ISTQB CTAL_TM_001 Actual Free Exam Questions & Community Discussion

As a Test Manager, which one of the following do you think is the MOST important reason for ensuring effective processes are in place for test monitoring and reporting?
SELECT ONE OPTION

You are the Test Manager on a project to replace an old sales and merchandising system with one that will be based on modern platforms.
The main requirements for the system are:
* Loading sales data, sent electronically from the stores each evening, into a central database.
* Producing sales reports for the merchandisers.
* Producing forecast reports, used to predict demand.Loading sales data and producing reports with the current system has frequently taken longer than the overnight processing window allows. The Data Centre Manager requires that all batch processing takes at least 10% less time than currently.The Sales and Merchandising Manager is more concerned about usability because the parameter entry will be complex.Which option contains two key considerations that would need to be added to your test approach?

Which of the following statements define a test monitoring activity?

Which one of the following statements correctly describes how product quality risks should be mitigated and managed? 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

While mining the defect database for patterns of problems in the last release, a Test Manager notices that many of the most damaging failures were caused by defects injected during the low-level design phase.
Which of the following actions will likely give this project the most effective solution to this problem? [3]

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

Which test process improvement model consists of five maturity levels?

Which option correctly presents the main characteristics of test estimation?

Which of the following aspects should test progress metrics be mapped to?

You are Test Manager on a major project that is of strategic importance to your company. Your team has access to a suite of testing tools that provide support across the development life cycle and thissuite of tools has been in place for the last two projects. You are concerned that the suite does not have an integrated defect management tool and have negotiated a small budget to find and implement such a tool. Your first choice is an open source tool that has been available for just over a year and appears to be popular with its users, who have found it easy to learn. The main disadvantage of the tool would be that current manual defect management processes would need to be modified to embrace use of the tool.
Which of the following would be the MAIN risk to consider in deciding whether or not to acquire the defect management tool? SELECT ONE OPTION

The previous release of an in-house invoicing application was live for 6 months before beingreplaced by a later release.
* Before it went live, €1,500 had been spent on defect prevention and a further €4,500 had been spent on writing and running tests; these tests found 80 defects and the average cost of dealing with these was €50 each.
* By the time that it was replaced, defect reports from live running showed that pre-release testing had found only 80% of the defects that were present; the average cost of dealing with the defects that went live was 12 times that of the internal failures.
Which statement is TRUE?

Which work experience is likely to develop the necessary skills to effectively test a software system?

Which of the following is a generic good practice when evaluating and selecting a test tool?

Which of the following metrics would be most beneficial to collect to determine the effectiveness of a review process?