ISTQB Certification Exam-Sample Papers Q. 911 to 920
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Set of 10 Questions � Q. 911 to Q. 920
Correct Answers to Earlier Questions – Q. 901 to Q 910 are at the end of this page:
Q. 911: What is the benefit of independent testing?
A. More work gets done because testers do not disturb the developers all the time.
B.Independent testers tend to be unbiased and find different defects than the developers.
C. Independent testers do not need extra education and training.
D. Independent testers reduce the bottleneck in the incident management process.
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Q. 912: Which of the following would be categorized as project risks?
A. Skill and staff shortages.
B. Poor software characteristics.
C. Failure-prone software delivered.
D. Possible reliability defect (bug).
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Q. 913: As a test manager you are asked for a test summary report. Concerning test activities and according to IEEE 829 Standard, what should you consider in your report?
A. The number of test cases using Black Box techniques.
B. A summary of the major testing activities, events and its status in respect of meeting goals.
C. Overall evaluation of each development work item.
D. Training taken by members of the test team to support the test effort.
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Q. 914: You are a tester in a safety-critical software development project. During execution of a test, you find out that one of your expected results was not achieved. You write an incident report about it. What do you consider to be the most important information to include according to the IEEE Std. 829?
A. Impact, incident description, date and time, your name.
B. Unique id for the report, special requirements needed.
C. Transmitted items, your name and you�re feeling about the defect source.
D. Incident description, environment, expected results.
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Q. 915: Regression testing can be applied to which of the following?
I. Functional testing
II. Non-functional testing
III. Structural testing
A. I and II only
B. I and III only
C. II and III only
D. I, II and III
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Q. 916: Which one of the following best describes a characteristic of a keyworddriven test execution tool?
A. A table with test input data, action words, and expected results, controls execution of the system under test.
B. Actions of testers recorded in a script that is rerun several times.
C. Actions of testers recorded in a script that is run with several sets of test input data.
D. The ability to log test results and compare them against the expected results, stored in a text file.
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Q. 917: Which of the following is NOT a goal of a Pilot Project for tool evaluation?
A. To evaluate how the tool fits with existing processes and practices.
B. To determine use, management, storage, and maintenance of the tool and test assets.
C. To assess whether the benefits will be achieved at reasonable cost.
D. To reduce the defect rate in the Pilot Project.
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Q. 918: Below is a list of test efficiency improvement goals a software development and test organization would like to achieve.
Which of these goals would best be supported by a test management tool?
A. To build traceability between requirements, tests, and bugs.
B. To optimize the ability of tests to identify failures.
C. To resolve defects faster.
D. To automate selection of test cases for execution.
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Q. 919: The digital “Rainbow Thermometer” uses 7 colors to show the ambient temperature. Each color spans a range of just 5 Deg. C, with an operating minimum and maximum of minus 5 Deg. C and 30 Deg.C. Which of the following values is LEAST likely to have been identified when applying the boundary value test design technique?
A. 30 Deg. C
B. 0 Deg. C
C. 8 Deg. C
D. 15 Deg.C
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Q. 920: Which of the following are characteristic of test management tools?
a. They support traceability of tests to source documents.
b. They provide an interface to test execution tools.
c. They help to enforce coding standards.
d. They manipulate databases and files to set up test data.
A. a and c
B. b and c
C. a and b
D. b and d
Correct Answer of All above Questions
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Correct Answers to the Earlier Questions – Q. 901 to Q 910 are as under:
| Question No. | Correct Answer |
| Q. 901 | D |
| Q. 902 | A |
| Q. 903 | C |
| Q. 904 | A |
| Q. 905 | A |
| Q. 906 | B |
| Q. 907 | B |
| Q. 908 | C |
| Q. 909 | A |
| Q. 910 | C |
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