production equipment
4. Laying communications lines, terrestrial broadcasting, publishing newspapers and magazines

Which businesses does LY Corporation (LINEヤフー株式会社) list in its company outline?

1. Power generation, transmission and distribution, and the retail supply of electricity to homes and factories, among others
2. Railways and real estate
3. The internet advertising business, the e-commerce business and the membership services business, among others
4. Developing and selling semiconductor production equipment, and servicing the equipment delivered, among others

In the games industry, what is the party called that puts up the money, manages development, and handles sales and promotion?

1. Platform holder
2. Distributor
3. Developer
4. Publisher

What did Nintendo start manufacturing in Kyoto in 1889, at the beginning of the company?

1. Fountain pens (万年筆)
2. Hanafuda playing cards (花札)
3. Cameras (写真機)
4. Model railways (鉄道模型)

In which year did Nintendo release the Family Computer home video game console?

1. 1989
2. 1977
3. 1983
4. 1996

What is the name for a semiconductor company that owns no factory of its own and concentrates on design?

1. OSAT
2. IDM
3. Foundry
4. Fabless

In semiconductor making, what is the stage of building circuits onto a silicon wafer called?

1. The inspection process
2. The front-end process
3. The back-end process
4. The mounting process

What name did Tokyo Electron Limited (東京エレクトロン株式会社) go by when it was established in 1963?

1. Tokyo Semiconductor Machinery Co., Ltd.
2. Tokyo Denshi Kogyo Co., Ltd.
3. Nippon Electronics Industry Co., Ltd.
4. Tokyo Electron Laboratories, Inc.

What does SAKURA Internet Inc. (さくらインターネット株式会社) run itself as the foundation of its business?

1. A semiconductor factory
2. A mobile phone base station network
3. Data centres
4. A terrestrial television station