Free ISTQB CTAL-TM Practice Exam with Questions & Answers | Set: 5

'Safe as Houses' is a company that specialises in home security software, including alarm systems, surveillance cameras and other forms of deterrence.

It is currently developing the software for a device which simulates an active television, producing sound and light images that suggest someone is home watching the television. 'Safe as Houses' recently won a lucrative contract to supply the software to Smart Alarms', who will be manufacturing the hardware devices Sound will be created using actual television and film archives, licensed through a third-party supplier, 'Silver Sound Ltd'. A user interface will be developed in house to allow the customer to choose sound tracks.

The software will be delivered as a programme of work, consisting of three projects. Project 1 will develop the software for the light images. Project 2 will develop the sound system and Project 3 will integrate the two using hardware prototypes supplied from 'Smart Alarms'. The programme will conclude with 'Smart Alarms' performing User Acceptance testing in usability labs.

The 'Safe as Houses' test team has experience in testing alarm and surveillance systems but lacks experience in testing light imagery software. The organisational test policy includes the following objectives:

1 Exploratory testing should be used to augment more formal, structured testing within constraints of time and budget

2. Test automation tools should be purchased and employed to maximise the breadth and efficiency of regression testing

The Programme risk register currently includes the following risks:

RISK1 Working prototypes will be delivered late to the integration test environments

RISK 2 A delay in signing the contract with 'Silver Sound Ltd' will impact the programme schedule

RISK 3 Inexperience in testing light imagery software will cause major defects to be missed RISK 4 The user interface software for the sound systems will be delivered late into testing

Refer to SCENARIO 2 - The IT Director for 'Safe as Houses' is recruiting a Programme Test Manager and has been provided with a skills matrix for four prospective candidates. The matrix shows the skill level (5 being highest. 1 lowest) for each candidate:

Consider which of these skills are key for a Programme Test manager in this scenario. Based on these, which candidate would be the most suitable?

SELECT ONE OPTION

In a standard defect lifecycle. which of the following states would MOST LIKELY require input or action from a member of the Test team? SELECT ONE OPTION

SoftTech provides a core banking product to retail banks to enable their customers to process payments via the Internet and telephone banking and. as SoftTech's Test Manager, you are responsible for system testing and system integration testing of all SoftTech's products.

Your current project is to integrate SoftTech's core banking product with an existing bank's systems, which are maintained by experienced developers but poorly

documented.

A specification for the 10 interfaces to the bank's existing systems has been produced by SoftTech's development team. There is an estimating matrix for system integration testing that allows 2 man days per interface for preparation, plus 2 man days per interface for test execution. The exit criteria for the completion of system integration testing has been agreed as:

1. No open Severity 1 defects

2 No more than 10 open severity 2 and/or 3 defects

3. All interfaces tested

4. Cost estimate must not be exceeded

System integration test execution is scheduled to last 5 weeks, with week 5 reserved for regression and bug fixing only. At the end of week 3 the following test report has been produced (figures on a week by week basis, not cumulative):

B. Open severity 2 and 3 defects

c. Interface testing progress

d. Development resource for debugging

e. Available budget

SELECT ONE OPTION

Which one of the following standards would a Test Manager be expected to understand when planning and organising activities with a Project Manager? SELECT ONE OPTION

Which of the following is a typical use of risk analysis? [1]

A project to replace an old sales and merchandising system with a new version based on modern platforms, will use an Agile lifecycle with iterations of fixed length.

The project objectives include:

• Delivery within 6 months of the start of the first iteration, in 3 releases, to be accomplished by a team that will contain all resources deemed necessary to achieve this

• Quality of delivered product to meet customer acceptance criteria

A test objective, derived from discussion with the customers, has been set as follows:

"Each release shall deliver usability that is better than that of the previous system for the equivalent functionality"

Which S.M.A.R.T. criteria are met by this objective?

Specific

Measurable

Achievable

Relevant

Timely

Your company just won a contract to create a new sales application and has committed to a very aggressive delivery timeline. Due to the quick turnaround your primary stakeholder wants to be

heavily involved in the design and is very anxious to see the outcome. Because of this, your company has decided to use a spiral development approach. You have a defined test policy and

typically use an analytical approach to testing, however, this approach will not work with the development approach.

What test strategy should be utilized? [3]

Which one of the following metrics would be MOST suitable for helping to determine whether test analysis and design is complete? SELECT ONE OPTION

Your team has been working on an Agile project for two months. There is a retrospective at the endof each sprint One of the data items reviewed is how many defects are being caught by users rather than by testers. The test team is being blamed for these escapes

What do you need to do to make these sessions more productive?

You have been assigned t o a project that has a very tight schedule. In fact, given your first analysis you do not think the planned test execution can be completed within the schedule There is no time allowed for defect fixing or for repeating tests. Regression testing has been left out of the planning entirely There is no time to develop test automation. The team has agreed that this Is not the way to run a project, yet they are stuck with the current schedule

Given this information what is the best way to proceed with the testing to try to meet the deadline with the best outcome1?