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Exam 5 - 75 minutes

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

Select ONE option.

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2. Which collaborative user story writing practice enables the team to achieve a collective understanding of what needs to be delivered?

Select ONE option.

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

Select ONE option.

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

Select ONE option.

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

Select ONE option.

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6. The reviews being used in your organization have the following attributes:

• There is the role of a scribe
• The main purpose is to evaluate quality
• The meeting is led by the author of the work product
• There is individual preparation
• A review report is produced

Which of the following review types is MOST likely being used?

Select ONE option.

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7. Which of the following statements BEST describes the difference between testing and debugging?

Select ONE option.

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8. 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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9. You are working as a tester in the team that follows the V-model. The choice of software development lifecycle (SDLC) model impacts the timing of testing, which of the following statement is NOT true?

Select ONE option.

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10. Which of the following provides the BEST example of a scenario-oriented acceptance criterion?

Select ONE option.

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11. Which of the following statements about the chosen software development lifecycle is CORRECT?

Select ONE option.

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

Select ONE options.

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13. Which of the following BEST explains a benefit of independence of testing?

Select ONE option.

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14. Given the following roles in reviews:

1. Scribe
2. Review leader
3. Facilitator
4. Manager

And the following responsibilities in reviews:

A. Ensures the effective running of review meetings and the setting up a safe review environment
B. Records review information, such as decisions and new anomalies found during the review meeting
C. Decides what is to be reviewed and provides resources, such as staff and time for the review
D. Takes overall responsibility for the review such as organizing when and where the review will take place

Which of the following BEST matches the roles and responsibilities?

Select ONE option.

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15. Which types of failures (1-4) fit which test levels (A-D) BEST?

1. Failures in system behavior as it deviates from the user’s business needs
2. Failures in communication between components
3. Failures in logic in a module
4. Failures in not correctly implemented business rules

A. Component testing
B. Component integration testing
C. System testing
D. Acceptance testing

Select ONE option.

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16. Consider the following list:

• Correct input not accepted
• Incorrect input accepted
• Wrong output format
• Division by zero

What test technique is MOST PROBABLY used by the tester who uses this list when performing 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. You test a system whose lifecycle is modeled by the state transition diagram shown below. The system starts in the INIT state and ends its operation in the OFF state.

What is the MINIMAL number of test cases to achieve valid transitions coverage?

Select ONE option.

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19. Given the following test tasks:

1. Derive test cases from test conditions
2. Identify reusable testware
3. Organize test cases into test procedures
4. Evaluate test basis and test object

And the following test activities:

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

Which of the following BEST matches the tasks with the activities?

Select ONE option.

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

Select ONE option.

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21. Which of the following statements about the value of static testing is CORRECT?

Select ONE option.

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22. You are testing a PIN validator, which accepts valid PINs and rejects invalid PINs. A PIN is a sequence of digits. A PIN is valid if it consists of four digits, at least two of which are different. You have identified the following valid equivalence partitions:

Variable: PIN code length

• The partition “length correct” - four-digit PINs
• The partition “length incorrect” - PINs with length other than 4

Variable: Number of different digits

• The partition “number of different digits correct” - PINs with at least two different digits
• The partition “number of different digits incorrect” - PINs with all digits being the same

Which of the following is a MINIMUM set of input test data that covers all identified equivalence partitions?

Select ONE option.

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23. Which of the following is an example of a test-first approach to development?

Select ONE option.

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24. The following decision table contains the rules for determining the risk of atherosclerosis.

You designed the test cases with the following test input data:

TC1: Cholesterol = 125 mg/dl Blood pressure = 141 mm Hg
TC2: Cholesterol = 200 mg/dl Blood pressure = 201 mm Hg
TC3: Cholesterol = 124 mg/dl Blood pressure = 201 mm Hg
TC4: Cholesterol = 109 mg/dl Blood pressure = 200 mm Hg
TC5: Cholesterol = 201 mg/dl Blood pressure = 140 mm Hg

What is the decision table coverage achieved by these test cases?

Select ONE option.

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25. For a given risk, its risk level is $1,000 and its risk likelihood is estimated as 50%.

What is the risk impact?

Select ONE options.

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

Select ONE option.

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27. Which of the following is MOST likely to describe a task performed by someone in a test management role?

Select ONE option.

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28. Your team uses planning poker to estimate the test effort for a newly required feature. There is a rule in your team that if there is no time to reach full agreement and the variation in the results is small, applying rules like “accept the number with the most votes” can be applied.
After two rounds, the consensus was not reached, so the third round was initiated. You can see the test estimation results in the table below.

Which of the following is the BEST example of the next step?

Select ONE option.

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29. How is the whole team approach present in the interactions between testers and business representatives?

Select ONE option.

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30. Which of the following is a good testing practice that applies to all software development lifecycles?

Select ONE option.

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31. One of the ‘principles of testing’ states that exhaustive testing is impossible. Which of the following is an example of addressing this principle in practice?

Select ONE option.

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32. Which of the following statements is CORRECT?

Select ONE option.

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

Select ONE option.

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34. 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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35. Which TWO of the following tasks belong MAINLY to a testing role?

Select TWO options.

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36. A designer documents a design for a user interface that does not suitably address disabled users because the designer is tired. The programmer implements the user interface in line with the design but as they are working under severe time pressure, they do not include suitable exception handling in their program code for bonus calculations. When the operational system is used, complaints are made by some disabled users about the interface and the company is subsequently fined by the relevant regulatory authority. No one notices that bonus calculations are sometimes incorrect.

Which of the following statements is CORRECT?

Select ONE option.

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37. Which of the following BEST describes retrospectives?

Select ONE option.

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38. Which of these statements is NOT a factor that contributes to successful reviews?

Select ONE option.

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

 

Select ONE option.

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40. Which of the following is MOST likely to be a trigger that leads to maintenance testing of a currency exchange system?

Select ONE option.

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