CTAL-TM Online Practice Questions and Answers

Regarding the process described above, what is the most important recommendation you would make using IEEE 1044 as a guide?

A. No priority or severity assigned

B. Incident numbering is manual rather than automated

C. No mentioning of reproduceability

D. No classification on type of incident

Which THREE activities would be valid steps during the development of the test strategy?

A. Identify test staff members that will be involved in the system test

B. Define test career paths

C. Understand the software development life cycle used by the software house

D. Assess the testing that needs to be done to minimize the risks

E. Issue the test strategy document for review

F. Define a master test plan template

G. Perform a project risk analysis

Which of the following phases in the fundamental test process is considered to deliver a document which can be used as a major input for test process improvement?

A. Test planning and control

B. Test implementation and execution

C. Evaluating exit criteria and reporting

D. Test project closure

Model characteristics:

Which THREE of the below mentioned characteristics relate to TMMi?

A. 5 maturity levels

B. Focussed on higher level testing

C. 20 key areas

D. Highly related to CMMI

E. Continuous model

F. Staged model

G. Focussed on component and integration testing

H. Is build around 12 critical testing processes

Instead of having an independent test team within the company, the company is considering to outsource testing.

What are THREE key challenges that are typical for outsourcing?

A. Test environment more complex

B. Define expectation for tasks and deliverables

C. Clear channels of communications

D. Possibly different cultures

E. Testing of non-functional requirements

F. Audit trail from requirements to test cases

G. Applying test automation

You have investigated different possibilities and selected four of them to present to IT management.

Which of the proposals will you most likely give your highest recommendations?

A. Insourcing of test automation based on an offer from a local company ABC that has people who are specialists in system level capture-replay automation tools and they also do regular training courses in test automation methods and tools. They can then work closely with Vicki.

B. Outsourcing of test automation based on an offer from an Asian company, AsiaAutoTest, which has people who are specialists in system level capture-replay automation tools. They also offer training and besides they offer to run and maintain the regression tests in the future.

C. Internal offer from the development department of XYZ to create the regression package using CppUnit as test automation tool. One of the development groups have very good experiences in automating unit tests, and they are willing to do training as well.

D. Solution from a tool vendor offering to educate two test team members in the use of their easy- to-use test automation capture replay tool over the first 3 month and based on that build the regression test suite. In addition to Vicki, Steve is the only one that has time available to be educated.

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)

Which of the following would you least expect to form part of the analysis of initial tool costs?

A. Integration with other tools

B. Learning time required to use the new tool

C. Tool portability

D. Evaluation of suitable tools

What is the main reason why reviews are especially beneficial in the above-mentioned scenario?

A. They ensure a common understanding of the product.

B. They find defects early.

C. They enhance project communication.

D. They can be performed without exercising the code.