ISTQB CTAL-TM Certified Tester Advanced Level Test Management v3.0 Exam Practice Test

Which of the following are Test Closure activities?

a All results lodged in configuration management system - for example test plans, results, logs, reports.

b. Plans in place for lessons to be learnt to ensure that good practices are repeated and poor practices are not.

c. Checks undertaken to ensure that all test work is completed - all tests executed or skipped, all defects managed to appropriate conclusion.

d. All project closure activities completed - for example customer training completed, and analysis of vendor performance undertaken.

e. AM testing work products delivered to those that need them - for example environments/ regression test sets passed to maintenance.

f. Checks undertaken to ensure that all tests have been executed, with all defects confirmed as fixed by retesting.

SELECT ONE OPTION

You are planning the testing for an emergency product update required to correct a serious security issue and to improve system maintainability of a key product in your company's catalogue. It has been estimated that the historical cost to the company for the security issue in this system has been $375,000.

In the last year a total of 10 reported "live' incidents were reported, resulting in a total external failure cost of S110.000 to correct.

The cost of prevention for this project has been estimated as $78,500 and from the development you have learned that the average cost of detection was $1,250 and the average cost of internal failure was $7,450

Which one of the following statements about cost of quality is TRUE? SELECT ONE OPTION

You are performing a risk assessment for a financial application using quantitative risk analysis. The following is a table describing the analysis undertaken so far:

Which of the following statements correctly describes the outcome of the risk assessment using the "Cost of Exposure" technique in this scenario? SELECT ONE OPTION

You are monitoring the test results for the first week of system test execution to ensure they conform to the test plan objectives. You are guided by the list of test conditions and traceability matrix produced following test design. Test Plan objectives

* Approach - Risk-based and depth first

* Status reporting - Execution statuses must be either "Passed*, "Failed", "Blocked" or "Not Run"

* Traceability - Test execution results must be traceable back to the test conditions

Test Conditions

Traceability matrix

Which one of the following is a correct statement regarding the current status of test plan objectives?

SELECT ONE OPTION

Your project manager has requested that you run management reviews in her absence. Which two of the following might you be expected to do at these reviews?

a. Check for defects in requirements documents.

b. Check the process to see if it passes the assessment.

c. Check the consistency of the project plan.

d. Check compliance by conducting evidential interviews

e. Check adequacy of management procedures.

f. Check contractual compliance for a software product Select one correct answer from the options below:

You are the Test Manager for a software house (SoftTech), who provide a core banking product to retail banks around the world to enable their customers to process payments via the Internet and telephone banking.

Your current project is to integrate SoftTech's core banking product with Welsh Bank's existing bank systems. However, Welsh Bank's systems are maintained by experienced developers and are poorly documented.

Welsh Bank has stated that this project must comply with Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) regulatory banking standards.

A specification for the 10 interfaces to Welsh Bank's existing systems has been produced by SoftTech's development team.

You have been asked to plan and conduct reviews for the system integration and support documentation of all the systems. Which of the following is the BEST approach for this project?

SELECT ONE OPTION

Test Analysts are doing test design for a change request to an insurance comparison system. The system provides car insurance quotations, using data input by the user.

The change request states:-

Drivers must be aged between 17 to 85 years inclusive to qualify for insurance comparison.

The following Test Conditions have been identified:

1 Driver's age is less than the minimum

2. Driver's age is within the valid range

3. Driver's age is more than the maximum

The Test Strategy states the test techniques to be used include Equivalence Partitioning and Boundary Value Analysis. Using the Test Conditions and techniques stated in the Test Strategy, the following Test Cases have been created.

As the Test Manager you are reviewing these Test Cases for traceability to the Test Conditions and to ensure that the change request will be adequately tested in accordance with the Test Strategy.

Which of the following statements is FALSE? SELECT ONE OPTION