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NEW QUESTION # 24
For which of the following activities would the costs be classified as a cost of detection?
K2 1 credit
- A. Fixing field failures
- B. Training developers to better understand the new features of the coding language they
will use on the project - C. Writing test specifications according to the test design
- D. Re-running a test case, during the system testing phase, to verify that a fix eliminates a
previously found defect
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION # 25
Consider the following statements describing the importance of improving the test process:
I. Test process improvement is important because being focused only on the test process it
can provide recommendations to improve the test process itself, but it can't indicate or
suggest improvement to areas of the development process
II. Test process improvement is important because it is much more effective than software
process improvement to improve the quality of a software system
III. Test process improvement is important because several process improvement models
(STEP, TPI Next, TMMi) have been developed over the years
IV. Test process improvement is important because every organization, regardless of the
context, should always achieve the maximum level of maturity of testing described in the
test improvement models such as TMMi
Which of the following answers is correct?
K2 1 credit
- A. I. and IV. are true; II. and III. are false
- B. I., II. and III. are false; IV. is true
- C. I., II. and III are true; IV. is false
- D. I., II., III. and IV are false
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION # 26
Which one of the following metrics to be produced needs traceability between the test cases and each item in a proper test basis?
- A. Mean time between failures for the system
- B. Trends in the lag time from defect reporting to resolution
- C. Cumulative number of reported defects versus cumulative number of resolved defects
- D. Requirements coverage
Answer: D
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Section: Test Management
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NEW QUESTION # 27
After the presentation, you are asked to explain the chart.
Assume you have applied a full risk-based testing strategy.
Which of the following answers would you expect to best describe the pie chart?
- A. 97 percent of the risk items has been tested. No open bugs or test failures remain. Only 3 percent of risk items remains to be covered by the remaining test
- B. All the risk items have been covered with tests. No more risk items remain to test
- C. According to the full risk-based testing strategy applied, it is very likely that the highest-risk items, tests and bugs remain in the blue and red areas. Therefore, it is very risky to release the application
- D. Only the lowest-risk items, tests and bugs should remain in the blue and red areas. Therefore the application can be released at any time subject to management of the items identified in those areas
Answer: D
Explanation:
Section: Improving the Testing Process
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NEW QUESTION # 28
You are the Test Manager for a project to develop a client-server application that allows wine vendors to order custom-assorted packages of wines of several winemakers to sell special packages in their wine shops.
You decide to apply a blended risk-based and reactive testing strategy. Below the exit criteria for the system testing.
EXCR1- Each "critical" quality risk item must be covered by at least one test condition EXCR2- Each "critical" requirement must be covered by at least one test condition The following are the "critical" requirements of the application:
REQ-SEL-1. The application shall allow the user to order only one package at a time REQ-SEL-2. The application shall allow the user to select between four different packages (2-bottles, 6- bottles, 12-bottles, 15-bottles)
REQ-SEL-3. The application shall allow the user to order a package containing at least 1 bottle and no more bottles than the package size. No error messages shall be displayed if the user selects a valid number of bottles (at least 1 bottle and no more than the package size) REQ-SEL-4. The application shall display an error message "Invalid number of bottles" if an invalid number of bottles is selected by the user (zero bottles or a number higher than the package size) REQ-PAY-1. The application shall allow the user to pay with the three accepted credit cards (Visa, MasterCard, American Express)
REQ-PAY-2. The application shall display an error message "Invalid credit card" if invalid credit card data are given by the user
The following is the unique "critical" quality risk item that has been identified:
CR-RSK-1. The GUI of the application might accept non-integer values for the input field designed to get the number of bottles from the user
Test analysis for system testing has just begun and the following test conditions have been identified.
TC-SEL-2. Test the selection of the package sizes
TC-SEL-4. Test wrong numbers of bottles for an order
TC-CR-RSK-1. Test the accepted values from the input field designed to get the number of bottles from the user
What is the MINIMUM number of test conditions that must be added to fulfill both the EXCR1 and EXCR2 exit criteria?
- A. 0
- B. 1
- C. 2
- D. 3
Answer: D
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NEW QUESTION # 29
After a selection process you have selected a test management tool that is going be introduced in your organization and used by your test team in a pilot project.
You have already identified the member of your test team who will be the administrator of the tool, since he/she has a significant experience with the administration of test management tools and so he/she is able to make effective and efficient up-front decisions about "how" the tool will be used. You have also developed a training plan for the other members of your test team.
In collaboration with the administrator of the tool you have also devised standard ways of managing, storing and maintaining the tool and its assets including backup/restore procedures.
You have also analyzed standard formats supported by the tool (CSV, XLS, XML, etc.) to export, import and archive all the information managed by the tool itself (requirements, test case specifications, test plans etc.) for compliance with the most important test management tools, in order to minimize the impacts of migrating this information to a new tool that could replace the existing one in the future.
Which of the following phases in the lifecycle of the new tool has NOT been adequately considered in this description?
- A. Support and maintenance
- B. Acquisition
- C. Evolution
- D. Retirement
Answer: C
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Section: Test Tools and Automation
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NEW QUESTION # 30
A chart showing the trend in the lag time from defect reporting to resolution during system testing is also available. The chart shows that the daily closure period is consistently and significantly above the rolling closure period for a long period of the system testing phase.
Almost all defects found during system testing have been related to the system as a whole, not related to single units or integrations issues. Almost all quality risks have been addressed during the unit and integration testing phase and no residual quality risks were present in the integrated system. This has been confirmed by exploratory testing sessions performed during system testing, targeted at finding defects in these quality risk areas.
Based on the given information only, which one of the following areas would you expect to be considered more in the retrospective meeting in order to be improved?
- A. The system design and architecture design reviews
- B. The requirements review
- C. The defect management process
- D. The quality risk analysis process
Answer: C
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NEW QUESTION # 31
You are managing the system testing for a SOA based system. The integrated system
consists of several subsystems:
- A SOA middleware
- A CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system
- A BRM (Billing and Revenue Management) system
- A SMS (Subscriber Management System) system and you performed a risk analysis
based on these subsystems.
At the end of the scheduled period for test execution you produce a first classical report
based on the traditional metrics of testing. Test pass/fail status and bug status
(open/resolved) That table provides you a distorted picture of the quality risk, because
there is no indication of the risk level of the failed tests, the tests not run, or the open bugs.
Thus, you produce the following table to solve this distortion issue:
In the table above, where you have introduced the concept of risk weighting, the highest
risk test or bug report has a score of 1, while the lowest risk test or bug report has a score
of 0.04.
Which of the following subsystems, based on the risk scores of the table, is most risky?
K4 3 credits
- A. SOA
- B. SMS
- C. BRM
- D. CRM
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION # 32
You are the Test Manager for a project to develop a client-server application that allows
wine vendors to order custom-assorted packages of wines of several winemakers to sell
special packages in their wine shops.
You decide to apply a blended risk-based and reactive testing strategy. Below the exit
criteria for the system testinG.
EXCR1- Each "critical" quality risk item must be covered by at least one test condition
EXCR2- Each "critical" requirement must be covered by at least one test condition
The following are the "critical" requirements of the application:
REQ-SEL-1. The application shall allow the user to order only one package at a time
REQ-SEL-2. The application shall allow the user to select between four different packages
(2-bottles, 6-bottles, 12-bottles, 15-bottles)
REQ-SEL-3. The application shall allow the user to order a package containing at least 1
bottle and no more bottles than the package size. No error messages shall be displayed if
the user selects a valid number of bottles (at least 1 bottle and no more than the package
size)
REQ-SEL-4. The application shall display an error message "Invalid number of bottles" if
an invalid number of bottles is selected by the user (zero bottles or a number higher than
the package size)
REQ-PAY-1. The application shall allow the user to pay with the three accepted credit
cards (Visa, MasterCard, American Express)
REQ-PAY-2. The application shall display an error message "Invalid credit card" if invalid
credit card data are given by the user
QUSTION NO: 11
The following is the unique "critical" quality risk item that has been identified:
CR-RSK-1. The GUI of the application might accept non-integer values for the input field
designed to get the number of bottles from the user
Test analysis for system testing has just begun and the following test conditions have been
identifieD.
TC-SEL-2. Test the selection of the package sizes
TC-SEL-4. Test wrong numbers of bottles for an order
TC-CR-RSK-1. Test the accepted values from the input field designed to get the number of
bottles from the user
Assume that you have used traceability to determine the logical test cases that cover all the
requirements and the single risk item identified in that scenario.
Which of the following is a positive logical test that is complete and correct, and covers the
REQ-SEL-4 requirement?
K3 2 credits
- A. Select a 6-bottles package, then try to insert 5 bottles; verify that no error messages are
displayed - B. Select a 6-bottles package, then try to insert 7 bottles; verify that no error messages are
displayed - C. Select a 6-bottles package, then try to insert 7 bottles; verify that the "Invalid number of
bottles" message is displayed - D. Select a 6-bottles package, then try to insert 7 bottles
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION # 33
After a selection process you have selected a test management tool that is going be introduced in your organization and used by your test team in a pilot project.
You have already identified the member of your test team who will be the administrator of the tool, since he/she has a significant experience with the administration of test management tools and so he/she is able to make effective and efficient up-front decisions about "how" the tool will be used. You have also developed a training plan for the other members of your test team.
In collaboration with the administrator of the tool you have also devised standard ways of managing, storing and maintaining the tool and its assets including backup/restore procedures.
You have also analyzed standard formats supported by the tool (CSV, XLS, XML, etc.) to export, import and archive all the information managed by the tool itself (requirements, test case specifications, test plans etc.) for compliance with the most important test management tools, in order to minimize the impacts of migrating this information to a new tool that could replace the existing one in the future.
Which of the following phases in the lifecycle of the new tool has NOT been adequately considered in this description?
- A. Support and maintenance
- B. Acquisition
- C. Evolution
- D. Retirement
Answer: C
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NEW QUESTION # 34
Assume you are the Test Manager for a new software release of an e-commerce application.
The server farm consists of six servers providing different capabilities. Each capability is provided through a set of web services.
The requirements specification document contains several SLAs (Service Level Agreements) like the following:
SLA-001: 99.5 percent of all transactions shall have a response time less than five seconds under a load of up-to 5000 concurrent users
The main objective is to assure that all the SLAs specified in the requirements specification document will be met before system release. You decide to apply a risk-based testing strategy and an early risk analysis confirms that performance is high risk. You can count on a well-written requirements specification and on a model of the system behavior under various load levels produced by the system architect.
Which of the following test activities would you expect to be the less important ones to achieve the test objectives in this scenario?
- A. Perform unit performance testing for each single web service
- B. Monitor the SLAs after the system has been released into the production environment
- C. Perform static performance testing by reviewing the architectural model of the system under various load levels
- D. Perform system performance testing, consisting of several performance testing sessions, to verify if all the SLAs have been met
Answer: B
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NEW QUESTION # 35
Which of the following statements about the STEP test process improvement model is
true?
K2 1 credit
- A. The STEP model stresses defect detection and demonstration of capability, whereas the
defect prevention is a secondary potential goal of testing - B. In the STEP model, testware design occurs after coding
- C. The STEP model assures that the system requirements specification and the test design
specification processes don't overlap - D. In the STEP model, tests validate the requirements and use cases when they are
developed
Answer: D
NEW QUESTION # 36
For which of the following activities would the costs be classified as a cost of detection?
- A. Fixing field failures
- B. Writing test specifications according to the test design
- C. Re-running a test case, during the system testing phase, to verify that a fix eliminates a previously found defect
- D. Training developers to better understand the new features of the coding language they will use on the project
Answer: B
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NEW QUESTION # 37
Based on the historical data of 5 past and similar projects, you have calculated these average numbers of defects detected in system testing.
- For each 10000 LOC (lines of code), 200 defects
- For each person-month of development team effort, 49 defects
You want to use this information to perform estimation for a new project.
The project manager tells you that he/she has estimated 20000 new LOC for this new project.
Four developers work for four months on this project before system testing.
During system testing, 797 defects are discovered.
Assume that the system test of this new project is using the same amount of work as spent in the past projects.
Based on this information only, which of the following statement is certainly true about this project?
- A. More LOC than planned have been delivered to system testing with a higher defect density than the past projects
- B. The number of defects found during the system test phase on the new project is approximately proportional to the development team effort
- C. The code for the new project contains a higher defect density than the code of the past projects
- D. 40000 LOC have been delivered to system testing (against the 20000 LOC planned by the project manager)
Answer: B
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Section: Test Management
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NEW QUESTION # 38
Assume you are the Test Manager for a new software release of an e-commerce application.
The server farm consists of six servers providing different capabilities. Each capability is provided through a set of web services.
The requirements specification document contains several SLAs (Service Level Agreements) like the following:
SLA-001: 99.5 percent of all transactions shall have a response time less than five seconds under a load of up- to 5000 concurrent users The main objective is to assure that all the SLAs specified in the requirements specification document will be met before system release. You decide to apply a risk-based testing strategy and an early risk analysis confirms that performance is high risk. You can count on a well-written requirements specification and on a model of the system behavior under various load levels produced by the system architect.
Which of the following test activities would you expect to be the less important ones to achieve the test objectives in this scenario?
- A. Perform unit performance testing for each single web service
- B. Monitor the SLAs after the system has been released into the production environment
- C. Perform static performance testing by reviewing the architectural model of the system under various load levels
- D. Perform system performance testing, consisting of several performance testing sessions, to verify if all the SLAs have been met
Answer: B
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Section: Testing Process
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NEW QUESTION # 39
In the test strategy document your organization declares:
- To adopt a V-model development lifecycle, with three formal levels of testing unit, integration and system testing
- To use a blended risk-based and regression-averse testing strategy for each level of testing The following is an excerpt of the "approach" section for the system test plan document of a new project:
"Testing will only use manual tests. Due to the short period of time for test execution, the following activities will be performed in parallel with test execution: Test planning, test analysis and test design.
Basic metrics will be taken for test effort (i.e. person-hours), test cases executed (passed/failed), and incidents (no more metrics, such as code coverage, will be collected)." In the system test plan, no deviations from the test strategy are described.
Based only on the given information, which of the following statements is true?
- A. The approach described in the system test plan document is consistent with the test strategy
- B. The approach described the system test plan document is inconsistent with both the risk-based and regression testing strategies
- C. The approach described in the system test plan document is consistent with the regression testing strategy, but it is inconsistent with the risk-based testing strategy
- D. The approach described in the system test plan document is consistent with the risk-based testing strategy, but it is inconsistent with the regression testing strategy
Answer: B
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NEW QUESTION # 40
Consider an agile team adopting Extreme Programming (XP) with five developers and one tester without any coding experience.
To which of the following activities would you expect the tester will contribute most?
- A. Developing unit tests
- B. Planning and executing tests during the integration test phase to detect interface defects
- C. Supporting the customer in the execution of acceptance testing
- D. Executing unit tests
Answer: C
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NEW QUESTION # 41
A chart showing the trend in the lag time from defect reporting to resolution during system
testing is also available. The chart shows that the daily closure period is consistently and
significantly above the rolling closure period for a long period of the system testing phase.
Almost all defects found during system testing have been related to the system as a whole,
not related to single units or integrations issues. Almost all quality risks have been
addressed during the unit and integration testing phase and no residual quality risks were
present in the integrated system. This has been confirmed by exploratory testing sessions
performed during system testing, targeted at finding defects in these quality risk areas.
Based on the given information only, which one of the following areas would you expect to
be considered more in the retrospective meeting in order to be improved?
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- A. The system design and architecture design reviews
- B. The requirements review
- C. The defect management process
- D. The quality risk analysis process
Answer: C
NEW QUESTION # 42
Assume you are the Test Manager in charge of independent testing for avionics applications.
You are in charge of testing for a project to implement three different CSCI (Computer Software Configuration Item):
- a BOOT-X CSCI that must be certified at level B of the DO-178B standard
- a DIAG-X CSCI that must be certified at level C of the DO-178B standard
- a DRIV-X CSCI that must be certified at level A of the DO-178B standard These are three different software modules written in C language to run on a specific hardware platform.
You have been asked to select a single code coverage tool to perform the mandatory code coverage measurements, in order to meet the structural coverage criteria prescribed by the DO-178B standard. This tool must be qualified as a verification tool under DO-178B.
Since there are significant budget constraints to purchase this tool, you are evaluating an open-source tool that is able to provide different types of code coverage. This tool meets perfectly your technical needs in terms of the programming language and the specific hardware platform (it supports also the specific C- compiler).
The source code of the tool is available.
Your team could easily customize the tool to meet the project needs. This tool is not qualified as a verification tool under the DO-178B.
Which of the following are the three main concerns related to that open-source tool selection?
- A. Does the tool require a system with more than 4GB of RAM memory?
- B. What are the costs to qualify the tool as a verification tool under the DO-178B?
- C. Does the tool have a good general usability?
- D. Is the installation procedure of the tool easy?
- E. Does the tool support all the types of code coverage required from the three levels A, B, C of the DO-
178B standard? - F. Is the licensing scheme of the tool compatible with the confidentiality needs of the avionics company?
Answer: B,E,F
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NEW QUESTION # 43
Which of the following statements about the STEP test process improvement model is true?
- A. The STEP model assures that the system requirements specification and the test design specification processes don't overlap
- B. In the STEP model, tests validate the requirements and use cases when they are developed
- C. The STEP model stresses defect detection and demonstration of capability, whereas the defect prevention is a secondary potential goal of testing
- D. In the STEP model, testware design occurs after coding
Answer: B
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NEW QUESTION # 44
You are the Test Manager of a new project aimed at developing a software system that must be certified at level B of the DO-178B standard. The project will follow a V-Model software development life cycle and it will have four formal levels of testing: component, integration, system and acceptance testing.
You must produce the test plan documentation for this project by providing an adequate coordination across the four levels of testing in order to assure audit ability.
Which of the following answers would you expect to best describe how to organize the test plan?
- A. Produce a master test plan describing the relationship between the four levels, and four separate detailed level test plans, one for each level
- B. Produce four separate detailed level test plans, one for each level, without a master test plan
- C. Produce a master test plan that covers three levels (component, integration, system test) and a separate acceptance test plan
- D. Produce a single master test plan that covers in detail all four levels, describing the particular activities for all test levels
Answer: A
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NEW QUESTION # 45
An agile development team decides to hire a tester who has always worked.
- in independent test teams, reporting the problems found in a defect tracking system
- in safety-critical projects, with a stronger focus on the quality of the product than on time and budget.
This agile team is focused on short-term goals to get the product released on time and within budget.
Which of the following answers would you expect to be most likely true in this scenario?
- A. The tester can continue to report the problems found in a defect tracking system and be more focused on the quality than on time and budget constraints
- B. Agile teams like the presence of a tester in their teams and the tester will be able to adapt to the new context without any issue
- C. The developers will immediately follow the guidelines described by the tester
- D. The tester's mission could be to verify adherence to requirements, instead of reporting formally the problems in a defect tracking system
Answer: D
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NEW QUESTION # 46
Assume that the following test cases have been executed at the end of the first week of
test execution: TC-001, TC-002 and TC-007. All these tests are 'passes'.
What is the MINIMUM number of the remaining test cases that must be successfully
executed to fulfill the EX1 exit criteria?
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- A. 0
- B. 1
- C. 2
- D. 3
Answer: D
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