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Exam 5

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1. The navigation system software has been updated due to it suggesting routes that break traffic laws, such as driving the wrong way down one-way streets. Which of the following BEST describes the testing that will be performed?

Select ONE option.

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2. Which of the following are advantages of DevOps?

i. Faster product release and faster time to market
ii. Increases the need for repetitive manual testing
iii. Constant availability of executable software
iv. Reduction in the number of regression tests associated with code refactoring
v. Setting up the test automation framework is inexpensive since everything is automated

Select ONE option.

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3. In many software organizations the test department is called the Quality Assurance (QA) department. Is this sentence correct or not and why?

Select ONE option.

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4. You are testing a user story with three acceptance criteria: AC1, AC2 and AC3. AC1 is covered by test case TC1, AC2 by TC2, and AC3 by TC3. The test execution history had three test runs on three consecutive versions of the software as follows:

Tests are repeated once you are informed that all defects found in the test run are corrected and a new version of the software is available.
Which of the above tests are executed as regression tests?

Select ONE option.

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5. Which of the following is a characteristic of experience-based test techniques?

Select ONE option.

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

Select ONE option.

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7. You are using acceptance test-driven development and designing test cases based on the following user story:

Which test case is the MOST reasonable one to test AC3?

Select ONE option.

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8. Which of the following BEST describes an example of how configuration management (CM) supports testing?

Select ONE option.

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9. You are applying state transition testing to the hotel room reservation system modeled by the following state transition table, with 4 states and 5 different events:

Assuming all test cases start in the ‘Requesting’ state, which of the following test cases, represented as sequences of events, achieves the highest valid transitions coverage?

Select ONE option.

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10. Which of the following is NOT a valid purpose for a test report?

Select ONE options.

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11. W A developer was asked to implement the following business rule:

You design the test cases using 2-value boundary value analysis.

Which of the following sets of test inputs achieves the greatest coverage?

Select ONE option.

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12. Which of the following statements is CORRECT?

Select ONE option.

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13. Which of the following is MOST likely to be a benefit of test automation?

 

Select ONE option.

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14. How can white-box testing be useful in support of black-box testing?

Select ONE option.

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15. Which of the following is MOST likely to be an example of a tester using a generic skill when testing?

Select ONE option.

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16. Which of the following is NOT true for white-box testing?

Select ONE option.

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17. Which of the following BEST describe the collaborative approach to user story writing?

Select ONE option.

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18. Which of the following is a benefit of early and frequent stakeholder feedback?

Select ONE option.

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19. Let the branch coverage metric be defined as BCov = (X / Y) * 100%.

What do X and Y represent in this formula?

Select ONE option.

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20. You are testing a sort function that gets a set of numbers as input and returns the same set of numbers sorted in ascending order. The log from the test execution looks as follows.

Which of the following provides the BEST description of the failure that can be used in a defect report?

Select ONE option.

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21. Which of the following is NOT a purpose of a test plan?

Select ONE option.

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22. Which of the following BEST describes how using checklist-based testing can result in increased coverage?

Select ONE option.

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23. Which of the following is true about exploratory testing?

Select ONE option.

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24. How do testers add value to iteration and release planning?

Select ONE option.

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25. Which of the following statements about formal reviews is TRUE?

Select ONE option.

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26. What does the test pyramid model show?

Select ONE option.

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27. Which of the following is LEAST likely to occur as a result of a retrospective?

Select ONE option.

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28. You are testing a simplified apartment search form which has only two search criteria:

• floor (with three possible options: ground floor; first floor; second or higher floor)
• garden type (with three possible options: no garden; small garden; large garden)

Only apartments on the ground floor have gardens. The form has a built-in validation mechanism that will not allow you to use the search criteria which violate this rule.

Each test has two input values: floor and garden type. You want to apply equivalence partitioning (EP) to cover each floor and each garden type in your tests.

What is the minimal number of test cases to achieve 100% EP coverage?

Select ONE option

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29. Given the following testware:

1. Coverage items
2. Change requests
3. Test execution schedule
4. Prioritized test conditions

And the following test activities

A. Test analysis
B. Test design
C. Test implementation
D. Test completion

Which of the following BEST shows the testware produced by the activities?

Select ONE option.

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30. You were given a task to analyze and fix causes of failures in a new system to be released.

Which activity are you performing?

Select ONE option.

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31. How can the testing quadrants be beneficial for testing?

Select ONE options.

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32. Which of the following is an example of how product risk analysis influences thoroughness and scope of testing?

Select ONE option.

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33. Which of the following statements about the different testing roles is MOST likely to be CORRECT?

Select ONE option.

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34. During a risk analysis the following risk was identified and assessed:

• Risk: Response time is too long to generate a report
• Risk likelihood: medium; risk impact: high
• Response to risk:

o An independent test team performs performance testing during system testing
o A selected sample of end users performs alpha and beta acceptance testing before the release

What measure is proposed to be taken in response to this analyzed risk?

Select ONE option.

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35. Which of the following is MOST likely to impact how testing is performed for a given test object?

Select ONE option.

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36. Which of the following is an advantage of the whole-team approach?

Select ONE option.

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37. You are testing a temperature control system for a horticultural cold storage facility. The system receives the temperature (in full degrees Celsius) as the input. If the temperature is between 0 and 2 degrees inclusive, the system displays the message “temperature OK”. For lower temperatures, the system displays the message "temperature too low" and for higher temperatures it displays the message “temperature too high”.

Using two-value boundary value analysis, which of the following sets of test inputs provides the highest level of boundary value coverage?

Select ONE option.

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38. Which of the following is an example of why testing is necessary?

Select ONE option.

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39. The ‘absence-of-defects fallacy’ is one of the principles of testing. Which of the following is an example of addressing this principle in practice?

Select ONE option.

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40. Your team analyzes the following user story in order to define the acceptance criteria:

As a registered customer, I want to be able to view my previous orders on the company's website, so that I can keep track of my purchases.

Which of the following test cases will NOT be relevant for this user story?

Select ONE option.

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