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

Which testing metric identifies defect density? [1]

• Project
• Product
• Process
• People

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 poorlydocumented.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:

• No open Severity 1 defects2 No more than 10 open severity 2 and/or 3 defects
• All interfaces tested
• 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):
• Open severity 2 and 3 defects
• Interface testing progress
• Development resource for debugging
• Available budget SELECT ONE OPTION
• c and d.
• d and e.
• b and c.
• c and e

You are the manager of a test team. You inherited most of these people from a previous manager who promoted technical skills, particularlyprogramming skills. As a result, your people are very strong in test automation skills, white box testing and complex test designtechniques. You have just been told that you can hire five new people. You want the new people to complement the existing skill sets andyou want to be sure the team will have a strong mutual respect. Given the following options, who should you hire? [3]

• Hire all black box testers because you are severely lacking in that skill set.
• Hire customer support people who have experience with the customer interface.
• Hire a mix of people with strong testing and domain skills.
• Hire college interns who can be trained by the existing people.

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?SELECT ONE OPTION

• Input the dates either side of and including 31/01/2020, and select tests from the regression pack relating to the renewal date and printing only.
• Input the date 31/01 /20 in the wrong field to see what happens, and run the whole of the regression test pack.
• Input the date 01/02/2020 and confirm this is not accepted. and select tests from the regression test back relating to the renewal date only
• Input a date in an invalid format e.g. 31 FEB 2020, and select tests from the regression pack relating to renewal date, policy holder's name, address and printing.
• Input the date 01/02/2020 and confirm this is not accepted. and select tests from the regression testback relating to the renewal date only

Consider the following scenario:Your customer is closely involved in the development project. Requirements are communicated verbally and rarely written down. An iterative development model is being followed and time boxing is used to stay on schedule.Which of the following statements is true? [3]

• A requirements traceability matrix will be created at the start of each iteration.
• Your developers are using a waterfall methodology.
• There is a risk that the system architecture may have to be changed during the development process.
• Testing will start when all coding is completed.

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

• Correcting errors found in a requirements review.
• Fixing defects found in unit testing.
• Training developers to write more secure code.
• Designing test cases and writing test scripts.

Which ONE of the following is considered to be the LEAST independent form of testing for an organisation? SELECT ONE OPTION

• Testing is performed by a tester who is part of an independent test team.
• Testing is performed by an organisation external to the company that has developed the code.
• Testing is performed by a tester who is part of the development team.
• Testing is performed by specialists from the business organisation.

Which of the following is NOT true when following the V-Model lifecycle to organise and plan testing activities? SELECT ONE OPTION

• Test execution activities run until exit criteria have been met.
• Reporting of all test results occurs when testing is complete for the whole project.
• System test planning starts when project planning activities commence.
• Test analysis activities run concurrently with specification of requirements and design.

The Test Manager must assemble team members that have which of the following characteristics? [1]

• Thrive in a routine, structured environment
• Will not change the severity of a defect report
• Will spark informal cross training among themselves
• Possess identical skill sets

Which of the following describes the Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) risk analysis technique? SELECT ONE OPTION

• FMEA is a quality risk management technique concerned with quality risks that arise from an incorrect understanding of the customer requirements.
• FMEA is an analytical process upstream, that attempts to identify the hazards for each risk.
• FMEA is where quality risks, their potential causes and their likely effects are identified and then severity, priority and detection ratings are assigned.
• FMEA is a risk mitigation process that involves determining every possible type of failure, and designing tests to cover each one.