CTAL-TM Online Practice Questions and Answers

Relying only on the information provided in the scenario, select the TWO items and/or features for which sufficient information is available to proceed with test design.

A. All supported credit cards

B. Language localization

C. Valid and invalid advances

D. Usability

E. Response time

Continuing with the Scenario described in the previous question, which of the following topics would you need to address in detail in the master test plan?

A. An approach to regression testing

B. A list of boundary values for "advance amount"

C. A description of dependencies between test cases

D. A logical collection of test cases

As a result of the RAD based development approach, the test manager has decided to change the risk mitigation approach.

Which test technique might be most appropriate to use?

A. Decision Table Testing

B. Boundary Value Analysis

C. Error Guessing

D. Exploratory Testing

Within the projects, a master test plan and phase test plan will be used. Following is a list of characteristics applicable for test plans:

Which TWO mentioned characteristics relate to the phase test plan?

A. Any deviation from the procedures described in the test

B. strategy document

C. The overall estimated costs, timescales and resource

D. requirements

E. A detailed schedule of testing activities

F. The development deliverables to be tested

G. Which test staff members (names) will be involved and when

H. Level of requirements coverage achieved

As part of the test strategy, entry and exit criteria will be defined for each test level.

Which is NOT a valid reason for using entry and exit criteria?

A. The expectation is that development testing is not adequate.

B. Exit criteria are used to decide on when to stop testing.

C. Entry and exit criteria are a principal way for getting adequate resources.

D. Using entry and exit criteria will prevent software that is not or poorly tested from going to the next test level.

In addition to introducing the new team member, you have decided to raise motivation.

Which of the measures listed below would be the best measure to take in order to increase the motivation of the team?

A. Provide more time for testing in the schedule

B. Allow people to take some time off

C. Introduce entry criteria to the testing phase

D. Organize a meeting with senior management in which they address the importance of good testing for this project

Which of the following is a characteristic of good testing in any life cycle model?

A. Analysis and design of tests begins as soon as development is completed.

B. Some, but not all, development activities have corresponding test activities.

C. Each test level has test objectives specific to that level.

D. All document reviews involve the development team.

The introduction of reviews and inspections has often failed as a process improvement action.

Identify the THREE most important measures that should be taken to reduce the risk that this test process improvement will fail.

A. Process ownership and experienced moderators who drive the inspection process.

B. Management support

C. Training of those involved

D. The availability of stands and processes

E. Usage of a more traditional software development lifecycle

F. Alignment with software process improvement

G. Using a reference model, e.g. TMMi

Which of the following is an example of testing as part of the requirements specification phase?

A. A requirements review meeting

B. A business analyst eliciting requirements

C. Performing acceptance tests against requirements

D. A test report showing requirements coverage

You are about to release a test progress report to a senior manager, who is not a test specialist. Which of the following topics should NOT be included in the test progress report?

A. Product risks which have been mitigated and those which are outstanding.

B. Recommendations for taking controlling actions

C. Status compared against the started exit criteria

D. Detailed overview of the risk-based test approach being used to ensure the exit criteria to be achieved