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By Richard Marejka

1. What does MSA stand for?
   a) Managed Service Architecture
   b) Mobile Service Architecture
   c) Mobile System Applications
   
2. Who were the co-spec leads on MSA JSR 248?
   a) Nokia
   b) Motorola
   c) Sony Ericsson
   d) Vodafone
   e) Sun Microsystems
   
3. How many JSRs are included in the MSA subset?
   
   a) 7
   b) 8
   c) 9
   d) 10
   e) 13
   
4. How many JSRs are included in full MSA?
   a) 13
   b) 15
   c) 16
   d) 18
   e) 21
   
5. Upon which configuration is MSA based?
   a) CLDC
   b) CDC
   
6. Which handset manufacturer was the first to announce an MSA device?
   a) Motorola
   b) Nokia
   c) Samsung
   d) Sony Ericsson
   e) Apple
   
7. Which version of MIDP is included in MSA?
   a) 1.0
   b) 2.0
   c) 2.1
   d) 3.0
   
8. Can CDC be used in place of CLDC?
   a) No
   b) Yes
   
9. What is the minimum OTA JAR file size required by MSA?
   a) 64 Kb
   b) 100 Kb
   c) 300 Kb
   d) 512 Kb
   
10. What is the minimum pathname length required as defined in JSR 75?
    a) 63 Unicode characters
    b) 127 ASCII characters
    c) 255 Unicode characters
    d) 1024 Unicode characters
    
11. Which memory card formats (with file systems) are required to be supported?
    a) Compact Flash
    b) San Disk
    c) Memory Stick
    d) All formats
    e) Only one format
    
12. If the device supports Bluetooth, then must the Bluetooth API be supported?
    a) True
    b) False
    
13. Is JSR 172 (Java ME Web Services) part of
    a) MSA only
    b) MSA and MSA-SUBSET
    c) MSA-SUBSET only
    
14. Client TCP sockets a mandatory requirement in MSA.
    a) True
    b) False
    
15. What is the required minimum supported number of MIDlets in a MIDlet suite?
    a) 3
    b) 5
    c) 8
    d) 15
    e) Unlimited
    
16. What is the required minimum heap size available to a MIDlet?
    a) 256 Kb
    b) 512 Kb
    c) 640 Kb
    d) 1024 Kb
    e) 2048 Kb
    
17. Mark/Reset functionality in InputStream returned from Class.getgetResourceAsStream is required by MSA.
    a) True
    b) False
    
18. A conforming implementation must support the javax.microedtion.io.UDPDatagramConnection network protocol.
    a) True
    b) False
    
19. The minimum image size required to be supported is
    a) 16 Kb
    b) 32 Kb
    c) 64 Kb
    d) 128 Kb
    
20. PIM support must include which of the following lists?
    a) ContactList, ToDoList, EventList
    b) ContactList, EventList
    c) ContactList
    d) Any two lists
    

1. b) Mobile Service Architecture
2. a) Nokia and d) Vodafone
3. b) 8
4. c) 16
5. a) CLDC
6. d) Sony Ericsson
7. c) 2.1
8. b) Yes
9. c) 300 Kb
10. c) 255 Unicode characters
11. d) All formats
12. a) True
13. a) MSA only
14. a) True
15. b) 5
16. d) 1024 Kb
17. a) True
18. b) False
19. b) 32 Kb
20. a) ContactList, ToDoList, EventList