ISTQB Advanced Level Test Analyst & Technical Test Analyst Exam – Sample Paper: Q. 141 to 150
Deep study of this additional set of 120 questions recently uploaded shall be of great help in getting success in ISTQB CTAL Advanced Level Test Analyst & Technical Test Analyst Exam. All these questions are based upon ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level Syllabus V 2007.
Set of 10 Questions (Q. 141 to 150)
Correct Answers of earlier Q. 131 to 140 are at the end of this page:
Q. 141: You are participating in a review meeting for a project plan during the beginning of a project. The author, the project manager, is leading the meeting. He is leading the team sequentially through the sections of
the plan. Thus meeting would be considered what type of review?
A. Pair programming
B. Audit
C. Inspection
D. Walkthrough
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Q. 142: A software company has adopted a new way of testing their software. Testers set up the test environment, scan the software and look for problems for about 3 hours every week on Mondays and Wednesdays (in addition to their normal test activities). They create a session sheet and record testers name, date and time started, issues found, task breakdown and defects found at the end. Then the test manager holds a meeting with the testers and reviews the session sheet. Manager asks the testers for their outlook, results, what happened during the testing and their feelings about past 3 hours.
What type of testing activity is described above?
A. Risk based testing
B. Exploratory Testing
C. State transition Testing
D. Decision Testing
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Q. 143: You are executing tests for an integrated system that will use three off-the-shelf components to manage a bank’s accounts-receivable system. During execution of a specific test procedure, you observe an anomaly. Upon close investigation, you find that the mismatch between actual and expected results arose from the wrong operating system being installed on a test server.
This type of problem could be prevented during test implementation by paying closer attention to which of the following pre-conditions for test execution?
A. Testware
B. Test environment
C. Configuration management
D. Defect management
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Q. 144: You are a test manager for a software Company. CEO of the company sent a meeting entry to you and your manager for a past project evidence and test deliverables review. A person from an external company would like to interview you regarding the previous project. This activity has a very high visibility from upper management.
What type of review is described above?
A. Management Review
B. Technical Review
C. Audit
D. Inspection
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Q. 145: A Company develops websites for individual users / companies. The testing team tests each build of the software once development releases it. Once testers complete the testing, they also work on coding the next build of the software. All testers and developers report to project manager.
What type of independency is achieved above as per ISTQB syllabus?
A. “No independent testers”
B. Testing is done by a tester who is part of the development team
C. “External Test specialists perform testing”
D. “Testing is done by an organization external to the company”
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Q. 146: Assume you are evaluating a tool that generates load and monitors response time. It interacts only with Windows-based graphical user interfaces. This is likely to be most useful during which level of testing?
A. Unit test
B. Integration test
C. System test
D. Acceptance test
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Q. 147: Which of the following is the best example of a defect taxonomy being used for defect-based testing?
A. Analysis of bug clusters to focus developer training.
B. Identification of bug clusters to design test cases.
C. Creation of a test charter to guide test execution sessions.
D. Prioritization of quality characteristics to understand impact.
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Q. 148: Which statement is NOT true about test estimation?
A. Good test estimate provides specific detailed estimates of the costs, resources, and people involved.
B. Test estimate should be created by the test manager by him/herself, based on his/her own knowledge of the project.
C. Test estimate should consider all activities involved in test process (from test planning to test closure activities) and should document all the assumptions that were made.
D. Industry averages, predictive models, company standards, intuition and guesses are some of the techniques that can be used for test estimation.
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Q. 149: Assume you are testing a game for a popular video game platform. You are involved in managing all the testing activities at all levels of testing, including unit testing, integration testing, and system testing. There is no acceptance testing planned for this mass-market product.
A requirements specification, high-level design specification, and a low-level design specification will be written. You are currently writing the test plan, and deciding which test techniques should be applied to each level of testing. Which of the following statements is true?
A. Functional testing techniques are useful in all three levels of testing.
B. Structural testing techniques are useful only in unit testing.
C. Functional testing techniques are useful only in integration and system testing.
D. Structural testing techniques are useful only in integration and system testing.
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Q. 150: You are studying possible process improvements to make in your organization. Based on the effort involved, you find that defects require on average 10 person-hours to find and repair during reviews, as opposed to 35 person-hours to find and repair during system testing. Assume that the team size is fixed for any given project once the project starts.
Consider the following list of possible benefits:
I. Shorter testing periods due to fewer bugs
II. Fewer written test cases required for complete coverage III. Reduced paperwork in test record-keeping
IV. Reduced cost of project due to cheaper bug fix costs
V. Greater productivity of the development team
Which of the following statements is true about the benefits your organization can expect from instituting reviews on all projects?
A. You can expect all five benefits
B. You can expect benefits II, III, and V.
C. You can expect benefits I, III, and IV.
D. You can expect benefits I, IV, and V.
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Full Database of All Question for Advanced Level Test Analyst and Technical Test Analyst Exams
Correct Answers to the Earlier Questions – Q. 131 to Q 140 are as under:
| Question No. | Correct Answer |
| Q. 131 | A |
| Q. 132 | B |
| Q. 133 | C |
| Q. 134 | D |
| Q. 135 | C |
| Q. 136 | D |
| Q. 137 | A |
| Q. 138 | A |
| Q. 139 | C |
| Q. 140 | A |
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