ISTQB Certification Exam-Sample Papers Q. 501 to 510
(Quickly Review Your Skills before appearing for ISTQB Certification Exam)
Set of 10 Questions.
Correct Answers to Earlier Questions – Q. 491 to Q 500 are at the end of this page:
Q. 501: Which of the following statements is MOST OFTEN true?
A. Source-code inspections are often used in component testing.
B. Component testing searches for defects in programs that are separately testable.
C. Component testing is an important part of user acceptance testing.
D. Component testing aims to expose problems in the interactions between software and hardware components.
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Q. 502: Which of the following is an objective of a pilot project for the introduction of a testing tool?
A. Evaluate testers� competence to use the tool.
B. Complete the testing of a key project.
C. Assess whether the benefits will be achieved at reasonable cost.
D. Discover what the requirements for the tool are.
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Q. 503: What is an informal test design technique where a tester uses information gained while testing to design new and better tests?
A. Error guessing
B. Exploratory testing
C. Use case testing
D. Decision table testing
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Q. 504: Which of the following is determined by the level of product risk identified?
A. Extent of testing.
B. Scope for the use of test automation.
C. Size of the test team.
D. Requirement for regression testing.
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Q. 505: When should testing be stopped?
A. When all the planned tests have been run
B. When time has run out
C. When all faults have been fixed correctly
D. It depends on the risks for the system being tested
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Q. 506: Which of following statements is true? Select ALL correct options Regression testing should be performed:
i Once a month
ii When a defect has been fixed
iii When the test environment has changed
iv When the software has changed
A. ii and iv.
B. ii, iii and iv.
C. i, ii and iii.
D. i and iii.
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Q. 507: The following statements are used to describe the basis for creating test cases using either black or white box techniques:
i Information about how the software is constructed.
ii Models of the system, software or components.
iii Analysis of the test basis documentation.
iv Analysis of the internal structure of the components.
Which combination of the statements describes the basis for black box techniques?
A. ii and iii.
B. ii and iv.
C. i and iv.
D. i and iii.
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Q. 508: Which of the following requirements would be tested by a functional system test?
A. The system must be able to perform its functions for an average of 23 hours 50 mins per day.
B. The system must perform adequately for up to 30 users.
C. The system must allow a user to amend the address of a customer.
D. The system must allow 12,000 new customers per year.
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Q. 509: Based on the error guessing test design technique, which of the following will an experienced tester MOST LIKELY test in calendar software?
i. First two letters of the month, e.g., MA can represent March or May
ii. First letter of the day, e.g., T can mean Tuesday or Thursday
iii. Leap year
iv. Number of days in a month
v. Three-digit days and months
A. i, ii, iv and v
B. iii and iv
C. i, ii, iii and iv
D. i, ii and v
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Q. 510: Which of the following are valid objectives for incident reports?
i. Provide developers and other parties with feedback about the problem to enable identification, isolation and correction as necessary.
ii. Provide ideas for test process improvement.
iii. Provide a vehicle for assessing tester competence.
iv. Provide testers with a means of tracking the quality of the system under test.
A. i, ii, iii.
B. i, ii, iv.
C. i, iii, iv.
D. ii, iii, iv.
Correct Answer of the above Questions
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Correct Answers to the Earlier Questions – Q. 491 to Q 500 are as under:
| Question No. | Correct Answer |
| Q. 491 | D |
| Q. 492 | B |
| Q. 493 | B |
| Q. 494 | B |
| Q. 495 | B |
| Q. 496 | A |
| Q. 497 | D |
| Q. 498 | B |
| Q. 499 | B |
| Q. 500 | A |
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