ISTQB Advanced Level Test Analyst Exam � Scenario Based Sample Questions: Q. 1 to 10
Deep study of this set of 53 questions out of which majority of them are scenario based & shall be of great help in getting success in ISTQB CTAL Advanced Level Test Analyst Exam.
All these questions are based upon the latest ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level Syllabus V 2007.
Set of 10 Questions (Q. 1 to 10)
Important guidelines to attempt Scenario Based Questions:
It is essential that you study the scenario extremely carefully before trying to answer the questions that relate to the scenario. If you misunderstand the scenario, may be due to a fast reading of it, you are likely to miss out most of the questions related to the scenario.
Correct Answers of Q. 1 to 10 are at the end of this page:
Sample Questions in context of ISTQB Advanced Level Technical Test Analyst Exam Syllabus – Chapter 1: Test Basics
Q. 1: You are working as a test analyst at a bank. At the bank, technical test analysts work closely with users during user acceptance testing. The bank has bought two financial applications as commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software from large software vendors. Previous history with these vendors has shown that they deliver quality applications that work on their own, but this is the first time the bank will attempt to integrate applications from these two vendors. Which of the following test levels would you expect to be involved in?
Note: There might be more than one right answer.
A. Component test
B. Component integration test
C. System integration test
D. Acceptance test
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Q. 2: Which of the following is necessarily true of safety-critical systems?
A. They are composed of multiple COTS applications.
B. They are complex systems of systems.
C. They are systems upon which lives depend.
D. They are military or intelligence systems.
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Sample Questions in context of ISTQB Advanced Level Technical Test Analyst Exam Syllabus – Chapter 2: Testing Processes
Q. 3: Identify all of the following that can be useful as a test oracle the first time a test case is run.
A. Incident report
B. Requirements specification
C. Test summary report
D. Legacy system
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Q. 4: Assume you are a technical test analyst working on a banking project to upgrade an existing automated teller machine system to allow customers to obtain cash advances from supported credit cards. During test design, you identify a discrepancy between the list of supported credit cards in the requirements specification and the design specification.
This is an example of what?
A. Test design as a static test technique
B. A defect in the requirements specification
C. A defect in the design specification
D. Starting test design too early in the project
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Q. 5: Which of the following is not always a precondition for test execution?
A. A properly configured test environment
B. A thoroughly specified test procedure
C. A process for managing identified defects
D. A test oracle
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Q. 6: Assume you are a technical test analyst working on a banking project to upgrade an existing automated teller machine system to allow customers to obtain cash advances from supported credit cards. One of the exit criteria in the test plan requires documentation of successful cash advances of at least 500 euros for all supported credit cards. The correct list of supported credit cards is American Express, Visa, Japan Credit Bank, Eurocard, and MasterCard.
After test execution, a complete list of cash advance test results shows the following:
# American Express allowed advances of up to 1,000 euros.
# Visa allowed advances of up to 500 euros.
# Eurocard allowed advances of up to 1,000 euros.
# MasterCard allowed advances of up to 500 euros.
Which of the following statements is true?
A. The exit criterion fails due to excessive advances for American Express and Eurocard.
B. The exit criterion fails due to a discrepancy between American Express and Eurocard on the one hand and Visa and MasterCard on the other hand.
C. The exit criterion passes because all supported cards allow cash advances of at least the minimum required amount.
D. The exit criterion fails because we cannot document Japan Credit Bank results.
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Sample Questions in context of ISTQB Advanced Level Technical Test Analyst Exam Syllabus – Chapter 3: Test Management
Scenario:
Assume you are testing a computer-controlled braking system for an automobile. This system includes the possibility of remote activation to initiate a gradual braking followed by disabling of the motor upon a full stop if the owner or the police report that the automobile is stolen or otherwise being illegally operated. Project documents and the product marketing collateral refer to this feature as emergency vehicle control override. “the marketing team is heavily promoting; this feature in advertisements as a major innovation for an automobile at this price.
Consider the following two statements:
I) Testing will coyer the possibility of the failure of the emergency vehicle control override feature to engage properly and also the possibility of the emergency vehicle control override engaging; without proper authorization.
II) The reliability tests will include sending a large volume of invalid commands to the emergency vehicle control override system. Ten percent of these invalid commands will consist of deliberately engineered invalid commands that cover all invalid equivalence partitions and/or boundary values that apply to command fields; 10 percent of these invalid commands will consist of deliberately engineered invalid commands that cover all pairs of command sequences, both valid and invalid; the remaining invalid commands will be random corruptions of valid commands rendered invalid by the failure to match the check-sum.
Q. 7: If the project follows the IEEE 829 documentation standard, which of the following statements about the IEEE 829 templates could be correct?
A. I belongs in the Test Design Specification, while II belongs in the Test plan
B. I belongs in the Test Plan, while II belongs in the Test Design Specification
C. I belongs in the Test Cease Specification, while II belongs in the Test Plan
D. I belongs in the Test Design Specification, while II belongs in the Test Item Transmittal Report
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Q. 8: If the project is following a risk-based testing strategy, which of the following is a quality risk item that would result in the kind of testing specified in statements I) and II) above?
A The emergency vehicle control override system fails to accept valid commands.
B The emergency vehicle control override system is too difficult to install.
C The emergency vehicle control override system accepts invalid commands.
D The emergency vehicle control override system alerts unauthorized driver.
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Q. 9: Assume that each quality risk item is assessed for likelihood and impact to determine the extent of testing to be performed. Consider only the information in the scenario, in questions 1 and 2 above, and in your answers to those questions. Which of the following statements is supported information?
A. The likelihood and impact are both high.
B. The likelihood is high.
C. The impact is high.
D. No conclusion can he reached about likelihood or impact.
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Sample Questions in context of ISTQB Advanced Level Technical Test Analyst Exam Syllabus – Chapter 4: Test Techniques
Q. 10: While performing the post-mortem evaluation on a project, you are perusing the fixes to a particular code module. You notice that there are a number of errors made using the operators >, >=, <, and <=. Which of the following specification-based test design techniques would be best suited to catch these type errors?
A. Equivalence class partitioning
B. Boundary value analysis
C. State transition table
D. State transition diagram
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Hi,
Please would you explain your answer to Q3 of the CTAL-Advanced scenario based questions. Your answer specifies B&C however I believe it is B&D.
Thanking you in advance
Anne
can anyone please give justification of question number 8