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Questions 11

Test Management

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?

Number of correct responses: 1

K21 credit

Options:
A.

A lightweight product risk analysis technique

B.

Failure Mode and Effect Analysis

C.

Wide Band Delphi

D.

Cost of Exposure

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Questions 12

You can count on well-written requirements, but you can’t count on an adequate contribution of the stakeholders to the quality risk analysis. You have to mitigate the insufficient contribution of the stakeholders because the risk-based testing approach shall minimize the product risks. Your test team has one expert tester in security testing.

Which of the following test activities would you expect to be the less important in this context?

Number of correct responses: 1

K43 credits

Options:
A.

Extract from the defect tracking system of the previous project all the security defects and failures, and classify them to support design and execution of specific tests

B.

Automate all functional and non-functional system tests

C.

Apply systematic and exploratory testing for integration and system test

D.

Perform exploratory testing sessions with adequate charters covering security aspects

Questions 13

Test Management

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

Number of correct responses: 1

K21 credit

Options:
A.

Define 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

B.

Break 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

C.

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

D.

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

Questions 14

Test Management

Assume you have some data related to confirmation testing during system testing of a past project.

In that project 240 bug reports have been opened once, 80 were opened twice, 10 were opened three times and no bug reports have been opened more than three times.

You estimate that a bug report, which has failed its confirmation test, costs, on average, 3 person-hours.

Which of the following statements correctly describe the value of these confirmatory testing activities based on cost of quality?

Number of correct responses: 1

K32 credits

Options:
A.

300 person-hours have been spent on the project during the system testing phase, because of the failed confirmation tests and this cost belongs to the costs of internal failure

B.

340 person-hours have been spent on the project during the system testing phase, because of the failed confirmation tests and this cost belongs to the costs of external failure

C.

340 person-hours have been spent on the project during the system testing phase, because of the failed confirmation tests and this cost belongs to the costs of internal failure

D.

300 person-hours have been spent on the project during the system testing phase, because of the failed confirmation tests and this cost belongs to the costs of detection

Questions 15

Test Management

Which of the following statements about management of product quality risks in mature organizations with respect to the lifecycle, is true?

Number of correct responses: 1

K21 credit

Options:
A.

Mature organizations address product quality risks associated to non-functional characteristics only during the system test phase

B.

Mature organizations are aware that the contribution of testing to analysis of product quality risks is very important. The analysis should occur throughout the entire lifecycle

C.

Mature organizations don’t waste time identifying the sources of risks. They only focus on identifying product quality risks

D.

Mature organizations are aware that risk management of product quality risks only occurs during testing

Questions 16

You are following a risk-based testing strategy. The test execution time is very limited. Assume that all the product risk items require more or less the same level of test effort.

CTAL-TM_Syll2012 Question 16

Which of the following answers describes the best execution schedule in this scenario?

Number of correct responses: 1

K33 credits

Options:
A.

1- Test the acceptance of transactions coming from the IVR channel

2- Test the correct charge of the Smart Card with the required contents

3- Test the correct pre-activation of the Smart Card

4- Test the correct activation of the Smart Card

B.

1- Test the correct pre-activation of the Smart Card

2- Test the correct charge of the Smart Card with the required contents

3- Test the correct activation of the Smart Card

4- Test the acceptance of transactions coming from the IVR channel

C.

1- Test the correct activation of the Smart Card

2- Test the correct pre-activation of the Smart Card

3- Test the correct charge of the Smart Card with the required contents

4- Test the acceptance of transactions coming from the IVR channel

D.

1- Test the correct pre-activation of the Smart Card

2- Test the correct activation of the Smart Card

3- Test the correct charge of the Smart Card with the required contents

4- Test the acceptance of transactions coming from the IVR channel

Questions 17

Assume that no additional product risks have been identified during the first week of test execution.

CTAL-TM_Syll2012 Question 17

CTAL-TM_Syll2012 Question 17

Which of the following answers would you expect to best describe the residual risks associated with the identified product risks, at the end of the first week of test execution?

Number of correct responses: 1

K32 credits

Options:
A.

Since R3 is the only risk for which all test cases have passed, the risk has been reduced by 20%

B.

The test execution status table indicates that the risk has been reduced by 56%

C.

The residual risk level can’t be determined, because it requires that all the test cases have been executed

D.

The test execution table doesn’t give an indication of the risk level of the open defects and the test cases that failed or are not run yet

Questions 18

Testing Process

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?

Number of correct responses: 1

K43 credits

Options:
A.

Perform unit performance testing for each single web service

B.

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

C.

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

D.

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

Questions 19

The following is the unique “critical” quality risk item that has been identified:

CR-RSK-1. The GUI of the application might accept non-integer values for the input field designed to get the number of bottles from the user

Test analysis for system testing has just begun and the following test conditions have been identified:

TC-SEL-2. Test the selection of the package sizes

TC-SEL-4. Test wrong numbers of bottles for an order

TC-CR-RSK-1. Test the accepted values from the input field designed to get the number of bottles from the user

Assume that you have used traceability to determine the logical test cases that cover all the requirements and the single risk item identified in that scenario.

Which of the following is a positive logical test that is complete and correct, and covers the REQ-SEL-4 requirement?

Number of correct responses: 1

K32 credits

Options:
A.

Select a 6-bottles package, then try to insert 5 bottles; verify that no error messages are displayed

B.

Select a 6-bottles package, then try to insert 7 bottles; verify that no error messages are displayed

C.

Select a 6-bottles package, then try to insert 7 bottles; verify that the "Invalid number of bottles" message is displayed

D.

Select a 6-bottles package, then try to insert 7 bottles

Questions 20

You are not confident with the assessment of the risk level and you suspect that it will be possible to find high-priority bugs in low-risk areas.

Furthermore the period for test execution is very short. Your goal is to test all the product risks in a risk-based way, while assuring that each product risk gets at least some amount of testing.

CTAL-TM_Syll2012 Question 20

Which of the following answers describes the best test execution schedule in this scenario?

Number of correct responses: 1

K32 credits

Options:
A.

T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6, T7, T8, T9, T10

B.

T1, T3, T5, T7, T9, T2, T4, T6, T8, T10

C.

T10, T9, T8, T7, T6, T5, T4, T3, T2, T1

D.

T10, T8, T6, T4, T2, T9, T7, T5, T3, T1

Exam Code: CTAL-TM_Syll2012
Certification Provider: iSQI
Exam Name: ISTQB® Certified Tester Advanced Level - Test Manager [Syllabus 2012]
Last Update: Jan 22, 2025
Questions: 130