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ISTQB ATM ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level - Test Manager [Syllabus 2012] Exam Practice Test

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ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level - Test Manager [Syllabus 2012] Questions and Answers

Question 1

During the system testing phase a tester from your test team observes a failure in the system under test and he/she decides to create an incident report. The incident report is currently in a “new” state, indicating it needs to be investigated.

Which THREE of the following information items can’t yet be present in the incident report?

K3 2 credits (2 credits out of 3 credits correct, 1 credit point)

Options:

A.

The type of defect that caused the failure

B.

The actual and the expected result highlighting the failure

C.

The lifecycle phase in which the defect has been introduced

D.

What really caused the failure (actual cause)

E.

Steps to reproduce the failure, including screenshots, database dumps and logs where applicable

Question 2

Which of the following information would you expect to be the most useful to perform a defect clustering analysis?

K2 1 credit

Options:

A.

The trend in the lag time from defect reporting to resolution

B.

The defect component information

C.

The lifecycle phase in which the defect has been introduced

D.

The defect removal efficiency information

Question 3

Which of the following statements describing how identified product quality risks should be mitigated and managed, is true?

K2 1 credit

Options:

A.

The extent of re-testing and regression testing activities should be based on the risk level

B.

The identification of new risks, the re-assessment of the level of existing risks and the evaluation of the effectiveness of risk mitigation activities should only occur at the very beginning of a project

C.

Risk mitigation of product quality risks can be effective only after starting test execution

D.

The priority of the development and execution of tests should not be based on the risk level but only on the likelihood

Question 4

The following chart plots the cumulative number of defects opened against the cumulative number of defects closed during system testing of a software product.

Question # 4

Which of the following statements is true?

K2 1 credit

Options:

A.

The chart indicates that you have plenty of problems left to find

B.

The chart can be used to reveal test progress problems

C.

The chart seems to indicate that the defect management process is not working well

D.

The chart seems to indicate that the defect management process is working well

Question 5

Assume you are managing a test automation project for a mission-critical system.

Because vendor provided tools and open source solutions don't meet the needs of this project, you ask your test team to develop a custom automation framework.

Which of the following management issues associated to the development of this custom automation framework is least likely to manage?

K2 1 credit

Options:

A.

Proper testing for the custom automation framework must be performed

B.

The custom automation framework will require an adequate documentation

C.

The changes to the custom automation framework should be communicated to all external users of this tool under the GNU license

D.

The custom automation framework will need proper maintenance

Question 6

Assume you are a Test Manager involved in system testing of a CRM application for a Pay-TV company. Currently the application is able to support a proper number of users assuring the required responsiveness. Since the business is expected to grow, you have been asked to evaluate the ability of the application to grow to support more users while maintaining the same responsiveness.

Which of the following tools would you expect to be the most useful at performing this evaluation?

K2 1 credit

Options:

A.

Coverage tools

B.

Test management tools

C.

Static analysis tools

D.

Performance tools

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

Options:

A.

Agile 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

B.

The developers will immediately follow the guidelines described by the tester

C.

The 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

D.

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

Question 8

Consider the following skills assessment spreadsheet for your test team (consisting of four team members):

This spreadsheet has three sections: technical expertise, testing skills and professionalism.

The skill levels for each skill area for both the “technical expertise” and “testing skills” sections have been rated on a four-point scale:

- E (Expert): indicates that a person has expert knowledge and experience in the skill area

- B (Beginner): indicates that a person has some knowledge and experience in the skill area but he/she is not autonomous

- W (Wants to learn): indicates that a person has no knowledge or experience in the skill area but he/she wants to learn that skill

- NI (Not Interested): indicates that a person has no knowledge or experience in the skill area and he/she is not interested to learn that skill

The skill levels for each skill area of the “professionalism” section have been rated on a three point scale (H=High, M=Medium, L=Low).

Consider the following analysis of testing skills performed on four peoplE. Alex, Robert, John and Mark (all the skills have been rated on an ascending scalE. The higher the score, the better the skill):

Question # 8

Which of these people, based on this analysis, would you expect to be most suitable to work specifically as test designer?

K4 3 credits

Options:

A.

Alex

B.

Roberta

C.

John

D.

Mark

Question 9

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

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

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