Certified Tester Advanced Level Technical Test Analyst Questions and Answers
Which of the following is a common technical issue that causes automation projects to fail to meet the planned return on investment?
Which of the following statements about fault seeding tools is correct?
Installability testing is usually conducted during which stage in the application's SDLC and usually includes which other types of testing?
Which option below describes the BEST approach for testing a Medium risk mission- or safety-critical system?
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You are testing software that requires you to enter defined order numbers and either add, delete or update the information associated with that order number, which of the following is the minimum set of columns you should see in your keyword-driven input table?
Consider the pseudo code provided below regarding a customer request for cash withdrawal from an ATM.
If the customer has sufficient funds in their account
OR the customer has the credit granted
THEN the ATM machine pays out the requested amount to the customer
Which of the following test cases would be the result of applying multiple condition testing, but would NOT be the result of applying modified condition/decision testing?
You are responsible for the performance testing of a new web application. In particular, you are interested in determining if you have enough and the right type of servers to handle 10,000 concurrent users. Which is the primary consideration when you are selecting your performance testing tools?
Which of the following does NOT contribute to a more effective review preparation by the Technical Test Analyst?
As a technical test analyst, you are involved in a risk analysis session using the Failure Mode and Effect Analysis technique. You are calculating risk priorities. Which of the following are the major factors in this exercise?
You have been given this piece of pseudocode to review Assume that the variables have been declared set and validated in code that precedes this piece that you are reviewing Looking only at this part of the code what requires further discussion?
If a < b then
If a > 12 then
seta = 21
else
set a = 23
endif
If b < 17 then
set a = 24
endif
lfb> 14
set a = 25
set b = 10
else
set a = 5
endif
else
set a = 7
endif
Which of the following test categories would best characterize a test designed to confirm that the data backup tapes stored offsite by a bank can be retrieved and loaded within the business process service level agreement?
Why might static analysis be used on an Agile project’
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Which option describes a good practice when applying test automation for a Regression-averse test approach?
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Consider the pseudo code for the Price program:
Which of the following statements about the Price program describes a control flow anomaly to be found in the program?
Which of the following statements is true regarding API and GUI testing?
Which statement about test automation being applied to a reactive test approach, is CORRECT’
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Consider the pseudo code for the Answer program:
Which of the following statements about the Answer program BEST describes the control flow anomalies to be found in the program?
Which statement correctly describes service virtualization’’
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A major Caribbean bank typically develops their own banking software using an Agile methodology. However, for some specific components COTS software is acquired and used. The bank does not want to create a dependency on any external COTS supplier.
As part of the test approach, portability testing will be performed. Which portability sub-characteristic is especially relevant for the Caribbean bank?
You are asked to provide a practical and pragmatic testing solution for a commercial system where the main user interface is via the Internet. It is critical that the company’s existing good name and market profile are not damaged in any way. Time to market is not a critical issue when appropriate testing solutions are identified to mitigate business risks.
A product risk assessment has revealed the following product risk:
• Abnormal application termination due to connection failure of the main interface.
Which of the following is the appropriate test type to address this risk?
Which of the following is a generic risk factor that the Technical Test Analyst must consider?
At which test level would performance efficiency testing most likely be performed?
At which test level would reliability testing most likely be performed?
The following characteristics were identified during an early product risk-assessment for a software system:
• the software system needs to manage synchronization between various processes
• microcontrollers will be used that will limit product performance
• the hardware that will be used will make use of timeslots
• the number of tasks supported in parallel by the software system is large and are often highly complex.
Based on the information provided, which of the following non-functional test types is MOST appropriate to be performed?
Your team is developing an e-shop application (the SUT) that will use a third-party service to process payments via an API. This third-party payment gateway is itself still under development Which statement contains a pair of benefits that can BOTH be expected from service virtualization in this circumstance’
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The requirements specification of a product begins with this sentence:
"The xyz system will provide many new user functions. These must be easy for our operators to use and tolerant of user input errors. These new functions must also be easy to learn. Because of very high transaction rates and limited processing power, the software design must be very efficient. The system must be available as close to 24x7 as possible.
Which three ISO 25010 major quality characteristics should be tested for possible defects with this implementation?
You have conducted static analysis on several new modules for an existing product. You are now executing test cases and are seeing inconsistent problems including crashes. Intermittent error messages are appearing. Despite all your best efforts, you are not able to find reproducible scenarios to force these errors.
What problem in the code are you likely seeing?
A software company based in Spain that develops mobile applications expects many small updates in the future, e.g., due to changing configurations and customer feedback. The company also wants to focus on being able to change the software effectively and efficiently during initial development without introducing new defects.
Which maintainability sub-characteristic should be covered by the test approach during the initial development?
which statement about test automation is TRUE7
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Which of the following is a valid reason for including performance testing in a test approach?
Your Agile team is developing a web-based system that will allow users to browse and buy online from a store's shopping catalogue. Continuous Integration has been implemented and technically it is working well, running several times per day, but each run is taking almost as much time as the team is prepared to allow. It is clear that after a few more iterations, as the number of tests needed grows with the product, it will be taking too much time.
Which of the four options contains a pair of solutions that will BOTH help to solve this problem?
a.Only include unit and component integration tests in the automated Cl runs.
b.Schedule low priority tests to be the first ones executed in each run, in order to provide rapid build verification.
c.Reduce the extent to which the automated tests go through the user interface, using technical interfaces instead.
d.Reduce the number of Cl cycles run each day.
e.Select a subset of automated tests for the daytime Cl runs, and run as many of the other tests as possible in an overnight cycle.
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Below is the pseudo-code for the Win program:
The bingo program contains a data flow anomaly. Which data flow anomaly can be found in this program?
Consider the following section of code:
If ((A > B) or (C > D)) and (E = F) then
print A:
Endif
Which of the following sets of test data can be used to achieve Modified Condition/Decision Coverage with the least number of tests?
Subject to testing is a software system (COTS) for Project Administration and Control (PACS). PACS is a multi-project system for controlling the project time, e.g., in terms of scheduling and tracking, and managing the productivity of projects, e.g., in terms of effort and deliverables.
During various interviews with stakeholders the following information was gathered:
• Using PACS is not business critical. There is no impact such as high financial losses or problems to the operational continuity of an organization. Its application is not critical since the software package does not support directly the operational, or the primary, business processes of an organization. It supports (project) management in the project planning and tracking process. Of course, it will be highly annoying for users if the system “goes down” from time to time. Although this does not have a high impact for the business process as a whole, the Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) still needs to be at a good level to be successful in the market.
• Users of PACS typically have an academic educational level, but have no prior experience with this particular type of project management software. The system will be used by a large number of users within an organization.
• The system will be used on a regular basis, e.g., several times per day by project managers and several times per week by project employees. This means that the system will not be used very intensively, often only for some data input or an information request. Its usage is not considered to be very time-critical.
• The data is recorded on-line and real-time. The system is expected to run in multiple hardware environments in various network environments. It is also expected that changes in the operational environments will happen in the upcoming period that also need to be supported.
Based on the information provided by the stakeholder, which combination of non-functional quality characteristics should you propose to test as part of your test approach?
You have been assigned to perform a review on code provided below:
Which type of defect should you report as part of the code review?
A product risk assessment has revealed the following product risks:
• lack of usability requirements
• security during on-line transactions
• perceived performance of the system and response time from the user interface
• a required availability of almost 100%
To address the 4th risk, which of the following quality characteristics for technical testing should be part of the test approach?
You are working on a project to develop an application that allows users to collaborate via bespoke, online whiteboards. The first release, delivering core functionality, highlighted misunderstandings of the user stories between testers, developers and the product owner during sprint development Since that release, the developers have agreed to implement a TDD approach for future software development.
Creation of the product backlog for the second release is underway and you have recommended to the project stakeholders that an atdd approach be adopted for the backlog's user stories. What would be a GOOD REASON for making this recommendation?
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Why should security testing include testing for any cross-site scripting vulnerabilities?