ISTQB Test Manager TM12 Questions & Answers

• Question 41:

  Assume you are currently working on a project developing a system where functional requirements are very well specified. Unfortunately, non-functional requirements do almost not exist.

  You are the Test Manager. You have to choose a technique for test selection that allows testing of nonfunctional characteristics, especially reliability.

  Which of the following techniques for test selection do you expect being most useful in this scenario?

  A. A model-based technique based on the creation of operational profiles

  B. Ambiguity reviews

  C. Test condition analysis

  D. Cause-effect graphing

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 42:

  You are working on a project to develop an authentication system for an e-commerce website. This system provides two features: Registration and authentication. Two different development teams develop these two features.

  There is a high likelihood that the delivery of the authentication feature to the test team will be three weeks later. To complete the registration the user must provide the following registration inputs: Name, surname, birthdate, fiscal code and he/she can select a username and a password.

  A registered user can be a special user or a normal user. To be identified as a special user, he/she must also provide, during the registration process, a voucher possibly received from the IT department.

  Access is granted only if a user is registered and the password is correct: In all other cases access is denied. If the registered user is a special user and the password is wrong, a special warning is shown on the system console.

  You are currently performing a quality risk analysis using FMEA.

  Based only on the given information, which of the following is NOT a product risk that could be identified during the quality risk analysis?

  A. The late delivery of the authentication feature to the test team causes delays in the start of test execution and this could result in a shorter test period.

  B. The authentication system denies access for a special user with a wrong password, but doesn't display a special warning on the system console.

  C. The authentication system grants access to a normal user with a wrong password.

  D. The authentication system grants access to a special user with a wrong password.

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 43:

  Which of the following statements describing how identified product quality risks should be mitigated and managed, is true?

  A. The extent of re-testing and regression testing activities should be based on the risk level.

  B. The identification of new risks, the re-assessment of the level of existing risks and the evaluation of the effectiveness of risk mitigation activities should only occur at the very beginning of a project.

  C. Risk mitigation of product quality risks can be effective only after starting test execution.

  D. The priority of the development and execution of tests should not be based on the risk level but only on the likelihood.

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 44:

  Which of the following statements best describes an appropriate approach for managing exploratory testing?

  A. Define very detailed mission statements, which allow testing work to be broken into sessions of up to 10 minutes duration in which testing is guided by these mission statements.

  B. Break the testing work in 30 to 120 minutes sessions and use properly defined mission statements consisting of two or three sentences to guide testing during these sessions.

  C. Define very generic charters to drive exploratory testing sessions of 2 days where testers are completely free to decide what to test.

  D. Exploratory testing should not be managed because such testing is inherently unmanageable and not measurable.

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 45:

  Assume you are managing the system testing phase of a project.

  The system test execution period is scheduled to twenty weeks.

  All tests are manual tests. You are following a risk-driven test approach.

  During the last staff meeting the project manager tells you new deadlines that will not allow completion of

  all the system tests.

  Which of the following would you expect to be the best way to respond to this situation?

  A. Prioritize executing the tests for the highest product risks and track these risks.

  B. Remove testers from your test team, so that they can be assigned to other projects.

  C. Automate all remaining tests.

  D. No action is needed, test as much as possible in the remaining time period.

  Correct Answer: A

• Question 46:

  You are performing a quality risk analysis for a CSCI (Computer Software Configuration Item) used to implement a CBIT (Continuous Built-In Test) module of a safety-critical system.

  During the quality risk analysis, you are trying to identify the ways in which failures of the CBIT module can occur, for each of them trying to determine the potential causes and likely effects, and the risk level (calculated as the product of three factors: severity, occurrence and detection).

  Which of the following risk analysis techniques are you working with?

  A. A lightweight product risk analysis technique

  B. Failure Mode and Effect Analysis

  C. Wide Band Delphi

  D. Cost of Exposure

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 47:

  Which of the following statements represents the most effective contribution of the stakeholders to the completion of the failure mode analysis table?

  

  A. The aircraft pilot and the customer representative should contribute to assess the detection. The chief software engineer, the system architect and the expert tester should contribute to assess the priority.

  B. The aircraft pilot and the customer representative should contribute to assess the priority. The chief software engineer, the system architect and the expert tester should contribute to assess the detection.

  C. The system architect and the chief software engineer should contribute to assess the priority. The expert tester is the only one who should contribute to assess the detection.

  D. The aircraft pilot is the only one qualified to contribute to assess the priority and thus should be assigned this task. The customer representative should contribute to assess the detection.

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 48:

  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?

  A. Developing unit tests

  B. Executing unit tests

  C. Planning and executing tests during the integration test phase to detect interface defects

  D. Supporting the customer in the execution of acceptance testing

  Correct Answer: D

• Question 49:

  You are the Test Manager on a project following an iterative life-cycle model. The project should consist of nine iterations of one month duration each. It is planned to develop the most important features to have a stable core of the application in the first three iterations and to add the additional features in the last six iterations.

  At the beginning of the first iteration, only a draft version of the requirements specification document for the core features is available. Assume that during each of the first three iterations, the chosen features are fully completed and unit tested.

  Which of the following statements is true in this context?

  A. The system test phase should start when all the requirements are frozen.

  B. You should allocate a large effort for system testing during the first three iterations.

  C. You should allocate all the effort for the system test phase only in the last iteration.

  D. You should apply the same test strategy as used in a sequential life cycle model.

  Correct Answer: B

• Question 50:

  Which of the following statements, about the test reporting activities for a project adopting an iterative lifecycle model with very short iterations (e.g. two weeks iterations), is correct?

  A. Test reporting activities can't be influenced by the use of an iterative lifecycle model with short iterations.

  B. Test reporting activities are not important for projects adopting an iterative lifecycle model with short iterations.

  C. Test reporting activities are less important for projects adopting an iterative life cycle model with short iterations. They should be performed at the end of the last iteration.

  D. Test reporting activities are still important with an iterative lifecycle. The reports can be used to conduct post-iteration review sessions before starting with the next iteration.

  Correct Answer: D