ISTQB Advanced Level Test Analyst Exam – Scenario Based Sample Questions: Q. 1 to 10 Deep study of this set of 53 questions out of which majority of them are scenario based & shall be of great help in getting success in IST QB CTAL Advanced Level Test Analyst Exam. All these questions are based upon the latest ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level Syllabus V 2007. Set of 10 Questions (Q. 1 to 10) Important guidelines to attempt Scenario Based Questions: It is essential that you study the scenario extremely carefully before trying to answer the questions that relate to the scenario. If you misunderstand the scenario, may be due to a fast reading of it, you are likely to miss out most of the questions related to the scenario.
Correct Answers of Q. 1 to 10 are at the end of this page: Sample Questions in context of ISTQB Advanced Level Technical Test Analyst Exam Syllabus Chapter 1: Test Basics Q. 1: You are working as a test analyst at a bank. At the bank, technical test analysts work closely with users during user acceptance testing. The bank has bought two financial applications as commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software from large software vendors. Previous history w ith these vendors has shown that they deliver quality applications that work on their own, but this is the first time the bank will attempt to integrate applications from these two vendors. Which of the following test levels would you expect to be involved in? Note: There might be more than one right answer. A. Component test B. Component integration test C. System integration test D. Acceptance test
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q. 2: Which of the following is necessarily true of safety-critical systems? A. They are composed of multiple CO TS applications. B. They are complex systems of systems. C. They are systems upon which lives depend. D. They are military or intelligence systems.
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Sample Questions in context of ISTQB Advanced Level Technical Test Analyst Exam Syllabus Chapter 2: Testing Processes Q. 3: Identify all of the following that can be useful as a test oracle the first time a test case is run. A. Incident report B. Requirements specification
C. Test summary report D. Legacy system
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q. 4: Assume you are a technical test analyst working on a banking project to upgrade an existing automated teller machine system to allow customers to obtain cash advances from supported credit cards. During test design, you identify a discrepancy between the list of supported credit cards in the requirements specification and the design specification. This is an example of what? A. Test design as a static test technique B. A defect in the requirements specification C. A defect in the design specification D. Starting test design too early in the project
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q. 5: Which of the following is not always a precondition for test execution? A. A properly configured tes t environment B. A thoroughly specified test procedure C. A process for managing identified defects D. A test oracle
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q. 6: Assume you are a technical test analyst working on a banking project to upgrade an existing automated teller machine system to allow customers to obtain cash advances from supported credit cards. One of the exit criteria in the test plan requires documentation of successful cash advances of at least 500 euros for all supported credit cards. The correct list of supported credit cards is American Express, Visa, Japan Credit Bank, Eurocard, and MasterCard. After test execution, a complete list of cash advance test results shows the following: # American Express allowed advances of up to 1,000 euros. # Visa allowed advances of up to 500 euros. # Eurocard allowed advances of up to 1,000 euros. # MasterCard allowed advances of up to 500 euros. Which of the following statements is true? A. The exit criterion fai ls due to excessive advances for American E xpress and Eurocard. B. The exit criterion fails due to a discrepancy between American Express and Eurocard on the one hand and Visa and MasterCard on the other hand. C. The exit criterion passes because all supported cards allow cash advances of at least the minimum required amount.
D. The exit criterion fails because we cannot document Japan Credit Bank results.
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Sample Questions in context of ISTQB Advanced Level Technical Test Analyst Exam Syllabus Chapter 3: Test Management Scenario: Assume you are testing a computer-controlled braking system for an automobile. This system includes the possibility of remote activation to initiate a gradual braking followed by disabling of the motor upon a full stop if the owner or the police report that the automobile is stolen or otherwise being illegally operated. Project documents and the product marketing collateral refer to this feature as emergency vehicle control override. "the marketing team is heavily promoting; this feature in advertisements as a major innovation for an automobile at this price. Consider the following two statements: I) Testing will coyer the possibility of the failure of the emergency vehicle control override feature to engage properly and also the possibility of the emergency vehicle control override engaging; without proper authorization. II) The reliability tests will include sending a large volume of invalid commands to the emergency vehicle control override system. Ten percent of these invalid commands will consist of deliberately engineered invalid commands that cover all invalid equivalence partitions and/or boundary values that apply to command fields; 10 percent of these invalid commands will consist of deliberately engineered invalid commands that cover all pairs of command sequences, both valid and invalid; the remaining invalid commands will be random corruptions of valid commands rendered invalid by the failure to match the check- sum. Q. 7: If the project follows the IEEE 829 documentation standard, which of the following statements about the IEEE 829 templates could be correct? A. I belongs in the Test Design Specif ication, while II belongs in the T est plan B. I belongs in the Test Plan, while II belongs in the Test Design Specification C. I belongs in the Test Cease Specification, while II belongs in the Test Plan D. I belongs in the Test Design Specification, while II belongs in the Test Item Transmittal Report
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q. 8: If the project is following a risk-based testing strategy, which of the following is a quality risk item that would result in the kind of testing specified in statements I) and II) above? A The emergency vehicle control override s ystem fails to accept valid commands. B The emergency vehicle control override system is too difficult to install. C The emergency vehicle control override system accepts invalid commands.
D The emergency vehicle control override system alerts unauthorized driver.
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q. 9: Assume that each quality risk item is assessed for likelihood and impact to determine the extent of testing to be performed. Consider only the information in the scenario, in questions 1 and 2 above, and in your answers to those questions. Which of the following statements is supported information? A. The likelihood and impact are bot h high. B. The likelihood is high. C. The impact is high. D. No conclusion can he reached about likelihood or impact.
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Sample Questions in context of ISTQB Advanced Level Technical Test Analyst Exam Syllabus Chapter 4: Test Techniques Q. 10: While performing the post-mortem evaluation on a project, you are perusing the fixes to a particular code module. You notice that there are a number of errors made using the operators >, >=, <, and <=. Which of the following specification-based test design techniques would be best suited to catch these type errors? A. Equivalence class partitioning B. Boundary value analysis C. State transition table D. State transition diagram
ISTQB Advanced Level Test Analyst Exam – Scenario Based Sample Questions: Q. 11 to 20 Deep study of this set of 53 questions out of which majority of them are scenario based & shall be of great help in getting success in IST QB CTAL Advanced Level Test Analyst Exam. All these questions are based upon the latest ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level Syllabus V 2007. Set of 10 Questions (Q. 11 to 20) Correct Answers of earlier Q. 1 to 10 are at the end of this page: Q. 11: You are testing a data input screen for a software package. The data that is collected is used in calculating the taxes for the organization being processed. You are at the analysis and design phase of your lifecycle, going field by field trying to determine the minimum number of test cases you need to give you BVA (boundary value analysis) coverage. Your stated objective is to perform both positive and negative equivalence class testing on the screen. You have an automated process that %will automatically test all field values other than the correct data type: that is, if the field requires an integer, the automated program will test chars, symbols, spaces, real numbers, nulls, etc. Therefore, you arc going to leave all of those types of negative test cases out of your design. One field you must consider is the customer type field, which requires a single integer input. For historical purposes, there are five different type customer classifications (I, 2, 4, 5, 6). What is the minimum number of tests you must design for this field to achieve the d esired coverage?
A. 2 B. 5 C. 6 D. 8
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q. 12: A bank has several different levels of awards / penalties that it showers on its customers. Both are based on the amount of dollars in customers' various accounts. Assume that you have a test client with five (5) different accounts that are subject to these rules. Different types of accounts are calculated differently, even though the trigger amounts are the same for all accounts. The rules for any given period are as follows: # Negative balances are penalized by a fee. # Balances at or below $25 ate pen alized by loss of interest. # Balances at or below 51,000 are penalized b y low interest. # Balances above $1,000 get full interest. # Balances above S100,000 get full interest and a 5200 interest bonus. Assuming that we are interested in equivalence class testing, how many test cases do we need minimum for thin client? A. 4 B. 5 C. 25 D. 40
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q. 13: Consider the bank scenario as defined in question 12 above. Assuming that calculations are made to the cent, and that we are interested in boundary value testing, what is the minimum set of test values we would need for an account? A. (-0.01; 0.00; 24.99; 25.00; 999.99;1,000.00; 999, 999.99; 100,000.0 0) B. (-0.01; 0.00; 25.00; 25.01;1,000.00; 1,000.01;100,000.00;100,000.01) C. (0.00; 0.01; 25.00; 25.01; 1,000.00;1,000.01;100,000.00;100,000.01) D. (-0.001;0.001;24.999;25.001;999.999;1,000.001;999,999.999;100,000.001)
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q. 14: There is a decision table to help us develop a solution to Myers's M yers's triangle test problem. A piece of software inputs three integer nun1-bers. These numbers represent the lengths of the sides of a geometric figure; a, b and c. The values are compared to see if they actually represent a legal triangle. A triangle with three equal sides is called an equilateral triangle. One with two equal sides is
called an isosceles triangle. One with no equal sides is called a scalene triangle. Using what you know of triangles and decision tables, collapse the given decision table and determine the number of tests needed to achieve minimum coverage criteria.
A. 6 B. 7 C. 9 D. 12
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q. 15: Refer to the following decision table. Which of the following is correct based on what you see in the decision table?
A. There are no non-exclusive rules in this decision table. B. There is one non-exclusive rule: Balance OK? C. All of the conditions in the decision table are non-exclusive rules D. There is one non-exclusive rule: Payment late?
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q. 16: You are going to be testing a small camera. To keep it simple, there are only two buttons: the power button and the shutter button. The camera will act as an automatic focus and exposure camera when the shutter button is pressed halfway and then sto pped for 0.4 seconds before the button press is completed. If the shutter button is simply pressed all the way w ithout stop-ping, the camera will act as a single exposure, infinity focus camera. Given the following state transition diagram, how many rows would its matching state transition table contain?
A. 24 B. 20 C. 18 D. 6
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q. 17: Refer to the scenario as defined in question 16 above. Given the following partial switch coverage table, how many 1-switch segments would there be?
0-Switch 1 Switch A1 B2 B3 B4 C5 D6 A. 5 B. 7 C. 9 D. 11
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q. 18: The following C code function will allow a browser to Connect to a given website. #include #include #include int main ( ) { HINTERNET initialize,Connection,File; DWORD dwBytes;
char ch; Connection = InternetConnect(Initialize,"www.xyz.com", INTERNET_DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT,NULL,NULL, INTERNET_SERVICE_HTTP,0,0); File = HttpOpenRequest(Connection,NULL,"/index.html", NULL,NULL,NULL,0,0); if (HttpSendRequest (File,NULL,0, NULL,0)) { while(InternetReadFile(File,&ch,1,&dwBytes)) { if(dwBytes != 1)break; putchar(ch); } } InternetCloseHandle (File); InternetCloseHandle (Connnection); InternetCloseHandle (Initialize); return 0; }
What is the minimum number of test cases that would be required to achieve statement coverage for this code? A. 1 B. 2 C. 4 D. 6
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q. 19: Given the following snippet of code, which of the following values for the variable Counter will give loop coverage with the fewest test cases? … for (i=0; i<=Counter; i++) { Execute some statements; } A. (-13,0,1,795) B. (-1,0,1) C. (0,1,1000) D. (-7.0.500)
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q. 20: In a module of code you are testing. you are presented with the following if() statement. How many different test cases would you need to achieve multiple condition coverage (assume no short circuiting by the compiler)? If (A && B || (Delta < 1) && (Up < Down) || (Right >= Left)) { Execute some statements; } Else {
Execute some statements; } A. 24 B. 32 C. 48 D. 128
ISTQB Advanced Level Test Analyst Exam – Scenario Based Sample Questions: Q. 21 to 30 Deep study of this set of 53 questions out of which majority of them are sce nario based & shall be of great help in getting success in IST QB CTAL Advanced Level Test Analyst Exam. All these questions are based upon the latest ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level Syllabus V 2007. Set of 10 Questions (Q. 21 to 30) Correct Answers of earlier Q. 11 to 20 are at the end of this page: Q. 21: In a module of code you are testing, you are presented with the following if() statement. A number of tests are given in the form of 3-tuples, where A will get the first value, B will get the second value, C will get the third. Which test must be added to achieve full AICID AICIDC C coverage? if ((A && B) || C) { Execute some statements; } Else { Execute some statements; }
Test 1:(F,F,T) Test 2:(F,F,F) A. (F, T, F) B. (T. F, T) C. (T, F, F) D. (T, T, F)
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q. 22: The following code snippet reads through a file and determines whether the numbers contained are prime or not. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
Read (Val); While NOT End of File Do Prime : = TRUE; For Holder := 2 TO Val DIV 2 Do if Val - (Val DIV Holder) * Holder = 0 Then Write (Holder, ‘ is a factor of ‘ , Val); Prime := FALSE;
8 Endif; 9 Endfor; 10 If Prime = TRUE Then 11 Write (Val , ' is prime'); 12 Endif; 13 Read (Val); 14 Endwhile; 15 Write('End of program')
Which of the following 3-tuple represents a valid LCSAJ? A. (1,2,14) B. (2,2,14) C. (2,4,10) D. (5,10,12)
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q. 23: The following code snippet reads through a file and determines whether the numbers contained are prime or not. 1 Read (Val); 2 While NOT End of File Do 3 Prime := TRUE; 4 For Holder := 2 TO Val DIV 2 Do 5 if Val - (Val DIV Holder) * Holder= 0 Then 6 Write (Holder, ‘ is a factor of ‘, Val); 7 Prime := FALSE; 8 Endif; 9 Endfor; 10 if Prime = TRUE Then 11 Write (Val, ‘ is prime’); 12 Endif; 13 Read (Val); 14 Endwhile; 15 Write ('End of run)
Calculate the cyclomatic complexity of the code. A. 3 B. 5 C. 7 D. 9
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q. 24: The QA group has spent the last month mining the defect tracking system looking for all of the failures that had been reported, not only in testing but in production. The output of this research has been turned over to the test group for use in the next software release. The use of this information for testing would represent which of the following test design techniques? A. Taxonomy based B. Error guessing
C. Checklist based D. Exploratory
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q. 25: Your test consists of starting up a huge number of applications to load both existing RAM and virtual memory to capacity. You then will proceed to execute a number of scenarios using the application under test. What kind of testing are you most likely doing? A. Charter-based explorator y testing B. Error guessing C. Structure-based testing D. Software attack-based testing
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q. 26: Consider the following code snippet: 1. #include 2. #include 3. #include 4. int main ( ) 5. { 6. 7. HINTERNET initialize,Connection,File; 8. DWORD dwBytes; 9. char ch; 10. Connection = InternetConnect(Initialize,"www.xyz.com", 11. INTERNET_DEFAULT_HTTP_PORT,NULL,NULL, 12. INTERNET_SERVICE_HTTP,0,0); 13. 14. File = HttpOpenRequest(Connection,NULL,"/index.html", 15. NULL,NULL,NULL,0,0); 16. 17. if (HttpSendRequest (File,NULL,0, NULL,0)) 18. { 19. while(InternetReadFile(File,&ch,1,&dwBytes)) 20. { 21. if(dwBytes != 1)break; 22. putchar(ch); 23. } 24. } 25. InternetCloseHandle (File); 26. InternetCloseHandle (Connnection); 27. InternetCloseHandle (Initialize); 28. return 0; 29. }
With regards to the variable Connection and looking at lines 10 through 14, what kind of data-flow pattern do we have? A. du B. ud
C. dk D. There is no defined data-flow pattern there.
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q. 27: Which of these data-flow coverage metrics is the strongest of the four listed? A. All-P uses B. All-C uses C. All Defs D. All DU paths
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q. 28: Given the following integration call- graph, and using McCabe’s cyclomatic complexity theory, how many basis paths are there to test?
A. 12 B. 10 C. 13 D. 14
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q. 29: Consider the following list: I. Memory loss due to wild pointers II. Profiling performance characteristics of a system III. Failure to initialize a local variable
IV. Argument error in a Windows 32 API call V. Incorrect use of equality operator in a p redicate VI. Failure to place a break in a switch statement VII. Finding dead code Which of these are most likely to be found through the use of a dynamic an alysis tool? A. I, III, IV a nd VII B. I, II, III, IV, and VI C. I, II, and IV D. II, IV; and V
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Sample Questions in context of ISTQB Advanced Level Technical Test Analyst Exam Syllabus Chapter 5: Tests of Software Characteristics Q. 30: You have been asked to research testing interoperability on the system currently under development. It consists of a number of COTS packages that will be us ed to process insurance payments through a number of existing systems. Which of the following capabilities are you likely to be trying to test? A. Validating the methods used to m anipulate the data used by the system B. The computational accuracy of each individual stage C. Ability of the software to self-configure communications D. Ability of users to achieve specified goals using all of the modules
ISTQB Advanced Level Test Analyst Exam – Scenario Based Sample Questions: Q. 31 to 40 Deep study of this set of 53 questions out of which majority of them are scenario based & shall be of great help in getting success in IST QB CTAL Advanced Level Test Analyst Exam. All these questions are based upon the latest ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level Syllabus V 2007. Set of 10 Questions (Q. 31 to 40) Correct Answers of earlier Q. 21 to 30 are at the end of this page: Q. 31: You are new to the organization and have been placed in a technical testing role. You're asked to investigate a number of complaints from customers who have made mistakes using the system in place that were not predicted. You hav e been tasked with trying to find a way of avoiding these kinds of errors in the future. Which of the following artifacts are you not liable to use while performing this task? A. Heuristic evaluation B. CAPECC C. SUMI D. WAMMI
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Q. 32: Since releasing the latest version two weeks ago, your software system has been broken into at least 10 different times. So far no important customer data has been stolen, but it is only a matter of time. You have lien tasked with determining as quickly as possible if there are more vulnerabilities so a quick patch can be sent out. W hich of the following test design techniques would most likely give you the information you need? A. MC/DC B. Failure-based taxonomy C. Chartered exploratory testing D. Software attacks
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q. 33: Non-functional testing has never been done at your organization, but your new director of quality has decided that it will be done in the future. And, she wants metrics to show that the system is getting better. One metric you are calculating is based on a period of testing that occurred last week. You are measuring; the time that the system was actually working correctly com-pared to the time that it was automatically repairing itself after a failure. Which of the following metrics are you actually measuring? A. MTBF B. Mean down time C. Mean recovery time D. Availability
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q. 34: Non-functional testing has never been clone at your organization, but your new director of duality has decided that it will be done in the future. And, she wants metrics to show that the system is getting better. You find out that marketing has put it new claim into the literature for the system, saying that the software will work on Windows 95 through Win 7. For which of the following non-functional attributes would you most likely be interested in testing and collecting metrics? A. Adaptability B. Portability compliance C. Coexistence D. Stability
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q. 35: You are doing performance testing for the s ystem your company sells. You have been running the system for over a week straight, pumping huge v olumes of data through it. What kind of testing are you most likely performing? A. Stress testing B. Soak testing C. Resource utilization testing D. Spike testing
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Q. 36: Rather than developing; all of your own software from the ground up, your management team has decided to use available COTS packages in addition to new code for an upcoming project. You have been given the task of testing the entire system with a view to making sure that your organization retains its independence from the COTS suppliers. Which of the following non-functional attributes would you most likely investigate? A. Replaceability B. Portability compliance C. Coexistence D. Adaptability
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Sample Questions in context of ISTQB Advanced Level Technical Test Analyst Exam Syllabus Chapter 6: Reviews Walk-Through Scenario: Assume you are building an online application that allows for the secure transfer of encrypted financial data between banks, stock and bond trading companies, insurance companies, and other similar companies. This system will use public key infrastructure, and users will post their public keys on the system. The users' private keys will be used by a thin client-side client -side applet to decrypt the information on their local systems. Q. 37: During preparation for a design specification walk-through, you notice the following statement, a 10 MBPS or better network connection using TCP/IP provides the interface between the database server and the application server. Suppose the system under test will need to transfer data blocks of up to 1 gigabyte in size in less, than a minute. Which of the following statements best describes the likely consequences of this situation? A. The system will suff er from usability problems. B. The system will suffer from performance problems C. The system will suffer from maintainability problems. D. This situation does not indicate any likely problems.
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q. 38: During preparation for n code inspection, you notice the following header in a member function for the object ubcd: /*PURPOSE: Provides unsigned binary coded decimal integers, integers, * via a class of unsigned integers of almost * unlimited precision. It can store a little over * 4 billion 8 bit bytes, with each byte representing * an unsigned pair of decimal digits. One digit is * in each nibble (half-byte). Which of the following statements best describes why a programmer for a financial application would need to use such a binary coded decimal representation for data?
A. This approach ensures fast perform ance of calculations. B. This approach indicates a serious design defect. C. This approach maximizes memory resource efficiency. D. This approach preserves accuracy of calculations.
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q. 39: During preparation for a peer review of the requirements specification, you notice the following statement: The system shall support transactions in all major currencies. Which of the following statements is true? A. The statement is ambiguous in ter ms of supported currencies. B. The statement indicates potential performance problems. C. The statement provides clear transaction limits. D. The statement indicates potential usability problems.
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q. 40: During the project, your manager schedules a private interv iew between you and a person from an international accounting firm. This person asks you some questions about the processes used to design, implement, and test the system. What process is this interview most likely part of? A. Management review B. Process inspection C. Regulatory audit D. Project walk-through
ISTQB Advanced Level Test Analyst Exam – Scenario Based Sample Questions: Q. 41 to 50 Deep study of this set of 53 questions out of which majority of them are scenario based & shall be of great help in getting success in IST QB CTAL Advanced Level Test Analyst Exam. All these questions are based upon the latest ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level Syllabus V 2007. Set of 10 Questions (Q. 41 to 50) Correct Answers of earlier Q. 31 to 40 are at the end of this page: Sample Questions in context of ISTQB Advanced Level Technical Test Analyst Exam Syllabus Chapter 7: Incident Management Q. 41: Which of the following is a section included in an IEEE 829-compliant incident report? A. Test items B. Procedure steps C. Location D. Steps to reproduce
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q. 42: Which of the following shows the steps of IEEE 1044-compliant incident management in proper order? A. Recognition, investigation, action, disposition B. Recognition, action, investigation, disposition C. Investigation, recognition, action. disposition D. Recognition, investigation, removal, disposition
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q. 43: Which of the following is a classification that you w ould snake for the first time during the investigation step of an IEEE 1044-compliant incident management process? A. Suspected cause B. Source C. Resolution D. Disposition
Scenario: Assume you are a test analyst working on a banking project to upgrade an exist-automated teller machine system to allow customers to obtain cash advances from supported credit cards. The requirements specification contains following paragraph: The system shall allow cash advances from 20 dollars to 500 dollars, inclusively, for all supported credit cards. The correct list of supported credit cards is American Express, Visa, Japan Credit Bank, Eurocard, and MasterCard. You are reviewing an incident incident report written written by one of your peers. The step step to reproduce section of the report contains the following statement: 1. Inserted an American Express card into the ATM. 2. Properly authenticated a test account with $1,000 available cash advance balance. 3. Attempted to withdraw $20 from the account. 4. Error message "Amount requested exceeds available funds" appeared 5. Reproduced this failure with two other accounts that also had sufficient available credit to cover a $20 withdrawal. 6. Verified that the ATM itself had sufficient cash to service the request. 7. Problem did not occur with Visa, Japan Credit Bank, Eurocard, or MasterCard. Q. 44: Assume the defect report is currently in a new state, indicating it needs a review. Relying on the information given in this scenario and assuming that your organization follows an IEEE 1044 compliant lifecycle, which of the following statements best describes what should happen neat to this report? A. Move it to an invalid st ate because it does not describe a valid defect B. Move it to a defer state because it does not describe an important defect. C. Move it to an open state for prioritization by project stakeholders. D. Move it to a build state so that the tester will check the fix.
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Q. 45: Assume the defect report is currently in a new state indicating it needs a review. Also assume that your organization follows an IEEE 1044 compliant incident-classification scheme. Rely on the information given in this scenario. Which of the following IEEE 1044 classification fields cannot yet be classified? A. Suspected Cause B. Actual Cause C. Repeatability D. Symptom
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> ISTQB Advanced Level Technical Test Analyst Exam - Chapter 8: Standards & Test Process Improvement – Applicable only for Test Managers
Sample Questions in context of ISTQB Advanced Level Technical Test Analyst Exam Syllabus Chapter 9: Test Techniques
Q. 46: Your organization has hired a new CIO clue to several poor releases in the last year. The CIO came from a highly successful software house and wants to make immediate changes to the processes currently being used at your company. T he first process change to come down is a hard-and-fast rule that all code must be run through a static analysis tool and all errors and warnings corrected before system test is complete. As the lead technical test analyst for the current project, which of the following options do you think best describes the explanation you should give to the CIO about why this new rule is a bad idea? A. Your staff has no train ing on these tools. B. There is no budget for buying or training on these tools. C. Changing existing, working code based on warnings from static analysis tools is not wise. D. Given the current work load, the testers do not have time to per-form static testing.
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q. 47: You flagship system has been experiencing some catastrophic failures in production. These do not occur often; sometimes a month can go between failures. Unfortunately, to this point the test staff and support staff has not been able to re-create the failures. Investigating the issue, you have not found any proof that specific configurations have caused these problems; failures have occurred in almost all of the configurations. Which of the following types of testing do you believe would have the most likely chance of being able to solve this problem? A. Soak-type performance testing B. Keyword-driven automated testing C. Static analysis D. Dynamic analysis
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q. 48: Which of the following points of information about your organization would tend to make keyword-driven automation a desirable automation method rather than a straight data-driven methodology?
A. Almost all of the test ers on your test team have backgrounds in progr amming. B. The systems you are testing have radical interface changes at least three times a year. C. Most of your testers came from the user or business community. D. Your organization has a limited budget for purchasing tools.
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q.49: You are in the analysis and design phase of your performance testing project. You have evaluated the production and test environments. You have created the data to be used and built and parameterized the scripts. You have set up all of the monitoring applications and notified the appropriate support personnel so they are ready to troubleshoot problems. Which of the following tasks, had it not been done, would surely invalidate all of your testing? A. Ensured that the test enviro nment is identical to the product ion environment B. Modeled the system to learn how it's actually used C. Purchased or rented enough virtual user licenses to match peak usage D. Brought in experienced performance testers to train all of the participants
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q. 50: You are senior technical test analyst for a test organization that is rapidly falling behind the curve, each release, you are less able to perform all of the testing tasks needed b y your project. You have very little budget for tools or people, and the timeframe timeframe for the project is about to be shortened. The testers in the group tend to have very little in the way of technical skills. Currently, 100 percent of your testing is manual, with about 15 percent of that being regression testing. Which of the following decisions might help you catch up to the curve? A. Allow the testers to use open-source tools to pick low- hanging fruit B. Put a full automation project into place and try to automate all testing C. Find an inexpensive requirements/test management tool to roll out D. Build your own automation tool so it does not cost anything
ISTQB Advanced Level Test Analyst Exam – Scenario Based Sample Questions: Q. 51 to 60 Deep study of this set of 53 questions out of which majority of them are scenario based & shall be of great help in getting success in IST QB CTAL Advanced Level Test Analyst Exam. All these questions are based upon the latest ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level Syllabus V 2007. Set of 10 Questions (Q. 51 to 60) Correct Answers of earlier Q. 41 to 50 are at the end of this page: Q. 51: Consider the following excerpt from the Test Items section of a test plan. During S ystem Test execution, the configuration management team shall deliver test releases to the test team every Monday morning by 9:00 a.m. Each test release shall include a test item transmittal report. The test item transmittal report will describe the results of the automated build and smoke test associated with the release. Upon receipt of the test release, if the smoke test was successful, the test manager will install it in the test lab. Testing will commence on Monday morning once the new weekly release is installed.
Should the test team not receive a test release, or if the smoke test results are negative, or if the release will not install, or should the release arrive without a transmittal report, the test manager shall immediately contact the configuration management team manager. If the problem is not resolved within one hour, the test manager shall notify the project manager and continue testing against the previous week's release, if possible. If the test release fails installation, addition-ally the test analyst who attempted the installation shall file an incident report. Assume that you are working as the test manager on this project. Suppose that you have received two working, installable, testable releases so far. On Monday of the third week, you do not receive the test release. Which of the following courses of action is consistent with the test plan? A. Filing an incident report describing the time and date at which you first noticed the m issing test release B. Creating a test procedure specification that describes how to install a test release C. Sending an SMS text to the configuration management team manager D. Send an e-mail to the project manager and the configuration management team manager
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Q. 52: Assume that on Monday afternoon you finally receive a test release. When your lead test analyst attempts to install it, the database configuration scripts included in the installation terminate in midstream. An error message is presented on the database server in Cyrillic script, though the chosen language is U.S. English. At that point, the database tables are corrupted and any attempt to use the application under test results in various database connection error messages (which are at least presented in U.S. English). Consider the following possible actions: I. Notifying the configuration management team manager II. Notifying the project manager III. Filing an incident report IV. Attempting to repeat the installation V. Suspending testing VI. Continuing testing Which of the following sequence of actions is in the correct order, is the most reasonable, and is most consistent with the intent of the test plan? A. I, II, V B. V, I, IV,III, I C. VI, II, I, III, IV D. II, I, V
<<<<<< =================== >>>>>> Sample Questions in context of ISTQB Advanced Level Technical Test Analyst Exam Syllabus Chapter 10: People Skills & Team Composition
Q. 53: Assume you are a technical test analyst working on a banking project to upgrade an existing automated teller machine system to allow customers to obtain cash advances from supported credit cards. You are unable to obtain information about the minimum & maximum throughput of the connections between the automated teller machine and the payment processing networks, which is not included in the design specification. Which of the following is an example of a good way to communicate that problem in an e-mail? A. "Until I receive a com plete specification of throughput between AT Ms and network, no progress on test design can occur" B. "When will it be possible to know the maximum & minimum throughput of the ATM / network connections? Test design is impeded by a lack of clarity here." C. "Here we go again. The design specification is incomplete and ambiguous." D. Do not communicate the problem; just log the delaying effect of the information problem & be ready to explain the delays to the management when they ask.
Correct Answers to Earlier Questions - Q.1 to Q 10 are as under: Question No.
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Correct Answers to Earlier Questions - Q.11 to Q 20 are as under: Question No.
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Correct Answers to Earlier Questions - Q.21 to Q 30 are as under: Question No.
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Correct Answers to Earlier Questions - Q. 31 to Q 40 are as under: Question No.
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Correct Answers to Earlier Questions - Q. 41 to Q 50 are as under: Question No.
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Correct Answers to Above Questions - Q. 51 to Q 60 are as under: Question No.
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