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ISTQB CTFL 2018v3.1 Sample Exam A v1.7

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1. Which one of the following answers describes a test condition?

Select ONE option.

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2. Which of the following statements is a valid objective for testing?

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3. Which of the following statements correctly describes the difference between testing and debugging?

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4. Which one of the statements below describes the most common situation for a failure discovered during testing or in production?

Select ONE option.

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5. Mr. Test has been testing software applications on mobile devices for a period of 5 years. He has a wealth of experience in testing mobile applications and achieves better results in a shorter time than others. Over several months, Mr. Test did not modify the existing automated test cases and did not create any new test cases. This leads to fewer and fewer defects being found by executing the tests. What principle of testing did Mr. Test not observe?

Select ONE option.

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6. In what way can testing be part of Quality Assurance?

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7. Which of the following activities is part of the main activity "test analysis" in the test process?

Select ONE option.

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8. Match the following test work products (1-4) with the right description (A-D).

1. Test suite
2. Test case
3. Test script
4. Test charter

A. A set of test scripts to be executed in a specific test run
B. A set of instructions for the execution of a test
C. Contains expected results
D. Documentation of test activities in session-based exploratory testing

Select ONE option.

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9. How can white-box testing be applied during user acceptance testing?

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10. Which of the following statements comparing component testing and system testing is TRUE?

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11. Which one of the following is TRUE?

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12. Which one of the following is the BEST definition of an incremental development model?

Select ONE option.

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13. Which of the following should NOT be a trigger for maintenance testing?

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14. Which of the following options are roles in a formal review?

Select ONE option.

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15. Which activities are carried out within the planning of a formal review?

Select ONE option.

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16. Which of the review types below is the BEST option to choose when the review must follow a formal process based on rules and checklists?

Select ONE option.

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17. Which of the following statements about static testing are MOST true?

Select ONE options.

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18. You will be invited to a review. The work product to be reviewed is a description of the in-house document creation process. The aim of the description is to present the work distribution between the different roles involved in the process in a way that can be clearly understood by everyone.

You will be invited to a checklist-based review. The checklist will also be sent to you. It includes the following points:

i. Is the person who performs the activity clearly identified for each activity?
ii. Are the entry criteria clearly defined for each activity?
iii. Are the exit criteria clearly defined for each activity?
iv. Are the supporting roles and their scope of work clearly defined for each activity?

In the following we show an excerpt of the work result to be reviewed, for which you should use the checklist above:

"After checking the customer documentation for completeness and correctness, the software architect creates the system specification. Once the software architect has completed the system specification, he invites testers and verifiers to the review. A checklist describes the scope of the review. Each invited reviewer creates review comments - if necessary - and concludes the review with an official review done-comment."

Which of the following statements about your review is correct?

Select ONE option.

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19. What is checklist-based testing?

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20. Which one of the following options is categorized as a black-box test technique?

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21. The following statement refers to decision coverage:

“When the code contains only a single ‘if’ statement and no loops or CASE statements, and its execution is not nested within the test, any single test case we run will result in 50% decision coverage.”

Which of the following statement is correct?

Select ONE option.

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22. Which one of the following is the description of statement coverage?

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23. Which statement about the relationship between statement coverage and decision coverage is true?

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24. For which of the following situations is exploratory testing suitable?

Select ONE option.

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25. An employee’s bonus is to be calculated. It cannot be negative, but it can be calculated down to zero. The bonus is based on the length of employment:

• Less than or equal to 2 years
• More than 2 years but less than 5 years
• 5 to 10 years inclusively
• Longer than 10 years

What is the minimum number of test cases required to cover all valid equivalence partitions for calculating the bonus?

Select ONE option.

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26. A speed control and reporting system has the following characteristics:

• If you drive 50 km/h or less, nothing will happen.
• If you drive faster than 50 km/h, but no more than 55 km/h, you will be warned.
• If you drive faster than 55 km/h but not more than 60 km/h, you will be fined.
• If you drive faster than 60 km/h, your driving license will be suspended.
• The speed in km/h is available to the system as an integer value.

Which would be the most likely set of values (km/h) identified by applying the boundary value analysis, where only the values on the boundaries of the equivalence classes are selected?

Select ONE option.

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27. A company's employees are paid bonuses if they work more than a year in the company and achieve a target which is individually agreed before.

These facts can be shown in a decision table:

Which of the following test cases represents a situation that can happen in real life, and is missing in the above decision table?

Select ONE option.

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28. Which of the following statements about the given state transition diagram and table of test cases is TRUE?

Select ONE option.

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29. A video application has the following requirement: The application shall allow playing a video on the following display resolution:

1. 640x480
2. 1280x720
3. 1600x1200
4. 1920x1080

Which of the following list of test cases is a result of applying the equivalence partitioning test technique to test this requirement?

Select ONE option.

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30. Which of the following statements BEST describes how tasks are divided between the test manager and the tester?

Select ONE option.

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31. Which of the following metrics would be MOST useful to monitor during test execution?

Select ONE option.

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32. Which of the following can affect and be part of the (initial) test planning?

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33. Which of the following lists contains only typical exit criteria from testing?

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34. Which one of the following is NOT included in a test summary report?

Select ONE option.

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35. The project develops a "smart" heating thermostat. The control algorithms of the thermostat were modeled as Matlab/Simulink models and run on the internet connected server. The thermostat uses the specifications of the server to trigger the heating valves.

The test manager has defined the following test strategy/approach in the test plan:

1. The acceptance test for the whole system is executed as an experience-based test.
2. The control algorithms on the server are checked against standard of the energy saving regulation.
3. The functional test of the thermostat is performed as risk-based testing.
4. The security tests of data / communication via the internet are executed together with external security experts.

What four common types of test strategies/approaches did the test manager implement in the test plan?

Select ONE option.

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36. Which one of the following is the characteristic of a metrics-based approach for test estimation?

Select ONE option.

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37. As a test manager you are responsible for testing the following parts of requirements:

• R1 - Process anomalies
• R2 - Synchronization
• R3 - Approval
• R4 - Problem solving
• R5 - Financial data
• R6 - Diagram data
• R7 - Changes to the user profile

Notation: Logical requirement dependencies (A -> B means, that B depends on A):

Which one of the following options structures the test execution schedule according to the requirement dependencies?

Select ONE option.

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38. You are testing a new version of software for a coffee machine. The machine can prepare different types of coffee based on four categories. i.e., coffee size, sugar, milk, and syrup. The criteria are as follows:

• Coffee size (small, medium, large)
• Sugar (none, 1 unit, 2 units, 3 units, 4 units)
• Milk (yes or no)
• Coffee flavor syrup (no syrup, caramel, hazelnut, vanilla)

Now you are writing a defect report with the following information:

• Title: Low coffee temperature.
• Short summary: When you select coffee with milk, the time for preparing coffee is too long and the temperature of the beverage is too low (less than 40 °C).
• Expected result: The temperature of coffee should be standard (about 75 °C).
• Degree of risk: Medium
• Priority: Normal

What valuable information was omitted in the above defect report?

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39. Which one of the following is MOST likely to be a benefit of test execution tools?

Select ONE option.

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40. Which one of the following test tools is mostly suitable for developers rather than testers?

Select ONE option.

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