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Question #29

Testing and Debugging are key activities in the software development lifecycle.
Which of the following are DEBUGGING activities?
a) Designing tests to find failures.
b) Locating the cause of failures.
c) Analysing and fixing the defects.
d) Executing tests to show failures.

A. b and c.

B. c and d.

C. a and b.

D. a and d.

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Question #30

Which of the following accurately defines the integration testing test level?

A. Test basis includes component requirements, test objects include database modules, and tests concentrate on the behaviour of the system as a whole.

B. Test basis includes software and system design, test objects include interfaces, and tests concentrate on the interactions between different parts of a system

C. Test basis includes use cases, test objects include user procedures and tests concentrate on a high level model of system behaviour

D. Test basis includes business processes, test objects include system configuration and configuration data, and tests concentrate on establishing confidence in the system

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Question #31

Which of the following statements about decision tables are TRUE?
I. Generally, decision tables are generated for low risk test items.
II. Test cases derived from decision tables can be used for component tests.
III. Several tests cases can be selected for each column of the decision table.
IV. The conditions in the decision table represent negative tests generally.

A. II, III

B. II, IV

C. I, IV

D. I, III

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Question #32

A company that created software for managing libraries won a contract to write an application for managing inventories in a large hospital pharmacy.
The test manager decided that the test policy and all work procedures must be reviewed and updates to meet this new challenge.
Which of the following is the best explanation for this decision?

A. Large organizations have bigger budgets and hence strict testing is required

B. The size of the software for the new project is different than previous ones. This requires more testing.

C. Different industries have different risks and quality requirements. This impacts the test process.

D. Revising the test policy and work procedures need not be done at the beginning of each project

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Question #33

Which statement correctly describes the public and profession aspects of the code of ethics?

A. Public: Certified software testers shall advance the integrity and reputation of the profession consistent with the public interest. Profession: Certified software testers shall consider the wider public interest in their actions.

B. Public: Certified software testers shall act in the best interests of their client and employer (being consistent with the wider public interest). Profession: Certified software testers shall advance the integrity and reputation of their industry consistent with the public interest.

C. Public: Certified software testers shall consider the wider public interest in their actions.
Profession: Certified software testers shall participate in lifelong learning regarding the practice of their profession and shall promote an ethical approach to the practice of their profession.

D. Public: Certified software testers shall consider the wider public interest in their actions.
Profession: Certified software testers shall advance the integrity and reputation of their industry consistent with the public interest.

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Question #34

Which of the following statements about Use Case Testing is FALSE?

A. A use case can be defined at the abstract level, detached from the implementation, or at the system level, describing a set of executed functions

B. Use case testing does not find defects caused by interaction of different components

C. Use case generally has a mainstream scenario and may have many alternate or exceptional scenarios.

D. Each use case has preconditions which need to be met for the use case to work successfully

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Question #35

As a result of the RAD based development approach, the test manager has decided to change the risk mitigation approach. Which test technique might be most appropriate to use?

A. Exploratory Testing

B. Error Guessing

C. Boundary Value Analysis

D. Decision Table Testing

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Question #36

Which of the following activities do NOT belong to test implementation and execution?

A. Test data generation

B. Prioritizing test conditions

C. Checking if the preconditions of test execution have been met

D. Logging of test results

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Correct Answer: B Vote an answer

Question #37

Pick the best definition of quality:

A. Conformance to requirements

B. Quality is job one

C. Zero defects

D. Work as designed

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Question #38

Test script TransVal 3.1 tests transaction validation via screen TRN 003B. According to the specification (PID ver 1.3 10b iv) the validation screen should not accept future dated transactions. Test script TransVal 3.1 passes. Test script eod 1.4 tests end of day processing and is run after the execution of TransVal 3.1 using data entered during that test Which of the following is the BEST detail on an incident report?

A. Title. Screen TRN-003B validation of transaction date.. Reproducible. No. Description. When a future dated transaction is processed by the end of day process, a failure can occur. This does not always happen. Screen shot of the failure attached.

B. Title. Transaction input screen validation..Reproducible. Yes. Description. Script eod 1..4 fails .
Screen shot of the failure attached. Validation of transaction entryon screen TRN-003B should not allow future dated transactions ?see PID ver 1.3 para 10b iv.

C. Title. Screen TRN-003B validation of transaction date. Reproducible. Yes. Description. Script eod
1.4 fails when the first transaction of the day is a future dated transaction. Screen shot of the failure attached. Validation of transaction entry on screen TRN-003B should not allow future dated transactions ?see PID ver 1.3 para 10b iv.

D. Title. End of Day failure.. Reproducible. Yes. Description. Script eod 1.4 fails when the first transaction of the day is a future dated transaction. Screen shot of the failure attached.

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Question #39

In the MASPAR case study..?

A. All the above

B. The development team achieved complete statement and branch coverage but missed a serious bug in the MASPAR operating system

C. Security failures were the result of untested parts of code

D. An error in the code was so obscure that you had to test the function with almost every input value to find its two special-case failures

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Question #40

A program controls a switch:
The program has three buttons:
- "ON" to turn the switch ON, or leaves it ON if it were ON.
- "OFF" to turn the switch OFF, or leaves it OFF if it were OFF.
- "Toggle" to change the state of the switch (turn it ON if it was OFF; turn it OFF if it was ON) The following drawing shows drawing shows the state diagram of the program (only the states are marked; the arrows mark possible transitions and are intentionally left unlabeled)

What percentage of the transitions in the State Transition diagram is guaranteed to be covered by the test case given above?
Note: The number of covered transitions depends on the initial state of the switch! Look for the minimum coverage case.

A. 83%

B. 66%

C. 33%

D. 50%

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Question #41

Which of the following tools can be used by developers, testers and quality assurance personnel in looking for defects prior to dynamic testing?

A. Static Analysis tool

B. Configuration management tool

C. Test data preparation tool

D. Modeling tool

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Question #42

You have investigated different possibilities and selected four of them to present to IT management. Which of the proposals will you most likely give your highest recommendations?

A. Outsourcing of test automation based on an offer from an Asian company, AsiaAutoTest, which has people who are specialists in system level capture-replay automation tools. They also offer training and besides they offer to run and maintain the regression tests in the future.

B. Solution from a tool vendor offering to educate two test team members in the use of their easy- to-use test automation capture replay tool over the first 3 month and based on that build the regression test suite. In addition to Vicki, Steve is the only one that has time available to be educated.

C. Internal offer from the development department of XYZ to create the regression package using CppUnit as test automation tool. One of the development groups have very good experiences in automating unit tests, and they are willing to do training as well.

D. Insourcing of test automation based on an offer from a local company ABC that has people who are specialists in system level capture-replay automation tools and they also do regular training courses in test automation methods and tools. They can then work closely with Vicki.

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