ISTQB CTAL-TM Practice Test - Questions Answers, Page 5

List of questions
Question 41

Which of the following should be considered the biggest risk to the schedule when trying to implement formal scripted test cases early in the SDLC for a system with a large GUI front end? [2]
Question 42

Your last project was released three months ago and used a risk-based approach. In production, a number of serious failures in low risk areas have occurred.
What is the most important lesson to be learned from this information? [2]
Question 43

Mary is an external IT auditor. She is conducting a review of the system-level testing done by Greg's functional testing team.
Which of the following items from Mary's assessment summary should concern Greg the most? [2]
Question 44

Your testing team has just received the test conditions for a new project. You are conducting Test Design activities for this project. Your team feels that it would be beneficial to create high-level test cases.
What should they do concurrently with creating these test cases? [2]
Question 45

You have been carefully monitoring the progress of testing for your project. You have been using the established traceability to verify that the requirements and test conditions are being adequately addressed. The test team is proceeding well in their test case execution and you can see that you are achieving about 80% coverage of the test conditions per the traceability mapping in your test management system. You have seen a number of defects being logged against test conditions that are failing,
but you do not see a mapping of the test cases to those conditions.
What is likely to be occurring in the testing area that is causing the traceability to break down? [2]
Question 46

Which classification information would be most useful to capture for newly identified defects? [2]
Question 47

Which technique will assist you in determining targeted improvement areas to reduce the number of defects?
Question 48

Your test team is in the process of completing final regression testing one week before the release date. One of your staff has just uncovered a critical defect that causes data corruption.
What should you do? [2]
Question 49

You have written a defect report and have just been notified that it is in the 'returned' state.
Who should take action on this defect?
Question 50

Your Project Manager has challenged you to come up with a process improvement strategy using the IDEAL model.
Which step within the process defines the success criteria? [2]
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