ISTQB ISTQB Certifications CTFL-FOUNDATION Questions & Answers

• Question 131:

  To which of the following test levels can regression testing be applied?

  A. Component Testing

  II. Integration Testing

  III. System Testing

  IV. Acceptance Testing

  B. II, III, IV

  C. I, II

  D. I, II, III

  E. I, II, III, IV

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 132:

  What is the ideal number of regression test cycles?

  A. As many as time and budget allow

  B. 2

  C. 1

  D. Until the quality requirements are met

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 133:

  Which of the following statements about test execution effort is true?

  A. An increase in number of testers always reduces testing time.

  B. A large number of test repetitions mean less test execution effort

  C. The test execution effort is independent of the number of test environments.

  D. The test case execution effort is dependent on the build quality

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 134:

  An Incident Management tool implements the following defect state: Open, Assigned, Solved, Closed.

  Consider the following defect report:

  Id: T000561 Test Object: "Warehouse Management" application Tester name: John Bishop Date: 10th, April 2010 Test Case: MRT5561 Status: Serious Priority: Problem: After inputting the Total Quantity item = 450 in the SV034 screen, the system shows an unexpected error message = 47 Correction: Developer name: Closing date:

  Which of the following is a valid criticism of this report?

  A. The Priority, the Correction description and the Developer name are missing

  B. The description is not highlighting the source of the problem

  C. The version of the application is missing

  D. There is no link to the applicable requirement (traceability)

  Correct Answer: C

• Question 135:

  At what stage of the Fundamental Test Process do testers write the steps of the test procedures?

  A. Test implementation and execution

  B. Evaluating exit criteria and reporting

  C. Test closure activities

  D. Test planning and control

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 136:

  Which of the following statements correctly describes traceability?

  A. The capability of the software product to enable modified software to be tested.

  B. An approach to integration testing where the component at the top of the component hierarchy is tested first.

  C. The degree to which a requirement is stated in terms that permit establishment of test design.

  D. The ability to identify related items in documentation, such as requirements vs. software design

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 137:

  Which of the following metrics are useful for monitoring the test progress?

  A. The number of features implemented in the code

  B. The number of changes done to the product's requirements

  C. Percentage of work done on the user's manuals

  D. Percentage of work done in test environment preparation

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 138:

  Which of the following tools is most likely to detect defects in functions or methods in source code?

  A. unit test framework tool

  B. configuration management tool

  C. test design tool

  D. monitoring tool

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 139:

  A team's test strategy was to invest equal effort in testing each of a system's modules. After running one test cycle, it turned out that most of the critical bugs were detected in one of the system's modules. Which testing principal suggests a change to the current test strategy for the next test cycle?

  A. Defect clustering

  B. Early testing

  C. Pesticide Paradox

  D. Absence-of-errors fallacy

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 140:

  Which of the following statements regarding incidents is NOT true?

  A. Incidents should be tracked from discovery and classification to correction and confirmation of the solution.

  B. The discrepancies between actual and expected outcomes needs to be logged as incidents.

  C. Since incidents are the discrepancies between actual and expected outcomes they cannot be raised during development.

  D. Incidents may be raised during development, review, testing or use of a software product.

  Correct Answer: C