iSQI CTAL-TM_Syll2012 ISTQBÂ® Exam Questions Instant Access

Question 1

You are the Test Manager on a project following an iterative life-cycle model. The project should consist of nine iterations of one month duration each. It is planned to develop the most important features to have a stable core of the application in the first three iterations and to add the additional features in the last six iterations.

At the beginning of the first iteration, only a draft version of the requirements specification document for the core features is available. Assume that during each of the first three iterations, the chosen features are fully completed and unit tested.

Which of the following statements is true in this context?

K4 3 credits

AThe system test phase should start when all the requirements are frozen

BYou should allocate a large effort for system testing during the first three iterations

CYou should allocate all the effort for the system test phase only in the last iteration

DYou should apply the same test strategy as used in a sequential life cycle model

Answer : B

Question 2

Which of the following statements best describes an appropriate approach for managing exploratory testing?

Number of correct responses: 1

K2 1 credit

ADefine very detailed mission statements, which allow testing work to be broken into sessions of up to 10 minutes duration in which testing is guided by these mission statements

BBreak the testing work in 30 to 120 minutes sessions and use properly defined mission statements consisting of two or three sentences to guide testing during these sessions

CDefine very generic charters to drive exploratory testing sessions of 2 days where testers are completely free to decide what to test

DExploratory testing should not be managed because such testing is inherently unmanageable and not measurable

Answer : B

Question 3

After the presentation, you are asked to explain the chart. Assume you have applied a full risk-based testing strategy.

Which of the following answers would you expect to best describe the pie chart?

K4 3 credits

AAll the risk items have been covered with tests. No more risk items remain to test

BAccording to the full risk-based testing strategy applied, it is very likely that the highest-risk items, tests and bugs remain in the blue and red areas. Therefore, it is very risky to release the application

COnly the lowest-risk items, tests and bugs should remain in the blue and red areas. Therefore the application can be released at any time subject to management of the items identified in those areas

D97 percent of the risk items has been tested. No open bugs or test failures remain. Only 3 percent of risk items remains to be covered by the remaining test

Answer : C

Question 4

The following are the exit criteria described in the test plan of a software product:

EX1. The test suite for the product must ensure that at least each quality risk item is covered by at least one test case (a quality risk item can be covered by more test cases).

EX2. All test cases in the test suite must be run during the execution phase.

EX3. Defects are classified into two categories: ''C'' (critical defect) and ''NC'' (non-critical defect).

No known C defects shall exist in the product at the end of the test execution phase.

Which of the following information is useless when the specified exit criteria is evaluated? K2 1 credit

AA traceability matrix showing the relationships between the product risk items and the test cases

BA list of all the open defects with the associated classification information extracted from the defect tracking system

CA chart, showing the trend in the lag time from defect reporting to resolution, extracted from the defect tracking system

DThe execution status of all the test cases extracted from the test management tool

Answer : C

Question 5

Assume you are the Test Manager for a new software release of an e-commerce application.

The server farm consists of six servers providing different capabilities. Each capability is provided through a set of web services.

The requirements specification document contains several SLAs

(Service Level Agreements) like the following:

SLA-001: 99.5 percent of all transactions shall have a response time less than five seconds under a load of up-to 5000 concurrent users

The main objective is to assure that all the SLAs specified in the requirements specification document will be met before system release. You decide to apply a risk-based testing strategy and an early risk analysis confirms that performance is high risk. You can count on a well-written requirements specification and on a model of the system behavior under various load levels produced by the system architect.

Which of the following test activities would you expect to be the less important ones to achieve the test objectives in this scenario?

K4 3 credits

APerform unit performance testing for each single web service

BMonitor the SLAs after the system has been released into the production environment

CPerform system performance testing, consisting of several performance testing sessions, to verify if all the SLAs have been met

DPerform static performance testing by reviewing the architectural model of the system under various load levels

Answer : B

Question 6

You are performing a quality risk analysis for a CSCI (Computer Software Configuration Item) used to implement a CBIT (Continuous Built-In Test) module of a safety-critical system. During the quality risk analysis you are trying to identify the ways in which failures of the CBIT module can occur, for each of them trying to determine the potential causes and likely effects, and the risk level (calculated as the product of three factors: severity, occurrence and detection). Which of the following risk analysis techniques are you working with? K2 1 credit

AA lightweight product risk analysis technique

BFailure Mode and Effect Analysis

CWide Band Delphi

DCost of Exposure

Answer : B

Question 7

An agile development team decides to hire a tester who has always worked.

- in independent test teams, reporting the problems found in a defect tracking system

- in safety-critical projects, with a stronger focus on the quality of the product than on time and budget. This agile team is focused on short-term goals to get the product released on time and within budget. Which of the following answers would you expect to be most likely true in this scenario? K2 1 credit

AAgile teams like the presence of a tester in their teams and the tester will be able to adapt to the new context without any issue

BThe developers will immediately follow the guidelines described by the tester

CThe tester can continue to report the problems found in a defect tracking system and be more focused on the quality than on time and budget constraints

DThe tester's mission could be to verify adherence to requirements, instead of reporting formally the problems in a defect tracking system

Answer : D

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