[Apr-2024] CTAL-TM_Syll2012 Exam Dumps Pass with Updated 2024 ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level – Test Manager [Syllabus 2012] [Q68-Q90]

QUESTION 68
The following chart plots the cumulative number of defects opened against the cumulative number of defects closed during system testing of a software product.

Which of the following statements is true? K2 1 credit

QUESTION 69
Consider an information system of a Pay-Tv company based on a SOA architecture.
The integrated system currently consists of three core systems:
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a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system
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a BRM (Billing and Revenue Management) system
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a CAS (Conditional Access System) system all of them communicating with SOA Middleware.
You have been asked to manage the testing activities for the integration of two additional off-theshelf systems from two different vendors: a SMS (Short Message Service) server and an IVR (Interactive Voice Response) system.
Assume that there is a high likelihood that the two off-the-shelf systems will be low-quality and that you have a clear proof that the testing performed by the two vendors on their systems has been unsystematic and unprofessional. This obviously leads to higher quality risk for the overall integrated system.
You are the Test Manager of this project. Your main goal is to plan for testing activities to mitigate this risk.
Which of the following answers best describes the test activities (assuming it is possible to perform all of them) you should plan for?
K4 3 credits

QUESTION 70
Improving the Testing Process
Which of the following statements about the TMMi test process improvement model is true?

QUESTION 71
Testing Process
Consider an information system of a Pay-Tv company based on a SOA architecture.
The integrated system currently consists of three core systems:
– a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system
– a BRM (Billing and Revenue Management) system
– a CAS (Conditional Access System) system
all of them communicating with SOA Middleware.
You have been asked to manage the testing activities for the integration of two additional off-the-shelf systems from two different vendors: a SMS (Short Message Service) server and an IVR (Interactive Voice Response) system.
Assume that there is a high likelihood that the two off-the-shelf systems will be low-quality and that you have a clear proof that the testing performed by the two vendors on their systems has been unsystematic and unprofessional. This obviously leads to higher quality risk for the overall integrated system.
You are the Test Manager of this project. Your main goal is to plan for testing activities to mitigate this risk.
Which of the following answers best describes the test activities (assuming it is possible to perform all of them) you should plan for?

QUESTION 72
What test process is included as part of TPI Next? [1]

QUESTION 73
Which of the following statements about the STEP test process improvement model is true?
K2 1 credit

QUESTION 74
Assume that no additional product risks have been identified during the first week of test execution.


Which of the following answers would you expect to best describe the residual risks associated with the identified product risks, at the end of the first week of test execution?

QUESTION 75
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?

QUESTION 76
You have done a comprehensive risk analysis. You have involved the appropriate people in assessing the risks and determining the likelihood and impact of those risks. You have been testing for three months and have been able to mitigate 75% of the high risk items. You have two weeks left in testing and you now do not expect to be able to complete all the items on the high-risk mitigation list, never mind any from the medium or low-risk lists.
What is the most effective action you should take? [3]

QUESTION 77
You can count on well-written requirements, but you can’t count on an adequate contribution of the stakeholders to the quality risk analysis. You have to mitigate the insufficient contribution of the stakeholders because the risk-based testing approach shall minimize the product risks. Your test team has one expert tester in security testing.
Which of the following test activities would you expect to be the less important in this context?
K4 3 credits

QUESTION 78
You are the Test Manager on a new project. The schedule is aggressive and will require the team to work at peak efficiency. The requirements are not well defined yet, but it is clear that the project will be using new technologies. To help the developers meet the development schedule, an offshore group will be added to the development team.
At this time there is not enough budget to add more testing resources. The project stakeholders are very concerned about the quality of delivered product and will be watching the project closely, particularly during the testing cycles. The exit criteria from the system test level require no open high priority/severity defects, 100% pass rate for all test cases covering risks that are classified as
“high” or “very high”, 90% pass rate for all “medium” risks and 50% pass rate for all “low” and “very low” risks.
Given this information, which lifecycle model should you recommend?[3]

QUESTION 79
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
K2 1 credit

QUESTION 80
Test Tools and Automation
Assume you are a Test Manager involved in system testing of a CRM application for a Pay-TV company.
Currently the application is able to support a proper number of users assuring the required responsiveness.
Since the business is expected to grow, you have been asked to evaluate the ability of the application to grow to support more users while maintaining the same responsiveness.
Which of the following tools would you expect to be the most useful at performing this evaluation?
Number of correct responses: 1
K2 1 credit

QUESTION 81
You are not confident with the assessment of the risk level and you suspect that it will be possible to find high- priority bugs in low-risk areas.
Furthermore the period for test execution is very short. Your goal is to test all the product risks in a risk-based way, while assuring that each product risk gets at least some amount of testing.

Which of the following answers describes the best test execution schedule in this scenario?

QUESTION 82
Test Management
You are estimating the effort for the integration testing activities of a new project. Consider the following factors, which can affect that estimation:
I. Availability of re-usable test systems and documentation from previous, similar projects II. Unexpected timing of components arrival III. Stability of the integration test team (no turnover) IV. Many and geographically distributed sub-teams Which of the following statements is true?

QUESTION 83
Test Management
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?

QUESTION 84
Test Management
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 non- functional characteristics, especially reliability.
Which of the following techniques for test selection do you expect being most useful in this scenario?

QUESTION 85
Testing Process
Which of the following statements describing the consequences of specifying test conditions at a detailed level is NOT true?

QUESTION 86
Which work experience is likely to develop the necessary skills to effectively test a software system? [3]

QUESTION 87
Defect Management
During the system testing phase a tester from your test team observes a failure in the system under test and he/she decides to create an incident report. The incident report is currently in a “new” state, indicating it needs to be investigated.
Which THREE of the following information items can’t yet be present in the incident report?

QUESTION 88
Which classification information would be most useful to capture for newly identified defects? [2]

QUESTION 89
Consider the following skills assessment spreadsheet for your test team (consisting of four team members):
This spreadsheet has three sections: technical expertise, testing skills and professionalism.
The skill levels for each skill area for both the “technical expertise” and “testing skills” sections have been rated on a four-point scale:
-E (Expert): indicates that a person has expert knowledge and experience in the skill area
-B (Beginner): indicates that a person has some knowledge and experience in the skill area but he/she is not autonomous
-W (Wants to learn): indicates that a person has no knowledge or experience in the skill area but he/she wants to learn that skill
-NI (Not Interested): indicates that a person has no knowledge or experience in the skill area and he/she is not interested to learn that skill
The skill levels for each skill area of the “professionalism” section have been rated on a three point scale (H=High, M=Medium, L=Low).
You are using this skills assessment spreadsheet in order to define a training development plan for your test team.
Your objective is to fill the skill gaps by having at least a team member rated as an expert for each skill identified for the “technical expertise” and “testing skills” sections, and with the ability to train the other team members.
Considering the budget constraints you can send only one person to a training course.

Based only on the given information, which of the following answers would you expect to be the best option to achieve your objective?
K4 3 credits

QUESTION 90
You can count on well-written requirements, but you can’t count on an adequate contribution of the stakeholders to the quality risk analysis. You have to mitigate the insufficient contribution of the stakeholders because the risk-based testing approach shall minimize the product risks. Your test team has one expert tester in security testing.
Which of the following test activities would you expect to be the less important in this context?