1. Open Book, Open Note 3-4 Multipart Questions Bring a Calculator (ex, ln[x], xy, std dev)
Business Processes
Organization and Roles
Annual Business Cycles and Processes
Standard, Performance Requirement Types
Sales, CM, OM and Net Income
Business Cases for New Product Development
Design Inputs, Design Outputs and Reviews
Verification and Validation
Product Program Milestones and Process

2. Requirements, Flowdown, Block Diagram
Aspects of Good Requirements, Poor Requirements
Validation and Verification
Standard Requirements
Performance Requirements
Allocation and Margin
Association
External Interfaces
Block Requirements and Bl-Bl Interfaces
Analog, Digital and Power Interface Signal Requirements

3. Electromagnetic Compliance & Global Power
Nominal Voltage & Frequency vs Country
Robust Operational Ranges of Voltage and Frequency
EMC Certification, Engineering Tests and Technical Justifications
Emission Tests and Limits
CISPR11 Radiated and Conducted E Field Emission
EN Powerline Harmonic Emission
EN Voltage Fluctuation and Flicker Emissions
Susceptibility Tests
Standard Response Levels, Classifications
EN Electrostatic Discharge Stress
EN Radiated E-Field Stress
EN Electrical Fast Transient Stress
EN Power Surge Stress
EN RF Conducted Electrical Stress
EN Power Frequency B-Field Stress
EN Power Dropout, Variation Stress

4. Safety Test Labs, Standards Bodies and Government Agencies
Common Hazards
NEC
Underwriters Labs
CSA
ISO
IEC
US Government Departments & Applicable Agencies
US DoD Organization
Common Applicable Standards, MIL-STDs, UL-STDs
CE Mark
Key Aspects of Product Safety, Electrical, Mechanical, EHS

5. Prototyping Systems Methods Guidelines Soldering Substrates & Boards
Breadboard
Wirewrap
Perfboard with and without pads
Deadbug
PCB’s handmade transfer, photolitho and outsourced
Guidelines
Soldering
Substrates & Boards
Overall Prototyping Systems and Limitations
Thru Hole vs SMT Packages
Sockets, Interconnection Systems

6. Reliability & Statistics (May not use Excel Tools)
Basic Stats: Mean, Std Deviation, Median, Mode
Specification Limits, Z values
Samples vs Full Populations, Normal and Weibull Distributions
6 Sigma Quality, Mean Shifts
Basic Failure Rate vs Time, Infantile vs End of Life Failures
6 Life Cycle Phases and Statistical Relationship
Series Reliability vs Parallel/Redundant
MTBF, Reli(%) and FITs
Reliability Summation, l, R(t), Warranty, , h
Stresses and Stress Factor Multipliers, P
Prediction Standards and Databases
Parts Count Prediction Method Flaws
Component Derating Guidelines, Capacitor Applications
HALT, HASS and HAST (ESS) Processes
Life Stress Modeling