ARCHIVÉE 5.2.12. Exercises

Exercise 1

Read the following statement and then decide if it is true or false.

Standards are commonly agreed upon regulations, established by consensus, to regulate the use of materials, products, services, processes or systems.

Exercise 2

Read the following question and then select the correct answer.

Each of the possible answers offers two types of standards. Which two types of standards are important in the field of terminology?

Exercise 3

Select the correct type of standard for each definition.

Which types of standard go with which explanation?

1. Standards established as an agreement by the major market players rather than by wide consensus.

2. Standards that lay down the characteristics or specifications commonly agreed upon of a product or service.

3. Standards produced by an official body, following an organized standardization process and based on formal rules.

Exercise 4

Select the correct term for each definition.

1. The process whereby an authoritative body confers an official status on a term or a name.

2. The process whereby an official body agrees on the terms and definitions to be used.

3. The process whereby a terminology group or body aligns terms and definitions between languages or language variants.

Exercise 5

Read the following statement and then decide if it is true or false.

Standards are generally voluntary but may become mandatory if they are incorporated in national legislation or regulations.

Exercise 6

Select the correct term to finish the sentence.

The absence or lack of technical terminology in a field of activity that is important to a given language is called    .

Exercise 7

Select the three major international standardization organizations.

The three major international standardization organizations are: