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Key Facts: Applied Information Technology Engineer Examination Exam

7,500 JPY

Exam fee (tax included)

IPA スケジュール、手数料など

60/100 each subject

Pass cutoff for Subject A and Subject B

IPA 試験要綱 Ver.5.6

80 MCQ + 5 of 11 descriptive

Official answer counts

IPA 応用情報技術者試験 / 試験要綱 Ver.5.6

150 min + 150 min

Official Subject A and Subject B times

IPA 応用情報技術者試験

Level 3

IT Skill Standards (ITSS) ranking

IPA 応用情報技術者試験シラバス（レベル3）

Japan's national ITSS Level 3 engineer exam, run by IPA for METI. Fee 7,500 JPY (tax included); Japanese CBT with 80 MCQs plus a descriptive paper. This bank is independent English MCQ study, not an official translation.

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1Under Japan's 中小受託取引適正化法 (取適法; official long title: 製造委託等に係る中小受託事業者に対する代金の支払の遅延等の防止に関する法律), what is the statutory purpose stated by the Japan Fair Trade Commission?
A.To set a nationwide minimum wage for software engineers employed by large system integrators
B.To promote fairness in entrusted transactions and protect the interests of small and medium entrusted businesses (中小受託事業者)
C.To require every information-system contract above 1 million JPY to be notarized by a legal affairs bureau
D.To prohibit all outsourcing of software development by listed companies
Explanation: JFTC materials on 取適法 state the purpose as 受託取引の公正化 and 中小受託事業者の利益保護. The 2025 amendment renamed the former 下請代金支払遅延等防止法 (下請法) and updated party labels (委託事業者 / 中小受託事業者). The statute is a competition-law complement that specifies prohibited unfair practices in covered manufacturing, repair, information-product, service, and specified transport delegations; it does not set wages, require notarization of every IT contract, or ban outsourcing.
2IPA's Applied Information Technology Engineer Examination syllabus Ver.7.2 (published 2026-01-08) changed which transaction-law topic in the labor-and-transaction regulations section?
A.It deleted the Copyright Act and added only Creative Commons licenses
B.It deleted 下請法 (下請代金支払遅延等防止法) and added 中小受託取引適正化法 (取適法)
C.It deleted the Civil Code and added the Companies Act as the sole contract statute
D.It deleted 労働者派遣法 and added a rule that all IT staff must be direct employees
Explanation: IPA's syllabus index for AP Ver.7.2 notes that 下請法 was deleted and 中小受託取引適正化法 was added. The same replacement appears in the IT Passport Ver.6.5 and FE Ver.9.2 notes. Copyright, Civil Code 請負/(準)委任, and 労働者派遣法 remain syllabus topics alongside 取適法.
3In 中小受託取引適正化法, which of the following is an 情報成果物 (information product) whose creation may be a covered 情報成果物作成委託?
A.A pallet of unfinished steel coils awaiting rolling
B.A custom customer-management program (顧客管理システム)
C.A vacant warehouse lease with no logistics services attached
D.Purchase of a shrink-wrapped packaged accounting product from a retailer, with no custom creation delegated
Explanation: JFTC operational criteria define 情報成果物 to include programs (for example a 顧客管理システム or appliance control program), audio-visual works, and text/graphic designs. Delegating creation of such a program can be 情報成果物作成委託. Raw materials are manufacturing inputs. A bare warehouse lease is not itself an information product. Buying finished packaged software without commissioning creation is a purchase, not 情報成果物作成委託.
4A 委託事業者 ordered a completed program from a 中小受託事業者. The program matches the agreed specification, but the 委託事業者 refuses to take delivery because an end-customer cancelled an unrelated project. Which 取適法 prohibition is primarily at issue?
A.Purchase or use coercion (購入・利用強制)
B.Retaliatory measures (報復措置)
C.Refusal to accept delivery (受領拒否)
D.Early settlement of paid-issue materials (有償支給原材料等の対価の早期決済)
Explanation: JFTC text on Article 5(1)(i) treats 受領拒否 as refusing to take the entrusted item or information product when the 中小受託事業者 is not at fault. Cancelling or postponing the agreed due date so that conforming work is not taken is generally included. The other listed prohibitions address different abuses (forcing purchases, punishing complaints, or collecting material costs too early).
5For a covered 製造委託等 under 中小受託取引適正化法, by when must the 委託事業者 pay the 製造委託等代金, and what statutory delay interest applies if payment is late?
A.By 90 days after invoice issuance; delay interest of 6 percent per year
B.By 30 days after contract signature, regardless of delivery; no delay interest is specified
C.By the payment due date set within 60 days from receipt of the work (or from receipt of the service for 役務提供委託 / 特定運送委託); delay interest of 14.6 percent per year
D.By the end of the 委託事業者's next fiscal year; delay interest equal to the Bank of Japan's policy rate only
Explanation: JFTC's 取適法 text requires a payment due date within 60 days from receipt of the goods or information product (or from receipt of the service for service or specified-transport delegation), and treats failure to pay in full by that date as delayed payment. Delay interest is 14.6 percent per year from the day after that 60-day point until payment. Inspection does not extend the statutory outer bound.
6Company A (capital 200 million JPY) commissions Company B (capital 40 million JPY) to create a custom control program. The employee-count test does not independently bring the deal into scope. Under the capital-stock test of 中小受託取引適正化法, which statement is correct?
A.Program creation always uses the non-program information-product brackets (50 million / 10 million JPY), so the deal is automatically covered
B.The capital-stock test for program-creation delegation uses the manufacturing-type brackets (300 million / 10 million JPY), so this pair does not meet the 中小受託事業者 capital condition
C.Any software contract is covered regardless of capital because programs are copyrighted works
D.The capital-stock test is abolished; only listed versus unlisted status matters
Explanation: JFTC classifies 政令で定める情報成果物作成委託 of programs with manufacturing, repair, specified transport, and specified services (transport, warehousing, information processing). Those transactions use 300 million JPY (3億円) / 10 million JPY (1千万円) capital brackets, with a 300-employee alternative added in 2026. For that pair, a 委託事業者 between 10 million and 300 million JPY is paired with a 中小受託事業者 of 10 million JPY or less. B at 40 million JPY is above 10 million, so the capital-stock test does not cover this program job. Non-program information products (for example ordinary graphic design) use the 50 million / 10 million JPY brackets instead.
7From 1 January 2026, which payment practice is treated as delayed payment (支払遅延) under the amended 中小受託取引適正化法 even if a due date within 60 days is written on the order?
A.Paying the full amount in bank transfer on the due date
B.Delivering a promissory note (手形) for the 製造委託等代金, or using another non-cash instrument that cannot be exchanged for the full cash amount by the due date
C.Paying early, before the due date, by bank transfer
D.Splitting one conforming delivery into two invoices that are both paid in cash within 60 days of receipt
Explanation: The 2025 amendment, in force for 製造委託等 from 1 January 2026, treats delivering a promissory note, and using electronic monetary claims or similar instruments that cannot be exchanged for the full cash amount by the due date, as failing to pay. The policy reason is that notes previously pushed actual cash receipt well beyond 60 days. Cash or transfer of the full amount by the due date remains the intended method.
8Under Japan's Civil Code as used in the AP syllabus, what is the decisive difference between a 請負契約 (contract for work) and a 準委任契約 (quasi-mandate) for system development?
A.準委任 always transfers copyright in source code automatically; 請負 never can
B.請負 places completion responsibility for the agreed deliverable on the contractor, whereas 準委任 is an obligation of care (善管注意義務) without guaranteeing completion of a specified work product
C.請負 may be used only with 中小受託事業者; 準委任 may be used only with listed vendors
D.Both forms legally forbid any acceptance testing of software
Explanation: The AP syllabus highlights 成果物の完成責任 for 請負 versus (準)委任. In 請負 the contractor owes a completed result matching the contract. In 準委任 the vendor owes a duty of care in performing services and does not, by the contract type alone, guarantee a finished artifact. Copyright assignment and 取適法 coverage are separate issues; neither contract type bans acceptance tests.
9A user-company labels a contract 請負, but its employees give daily work instructions, approve time sheets, and assign desks to the vendor's engineers as if they were in-house staff. What legal problem does the AP labor-law syllabus associate with this pattern?
A.A lawful 請負 so long as the invoice says 一括請負
B.偽装請負 (disguised contracting), which is treated as an illegal worker-dispatch arrangement rather than a genuine contract for work
C.A compulsory 取適法 violation solely because desks are assigned
D.Automatic conversion of the engineers into civil servants
Explanation: Under 労働者派遣法, dispatch means the client directs the worker while the dispatching firm remains the employer. Genuine 請負 requires the contractor to command its own workers and bear completion responsibility. When the client in fact directs personnel, the arrangement is 偽装請負. Desk assignment alone does not decide 取適法, and no civil-service conversion occurs.
10In management-strategy analysis, what does a SWOT matrix organize?
A.Only last year's audited cash-flow statement line items
B.Internal strengths and weaknesses together with external opportunities and threats
C.OSI layer numbers mapped to TCP port numbers
D.The critical path of a single software iteration
Explanation: SWOT is a strategy-formulation tool in the AP 経営戦略 section: Strengths and Weaknesses are internal, Opportunities and Threats are external. It is not a financial-statement layout, a network-layer map, or a project-network diagram.

About the Applied Information Technology Engineer Examination Exam

The Applied Information Technology Engineer Examination (応用情報技術者試験, AP) is Japan's national ITSS Level 3 engineer examination. IPA administers it for METI. The 2026 fee is 7,500 JPY (tax included). Candidates sit Japanese CBT: 80 Subject A MCQs (150 minutes) and a 150-minute descriptive Subject B (answer 5 of 11, with compulsory information security). A pass requires 60 of 100 on each scored subject. OpenExamPrep publishes 100 independent English multiple-choice study questions on the published syllabus. This bank is not an official translation, not a 2026 CBT item clone, and not a substitute for Japanese descriptive practice.

Exam sponsor: 独立行政法人情報処理推進機構 (IPA / Innovation Platform Agency, Japan) under the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI). The requirements and fees below concern the certification or admission exam, separate from our free practice resources.

Assessment

Japanese CBT in FY2026 first-half (前期) and second-half (後期) windows. Subject A and Subject B are reserved on separate days. Multi-stage scoring: Subject B is not scored if Subject A is below the cutoff. Paper sittings are a special measure only.

Time Limit

Subject A: 150 min; Subject B: 150 min, on separate 2026 CBT days.

Passing Score

60 of 100 on Subject A and 60 of 100 on Subject B. IPA may adjust the cutoff if difficulty requires it.

Exam / Certification Fees

7,500 JPY (tax included).

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Fees, eligibility, and exam policies can change. Confirm them with the exam sponsor before applying or paying.

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Our practice resources: topics covered

We aim to reflect publicly available exam outlines and topic information in our study resources. Coverage, format, and difficulty may differ from the actual exam, and we cannot guarantee that every detail is accurate or current. Confirm exam requirements, fees, and policies with the official exam sponsor.

20% of this local practice set

Strategy and law

Management and information strategy, enterprise activity, and law including 中小受託取引適正化法 in syllabus Ver.7.2. IPA does not publish AP domain percentages.

20% of this local practice set

Management: project, service, and audit

Project management, service management, and system audit from Subject A and Subject B electives.

40% of this local practice set

Technology: architecture, networks, data, development

Architecture, networks, databases, embedded systems, development, and programming/algorithms.

20% of this local practice set

Information security and applied scenarios

Compulsory Subject B security plus applied judgment MCQs. These items study decisions; they do not simulate Japanese descriptive answers.

Preparing for the Applied Information Technology Engineer Examination Exam

What You Need to Know

  • Passing score: 60 of 100 on Subject A and 60 of 100 on Subject B. IPA may adjust the cutoff if difficulty requires it.
  • Assessment: Japanese CBT in FY2026 first-half (前期) and second-half (後期) windows. Subject A and Subject B are reserved on separate days. Multi-stage scoring: Subject B is not scored if Subject A is below the cutoff. Paper sittings are a special measure only.
  • Time limit: Subject A: 150 min; Subject B: 150 min, on separate 2026 CBT days.
  • Exam / certification fees: 7,500 JPY (tax included). Official sources

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Applied Information Technology Engineer Examination: Suggested Study Strategy

1Treat English MCQs as knowledge practice; reserve time for Japanese descriptive Subject B using IPA past papers.
2Security is compulsory in Subject B—do not skip cryptography, access control, or incident topics.
3Work quantitative items: NPV/depreciation, network delay, database cardinality, and algorithm traces.
4Study syllabus Ver.7.2's replacement of 下請法 with 中小受託取引適正化法.
5Remember 2026 CBT splits Subject A and Subject B across days; both still require 60 of 100.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the passing score for the AP examination?

IPA requires at least 60 of 100 on Subject A and 60 of 100 on Subject B (試験要綱 Ver.5.6). If Subject A is below the cutoff, Subject B is not scored. IPA may adjust the cutoff when item difficulty requires it.

How is the 2026 examination structured?

Japanese CBT: Subject A 80 four-option MCQs in 150 minutes and Subject B 11 descriptive questions in 150 minutes (answer 5, including compulsory information security). In 2026 the two subjects are scheduled on separate days.

Does this bank replace Subject B writing practice?

No. Official Subject B is Japanese descriptive analysis. OpenExamPrep publishes independent English MCQs on the same topic areas; it is not an official translation or a writing simulation.

Are these OpenExamPrep practice questions official IPA exam questions?

No. IPA administers the official Japanese examination. This bank is independent study on published syllabus topics.

Is the exam changing after 2026?

IPA states that the current examination system ends with the FY2026 (令和8年度) administration and that a new examination system is planned from FY2027, following the METI/IPA review of the exam-division structure. FY2026 is also the year every division moved to CBT, and IPA no longer publishes live CBT questions. This practice set is built from the current published syllabus, so confirm IPA's 試験制度の見直し page before planning a sitting beyond FY2026.