CTAL-TM-001 by ISTQB Actual Free Exam Questions And Answers

Question 1

You have been asked to make a recommendation on deployment readiness on the software your team has been testing.You have the following metrics:

Given this information what is a critical metric you are missing?

A. Planned vs actual cost of testing

B. Number of defects outstanding

C. Residual risk

D. Number of tests passed

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Correct Answer: C Vote an answer

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Question 2

As the Test Manager working for a company developing safety related software for defence equipment, you have been asked to consider how you can track test progress and report on the following:
1) Test cases adequately cover all requirements
2) Issues relating to safety critical vulnerabilities are being addressed in priority order
3) How much of the developed system has been exercised through testing What tools would help to achieve this?
SELECT ONE OPTION

A. A Defect Management tool, static analysis tool and code coverage tool.

B. A Test Management tool, defect management tool and static analysis tool.

C. A Defect Management tool, static analysis tool and performance tool.

D. A Test Management tool, defect management tool and code coverage tool

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Correct Answer: D Vote an answer

Question 3

You have initiated a test process improvement project for your organisation using the STEP model. You have agreed the objectives, goals, scope and coverage of the process improvements with the stakeholders and defined the success criteria that will be applied to the project. Success criteria make risk reduction the most important target benefit for the process improvements, but overall return on investment is also an important consideration. You have just received the initial test assessment report.
Which ONE of the following would be the next step? SELECT ONE OPTION

A. Build a test process improvement plan that aligns with organisational strategy and maximizes return on investment.

B. Prioritize the proposed improvements by predicted risk reduction and build a test process improvement plan that aligns with organisational strategy

C. Prioritize the proposed improvements by return on investment and build a test process improvement plan that does not reduce overall risk management overheads.

D. Build a test process improvement plan that achieves benefits identified by individual stakeholders.

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Correct Answer: C Vote an answer

Question 4

Mary is an external IT auditor. She is conducting a review of the system-level testing done by Greg's functional testing team.
Which of the following items from Mary's assessment summary should concern Greg the most? [2]

A. Some of the Test Objectives could only be mapped back to a single Business Requirement.

B. A few of the Test Objectives did not have any Test Conditions assigned to them.

C. There were Test Conditions which didn't tie back to any Business Requirement.

D. All the Business requirements could be traced to Test Objectives. However there was no tracing from the Business Requirements to the project's test schedule.

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Correct Answer: C Vote an answer

Question 5

Which testing metric identifies defect density?

A. Product

B. People

C. Process

D. Project

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Question 6

What is the purpose of the defect management committee?

A. To validate defect reports and determine fix plans

B. To implement strict guidelines for defect report creation

C. To control the flow of defect reports into the system

D. To ensure the developers fix all defects

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Question 7

What is the purpose of lest control?

A. To take corrective actions required to meet the test objectives

B. To return the test environment to its starting state and data

C. To project detect trends and outcomes

D. To monitor the testing

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Question 8

Which of the Mowing should be used to understand the context of testing within an organization?

A. Stakeholder organization chart

B. The schedule

C. The budget

D. The organizational test strategy

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Question 9

While mining the defect database for patterns of problems in the last release, a Test Manager notices that many of the most damaging failures were caused by defects injected during the low-level design phase.
Which of the following actions will likely give this project the most effective solution to this problem? [3]

A. Formal inspections of the code modules affected by the last release

B. Increased static analysis during the implementation phase

C. Increased white-box coverage during system testing

D. Mandatory reviews of all important design work products

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Question 10

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?
SELECT ONE OPTION

A. An assignment as a member of the maintenance test team for the same agile development.

B. A meeting with the Test Manager to discuss the feedback from other team members about the tester's performance on the project.

C. A bonus payment to reflect the project team's overall productivity.

D. An assignment to a new agile development team as lead test analyst.

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Correct Answer: A Vote an answer

Question 11

Which of the following are primary activities in conducting product risk analysis?

A. Risk testing, risk management

B. Risk identification, risk testing

C. Risk management, risk assessment

D. Risk identification, risk assessment

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Question 12

How does a risk based testing approach address risks in a software product? SELECT ONE OPTION

A. By designing tests that address only the highest risk areas.

B. By identifying known risks in defect reports.

C. By calculating the likelihood and impact of a risk, the probability of finding defects is increased.

D. By prioritizing tests according to which product risks they address.

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