ISTQB ISTQB Certifications ATM Questions & Answers

• Question 11:

  Assume you are managing a test automation project for a mission-critical system.

  Because vendor provided tools and open source solutions don't meet the needs of this project, you ask your test team to develop a custom automation framework. Which of the following management issues associated to the development of this custom automation

  framework is least likely to manage? K2 1 credit

  A. Proper testing for the custom automation framework must be performed

  B. The custom automation framework will require an adequate documentation

  C. The changes to the custom automation framework should be communicated to all external users of this tool under the GNU license

  D. The custom automation framework will need proper maintenance

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 12:

  After a selection process you have selected a test management tool that is going be introduced in your organization and used by your test team in a pilot project.

  You have already identified the member of your test team who will be the administrator of the tool, since he/she has a significant experience with the administration of test management tools and so he/she is able to make effective and efficient up-front decisions about "how" the tool will be used. You have also developed a training plan for the other members of your test team.

  In collaboration with the administrator of the tool you have also devised standard ways of managing, storing and maintaining the tool and its assets including backup/restore procedures.

  You have also analyzed standard formats supported by the tool (CSV, XLS, XML, etc.) to export, import and archive all the information managed by the tool itself (requirements, test case specifications, test plans etc.) for compliance with the most important test management tools, in order to minimize the impacts of migrating this information to a new tool that could replace the existing one in the future.

  Which of the following phases in the lifecycle of the new tool has NOT been adequately considered in this description?

  K2 1 credit

  A. Acquisition

  B. Support and maintenance

  C. Evolution

  D. Retirement

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 13:

  Consider the following statements describing the importance of improving the test process:

  I. Test process improvement is important because being focused only on the test process it can provide recommendations to improve the test process itself, but it can't indicate or suggest improvement to areas of the development process

  II. Test process improvement is important because it is much more effective than software process improvement to improve the quality of a software system

  III. Test process improvement is important because several process improvement models (STEP, TPI Next, TMMi) have been developed over the years

  IV. Test process improvement is important because every organization, regardless of the context, should always achieve the maximum level of maturity of testing described in the test improvement models such as TMMi

  Which of the following answers is correct?

  K2 1 credit

  A. I. and IV. are true; II. and III. are false

  B. I., II., III. and IV are false

  C. I., II. and III are true; IV. is false

  D. I., II. and III. are false; IV. is true

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 14:

  After the presentation, you are asked to explain the chart. Assume you have applied a full risk-based testing strategy.

  

  Which of the following answers would you expect to best describe the pie chart?

  K4 3 credits

  A. All the risk items have been covered with tests. No more risk items remain to test

  B. According to the full risk-based testing strategy applied, it is very likely that the highest- risk items, tests and bugs remain in the blue and red areas. Therefore, it is very risky to release the application

  C. Only the lowest-risk items, tests and bugs should remain in the blue and red areas. Therefore the application can be released at any time subject to management of the items identified in those areas

  D. 97 percent of the risk items has been tested. No open bugs or test failures remain. Only 3 percent of risk items remains to be covered by the remaining test

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 15:

  A chart showing the trend in the lag time from defect reporting to resolution during system testing is also available. The chart shows that the daily closure period is consistently and significantly above the rolling closure period for a long period of the system testing phase.

  Almost all defects found during system testing have been related to the system as a whole, not related to single units or integrations issues. Almost all quality risks have been addressed during the unit and integration testing phase and no residual quality risks were present in the integrated system. This has been confirmed by exploratory testing sessions performed during system testing, targeted at finding defects in these quality risk areas.

  Based on the given information only, which one of the following areas would you expect to be considered more in the retrospective meeting in order to be improved?

  K3 3 credits

  A. The requirements review

  B. The defect management process

  C. The quality risk analysis process

  D. The system design and architecture design reviews

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 16:

  Which of the following statements about the STEP test process improvement model is true? K2 1 credit

  A. In the STEP model, tests validate the requirements and use cases when they are developed

  B. The STEP model stresses defect detection and demonstration of capability, whereas the defect prevention is a secondary potential goal of testing

  C. The STEP model assures that the system requirements specification and the test design specification processes don't overlap

  D. In the STEP model, testware design occurs after coding

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 17:

  Which of the following statements about the TMMi test process improvement model is true? K2 1 credit

  A. In TMMi all the process areas at lower levels must be 75% complete by achieving specific and generic goals in order to claim the higher level

  B. TMMi provides an approach for test process improvement such as the IDEAL (Initiating, Diagnosing, Establishing, Acting and Learning) model

  C. TMMi has a staged architecture for process improvement with seven maturity levels

  D. At TMMi level 1 testing is chaotic without a defined process, and it is often seen as the same as

  debugging

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 18:

  Which of the following information would you expect to be the most useful to perform a defect clustering analysis?

  K2 1 credit

  A. The trend in the lag time from defect reporting to resolution

  B. The defect component information

  C. The lifecycle phase in which the defect has been introduced

  D. The defect removal efficiency information

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 19:

  Consider a defect report and assume that a part of its lifecycle includes the following states:

  New: Is the initial state

  WorkinG. Means that the developers are addressing the defect in order to produce a fix for the defect Clarification: Means that the developers need more information from the tester to address the defect and produce a fix for the defect and the tester is working to provide this information to the developers Verification: Means that a fix for the defect has been produced and the tester is running the adequate tests to verify whether the fix solves the defect

  CloseD. is the final state

  Which of the following answers represents an invalid sequence of states that can't lead the bug report to the "Closed" state?

  K2 1 credit

  A. New, Working, Verification, Working, Clarification, Working, Verification, Closed

  B. New, Working, Clarification, Working, Verification, Closed

  C. New, Working, Verification, Working, Clarification, Working, Closed

  D. New, Working, Verification, Closed

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 20:

  During the system testing phase a tester from your test team observes a failure in the system under test and he/she decides to create an incident report. The incident report is currently in a "new" state, indicating it needs to be investigated.

  Which THREE of the following information items can't yet be present in the incident report?

  K3 2 credits (2 credits out of 3 credits correct, 1 credit point)

  A. The type of defect that caused the failure

  B. The actual and the expected result highlighting the failure

  C. The lifecycle phase in which the defect has been introduced

  D. What really caused the failure (actual cause)

  E. Steps to reproduce the failure, including screenshots, database dumps and logs where applicable

  Correct Answer: ACD