ISTQB CTAL-TA Actual Free Exam Questions & Community Discussion

Ken, an entrepreneur in Leeds finds the quality of the tea locally available so low, that he decides to research superior teas around the world. He decides to market, sell and distribute these superior teas via the web. His market strategy is to offer superior products on a well-designed website with graphics that are fast to load, has high availability, superior usability and fast response times.
The website will offer the following:
- An innovative interactive catalogue of teas, which not only enables customers to buy the product, but also enables them to provide feedback by rating the teas (which will influence his stock purchasing levels)
- Provide the customer with the ability to use secure credit card transactions
- Provide the customer to give general feedback
Ken selects an iterative model for the development of the prototypes. The team consists of three developers that are experienced in web development. Ken, although he doesn't have technical skillset, is concerned with quality. He doesn't believe a lot of documentation is necessary and he wants the website to be completed quickly.
The test basis contains the following:
- Story boards that show the information flow and page links through the site
- HTML pages developed to date.
- A statement of non-functional requirements.
With the strategy taking shape, Ken asks your advice on the specific testing techniques that should be used to complete the required testing, bearing in mind the nature of the application and the nature of Kens overall objectives.
Which of the following represents the best choice of testing techniques in this scenario?

Supercar is an online vehicle sales website specializing in a single manufacturers Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) and saloons. A vehicle has two key elements, power unit and body style. The manufacturer offers three choices of power unit: petrol, diesel and hybrid. There are 3 main body styles:
Saloon, Hatchback and SUV. SUVs only come as petrol and diesel options. Hybrid is available for Hatchback only. The site will allow an order to be processed if at least one of the chosen vehicle configuration is in stock, otherwise a message will be displayed asking the user to try again later.
As a tester you are asked to review the "Supercar" specification before starting to design the corresponding test cases.
Which of the comments below would you make?

The following document has been produced as part of the replacement of an internal Customer Relationship Management (CRM) application. The replacement application should not differ from the current CRM application, and the documentation reflects this aspiration, with seven specific requirements listed.

The requirements will be reviewed using a standard checklist:
Requirements should be testable.
Each requirement should be consistent with other requirements.
Each requirement should be unambiguous.
Each requirement should have a unique identifier.
Documents should be versioned, dated and the author specified.
Which checklist items would identify issues in this requirements document?

A temperature unit holds the temperature between 10 degrees Celcius and 10 degrees Celcius. If the temperature drops below 10 or rises above 10 then an alarm rings. Boundary Value Analysis tests are drawn up using the approach of two test cases per boundary. The temperatures to be tested are:

In an organization using keyword-driven automation, which of the following activities typically is the responsibility of the test analyst?

Tax system
A tax system needs to be updated due to new legislation. For a person with a salary of less than
20.000 and who is married, the tax needs to be re-calculated. If the person also has more than two and less than five children, an additional 10% reduction is applicable.
Applying equivalence partitioning to the "Tax System" specification, which of the following set of equivalence classes is most effective in testing the processing the number of children?

Which of the following statements BEST describes checklist based and black-box test techniques?

Supercar
Supercar is an online vehicle sales website specializing in single manufacturers Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) and saloons. A vehicle has two key elements, power unit and body style. The manufacturer offers three choices of power unit: petrol, diesel and hybrid. There are 3 main body styles: Saloon, Hatchback and SUV. SUVs only come as petrol and diesel options. Hybrid is available for Hatchback only. The site will allow an order to be processed if the chosen vehicle configurations are in stock, otherwise a message will be displayed asking the user to try again later.
Based on the specification the following classification tree has been developed:

Based on the "Supercar" classification tree the following positive test cases have been created:

Which test case is needed to complete the set?

A new web site must operate correctly with different browsers (Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Firefox, Netscape, Mozilla), using different plug-ins (Realplayer, Mediaplayer), will be receiving pages from different servers (IIS, Apache and WebLogic) and will be running on various server operation systems (windows 2007, XP, Linux).
Which of the following test techniques will you use to test this new web site in its various environments?

How many invalid test cases can be identified from the "Route Calculation" state table provided?
You may assume all actions are different and independent.