ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level - Test Manager - CTAL-TM_001 Exam Practice Test
You are a Test Manager and have started a program of test process improvement. You are following the IDEAL model and have completed the first three phases, now you are ready to go further. Which TWO of the following activities will enable you to complete the remaining phases of the IDEAL model?
Correct Answer: B,E
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You are interviewing a candidate for the position of test analyst. At one stage of the interview, you are looking specifically for skills in the area of professional competence. Which of the following skills would demonstrate this?
Correct Answer: A
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Which of the following is likely to occur if reviewers do not have an adequate level of technicalknowledge?
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Correct Answer: B
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You have been assigned t o a project that has a very tight schedule. In fact, given your first analysis you do not think the planned test execution can be completed within the schedule There is no time allowed for defect fixing or for repeating tests. Regression testing has been left out of the planning entirely There is no time to develop test automation. The team has agreed that this Is not the way to run a project, yet they are stuck with the current schedule Given this information what is the best way to proceed with the testing to try to meet the deadline with the best outcome1?
Correct Answer: B
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Which one of the following statements correctly describes how product quality risks should be mitigated and managed? SELECT ONE OPTION
Correct Answer: B
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You are Test Manager on a new project and have estimated the test effort to be 500 days, assuming that you will find no more than 50 defects and 5 test iterations being required. The project manager has said the estimate is too high. Which of the following options could enable you to reduce this estimate?
SELECT ONE OPTION
SELECT ONE OPTION
Correct Answer: C
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It is now the final day of the planned user acceptance test period and you are preparing the test completion report. Some defects have not been fixed and some tests have not been run; due to both these factors the exit criteria have not been met.
Which two of the following metrics will be most useful in helping the stakeholders to decide whether to allow the system into production?
Which two of the following metrics will be most useful in helping the stakeholders to decide whether to allow the system into production?
Correct Answer: A,E
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Which of the following statements is true regarding documentation standards?
Correct Answer: A
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Your application development team is performing "test-driven" development. This is a core principal of which software development model?
Correct Answer: A
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Which of the following statements correctly describes a 'depth-first approach' to managing risk based testing?
SELECT ONE OPTION
SELECT ONE OPTION
Correct Answer: B
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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 SELECT ONE OPTION
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 SELECT ONE OPTION
Correct Answer: C
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How does a risk based testing approach address risks in a software product? SELECT ONE OPTION
Correct Answer: D
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Refer to SCENARIO 2 - Which two of the following are test strategies that would need to be implemented to meet the objectives defined in the Safe as Houses' test policy?
a. Analytical strategy
b. Reactive strategy
c Methodical strategy
d. Regression averse strategy
e. Process compliant strategy
a. Analytical strategy
b. Reactive strategy
c Methodical strategy
d. Regression averse strategy
e. Process compliant strategy
Correct Answer: D
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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?
Given this information what is a critical metric you are missing?
Correct Answer: C
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