ISTQB ISTQB Certifications ATM Questions & Answers

• Question 21:

  Assume you are working on a defect management process to be used by a software organization to track the current status of the defects reports for several projects.

  When a defect is found for investigation a defect report is created in "Opened" state that is the unique initial state. The defect report status has also a unique finale state that is the "Closed" state.

  The following state transition diagram describes the states of this defect management process:

  Where only the initial ("Opened") and final ("Closed") states are indicated while the remaining states (V, W, X, Y, Z) have yet to be named.

  

  Which of the following assignments would you expect to best complete the defect management process? K3 2 credits

  A. V=Rejected , W=Corrected , X=Validated, Y=Re-Opened, Z=Assigned

  B. V=Assigned, W=Validated , X=Corrected, Y=Re-Opened, Z=Rejected

  C. V=Assigned, W=Corrected , X=Validated, Y=Re-Opened, Z=Rejected

  D. V= Corrected, W=Assigned, X=Validated, Y=Corrected, Z=Rejected

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 22:

  You are the Test Manager of a project that adopts a V-model with four formal levels of testinG. unit, integration, system and acceptance testing.

  On this project reviews have been conducted for each development phase prior to testing, which is to say that reviews of requirements, functional specification, high-level design, low- level design and code have been performed prior to testing.

  Assume that no requirements defects have been reported after the release of the product.

  Which TWO of the following metrics do you need in order to evaluate the requirements reviews in terms of phase containment effectiveness? K3 2 credits

  A. Number of defects found during the requirements review

  B. Total number of defects attributable to requirements found during unit, integration, system and acceptance testing

  C. Total number of defects found during functional specification review, high-level design review, low-level design review, code review, unit testing, integration testing, system testing and acceptance testing

  D. Time to conduct the requirements review

  E. Total number of defects attributable to requirements, found during functional specification review, high

  level design review, low-level design review, code review, unit testing, integration testing, system testing and acceptance testing

  Correct Answer: AE

• Question 23:

  Which of the following factors could negatively influence a review? K2 1 credit

  A. Include people with the adequate level of knowledge, both technical and procedural

  B. Include people who are detail-oriented and scrupulous at finding issues

  C. Include as many people as possible in order to have more viewpoints about possible problems on the item under review

  D. Include people able to contribute to a clear, thoughtful, constructive and objective discussion

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 24:

  You are a Test Manager working for a software organization where reviews have never been applied. After a meeting with your managers examining a business case for reviews, (including their costs, benefits, and potential issues), the management finally decides to adopt formal reviews for future projects.

  You have been given a budget that you have spent to provide training in the review process and to introduce the review process on a pilot project.

  On that pilot project the introduction of reviews has been very positive in terms of positive involvement from all the participants. All the reviews applied to different documents have been very effective for their purposes (especially at revealing defects).

  Which of the following answers describes an important success factor for the introduction of formal reviews which is missing in this scenario? K4 3 credits

  A. Management support

  B. Participant support

  C. Definition and use of metrics to measure the ROI (Return On Investment)

  D. Training in the review process

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 25:

  Consider the following list of statements about audits and management reviews:

  I. Audits are usually more effective than management reviews at finding defects

  II. Audits and management reviews have the same main goals, the only difference is related to the roles and level of formality

  III. A typical outcome of an audit includes observations and recommendations, corrective actions and a pass/fail assessment

  IV. An audit is not the appropriate mechanism to use at the code review in order to detect defects prior to dynamic testing

  Which of the following statements is true?

  K2 1 credit

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

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

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

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

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 26:

  You are the Test Manager of a new project that will have three formal levels of testinG. unit, integration and system testing. The testing strategy you decide to adopt a blend of risk-based testing and reactive testing strategies.

  Which of the following answers describes the most consistent example of implementation of this test strategy during the execution of the system tests?

  K2 1 credit

  A. Your test team executes exploratory tests following a session-based test management approach throughout the system test phase

  B. Your test team executes system tests under the guidance of a sample of users throughout the system test phase

  C. Your test team executes scripted tests designed and implemented before the execution of the system test phase, to cover the identified product risks. It also performs exploratory testing sessions throughout the system test phase

  D. Your test team autonomously performs some exploratory testing sessions and, at the very end of the system testing phase, it also executes more system tests under the guidance of a sample of users

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 27:

  In the test strategy document your organization declares:

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  To adopt a V-model development lifecycle, with three formal levels of testinG. unit, integration and system testing

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  To use a blended risk-based and regression-averse testing strategy for each level of testing The following is an excerpt of the "approach" section for the system test plan document of a new project:

  "Testing will only use manual tests. Due to the short period of time for test execution, the following activities will be performed in parallel with test execution: Test planning, test analysis and test design.

  Basic metrics will be taken for test effort (i.e. person-hours), test cases executed (passed/failed), and incidents (no more metrics, such as code coverage, will be collected)."

  In the system test plan, no deviations from the test strategy are described.

  Based only on the given information, which of the following statements is true?

  K4 3 credits

  A. The approach described in the system test plan document is consistent with the test strategy

  B. The approach described in the system test plan document is consistent with the risk- based testing strategy, but it is inconsistent with the regression testing strategy

  C. The approach described in the system test plan document is consistent with the regression testing strategy, but it is inconsistent with the risk-based testing strategy

  D. The approach described the system test plan document is inconsistent with both the risk-based and regression testing strategies

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 28:

  For which of the following activities would the costs be classified as a cost of detection? K2 1 credit

  A. Writing test specifications according to the test design

  B. Training developers to better understand the new features of the coding language they will use on the project

  C. Re-running a test case, during the system testing phase, to verify that a fix eliminates a previously found defect

  D. Fixing field failures

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 29:

  The main objectives the senior management team wants to achieve are:

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  to reduce the costs associated with dynamic testing

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  to use reviews to ensure that the project is on course for success and following the plan

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  to use reviews as a well-documented and effective bug-removal activity following a formal process with well-defined roles

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  to determine the effectiveness of reviews in terms of phase containment

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  to improve phase containment effectiveness Which of the following answers would you expect to describe the best way to achieve these objectives? K4 3 credits

  A.

  You should plan for lightweight exit-phase reviews at the end of each development and testing phase, and plan for a process of gathering information from testing to perform an analysis aimed at identifying the larger cluster of defects

  B.

  You should plan for formal exit-phase reviews at the end of each development and testing phase, and plan for a process of gathering information from testing to perform an analysis aimed at identifying the larger cluster of defects

  C.

  You should plan for formal exit-phase reviews at the end of each development phase and testing phase, and plan for a process of gathering information from testing to perform an analysis of the bugs found during testing to determine the people responsible for those bugs

  D.

  You should plan for formal exit-phase reviews at the end of each development and testing phase, and plan for a process of gathering information from testing to perform an analysis of the bugs found during testing to determine the phase in which they have been introduced

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 30:

  Which of the following statements best describes an appropriate approach for managing exploratory testing?

  Number of correct responses: 1

  K2 1 credit

  A. Define very detailed mission statements, which allow testing work to be broken into sessions of up to 10 minutes duration in which testing is guided by these mission statements

  B. Break the testing work in 30 to 120 minutes sessions and use properly defined mission statements consisting of two or three sentences to guide testing during these sessions

  C. Define very generic charters to drive exploratory testing sessions of 2 days where testers are completely free to decide what to test

  D. Exploratory testing should not be managed because such testing is inherently unmanageable and not measurable

  Correct Answer: B