CTAL-TM Online Practice Questions and Answers

Within the projects, a master test plan and phase test plan will be used. Following is a list of characteristics applicable for test plans:

Which TWO mentioned characteristics relate to the phase test plan?

A. Any deviation from the procedures described in the test

B. strategy document

C. The overall estimated costs, timescales and resource

D. requirements

E. A detailed schedule of testing activities

F. The development deliverables to be tested

G. Which test staff members (names) will be involved and when

H. Level of requirements coverage achieved

A test assessment has been carried out using the selected model as a reference framework. A number of recommendations have been identified and you are asked to prioritize them. Based on your knowledge of the project, you are expecting severe resistance to change.

Which of the following would be the most important selection criterion for defining the priority of the recommendations?

A. Synchronized with the overall long-term organizational strategy

B. Defined according to the maturity model used

C. Most visible to stakeholders

D. Low costs actions first

Comparing TMMi and TPI, which is not a valid reason for choosing either TPI or TMMi?

A. If the scope of test performance improvement covers all test levels, TMMi is preferred since TPI focusses mainly on black-box testing.

B. If the organization is already applying CMMI, TMMi may be preferred since it has the same structure and uses the same terminology. TMMi addresses management commitment very strongly and is therefore more suitable to support a top-down improvement process.

C. TPI is much more a bottom-up model that is suitable for addressing test topics for a specific (test) project.

D. TMMi can only be used with the traditional V model,whereas TPI can be used with all types of software life cycles.

In addition to introducing the new team member, you have decided to raise motivation.

Which of the measures listed below would be the best measure to take in order to increase the motivation of the team?

A. Provide more time for testing in the schedule

B. Allow people to take some time off

C. Introduce entry criteria to the testing phase

D. Organize a meeting with senior management in which they address the importance of good testing for this project

Based on the information given in the scenario, identify how the team could be improved most effectively?

A. By providing training in the payroll domain

B. By providing a workshop on test design techniques

C. By providing specific training on the systems being tested

D. By providing training on reviewing requirements

Which of the following is a benefit of independent testing?

A. Code cannot be released into production until independent testing is complete.

B. Testing is isolated from development.

C. Independent testers find different defects and are unbiased.

D. Developers do not have to take as much responsibility for quality.

Which of the following are valid reasons for adopting a different life cycle (from the V model), for increments after the first year?

i. We do not have a clear understanding of the requirements from a customer perspective.

ii. We see the risk of delivering requested functionality late as being higher than the risk of delivering a lower quality product.

iii. We do not have a budget for additional regression testing which is needed to ensure that existing functionality is not compromised by future iterations.

iv.

The company test strategy does not fit well within the V life cycle model.

A.

(i) and (ii)

B.

(i) and (iv)

C.

(ii) and (iii)

D.

(ii) and (iv)

Select THREE issues from the options provided that should at least be raised.

A. Has there been sufficient comparison of tools?

B. What are the problems we are trying to address?

C. Do we have a set of tool requirements to validate the tool against?

D. How will the implementation be organized?

E. Which project will be selected to perform the tool pilot?

F. Is customized training available?

G. How will the change process be managed?

The introduction of reviews and inspections has often failed as a process improvement action.

Identify the THREE most important measures that should be taken to reduce the risk that this test process improvement will fail.

A. Process ownership and experienced moderators who drive the inspection process.

B. Management support

C. Training of those involved

D. The availability of stands and processes

E. Usage of a more traditional software development lifecycle

F. Alignment with software process improvement

G. Using a reference model, e.g. TMMi

Considerable attention will be given in this project to defining exit criteria and on reporting back on their status. Which combination of TWO exit criteria from the list would be best to use?

I. Total number of defects found

II. Percentage of test cases executed

III. Total test effort planned versus total actual test effort spent

IV.

Defect trend (number of defects found per test run over time

A.

(i) and (ii)

B.

(i) and (iv)

C.

(ii) and (iii)

D.

(ii) and (iv)