CTAL-TM Block03 - Certifica2IT

Question 1 of 10

1. Your test team is completing final regression testing one week before the release date. A critical defect causing data corruption is discovered. What should you do?

A.Update the weekly status charts and change the project status to red.

B.Write a high-priority defect and call the business stakeholders to warn them about it.

C.Write a high-priority defect and follow the escalation communication plan as defined in your test plan.

D.Update the risks in your test plan to cover data corruption issues and update your test cases to ensure you test for this in the future.

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Question 2 of 10

2. Which of the following software characteristics are possibly revealed through the application of an open-source static analysis tool?

A.Concurrency thresholds

B.Coding standard violations

C.Timing dependencies

D.Memory leaks

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Question 3 of 10

3. In addition to introducing a new team member, you have decided to raise motivation. Which of the measures listed below would be the best to increase the motivation of the team?

A.Provide more time for testing in the schedule

B.Allow people to take some time off

C.Introduce entry criteria to the testing phase

D.Organize a meeting with senior management in which they address the importance of good testing for this project

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Question 4 of 10

4. Evaluate the status of the project against the defined exit criteria. Which of the following options shows the correct status?

A.Criteria A = OK, Criteria B = OK, Criteria C = OK

B.Criteria A = NOT OK, Criteria B = NOT OK, Criteria C = OK

C.Criteria A = OK, Criteria B = NOT OK, Criteria C = NOT OK

D.Criteria A = NOT OK, Criteria B = NOT OK, Criteria C = NOT OK

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Question 5 of 10

5. You have investigated different possibilities and selected four of them to present to IT management. Which of the proposals will you most likely give your highest recommendations?

A.Insourcing of test automation based on an offer from a local company ABC that has specialists in system-level capture-replay automation tools and provides regular training courses in test automation methods and tools. They can work closely with Vicki.

B.Outsourcing of test automation based on an offer from an Asian company, AsiaAutoTest, which has specialists in system-level capture-replay automation tools. They also offer training and propose to run and maintain the regression tests in the future.

C.Internal offer from the development department of XYZ to create the regression package using CppUnit as a test automation tool. One of the development groups has very good experience in automating unit tests and is willing to provide training as well.

D.Solution from a tool vendor offering to educate two test team members in the use of their easy-to-use test automation capture-replay tool over the first 3 months and, based on that, build the regression test suite. In addition to Vicki, Steve is the only one available to be educated.

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Question 6 of 10

6. Instead of having an independent test team within the company, the company is considering outsourcing testing. What are THREE key challenges that are typical for outsourcing?

A.Test environment more complex

B.Define expectations for tasks and deliverables

C.Clear channels of communication

D.Possibly different cultures

E.Testing of non-functional requirements

F.Audit trail from requirements to test cases

G.Applying test automation

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Question 7 of 10

7. Identify THREE items that would be part of the work-breakdown structure showing the key testing activities for the acceptance test project.

A.Test planning, test case preparation, and test execution for each of the four iterations

B.Work should be explicitly allocated to test completion, test management, installation, and training on using the system

C.Activities to deploy the system in the user environment

D.Regression testing in the second, third, and fourth iterations

E.Development activities for unit and integration testing

F.Reviews on requirements documentation

G.Defining test environment requirements for system testing

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Question 8 of 10

8. In general, which part of the testing activity is most difficult to estimate?

A.Test planning

B.Test execution

C.Test management

D.Test design

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Question 9 of 10

9. Which of the following is a valid drawback of independent testing?

A.Developer and independent testing will overlap and waste resources.

B.Developers lose the sense of responsibility, and independent testers may become a bottleneck.

C.Independent testers need extra education and always cost more.

D.Independent testers are always less efficient than developers.

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Question 10 of 10

10. In general, why is it NOT a good idea to estimate the testing effort based only on a percentage of development effort? Identify THREE valid reasons.

A.The quality of the development estimate may be poor.

B.In general, bottom-up estimation is always better than top-down estimation.

C.The percentage-based technique only applies to the V life cycle model.

D.Using the same percentage every time does not address the level of risk of the application to be tested.

E.The maturity of the organization, e.g., the quality of the test basis, quality of development testing, configuration management, availability of test tools, also influence the effort needed for testing.

F.It builds on a large set of historical data.

G.The result is almost always a too low estimate for the required test effort.

Question 10 of 10

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