ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level - Test Manager - CTAL-TM Exam Practice Test
Your team has been working on an Agile project for two months. There is a retrospective at the endof each sprint One of the data items reviewed is how many defects are being caught by users rather than by testers.
The test team is being blamed for these escapes
What do you need to do to make these sessions more productive?
The test team is being blamed for these escapes
What do you need to do to make these sessions more productive?
Correct Answer: B
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You are working on a project that is having problems with regressions. With each release of software given to the test team. 50% of the defects found are actually regressions. To combat this you have decided to implement test automation. You have given your automation team the following goal
'Implement lest automation to automate 90% of the manual regression tests before the product release date.'' Which of the following is likely an issue with this goal being defined as "SMART?
'Implement lest automation to automate 90% of the manual regression tests before the product release date.'' Which of the following is likely an issue with this goal being defined as "SMART?
Correct Answer: A
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You are preparing the estimate for the test plan, which should cover all test activities subsequent to the plan having been agreed. Estimation of test activities has in the past been embarrassingly inaccurate. Historical data from previous similar projects is unreliable, but for two recent projects it is possible to find out how many test cases were developed and how long this took.
Which TWO of the following estimation techniques will be BEST in this scenario?
Which TWO of the following estimation techniques will be BEST in this scenario?
Correct Answer: A,E
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You have been carefully monitoring the progress of testing for your project. You have been using the established traceability to verify that the requirements and test conditions are being adequately addressed. The test team is proceeding well in their test case execution and you can see that you are achieving about 80% coverage of the test conditions per the traceability mapping in your test management system. You have seen a number of defects being logged against test conditions that are failing, but you do not see a mapping of the test cases to those conditions.
What is likely to be occurring in the testing area that is causing the traceability to break down? [2]
What is likely to be occurring in the testing area that is causing the traceability to break down? [2]
Correct Answer: C
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Which of the following Is the common set of information to be produced in a test estimate''
Correct Answer: B
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Your manager has decided that your team of manual testers should all become test automation engineers Your team is much stronger in analysis than In technical testing so you are concerned about their ability to adapt.
What tool capabilities could help with this transition?
What tool capabilities could help with this transition?
Correct Answer: D
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The teams are two days away from the end of the current iteration. The rate at which users have been reporting defects has been trending upward in the last few weeks and so far during this latest iteration has shown another increase.
The scrum master of the team responsible for most defects has asked you for ideas about how to perform the next retrospective in order to learn the appropriate lessons.
You have suggested that they should provide the retrospective meeting with a breakdown, by nature and severity, of the defects relevant to that team.
Assuming that this is done, which next three steps of the retrospective will be MOST effective?
The scrum master of the team responsible for most defects has asked you for ideas about how to perform the next retrospective in order to learn the appropriate lessons.
You have suggested that they should provide the retrospective meeting with a breakdown, by nature and severity, of the defects relevant to that team.
Assuming that this is done, which next three steps of the retrospective will be MOST effective?
Correct Answer: B
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Your organization is considering using open-source tools. You have been told you need to be aware of the terms of the GNU general public license.
What is the basic concept of this license? [1]
What is the basic concept of this license? [1]
Correct Answer: C
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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
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
Correct Answer: B
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You are Test Manager working on a project which is improving the user interface for its call centre staff handling customer enquiries. The project has completed UAT for the first iteration; however a large number of defects were raised by call centre staff seconded to help with the User Acceptance testing.
The defects described the user interface as not being intuitive enough with a poor 'help' facility. A user representative spent a week working with developers and system testers to explain the issues, which were subsequently agreed to have resulted from poorly specified usability requirements.
The requirements were defined separately for each iteration and have been formally reviewed by business analysts, developers and the IT director.
The user representative was also able to answer a number of other questions that the system test team had regarding call centre workflows, which improved their domain knowledge.
You have been asked to conduct a project retrospective and recommend improvements for the next iteration which introduces further user interface changes. Which of the following would be the MOST effective improvement for the next iteration?
The defects described the user interface as not being intuitive enough with a poor 'help' facility. A user representative spent a week working with developers and system testers to explain the issues, which were subsequently agreed to have resulted from poorly specified usability requirements.
The requirements were defined separately for each iteration and have been formally reviewed by business analysts, developers and the IT director.
The user representative was also able to answer a number of other questions that the system test team had regarding call centre workflows, which improved their domain knowledge.
You have been asked to conduct a project retrospective and recommend improvements for the next iteration which introduces further user interface changes. Which of the following would be the MOST effective improvement for the next iteration?
Correct Answer: A
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At what testing level do the test management activities Include coordinating with end users7
Correct Answer: A
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You are a Test Manager at a company that develops mobile phone applications. Based on historical data in your company, you have calculated the following average metrics for system testing:
* for each 100 LOC (Lines Of Code). 4 test cases are executed
* each test case takes on average 15 minutes to execute and check
* for each 1000 LOC, 5 defects are found
You have used this information to create an estimate for the system testing of a new mobile phone application being developed to submit gas and electricity readings.
The application delivered for system testing has 50.000 lines of code. At the end of system testing, 250 defects are discovered.
Assume that:
* the system test of the new mobile phone application will require the same amount of effort as previous applications
* defect density = number of defects/1000 LOC
* no new tools or processes have been introduced to the test team
Based only on the given information, which one of the following statements is true about this new mobile phone application?
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* for each 100 LOC (Lines Of Code). 4 test cases are executed
* each test case takes on average 15 minutes to execute and check
* for each 1000 LOC, 5 defects are found
You have used this information to create an estimate for the system testing of a new mobile phone application being developed to submit gas and electricity readings.
The application delivered for system testing has 50.000 lines of code. At the end of system testing, 250 defects are discovered.
Assume that:
* the system test of the new mobile phone application will require the same amount of effort as previous applications
* defect density = number of defects/1000 LOC
* no new tools or processes have been introduced to the test team
Based only on the given information, which one of the following statements is true about this new mobile phone application?
SELECT ONE OPTION
Correct Answer: A
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Your company just won a contract to create a new sales application and has committed to a very aggressive delivery timeline. Due to the quick turnaround your primary stakeholder wants to be heavily involved in the design and is very anxious to see the outcome. Because of this, your company has decided to use a spiral development approach. You have a defined test policy and typically use an analytical approach to testing, however, this approach will not work with the development approach.
What test strategy should be utilized?
What test strategy should be utilized?
Correct Answer: B
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Risks have been identified for a project and they have been analysed using a quantitative method, with the following results for probability and impact.
Which risk should the System Testing focus on mitigating first?
SELECT ONE OPTION
Which risk should the System Testing focus on mitigating first?
SELECT ONE OPTION
Correct Answer: C
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