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2018v3.1 - Exam 4 - 75 minutes

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

Select ONE option.

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2. 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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3. Which of the following is a true statement about exploratory testing?

Select ONE option.

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4. You are engaged in planning a test effort for a new mobile banking application. As part of estimation, you first meet with the proposed testers and others on the project. The team is well-coordinated and has already worked on similar projects. To verify the resulting estimate, you then refer to some industry averages for testing effort and costs on similar projects, published by a reputable consultant.

Which statement accurately describes your estimation approach?

Select ONE option.

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

Select ONE option.

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6. 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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7. Which of the following provides the definition of the term test case?

Select ONE option.

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8. A mass market operating system software product is designed to run on any PC hardware with an x86-family processor. You are running a set of tests to look for defects related to support of the various PCs that use such a processor and to build confidence that important PC brands will work. What type of test are you performing?

Select ONE option.

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9. You are defining the process for carrying out product risk analysis as part of each iteration on an Agile project. Which of the following is the proper place to document this process in a test plan?

Select ONE option.

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

Select ONE option

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

Select ONE option.

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12. During a project following Agile methods, you find a discrepancy between the developer’s interpretation of an acceptance criteria and the product owner’s interpretation, which you bring up during a user story refinement session. Which of the following is a benefit of test independence exemplified by this situation?

Select ONE option.

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13. A phone ringing momentarily distracts a programmer, causing the programmer to improperly program the logic that checks the upper boundary of an input variable. Later, during system testing, a tester notices that this input field accepts invalid input values. The improperly coded logic for the upper boundary check is:

Select ONE option.

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

Select ONE option.

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15. What is decision coverage?

Select ONE option.

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

Select ONE option.

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17. Which of the following is an example of a failure in a car cruise control system?

Select ONE option.

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18. Which of the following statements is true?

Select ONE option.

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19. You are working on a video game development project, using Agile methods. It is based on Greek mythology and history, and players can play key roles in scenarios such as the battles between the Greeks and Trojans.

Consider the following user story and its associated acceptance criteria:

As a player,
I want to be able to acquire the Rod of Midas (a new magic object),
so that I can turn objects and other players into gold
AC1: The Rod must work on any object or player, no matter what size, which can be touched anywhere by the player holding the Rod
AC2: Holding the Rod does not change the player holding it into gold
AC3: Any object or player touched by the Rod transforms completely into gold within one millisecond
AC4: The Rod appears as shown in Prototype O.W.RoM
AC5: The transformation starts at the point of contact with the Rod and moves at a rate of one meter per millisecond

You are participating in a checklist-based review session of this user story.

This user story and its associated acceptance criteria contain which of the following typical defects identified by static testing in this type of work product?

Select ONE option.

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

Select ONE option.

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

Select ONE option.

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22. Which one of the following is TRUE?

Select ONE option.

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

Select ONE option.

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24. Which of the following is MOST likely to be an example of a PRODUCT risk?

Select ONE option.

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25. Consider a mobile app that allows customers to access and manage their bank accounts. A user story has just been added to the set of features that checks customers’ social media accounts and bank records to give personalized greetings on birthdays and other personal milestones. Which of the following test techniques could a PROGRAMMER use during a unit test of the code to ensure that coverage of situations when the greetings ARE supposed to occur and when the greetings ARE NOT supposed to occur?

Select ONE option.

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26. 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.

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

Select ONE option.

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

Select ONE option.

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29. During a period of intensive project overtime, a system architecture document is sent to various project participants, announcing a previously unplanned technical review to occur in one week. No adjustments are made to the participants’ list of assigned tasks. Based on this information alone, which of the following is a factor for review success that is MISSING?

Select ONE option.

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30. You are working as a project manager on an in-house banking software project. To prevent rework and excessive find/fix/retest cycles, the following process has been put in place for resolving a defect once it is found in the test lab:

1. The assigned developer finds and fixes the defect, then creates an experimental build
2. A peer developer reviews, unit tests, and confirmation tests the defect fix on his/her desktop
3. A tester – usually the one who found the defect – confirmation tests the defect fix in the development environment
4. Once a day, a new release with all confirmed defect fixes included, is installed in the test environment
5. The same tester from step 3 confirmation tests the defect fix in the test environment

Nevertheless, a large number of defects which the testers confirmed as fixed in the development environment (in step 3) are somehow failing confirmation testing in the test environment, with the resulting rework and cycle time outcomes. You have the highest confidence in your testers and have ruled out mistakes or omissions in step 3.

Which of the following is the MOST likely part of the process to check next?

Select ONE option.

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31. 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.

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

Select ONE option.

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

Select ONE option.

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34. What is checklist-based testing?

Select ONE option.

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

Select ONE option.

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36. 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.

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

Select ONE option.

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38. Given the following state model of a battery charger software:

Which of the following sequences of transitions provides the highest level of transition coverage for the model?

Select ONE option.

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39. Which of the following is a typical objective of testing?

Select ONE option.

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

Select ONE option.

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