ISTQB CTAL-TM Practice Test - Questions Answers, Page 8

You are performing a risk assessment for a financial application using quantitative risk analysis. The following is a table describing the analysis undertaken so far:

Which of the following statements correctly describes the outcome of the risk assessment using the 'Cost of Exposure' technique in this scenario? SELECT ONE OPTION

You are planning the testing for an emergency product update required to correct a serious security issue and to improve system maintainability of a key product in your company's catalogue. It has been estimated that the historical cost to the company for the security issue in this system has been $375,000.

In the last year a total of 10 reported 'live' incidents were reported, resulting in a total external failure cost of S110.000 to correct.

The cost of prevention for this project has been estimated as $78,500 and from the development you have learned that the average cost of detection was $1,250 and the average cost of internal failure was $7,450

Which one of the following statements about cost of quality is TRUE? SELECT ONE OPTION

Assume that you are part of a team conducting test design for a new university system that will allow students to update their own personal information. The Test Strategy states that positive and negative testing should be carried out. along with performance, security and interoperability testing against all new requirements.

The following requirements have been identified by stakeholders:

1. Students must be able to make changes to the following information:

a Name (due to marital status)

b Marital status

c. Home address

d. Home telephone number

e. Email address

f. Mobile telephone number

g. Contact details in case of emergency

2 Only Reception staff must have access to the information held.

3 The system must support 2000 concurrent users and details updated on the system within 20 seconds.

4. Interoperability of the new system with the other systems maintained by the University for student Registrations.

Test analysis for functional and non-functional testing has iust bequn and the following test conditions have been identified:

Which one of the following is a valid test condition that is missing from the table of test conditions and has clear traceability back to the test strategy and requirements?

SELECT ONE OPTION

Which ONE of the following is considered to be the LEAST independent form of testing for an organisation? SELECT ONE OPTION

You are Test Manager on a new project and have estimated the test effort to be 500 days, assuming that you will find no more than 50 defects and 5 test iterations being required. The project manager has said the estimate is too high. Which of the following options could enable you to reduce this estimate?

SELECT ONE OPTION

Which of the following is NOT true when following the V-Model lifecycle to organise and plan testing activities? SELECT ONE OPTION

You have been asked to implement formal reviews at your company. From the list below, what are the correct characteristics of a formal review?

a. Entry and exit criteria have been defined.

b. Checklists created to be used by all reviewers.

c. Consistency with current project plan is checked.

d. Metrics on effectiveness will be gathered.

e. The review will be moderated by a lead auditor.

As the Test Manager for an agile project how would you BEST plan and guide the testing activities during development? SELECT ONE OPTION

Which one of the following will allow phase containment to be assessed within a testing project? SELECT ONE OPTION