ISTQB Learning

Test your knowledge

0%
3
Created on By Admin

2018v3.1 - Exam 4 - 75 minutes

1 / 40

1. You are testing a mobile app that allows users to find a nearby restaurant, based on the type of food they want to eat. Consider the following list of test cases, priorities (smaller number is high priority), and dependencies, in the following format:

Which of the following is a possible test execution schedule that considers both priorities and dependencies?

Select ONE option.

2 / 40

2. Consider the following testing activities:

1. Selecting regression tests
2. Evaluating completeness of test execution
3. Identifying which user stories have open defect reports
4. Evaluating whether the number of tests for each requirement is consistent with the level of product risk

Consider the following ways traceability can help testing:

A. Improve understandability of test status reports to include status of test basis items
B. Make testing auditable
C. Provide information to assess process quality
D. Analyze the impact of changes

Which of the following best matches the testing activity with how traceability can assist that activity?

Select ONE option.

3 / 40

3. You are working as a tester on an online banking system. Availability is considered one of the top products (quality) risks for the system. You find a reproducible failure that results in customers losing their connections to the bank Web site when transferring funds between common types of accounts and being unable to reconnect for between three and five minutes.

Which of the following would be a good summary for a defect report for this failure, one that captures both the essence of the failure and its impact on stakeholders?

Select ONE option.

4 / 40

4. Which of the following qualities is MORE likely to be found in a tester’s mindset rather than in a developer’s?

Select ONE option.

5 / 40

5. Which of the following statements CORRECTLY describes a role of impact analysis in Maintenance Testing?

Select ONE option.

6 / 40

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

Select ONE option.

7 / 40

7. You have just completed a pilot project for a regression testing tool. You understand the tool much better and have tailored your testing process to it. You have standardized an approach to using the tool and its associated work products. Which of the following is a typical test automation pilot project goal that remains to be carried out?

Select ONE option.

8 / 40

8. Consider the following state transition diagram for a credit-card only, unattended gasoline pump:

Assume that you want to develop the minimum number of tests to cover each transition in the state transition diagram. Assume further that each test must start at the beginning state, waiting for customer, and each test ends when a transition arrives at the beginning state. How many tests do you need?

Select ONE option.

9 / 40

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

Select ONE option.

10 / 40

10. Which of the following statements is true?

Select ONE option.

11 / 40

11. You are testing an e-commerce system that sells cooking supplies such as spices, flour, and other items in bulk. The units in which the items are sold are either grams (for spices and other expensive items) or kilograms (for flour and other inexpensive items). Regardless of the units, the smallest valid order amount is 0.5 units (e.g., half a gram of cardamom pods) and the largest valid order amount is 25.0 units (e.g., 25 kilograms of sugar). The precision of the unit’s field is 0.1 units.

Which of the following is a set of input values that cover the boundary values with two-point boundary values for this field?

Select ONE option.

12 / 40

12. 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.

13 / 40

13. Which of the following tasks is MOST LIKELY to be performed by the test manager?

Select ONE option.

14 / 40

14. Which of the following is a defect rather than a root cause in a fitness tracker?

Select ONE option.

15 / 40

15. Which of the following is a typical test objective?

Select ONE option.

16 / 40

16. Which of the following statements on the use of checklists in a formal review is CORRECT?

Select ONE option.

17 / 40

17. Which of the following descriptions of decision coverage is CORRECT?

Select ONE option.

18 / 40

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

Select ONE option.

19 / 40

19. Programmers often write and execute unit tests against code which they have written. During this self-testing activity, which of the following is a tester mindset that programmers should adopt to perform this unit testing effectively?

Select ONE option.

20 / 40

20. Which of the following provides the definition of the term test case?

Select ONE option.

21 / 40

21. Which one of the following is TRUE?

Select ONE option.

22 / 40

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

Select ONE options.

23 / 40

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

Select ONE option.

24 / 40

24. 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.

25 / 40

25. In a formal review, what is the role name for the participant who runs an inspection meeting?

Select ONE option.

26 / 40

26. Prior to an iteration planning session, you are studying a user story and its acceptance criteria, deriving test conditions and associated test cases from the user story as a way of applying the principle of early QA and test. What test technique are you applying?

Select ONE option.

27 / 40

27. Which of the following statements CORRECTLY reflects the value of static testing?

Select ONE option.

28 / 40

28. Which of the following BEST explains a benefit of independent testing?

Select ONE option.

29 / 40

29. You are performing system testing of a train reservation system. Based on the test cases performed, you have noticed that the system occasionally reports that no trains are available, although this should be the case. You have provided the developers with a summary of the defect and the version of the tested system. They recognize the urgency of the defect and are now waiting for you to provide further details.

In addition to the information already provided, the following additional information is given:

1. Degree of impact (severity) of the defect
2. Identification of the test object
3. Details of the test environment
4. Urgency/priority to fix
5. Actual results
6. Reference to test case specification

Which of this additional information is most useful to include in the defect report?

Select ONE option.

30 / 40

30. Given the following priorities and dependencies for these test cases:

Which of the following test execution schedules BEST considers the priorities and technical and logical dependencies?

Select ONE option.

31 / 40

31. As a result of risk analysis, more testing is being directed to those areas of the system under test where initial testing found more defects than average.

Which of the following testing principles is being applied?

Select ONE option.

32 / 40

32. 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.

33 / 40

33. Which of the following BEST describes how value is added by maintaining traceability between the test basis and test artifacts?

Select ONE option.

34 / 40

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

Select ONE option.

35 / 40

35. You are testing an e-commerce system that sells cooking supplies such as spices, flour, and other items in bulk. The units in which the items are sold are either grams (for spices and other expensive items) or kilograms (for flour and other inexpensive items). Regardless of the units, the smallest valid order amount is 0.5 units (e.g., half a gram of cardamom pods) and the largest valid order amount is 25.0 units (e.g., 25 kilograms of sugar). The precision of the units’ field is 0.1 units.

Which of the following is a MINIMAL set of input values that cover the equivalence partitions for this field?

Select ONE option.

36 / 40

36. Which of the following BEST describes the concept behind error guessing?

Select ONE option.

37 / 40

37. Which of the following is a common test metric often used to monitor BOTH test preparation and test execution?

Select ONE option.

38 / 40

38. Which of the following statements BEST describes how test cases are derived from a use case?

Select ONE option.

39 / 40

39. Which of the following statements about test types and test levels is CORRECT?

Select ONE option.

40 / 40

40. Which of the following statements BEST compares the purposes of confirmation testing and regression testing?

Select ONE option.

0%

Scroll to top