64.

Assume you are currently working on a project developing a system where functional
requirements are very well specified. Unfortunately non-functional requirements do almost not
exist. You are the Test Manager. You have to choose a technique for test selection that allows
testing of non- functional characteristics, especially reliability. Which of the following
techniques for test selection do you expect being most useful in this scenario? K2 1 credit
A. A model-based technique based on the creation of operational profiles
B. Ambiguity reviews
C. Test condition analysis
D. Cause-effect graphing
A. A model-based technique based on the creation of operational profiles

56. What is the MINIMUM number of the remaining test cases that must be successfully
executed to fulfill the EX1 exit criteria? K3 2 credits
Assume that the following test case have been executed at the end ...
A. 4
B. 5
C. 6
D. 7
A. 4
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01. 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
D. The approach described the system test plan document is inconsistent with both the risk-based
and regression testing strategies
02. In the next two months some new features will be constantly added to new releases of a
project you are working on as Test Manager. You have identified as one of the main project
risks, that the requirements specification will still be incomplete when your team starts the test
design and implementation phase. Some requirements will most likely be completed too late to
allow a proper test preparation. You and your test team have already worked on several similar
past projects in the same organization. Which one of the following options would you expect to
be the most effective at mitigating this risk? K4 3 credits
A. Don't prepare any test and just run the regression test suite to check that the new features don't
introduce regression
B. Make reasonable assumptions about the missing details and design lightweight tests that can
be easily updated during test execution
C. Don't design any test until the test executio
B. Make reasonable assumptions about the missing details and design lightweight tests that can
be easily updated during test execution
03. Consider:
I. Consultative test strategy
II. Reactive test strategy
III. Analytical test strategy
IV. Process-compliant test strategy Consider also the following examples of test activities:
1. Prioritize the test cases, based on the results of a FMEA analysis, to ensure early coverage of
the most important areas and discovery of the most important defects during test execution
2. Execute usability testing driven by the guidance of a sample of users (external to the test team)
3. Perform exploratory testing sessions throughout the system test phase
4. On an Agile project, execute tests that cover the test conditions identified for each user story
of a feature planned for an iteration Which of the following correctly matches each test strategy
with an appropriate example? K2 1 credit
A. I-2; II-3; III-4; IV-1
B. I-3; II-2; III-1; IV-4
C. I-1; II-2; III-3; IV-4
D. I-2; II-3; III-1; IV-4
D. I-2; II-3; III-1; IV-4
04. 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 t
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
05. You are the Test Manager of a new project aimed at developing a software system that must
be certified at level B of the DO-178B standard. The project will follow a V-Model software
development life cycle and it will have four formal levels of testing: component, integration,
system and acceptance testing. You must produce the test plan documentation for this project by
providing an adequate coordination across the four levels of testing in order to assure audit
ability. Which of the following answers would you expect to best describe how to organize the
test plan? K3 2 credits
A. Produce a single master test plan that covers in detail all four levels, describing the particular
activities for all test levels
B. Produce a master test plan that covers three levels (component, integration, system test) and a
separate acceptance test plan
C. Produce a master test plan describing the relationship between the four leve
C. Produce a master test plan describing the relationship between the four levels, and four
separate detailed level test plans, one for each level
06. Based on the historical data of 5 past and similar projects, you have calculated these average
numbers of defects detected in system testinG. - For each 10000 LOC (lines of code), 200
defects - For each person-month of development team effort, 49 defects You want to use this
information to perform estimation for a new project. The project manager tells you that he/she
has estimated 20000 new LOC for this new project. Four developers work for four months on
this project before system testing. During system testing, 797 defects are discovered. Assume
that the system test of this new project is using the same amount of work as spent in the past
projects. Based A. n this information only, which of the following statement is certainly true
about this project? K3 3 credits
B. The code for the new project contains a higher defect density than the code of the past
projects
C. The number of defects found during the system
C. The number of defects found during the system test phase on the new project is approximately
proportional to the development team effort
07. You are estimating the effort for the integration testing activities of a new project. Consider
the following factors, which can affect that estimation: I.Availability of re-usable test systems
and documentation from previous, similar projects II. Unexpected timing of components arrival
III. Stability of the integration test team
(no turnover) IV. Many and geographically distributed sub-teams Which of the following
statements is true? K2 1 credit
A. I. and II. can negatively affect the estimation; III. and IV. usually favor the accuracy of the
estimation effort
B. II. and III. can negatively affect the estimation; I and IV. usually favor the accuracy of the
estimation effort
C. II. and IV. can negatively affect the estimation; I and III. usually favor the accuracy of the
estimation effort
D. III. and IV. can negatively affect the estimation; Iand II. usually favor the accuracy of the
estimation effort
C. II. and IV. can negatively affect the estimation; I and III. usually favor the accuracy of the
estimation effort
08. The following chart plots the cumulative number of defects opened against the cumulative
number of defects closed during system testing of a software product. Which of the following
statements is true? K2 1 credit

A. The chart indicates that you have plenty of problems left to find
B. The chart can be used to reveal test progress problems
C. The chart seems to indicate that the defect management process is not working well
D. The chart seems to indicate that the defect management process is working well
D. The chart seems to indicate that the defect management process is working well
09. Which one of the following metrics to be produced needs traceability between the test cases
and each item in a proper test basis? K2 1 credit
A. Requirements coverage
B. Trends in the lag time from defect reporting to resolution
C. Mean time between failures for the system
D. Cumulative number of reported defects versus cumulative number of resolved defects
A. Requirements coverage
10. Which of the following subsystems, based on the risk scores of the table, is most risky? K4 3
credits

A. SOA
B. CRM
C. BRM
D. SMS
B. CRM
11. For which of the following activities would the costs be classified as a cost of detection?
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
A. Writing test specifications according to the test design
12. Assume you have some data related to confirmation testing during system testing of a past
project. In that project 240 bug reports have been opened once, 80 were opened twice, 10 were
opened three times and no bug reports have been opened more than three times. You estimate
that a bug report, which has failed its confirmation test, costs, on average, 3 person-hours. Which
of the following statements correctly describe the value of these confirmatory testing activities
based on cost of quality? K3 2 credits
A. 300 person-hours have been spent on the project during the system testing phase, because of
the failed confirmation tests and this cost belongs to the costs of internal failure
B. 340 person-hours have been spent on the project during the system testing phase, because of
the failed confirmation tests and this cost belongs to the costs of external failure
C. 340 person-hours have been spent on the project dur
A. 300 person-hours have been spent on the project during the system testing phase, because of
the failed confirmation tests and this cost belongs to the costs of internal failure
D. With several distributed test teams, all of the distributed test teams use a single unified test
dashboard
14. You are the Test Manager on a project following an iterative life-cycle model. The project
should consist of nine iterations of one month duration each. It is planned to develop the most
important features to have a stable core of the application in the first three iterations and to add
the additional features in the last six iterations. At the beginning of the first iteration, only a draft
version of the requirements specification document for the core features is available. Assume
that during each of the first three iterations, the chosen features are fully completed and unit
tested. Which of the following statements is true in this context? K4 3 credits
A. The system test phase should start when all the requirements are frozen
B. You should allocate a large effort for system testing during the first three iterations
C. You should allocate all the effort for the system test phase only in the last iteration
D. Y
B. You should allocate a large effort for system testing during the first three iterations
16. Consider an agile team adopting Extreme Programming (XP) with five developers and one
tester without any coding experience. To which of the following activities would you expect the
tester will contribute most? K2 1 credit
A. Developing unit tests
B. Executing unit tests
C. Planning and executing tests during the integration test phase to detect interface defects
D. Supporting the customer in the execution of acceptance testing
D. Supporting the customer in the execution of acceptance testing
15. Which of the following statements, about the test reporting activities for a project adopting
an iterative lifecycle model with very short iterations (e.g. two weeks iterations), is correct? K2 1
credit
A. Test reporting activities can't be influenced by the use of an iterative lifecycle model with
short iterations
B. Test reporting activities are not important for projects adopting an iterative lifecycle model
with short iterations
C. Test reporting activities are less important for projects adopting an iterative life cycle model
with short iterations. They should be performed at the end of the last iteration
D. Test reporting activities are still important with an iterative lifecycle. The reports can be used
to conduct post-iteration review sessions before starting with the next iteration
D. Test reporting activities are still important with an iterative lifecycle. The reports can be used
to conduct post-iteration review sessions before starting with the next iteration
17. 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
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
18. The main objectives the senior management team wants to achieve are: - to reduce the costs
associated with dynamic testing - to use reviews to ensure that the project is on course for
success and following the plan - to use reviews as a well-documented and effective bug-removal
activity following a formal process with well-defined roles - to determine the effectiveness of
reviews in terms of phase containment - 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
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
19. 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. I, III and IV are true; II. is false;
D. III. and IV. are true; I and II are false;
D. III. and IV. are true; I and II are false;
20. 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 an important factor for the introduct of
formal reviews which is missing? 3 P
A. Management support
B. Participant support
C. Definition and use of metrics to measure the ROI (Return On Investment)
D. Train
C. Definition and use of metrics to measure the ROI (Return On Investment)
21. 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
C. Include as many people as possible in order to have more viewpoints about possible problems
on the item under review
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 rev
A. Number of defects found during 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
23. 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
B. The defect component information
24. 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
A. The type of defect that caused the failure
C. The lifecycle phase in which the defect has been introduced
D. What really caused the failure (actual cause)
25. 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= Cor
C. V=Assigned, W=Corrected , X=Validated, Y=Re-Opened, Z=Rejected
26. 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?
A. New, Working, Verification, Working, Clarification, Working, Verification, Closed
B. New, Working, Clarification, Working, Verification, Closed
C. New, Working, Verification, Closed
D. Ne
D. New, Working, Verification, Working, Clarification, Working, Closed
27. 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. Because it is much more effective than
software process improvement to improve the quality of a software system III. Because several
process improvement models (STEP, TPI Next, TMMi) have been developed over the years IV.
Because every organization should always achieve the maximum level of maturity of testing
described in 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
B. I., II., III. and IV are false
28. 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
D. At TMMi level 1 testing is chaotic without a defined process, and it is often seen as the same
as debugging
29. 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
A. In the STEP model, tests validate the requirements and use cases when they are developed
30. 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. Exploratory testing sessions performed during system testing, targeted at finding defects
in these quality risk areas. Which one of areas would you considered more in the retrospective
meeting in order to be improved?
A. The requirements review
B. The defect management process
C. The quality risk analysis process
D. The system design and arch
B. The defect management process
31. 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
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
32. 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
C. The changes to the custom automation framework should be communicated to all external
users of this tool under the GNU license
33. In your organization the following tools of the same vendor are currently in usE. a
requirements management tool, a test management tool and a bug tracking tool. You are the Test
Manager. You are currently evaluating a test automation tool of the same vendor (to complete
the vendor's tool suite) against an interesting open-source test automation tool under the GNU
GPL (General Public License). There are no initial costs associated to that open-source tool.
Which of the following statements associated to the selection of the open-source tool is correct in
this scenario? K2 1 credit
A. The open-source tool can be modified but only if the community of developers of that tool
gives you the formal permission to modify it
B. There are no initial costs for the open-source tool but you should carefully consider the costs
associated to the integration with the existing tools and also evaluate the recurring costs
C. There
B. There are no initial costs for the open-source tool but you should carefully consider the costs
associated to the integration with the existing tools and also evaluate the recurring costs
34. Which of the following are the three main concerns related to that open-source tool
selection? K4 3 credits (2 credits out of 3 credits correct, 1 credit point)

A. Does the tool support all the types of code coverage required from the three levels A, B, C of
the DO-178B standard?
B. Is the installation procedure of the tool easy?
C. Does the tool require a system with more than 4GB of RAM memory?
D. Is the licensing scheme of the tool compatible with the confidentiality needs of the avionics
company?
E. What are the costs to qualify the tool as a verification tool under the DO-178B?
F. Does the tool have a good general usability?
A. Does the tool support all the types of code coverage required from the three levels A, B, C of
the DO-178B standard?
D. Is the licensing scheme of the tool compatible with the confidentiality needs of the avionics
company?
E. What are the costs to qualify the tool as a verification tool under the DO-178B?
35. 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
C. Evolution
36. Assume you are a Test Manager involved in system testing of a CRM application for a Pay-
TV company. Currently the application is able to support a proper number of users assuring the
required responsiveness.
Since the business is expected to grow, you have been asked to evaluate the ability of the
application to grow to support more users while maintaining the same responsiveness. Which of
the following tools would you expect to be the most useful at performing this evaluation? K2 1
credit
A. Coverage tools
B. Test management tools
C. Static analysis tools
D. Performance tools
D. Performance tools
37. Which of these people, based on this analysis, would you expect to be most suitable to work
specifically as test designer? K4 3 credits
Consider the following skills assessment ...
A. Alex
B. Roberta
C. John
D. Mark
B. Roberta
38. Who in your test team would you expect to be most suitable at doing these tasks? K4 3
credits
Your test team consists for four members...
A. Mary
B. Bob
C. Mark
D. Dave
A. Mary
39. Assume you are managing the system testing execution phase of a project. The system test
execution period for that project is scheduled for eighteen weeks and the release date is
scheduled at the end of system testing. During the sixth week of system test execution, at the
staff meeting, the project manager informs you that the project deadlines are changed and the
release date that is only three weeks ahead. This new release will not allow the completion of the
system tests. Suppose also that you have followed a risk-driven test approach for this project.
Which of the following statements represents the worst way to lead your test team in the next
three weeks? K2 1 credit
A. Neglect your management activities and work side-by-side with your test team executing tests
B. Considering the executed tests, you should reduce the test coverage back on the risk analysis
and adjust downward the priority of the associated
A. Neglect your management activities and work side-by-side with your test team executing tests
40. An agile development team decides to hire a tester who has always workeD. - in independent
test teams, reporting the problems found in a defect tracking system - in safety-critical projects,
with a stronger focus on the quality of the product than on time and budget. This agile team is
focused on short-term goals to get the product released on time and within budget. Which of the
following answers would you expect to be most likely true in this scenario? K2 1 credit
A. Agile teams like the presence of a tester in their teams and the tester will be able to adapt to
the new context without any issue
B. The developers will immediately follow the guidelines described by the tester
C. The tester can continue to report the problems found in a defect tracking system and be more
focused on the quality than on time and budget constraints
D. The tester's mission could be to verify adherence to requirements, instead of repo
D. The tester's mission could be to verify adherence to requirements, instead of reporting
formally the problems in a defect tracking system
41. Which of the following would you expect to be most likely an example of a motivating factor
for testers? K2 1 credit
A. The resources allocated for the testing activities are not sufficient and don't allow the testers
to contribute to the quality of the product
B. The testers contribution to the quality of the software products developed from an
organization is recognized with increased responsibilities
C. The same regressions tests are executed manually by the same testers, for every product
release, without any progression in content
D. The testers are asked to perform, in parallel with their testing tasks, other tasks unrelated to
their testing responsibilities
B. The testers contribution to the quality of the software products developed from an
organization is recognized with increased responsibilities
42. Which of the following would you expect to be most likely an example of a demotivating
factor for testers? K2 1 credit
A. The management asks the testers to be kept informed about the intensity, quality and results
of testing
B. The testers' recommendations to improve the system or its testability are adopted by the
development team
C. The same regressions tests are manually executed by the same testers, for every product
release, without regression test tools
D. The testers are assessed on whether and how often they detect important and critical failures
E. Test quality is measured by counting the number of customer/user reported problems.
C. The same regressions tests are manually executed by the same testers, for every product
release, without regression test tools
E. Test quality is measured by counting the number of customer/user reported problems
43. Based only on the given information, which of the following answers would you expect to be
the best option to achieve your objective? K4 3 credits
Consider the following skills assessment ...
A. Send Robert to a performance testing training course
B. Send Alex to a performance testing training course
C. Send John to a performance testing training course
D. Send Mark to a test automation training course
B. Send Alex to a performance testing training course
44. Which of the following statements describing the consequences of specifying test conditions
at a detailed level is NOT true? K2 1 credit
A. In an environment where the test basis is continuously changing, it is recommended to specify
test conditions at a detailed level in order to achieve a better maintainability
B. The specification of test conditions at a detailed level can be effective when no formal
requirements or other development work products are available
C. The specification of test conditions at a detailed level can require the implementation of an
adequate level of formality across the team
D. For system testing, the specification of test conditions at a detailed level, carried out early in
the project as soon as the test basis is established, can contribute to defect prevention
A. In an environment where the test basis is continuously changing, it is recommended to specify
test conditions at a detailed level in order to achieve a better maintainability
45. Which of the following test activities would you expect to be the less important ones to
achieve the test objectives in this scenario? K4 3 credits
A. Perform unit performance testing for each single web service
B. Monitor the SLAs after the system has been released into the production environment
C. Perform system performance testing, consisting of several performance testing sessions, to
verify if all the SLAs have been met
D. Perform static performance testing by reviewing the architectural model of the system under
various load levels
B. Monitor the SLAs after the system has been released into the production environment
46. Which of the following answers best describes the test activities (assuming it is possible to
perform all of them) you should plan for? K4 3 credits

A. You should plan for an informal and minimal acceptance test of the two off-the-shelf systems
and then a single end-to-end test of the overall integrated system
B. You should directly plan for a single end-to-end test focused on end-to-end tests of the overall
integrated system without an acceptance test of the two off-the-shelf systems
C. You should plan for two levels: a system integration test and an end-to-end test of the overall
integrated system
D. You should plan for adequate re-testing of both the systems followed by a system integration
test and an end-to-end test of the overall integrated system
D. You should plan for adequate re-testing of both the systems followed by a system integration
test and an end-to-end test of the overall integrated system
47. The following are the exit criteria described in the test plan of a software product: EX1. The
test suite for the product must ensure that at least each quality risk item is covered by at least one
test case (a quality risk item can be covered by more test cases). EX2. All test cases in the test
suite must be run during the execution phase. EX3. Defects are classified into two categories:
"C" (critical defect) and "NC" (non-critical defect). No known C defects shall exist in the
product at the end of the test execution phase. Which of the following information is useless
when the specified exit criteria is evaluated? K2 1 credit
A. A traceability matrix showing the relationships between the product risk items and the test
cases
B. A list of all the open defects with the associated classification information extracted from the
defect tracking system
C. A chart, showing the trend in the lag time from defect reporti
C. A chart, showing the trend in the lag time from defect reporting to resolution, extracted from
the defect tracking system
48. Which of the following is an example of the test closure activity indicated as "lessons
learned"? K2 1 credit
A. Archive all the test results of the acceptance testing phase
B. Deliver a list of the open defects of a software product released into production to the service
desk team
C. Participate in a meeting at the end of a project aimed at better managing the events and
problems of future projects
D. Deliver an automated regression test suite, used during the system test phase of a software
product released into production, to the team responsible for maintenance testing
C. Participate in a meeting at the end of a project aimed at better managing the events and
problems of future projects
49. Which of the following answers would you expect to best describe the residual risks
associated with the identified product risks, at the end of the first week of test execution? K3 2
credits
Assume that you are the Test Manager for a small banking ...
A. Since R3 is the only risk for which all test cases have passed, the risk has been reduced by
20%
B. The test execution status table indicates that the risk has been reduced by 56%
C. The residual risk level can't be determined, because it requires that all the test cases have been
executed
D. The test execution table doesn't give an indication of the risk level of the open defects and the
test cases that failed or are not run yet
D. The test execution table doesn't give an indication of the risk level of the open defects and the
test cases that failed or are not run yet
50. Which of the following is a positive logical test that is complete and correct, and covers the
REQ-SEL- 4 requirement? K3 2 credits
Assume that you are the Test Manager for a project to develop a client server application ...
A. Select a 6-bottles package, then try to insert 5 bottles; verify that no error messages are
displayed
B. Select a 6-bottles package, then try to insert 7 bottles; verify that no error messages are
displayed
C. Select a 6-bottles package, then try to insert 7 bottles; verify that the "Invalid number of
bottles" message is displayed
D. Select a 6-bottles package, then try to insert 7 bottles
C. Select a 6-bottles package, then try to insert 7 bottles; verify that the "Invalid number of
bottles" message is displayed
51. What is the MINIMUM number of test conditions that must be added to fulfill both the
EXCR1 and EXCR2 exit criteria? K3 2 credits
The following are the requirements identified as "critical" ...
A. 1
B. 2
C. 3
D. 4
C. 3
52. Which of the following answers describes the best execution schedule in this scenario? K3 3
credits
You are the Test Manager for a project to develop a web customer portal ...
A. 1- Test the acceptance of transactions coming from the IVR channel2- Test the correct charge
of the Smart Card with the required contents3- Test the correct pre-activation of the Smart
Card4- Test the correct activation of the Smart Card
B. 1- Test the correct pre-activation of the Smart Card; 2- Test the correct charge of the Smart
Card with the required contents; 3- Test the correct activation of the Smart Card; 4- Test the
acceptance of transactions coming from the IVR channel
C. 1- Test the correct activation of the Smart Card2- Test the correct pre-activation of the Smart
Card3- Test the correct charge of the Smart Card with the required contents4- Test the
acceptance of transactions coming from the IVR channel
D. 1- Test the corre
D. 1- Test the correct pre-activation of the Smart Card 2- Test the correct activation of the Smart
Card3- Test the correct charge of the Smart Card with the required contents4- Test the
acceptance of transactions coming from the IVR channel
53. What is the MINIMUM number of test conditions that must be added to fulfill both the
EXCR1 and EXCR2 exit criteria? K3 2 credits
You are the Test Manager for a project to develop a client-server application that allows wine
vendors ...
A. 4
B. 3
C. 2
D. 1
A. 4
54. Which of the following answers describes the best test execution schedule in this scenario?
K3 2 credits
Assume that you are the Test Manager for a small insurance application development project ...
A. T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6, T7, T8, T9, T10
B. T1, T3, T5, T7, T9, T2, T4, T6, T8, T10
C. T10, T9, T8, T7, T6, T5, T4, T3, T2, T1
D. T10, T8, T6, T4, T2, T9, T7, T5, T3, T1
B. T1, T3, T5, T7, T9, T2, T4, T6, T8, T10
55. Which of the following statements represents the most effective contribution of the
stakeholders to the completion of the failure mode analysis table? K4 3 credits
Assume you are working on a CAS (Conditional Access System) ...

A. The aircraft pilot and the customer representative should contribute to assess the detection.
The chief software engineer, the system architect and the expert tester should contribute to assess
the priority.
B. The aircraft pilot and the customer representative should contribute to assess the priority. The
chief software engineer, the system architect and the expert tester should contribute to assess the
detection.
C. The system architect and the chief software engineer should contribute to assess the priority.
The expert tester is the only one who should contribute to assess the detection.
D. The aircraft pilot is the only one qualified to contribute to assess the priority and thus sh
B. The aircraft pilot and the customer representative should contribute to assess the priority. The
chief software engineer, the system architect and the expert tester should contribute to assess the
detection.
57. You can count on well-written requirements, but you can't count on an adequate contribution
of the stakeholders to the quality risk analysis. You have to mitigate the insufficient contribution
of the stakeholders because the risk-based testing approach shall minimize the product risks.
Your test team has one expert tester in security testing. Which of the following test activities
would you expect to be the less important in this context? K4 3 credits
A. Extract from the defect tracking system of the previous project all the security defects and
failures, and classify them to support design and execution of specific tests
B. Automate all functional and non-functional system tests
C. Apply systematic and exploratory testing for integration and system test
D. Perform exploratory testing sessions with adequate charters covering security aspects
B. Automate all functional and non-functional system tests
58. During the follow-up phase the following conditions are checked: X1. The code has been
completely reviewed X2. All the identified defects have been correctly fixed and the modified
code has been compiled successfully and run through all the static analyzers used by the project
without warnings and errors X3. The modified code is available under the configuration
management system with a new version number for the specified CI If these conditions are
fulfilled then the review process terminates. Which of the following characteristics of a formal
review is missing in this description? K2 1 credit
A. Defined entry and exit criteria
B. Checklists to be used by the reviewers
C. Deliverables such as reports, evaluation sheets or other review summary sheets
D. Metrics for reporting on the review effectiveness, efficiency, and progress
D. Metrics for reporting on the review effectiveness, efficiency, and progress
59. Assume you are managing the system testing phase of a project. The system test execution
period is scheduled to twenty weeks. All tests are manual tests. You are following a risk-driven
test approach. During the last staff meeting the project manager tells you new deadlines that will
not allow completion of all the system tests. Which of the following would you expect to be the
best way to respond to this situation? K2 1 credit
A. Prioritize executing the tests for the highest product risks and track these risks
B. Remove testers from your test team, so that they can be assigned to other projects
C. Automate all remaining tests
D. No action is needed, test as much as possible in the remaining time period
A. Prioritize executing the tests for the highest product risks and track these risks
60. You are performing a quality risk analysis for a CSCI (Computer Software Configuration
Item) used to implement a CBIT (Continuous Built-In Test) module of a safety-critical system.
During the quality risk analysis you are trying to identify the ways in which failures of the CBIT
module can occur, for each of them trying to determine the potential causes and likely effects,
and the risk level (calculated as the product of three factors: severity, occurrence and detection).
Which of the following risk analysis techniques are you working with? K2 1 credit
A. A lightweight product risk analysis technique
B. Failure Mode and Effect Analysis
C. Wide Band Delphi
D. Cost of Exposure
B. Failure Mode and Effect Analysis
61. Based only on the given information, which of the following is NOT a product risk that could
be identified during the quality risk analysis? K4 3 credits
You are working on a project to develop an authentication system for e-commercial website ...
A. The late delivery of the authentication feature to the test team causes delays in the start of test
execution and this could result in a shorter test period
B. The authentication system denies access for a special user with a wrong password, but doesn't
display a special warning on the system console
C. The authentication system grants access to a normal user with a wrong password
D. The authentication system grants access to a special user with a wrong password
A. The late delivery of the authentication feature to the test team causes delays in the start of test
execution and this could result in a shorter test period
62. Which of the following statements describing how identified product quality risks should be
mitigated and managed, is true? K2 1 credit
A. The extent of re-testing and regression testing activities should be based on the risk level
B. The identification of new risks, the re-assessment of the level of existing risks and the
evaluation of the effectiveness of risk mitigation activities should only occur at the very
beginning of a project
C. Risk mitigation of product quality risks can be effective only after starting test execution
D. The priority of the development and execution of tests should not be based on the risk level
but only on the likelihood
A. The extent of re-testing and regression testing activities should be based on the risk level
63. Which of the following statements about management of product quality risks in mature
organizations with respect to the lifecycle, is true? K2 1 credit
A. Mature organizations address product quality risks associated to non-functional characteristics
only during the system test phase
B. Mature organizations are aware that the contribution of testing to analysis of product quality
risks is very important. The analysis should occur throughout the entire lifecycle
C. Mature organizations don't waste time identifying the sources of risks. They only focus on
identifying product quality risks
D. Mature organizations are aware that risk management of product quality risks only occurs
during testing
B. Mature organizations are aware that the contribution of testing to analysis of product quality
risks is very important. The analysis should occur throughout the entire lifecycle
1. Topic 1, Scenario 1 "Medical Domain" You are working as a test manager in the medical
domain leading a team of system testers. You are currently working on a major release of the
product which gives customers many new features and resolves a number of problem reports
from previous releases. ****************************** Explain how the above mentioned
report may differ from a report that you produce for the project manager, who is a test specialist
Select TWO items from the following options that can be used to report to the project manager
and would not be included in a report to senior management.
A. Show details on effort spent
B. List of all outstanding defects with their priority and severity
C. Give product risk status
D. Show trend analysis
E. State recommendations for release
A. Show details on effort spent
B. List of all outstanding defects with their priority and severity
2. Topic 3, Scenario 3 "Tool Selection and Implementation" Your company is considering
whether or not to purchase a test tool suite from a respectable vendor. Your manager has
searched the internet for comparable products but none of them meets his specific requirements.
A tool demonstration has been arranged for next week and your team has been invited to attend.
The tool suite consists of a test management tool, test execution tool and a requirements
management tool. There is the possibility of adding a performance testing tool at a later stage.
You have decided to attend the demo but raise some issues beforehand regarding expectations.
**********************************
Select THREE issues from the options provided that should at least be raised.

A. Has there been sufficient comparison of tools?

B. What are the problems we are trying to address?
C. Do we have a set of tool requirements to validate the tool agains
A. Has there been sufficient comparison of tools?
B. What are the problems we are trying to address?
C. Do we have a set of tool requirements to validate the tool against?
3. Topic 2, Scenario 2 "Reviews" A software development organization wants to introduce some
specific improvements to its test process. Currently, most of their testing resources are
focussedon system testing. They are developing embedded software, and do not have a
simulation environment to enable them to execute software modules on the development host.
They have been advised that introducing inspections and reviews could be the most appropriate
step forward. **************************
Identify the THREE types of formal peer reviews that can be recognized.

A. Inspection
B. Management review
C. Walkthrough
D. Audit
E. Technical review
F. Informal review
G. Assessment
A. Inspection

C. Walkthrough

E. Technical review
4. Topic 4, Scenario 4, V2 "Test Management Tool" The project situation after 11 months is: -
The first increment was released one week late but contained sufficient functionality to be
declared fit for purpose'. However, there were 20 outstanding incidents deferred to increment
two. - The amount of voluntary overtime worked PV the test team has reduced the second
Increment slippage to just 3 weeks. - There is talk of reducing the scope of requirements. The
purpose of this is to first deliver the application with support for manual testing and then to
provide a delivery * weeks later to resolve any remaining points and provide support for
automated testing (i.e. the link to the capture-replay tool). - Concerns have been expressed by a
section of the user community, that in some places the
usability is very poor. **************************************
Which of the following are valid reasons for adopting a different l
A. (i) and (ii)
5. Topic 5, Scenario 5, V2 "Human Resource System" For the first increment of the new
enterprise HR product you have performed a product risk analysis using the FMEA method. Five
risk items have been identified and the likelihood and impact have been scored using scoring
tables. This has resulted in the following scores: ********************************
You have been asked to write a testing strategy for the company. Which statement best explains
how risk can be addressed within the testing strategy?

A. A test strategy should address identified generic product risks and present a process for
mitigating those risks in line with the testing policy.
B. A test strategy identifies the specific product for a project risk and defines the approach for
the test project.
C. A test strategy is derived from the test policy and describes the way risk assessments are
performed in projects.
D. A test strategy is the result of a pr
A. A test strategy should address identified generic product risks and present a process for
mitigating those risks in line with the testing policy.
6. Topic 5, Scenario 5, V2 "Human Resource System" For the first increment of the new
enterprise HR product you have performed a product risk analysis using the FMEA method. Five
risk items have been identified and the likelihood and impact have been scored using scoring
tables. This has resulted in the following scores: ********************************
Part of the testing strategy indicates that you are going to be using systematic test design
techniques. Your manager has asked that you present the main advantages of using these
techniques at the next board meeting. Identify THREE main benefits of using systematic test
design techniques within this company.

A. Easier to quickly adapt testing to changing requirements compared to experienced-based

testing
B. Targets certain types of faults
C. Will guide experienced testers to find defects
D. Provides a way to differentiate depth of testing based on product risks by u
B. Targets certain types of faults
D. Provides a way to differentiate depth of testing based on product risks by using different
techniques
E. More enhanced documentation and therefore higher repeatability and reproducibility
7. Topic 12, Scenario 12 "Automatic Teller Machine (ATM)" You are a test manager in charge
of integration, system and acceptance testing for a bank. You are working on a project to upgrade
an existing ATM to allow customers to obtain cash advances from supported credit cards. The
system should allow cash advances from €20 to €500, inclusively, for all supported credit cards.
The supported credit cards are American Express, VISA, Eurocard and Mastercard. In the master
test plan the following items are listed in the section named "items and/or features to be tested": I
All supported credit cards II Language localization II Valid and invalid advances IV Usability V
Response time ****************************
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
A. All supported credit cards
C. Valid and invalid advances
Which of the following is a positive logical test that is complete, is correct , and covered the
REGLOGO-001 requirement?
Number of correct response: 1
K3 2credits
A. On the purchase page ("purchase state"), click the log out button, verify the browse page
("browse state") is displayed
B. On the select page ("select page"), click the log out button
C. On the purchase page ("purchase state"), click the log out button, verify the "impossible to log
out - complete or cancel the current transaction" message is display
D. On the browse page("browse state"), click the log out button