ISTQB CTAL-TM Actual Free Exam Questions & Community Discussion

Club 65 to 90 is a holiday club for retired people run by a small company, the IT department consists of 1 Designer, 3 Developers and 1 System Tester Their booking system has been "live" for a number of years and the company has a loyal client base. A variety of automation tools are used for development and testing to improve effectiveness and efficiency.
A new project will introduce a loyalty scheme and both a Business Requirement Specification and a System Design Specification have been produced A Rapid Application Development (RAD) lifecycle model will be used where time is crucial. In the past there have been problems with updates to the existing system, which has affected existing functionality. Testers have not used representative and realistic operational profiles and data, which has led to significant production problems. The following test policy statements have been proposed for the project:
a. Testing must be risk based;
b. A Master Test Plan, confirming to IEEE829, must be produced for each test project; c. Test procedures must be run by a tester who did not write the procedure; d. Regression testing should be carried out on all releases; e. The testers are accountable for all defects found in production; f. Time must be given to designing test environments so that they are representative of the live environment.
Which of the following options identifies the three policy statements that would be MOST beneficial for this project?

System testing on your current project is coming to an end and it is time to write the test completion report.
The product is an in-house development to support the Sales & Marketing department. Test design was based on requirements analysis.
Which of the following metrics is MOST likely to be useful to help the business stakeholders decide if testing has met its objectives?

You have been promoted to Test Manager within your company. Your new manager states that your test team utilized a risk-based test approach for the last release but in production, a number of serious failures in lightly tested areas have occurred.
What would be your first action prior to the start of the next test phase for the next release? [3]

A test team is working long hours to achieve a deadline for release of a new product which has had problems throughout development and is well behind schedule. Which of the following is most likely to have a MOTIVATING effect on the testers in the team?
SELECT ONE OPTION

Your application development team is performing "test-driven" development. This is a core principal of which software development model?

What is the primary use for the traceability information regarding the relationship between test results and test conditions during test execution?

You are the Test Manager of a four-person test team working for a small distribution company with a single warehouse. Your team has been working with a third party development team on a new inventory management system. The company expects this system to generate approximately one million dollars per annum in profits for the company. Early in the project, various risks were identified, and steps taken to mitigate those risks.
For example, you sent your test team for training on the new system, and upgraded the test environment.
There are still some lingering risks that have not been addressed, but they have been determined to have a low chance of occurring, with minimal impact if they do occur.
What would be the best option to mitigate these remaining risks? [3]

Which one of the following standards would a Test Manager be expected to understand when planning and organising activities with a Project Manager? SELECT ONE OPTION

Referring to SCENARIO 2 It has been agreed that Project 1 will be delivered using an Agile approach, with user stories delivered across three sprints, each lasting 4 weeks. The programme manager is concerned about RISK 3 and wants the Master Test Plan to specify an effective test process improvement approach.
Which of the following is the best test process improvement approach for Project 1 ? SELECT ONE OPTION