ISTQB CTAL-TM Certified Tester Advanced Level Test Management Exam Practice Test

In relation to cost of quality, which of the following would be classified as a cost of detection? SELECT ONE OPTION

A tester has just completed a challenging assignment as the sole tester in an agile development team and is now being reassigned. Which of the following is most likely to DEMOTIVATE this tester?

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Which two of the following activities would normally occur in the Acquisition stage of a tool's lifecycle?

a) Assign a tool administrator to decide on best use of the tool

b) Establish a backup and restore strategy for the tool

c) Review other tools provided by the same vendor

d) Determine how the tool may be impacted by a change to the operating environment

e) Develop and implement a training plan for new users of the tool

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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

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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

Assume that you are working for a company that has maintained and tested a car parking permit system for many years. The system holds the name and address of permit holders and automatically writes to the permit holder with a form to renew or cancel their permit each year.

The test plan states the following:

"since the system is considered a stable system. Boundary Value Analysis is the only test case design technique that needs to be applied during testing"

Consider the following change that was detailed in the Requirements Specification for a replacement to an existing parameter held within the system;

* The specified renewal date for each permit must be not be after 31 st January 2020. Which one of the following is a valid test condition that satisfies both the requirement and the test plan?

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Which of the following are Test Closure activities?

a All results lodged in configuration management system - for example test plans, results, logs, reports.

b. Plans in place for lessons to be learnt to ensure that good practices are repeated and poor practices are not.

c. Checks undertaken to ensure that all test work is completed - all tests executed or skipped, all defects managed to appropriate conclusion.

d. All project closure activities completed - for example customer training completed, and analysis of vendor performance undertaken.

e. AM testing work products delivered to those that need them - for example environments/ regression test sets passed to maintenance.

f. Checks undertaken to ensure that all tests have been executed, with all defects confirmed as fixed by retesting.

SELECT ONE OPTION