ISQI CTAL-TM_Syll2012 Exam : ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level - Test Manager [Syllabus 2012]

Which testing metric identifies defect density? [1]

• A. Product
• B. Process
• C. Project
• D. People

Your company is installing a third-party enterprise-wide business software package. This is the first time the company has done anything like this.
Which technique would be the best one to use to estimate the testing effort? [3]

• A. Past experience with in-house projects
• B. Industry averages
• C. Estimated developer effort and lines of code
• D. Review of the installation guide

Testing Process
Assume you are the Test Manager for a new software release of an e-commerce application.
The server farm consists of six servers providing different capabilities. Each capability is provided through a set of web services.
The requirements specification document contains several SLAs (Service Level Agreements) like the following:
SLA-001: 99.5 percent of all transactions shall have a response time less than five seconds under a load of up-to 5000 concurrent users The main objective is to assure that all the SLAs specified in the requirements specification document will be met before system release. You decide to apply a risk-based testing strategy and an early risk analysis confirms that performance is high risk. You can count on a well-written requirements specification and on a model of the system behavior under various load levels produced by the system architect.
Which of the following test activities would you expect to be the less important ones to achieve the test objectives in this scenario?
Number of correct responses: 1
K43 credits

• A. Perform unit performance testing for each single web service
• B. Perform static performance testing by reviewing the architectural model of the system under various load levels
• C. Monitor the SLAs after the system has been released into the production environment
• D. Perform system performance testing, consisting of several performance testing sessions, to verify if all the SLAs have been met

Test Management
Consider the following test strategies:
I. Consultative test strategy
II. Reactive test strategy
III. Analytical test strategy
IV. Process-compliant test strategy
Consider also the following examples of test activities:
1. Prioritize the test cases, based on the results of a FMEA analysis, to ensure early coverage of the most important areas and discovery of the most important defects during test execution
2. Execute usability testing driven by the guidance of a sample of users (external to the test team)
3. Perform exploratory testing sessions throughout the system test phase
4. On an Agile project, execute tests that cover the test conditions identified for each user story of a feature planned for an iteration Which of the following correctly matches each test strategy with an appropriate example?
Number of correct responses: 1
K21 credit

• A. I-2; II-3; III-4; IV-1
• B. I-1; II-2; III-3; IV-4
• C. I-2; II-3; III-1; IV-4
• D. I-3; II-2; III-1; IV-4

Test Management
Consider an agile team adopting Extreme Programming (XP) with five developers and one tester without any coding experience.
To which of the following activities would you expect the tester will contribute most?
Number of correct responses: 1
K21 credit

• A. Executing unit tests
• B. Planning and executing tests during the integration test phase to detect interface defects
• C. Supporting the customer in the execution of acceptance testing
• D. Developing unit tests