ISTQB CTAL-TM-001 Actual Free Exam Questions & Community Discussion

You are interviewing a candidate for the position of test analyst. At one stage of the interview, you are looking specifically for skills in the area of professional competence. Which of the following skills would demonstrate this?

During what step of the Fundamental Test Process should you define the methods to be used to collect test metrics?

You are working for an outsource testing company You have a client that will only consider candidates that are highly skilled with Salesforce. regardless of the number of years they have spent testing similar products You have looked through your skills matrix and you have no one with the right type of experience for this project.
What competence area is your team lacking?

Which of the following defect statistics will provide input to be used for improvement in the defect reporting process?

You just handed over the Defect Accepted and Deferred report to your Maintenance team.
Which testing activity are you performing? [1]

SCENARIO 3
You are the Test Manager for a software house called "MakeMyApp" that specialise in mobile phone applications, agile techniques are used for all software development projects.
A new project is underway to develop enhancements to a 'photo sharing' application, known as
'PictureFriend'. There are two types of user account available -Premium Users and Guest Users. Guest users only have limited functionality available. The enhanced features to PictureFriend are:
* Feature 1: Guest Users can share photos with other Guest Users and Premium Users;
* Feature 2: Premium Users can edit pictures before posting to their account;
* Feature 3: Premium Users can create '3D-effect' photographs
The requirements for each feature will be broken down into a number of User Stories with acceptance criteria created for each of them. User Stories are planned and delivered in 2-week 'Sprints'. The project will have 3 sprints.
Refer to SCENARIO 3
You have been asked to select an appropriate review type and review remit for the project.
Which of the following is the BEST review type and remit for this project?
SELECT ONE OPTION

Your team has been given the following test objective Ensure that the users are happier with this version than they were with the last version?
What is wrong with the way this is defined?

You are Test Manager of a project delivering a workflow system for complex business processes It has been decided a tool is required to increase the efficiency of test execution. What would be a valid issue to consider when deciding whether to build a custom made tool?
SELECT ONE OPTION

Assume that you are working for a company that has maintained and tested a car parking permit system for many years. The system holds the name and address of permit holders and automatically writes to the permit holder with a form to renew or cancel their permit each year.
The test plan states the following:
"since the system is considered a stable system. Boundary Value Analysis is the only test case design technique that needs to be applied during testing" Consider the following change that was detailed in the Requirements Specification for a replacement to an existing parameter held within the system;
* The specified renewal date for each permit must be not be after 31 st January 2020. Which one of the following is a valid test condition that satisfies both the requirement and the test plan?
SELECT ONE OPTION

You are testing a new product that will turn on the windshield wipers of a car when the sensors detect there is moisture on the windshield. Depending on the information returned from the sensors, the wipers will be turned on at one of the following speeds: slow intermittent, medium intermittent, fast intermittent, slow constant, medium constant, fast constant. Your team has identified the following test condition:
Test Condition 1.1.1 - Verify that the windshield wipers can go from slow constant to fast constant speed when the amount of moisture increases appropriately.
Your team has defined the following steps for a test case for this test condition:
1. Set the moisture sensor to request slow constant
2. Increase the moisture to set the sensor to request fast constant
3. Verify that the wipers respond with fast constant speed
Given this information, which of the following statements is correct? [2]

You are writing the project test plan and are analysing the following risks in the project risk register:

Which would be the MOST appropriate test activities to mitigate the product risks?

In what way is the operations team usually Involved In testing7

It the lest manager must repeatedly step in to resolve conflicts within the team what phase is the team in and what competencies are required from the test manager?

Which statement about defect management in Agile software development is TRUE?

You are planning the testing for an emergency product update required to correct a serious security issue and to improve system maintainability of a key product in your company's catalogue. It has been estimated that the historical cost to the company for the security issue in this system has been $375,000.
In the last year a total of 10 reported "live' incidents were reported, resulting in a total external failure cost of S110.000 to correct.
The cost of prevention for this project has been estimated as $78,500 and from the development you have learned that the average cost of detection was $1,250 and the average cost of internal failure was $7,450 Which one of the following statements about cost of quality is TRUE? SELECT ONE OPTION