ISTQB CTAL_TM_001 Actual Free Exam Questions & Community Discussion

Your organisation has decided to move from using the V-model software development lifecycle to Agile Scrum. Due to inexperience in Agile methodologies and to mitigate risk, the next project will use a hybrid model, beginning with a traditional requirement definition phase and transitioning to an Agile Scrum approach for development and testing.
Which would be an appropriate test management task to perform FIRST for this next project?

You are the Test Manager of a risk-based testing effort. You develop the following graph to show residual risk. Assume that "Risks mitigated" represents passed tests and "Risks not mitigated" represents failed tests and other discovered failures.
Which of the following answers best represents what the graph shows? [3]

Which of the following software characteristics are possibly revealed through the application of a open source static analysis tool?

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

Which of the following organizational structures would be considered unorthodox?

You are a Test Manager on a new project. The software that is being created will be used to control the projectors in movie theaters. This is a time critical project because the software must be released before the Christmas holiday season which has the highest movie attendance of the year.
You have decided to implement a review process for the work products that are a part of this release to save both time and money. In order to expedite the training, you brought in a consultant to train the participants and moderators in proper review processes. Your team is enthusiastic about participating in the reviews.
The project is in the early planning stages. As the review leader, what is an appropriate activity for you to be doing at this point in the project? [3]

A project to replace an old sales and merchandising system with a new version based on modern platforms, will use an Agile lifecycle with iterations of fixed length.
The project objectives include:
* Delivery within 6 months of the start of the first iteration, in 3 releases, to be accomplished by a team that will contain all resources deemed necessary to achieve this
* Quality of delivered product to meet customer acceptance criteria
A test objective, derived from discussion with the customers, has been set as follows:
"Each release shall deliver usability that is better than that of the previous system for the equivalent functionality" Which S.M.A.R.T. criteria are met by this objective?
* Specific
* Measurable
* Achievable
* Relevant
* Timely

Which one of the following options would help ensure success in using an Exploratory Testing approach?
SELECT ONE OPTION

As the Test Manager for an agile project how would you BEST plan and guide the testing activities during development? SELECT ONE OPTION

As a Senior Test Manager for a large UK based software company, you have been tasked with setting up an outsourced test facility in another country and another time zone. Test effort will be equally split between the UK and the outsourced test facility.
Which of the following factors is MOST LIKELY to lead to the success of the new working arrangement?
a. Introduce clearly defined lines of communication.
b Increase the use of informal test execution.
c Align the testing methodologies used at each site
d. Implement a weekly team meeting where reps from each site attend in person.
e. Increase the overlap of allocated testing tasks.
f. Introduce local defect management processes for each site.

Your defect opened trend is converging to the closed trend but there is still a gap. What does that gap represent?

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?

It is the last day of an iteration and one of the teams is clearly not going to deliver all of the work that it committed to at the beginning of the iteration. The scrum master has asked you for ideas about how to perform the afternoon's retrospective in order to learn the appropriate lessons.
You have started the retrospective meeting by presenting this as its main goal. Which next two steps will be MOST effective?

Your organization has decided to augment your testing team with an offshore team. The offshore team members are experienced testers who are experts in the domain of the system under test Your team is worried about the offshore team taking their jobs and they are resistant to the change You need to pick three of your team members to be the ambassadors for the new team Which competences will be most important for your ambassadors to possess?

How does a risk based testing approach address risks in a software product? SELECT ONE OPTION