ISQI ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level Test Analyst (CTAL-TA v4.0) Sample Questions:

1. During a sprint retrospective it was noted that some test cases were interpreted differently between the Product Owner and the Test Analysts. Which test case quality criteria may need some attention?

A) Consistency
B) Precision
C) Understandability
D) Completeness

2. You are working on an Agile project to develop a web-based online dating service that will allow members of the service to enter their profile, meet people who would be a good match for them, arrange social events with those people and to block people with whom they do not want contact.
The features for member profile entry have been delivered and tested. The current iteration will deliver profile matching. The regression tests for profile entry will be the acceptance criteria for its user stories. These tests have not been automated yet so you have decided to perform regression testing on the basis of a checklist.
Which checklist would be BEST in these circumstances?

A) A read-do checklist whose items are the acceptance criteria of the user stories for profile entry
B) A do-confirm checklist whose items are the acceptance criteria of the user stories for profile entry
C) A do-confirm checklist whose items are the acceptance tests of the user stories for profile entry
D) A read-do checklist whose items are the acceptance tests of the user stories for profile entry

3. A system will be developed to support the administration of table-tennis tournaments. The following requirements for the enrolment of entrants have been provided:
R1. High. The administrator shall be able to enter the entrant's name, address, phone number/s (mobile and/or home), email and social media handles. Validation rules for these data items are provided separately.
R2. High. The administrator shall be able to enter the entrant's current world ranking (up to 250) and their relationship with the tournament sponsors (i.e. clothing / equipment / endorsement).
R3. High. The administrator shall be able to enter the entrant's attendance history at previous events (i.e.
finalist / played / withdrew during event / withdrew before event).
R4. Medium. From the entrant's address the system shall derive whether or not the entrant lives locally and, on the basis of that combined with other rules that are provided separately, shall suggest how much of the tournament's overall prize fund should be offered to the entrant as their individual attendance fee.
R5. Low. The administrator should be able to change the suggested attendance fee and the system should then deduct this from the remaining prize fund balance accordingly.
You have been asked to review the requirements using perspective-based reading, from your viewpoint as the TA who will be writing functional correctness system test cases. Assume that the other rules referred to by requirements R1 and R4 have been reviewed and are satisfactorily testable. Which conclusion would you reach?

A) Two of the requirements are not fully testable
B) All of the requirements are fully testable
C) One of the requirements is not fully testable
D) Three of the requirements are not fully testable

4. You are developing test cases for an application which performs complex calculations and have decided to model these calculations on a spreadsheet, to determine expected results from inputs.
Which solution to the test oracle problem BEST describes the approach you are using?

A) Property-based testing
B) Deterministic testing
C) Metamorphic testing
D) A pseudo-oracle

5. You are working on a project to build a purchasing system. The main requirements for the system are that it shall:
* Allow users to enter details of items that they would like to purchase and, from these details, create a purchase request.
* Take each purchase request through a workflow that will allow the requestor's line manager to approve the request, reject it, or return it for clarification / modification.
* Forward approved requests to the Purchasing Department.
* Allow purchasers to find the best available supplier for each approved request and place the request on that supplier as a purchase order.
The system is being developed following an Agile SDLC. Risk-based testing is practiced informally, discussion about what testing each user story will need being done in a risk-driven way during story refinement, but there is no central product risk register. Testing is exploratory, except for the acceptance tests for each story's acceptance tests. Operational profiles have been created to guide performance testing.
Regression test automation started late. The team want to automate all acceptance tests for every user story, but the test automation engineers are still playing catch up. They started with the tests that were easiest to automate, so the functional and non-functional coverage of the regression test pack is incomplete and random.
The current iteration is delivering a major change to the approval workflow and you, as a Test Analyst, have been tasked with defining the regression testing.
Which techniques would be MOST effective for selecting regression tests?
a) History-based, driven by the results of the regression tests run so far b) Risk-based, driven by the product risks and their traceability to the tests c) Operational profile-based, driven by the likely patterns of use of the relevant transactions d) Coverage-based, driven by the coverage obtained from use of relevant test techniques e) Impact analysis, driven by consultation with technical stakeholders to identify what might be affected.

A) b) and e)
B) c) and e)
C) a) and b)
D) a) and d)

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