ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level - Test Analyst (CTAL-TACore)v3.1.2 Questions and Answers
A web-based system is being developed to support the administration of tennis tournaments.
The system provides advice on how much money to offer each player as their individual attendance fee. The amount depends on acombinationof the following factors:
Overall attendance fund (divided into five numeric ranges)
Player's current world ranking (divided into ten numeric ranges)
Whether it is a local tournament for the player (YES or NO)
Their relationship with the tournament sponsors (clothing, equipment, or endorsement)
Their previous attendance history at this event (finalist, played, withdrew before event, or withdrew during event)
The new system needs to be ready for the next tournament in just a few months’ time, so testing schedules will be severely challenged.
Which specification-based technique would be the BEST choice in the circumstances?
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You are running a regression test suite using a keyword-driven test approach for automation. One of the new test cases using a new keyword failed unexpectedly. What should be your first step?
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What is main difference between user experience and usability?
When applying for health insurance fromHealth4You, applicants are categorized according to their age, the number of units of alcohol they consume in an average week, whether they are in full-time work, and whether they are a smoker.
Insurance is supplied, and the premium is calculated according to the following rules:
Insurance cover isNOTgiven to those aged70 or over
Insurance cover isNOTgiven to those agedunder 18
Those who consume on averagemore than 14 units of alcohola week have anadditional premium of £25per month
Smokers have anadditional premium of £20per month
Those infull-time employmenthave apremium reduction of £20per month
How many test cases are required to give full coverage for the above rules when applying collapsed decision table testing to exclude infeasible combinations and irrelevant conditions?
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When applying for health insurance from Health4You, applicants are categorized according to their age, sex, the number of units of alcohol they consume in an average week, Body Mass Index (BMI), whether in full-time work, and whether a smoker.
Insurance is offered, and the premium is calculated according to the following rules:
Insurance cover is NOT given to those aged 70 or more, or below 18
Those who consume more than 14 units of alcohol a week have an additional premium of £25 per month
Those with a BMI greater than 35 are NOT given insurance cover
Smokers have an additional premium of £20 per month
Those in full-time employment have a premium reduction of £20 per month
How many test cases are required to give full coverage for the above rules when using a decision table that excludes rules containing infeasible combinations of condition values?
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For the use case Copy A4 to A4 for a new copier, the following scenarios were identified.
Basic scenario single-sided to single-sided.
Alternatives single-sided to double-sided, copy of a set, copy using the automatic document feeder
Errors: no paper in paper tray, paper jam, out of staples.
What is the minimum number of test cases needed to achieve the minimum acceptable level of coverage for this use case?
Which of the following descriptions is an example of the use of defect taxonomies?
Applying the State Transition test technique to the given State Transition diagram, how many invalid transitions are there to test?
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The following depicts a main path through the use case "Return Item":
USE CASE: Return Item
Use case ID:UC14
Purpose:Customer selects an item for return and prints return label
Actors:Customer, System
Pre-conditions:Customer has opened shopping site home page
Exceptions:
E1:Customer is already logged-in (Main Menu displayed) - Step M2
E2:Invalid log-in details entered (Prompt to retry) - Step M4
E3:Third invalid log-in attempt (Account frozen for 24 hours) - Step M4
E4:Go-Back requested - Steps M7 (to Main Menu) and M9 (to Order History)
You are to apply the Use Case test technique with the following rules:
One test case for the basic behavior
Multiple alternate behaviors may be combined if compatible
Nested alternate behaviors (like retry) should be amalgamated
How many test cases should be designed?
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Supercar is an online vehicle sales website specialising in a single manufacturer's Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) and saloons. A vehicle has two key elements, power unit and body style. The manufacturer offers three choices of power unit: petrol, diesel and hybrid. There are 3 mam body styles Saloon, Hatchback and SUV SUVs only come as petrol and diesel options Hybrid is available for Hatchback only. The site will allow an order to be processed if at least one of the chosen vehicle configurations is in stock, otherwise a message will be displayed asking the user to try again later As a Test Analyst you are asked to review the Supercar specification before starting to design the corresponding usability test cases. Which of the comments below should you make?
Consider the following user story: As a student, I want to be able to buy a parking pass (priority: high) Acceptance criteria
- The student will not receive the parking pass if the payment is insufficient.
- Only registered students can buy a parking pass.
- The student can only buy one parking pass each month.
Which of the following checklist items would result in finding a defect for the user story?
Based on the classification tree shown below, using the pairwise testing technique how many test cases are required to test all pairs?
Sell-It-Cheap salesrooms organize general and specialist sales with commission charges based on the item price. Following customer feedback, the commission bandings have been changed:
£500 - £749:5.5% fee
£750 - £999:4.5% fee
What tests would be appropriate to test this change in commission bandings using the 2-point boundary value analysis technique?
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You are testing a hospital patient management system. New or amended patient data is captured by hospital administrators using an in-house patient capture application and transmitted to one or more hospital departments depending on the nature of the medical condition. Each department operates its own software package.
There has been a change to the patient capture application, and you are going to run a series ofinteroperability tests.
Which TWO of the following are NOT interoperability defects?
a) The patient name field is truncated on one of the receiving department systems
b) Hospital administrators find the new patient-capture application screens difficult to navigate
c) Two department systems are unable to recognize the format of international telephone numbers for foreign patients
d) Existing patient data takes too long to retrieve by the patient-capture application
e) There are spelling errors in the field names on some screens
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What is the MOST important reason why test conditions should be understandable by business stakeholders?
When applying for health insurance from Health4You, applicants are categorized based on age, alcohol consumption, employment, and smoking status. How many test cases are required to give full coverage for the above rules when applying collapsed decision table testing to exclude infeasible combinations and irrelevant conditions?
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You are testing an enhanced user interface for a mortgage approval program involving multiple user roles. Which test technique would be MOST suitable for this next stage of testing?
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A tablet manufacturer offers the following options for its customers:
Colour:Black, White, Silver, Gold
Model:Standard, Mini, Pro
Gigabytes:32, 64, 128, 256
Connectivity:Wifi-only, Wifi+Cellular
When applying the pairwise test technique, how many TEST CASES would be needed to ensure that ALL pair combinations are tested?
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The following document has been produced as part of the replacement of an internal Customer Relationship Management (CRM) application. The replacement application should not differ from the current CRM application, and the documentation reflects this aspiration, with seven specific requirements listed.
Document:New CRM Overview-20nn-1 A
CRM Replacement
Author:Andrew Smith
Date:26-01-20nn
Version:0.04
The following are individual requirements:
There are no new screens in the replacement CRM application
The screen layouts match the existing CRM application
Screen navigation conforms to the internal company standards
Data will be displayed within 4 seconds
Screen US002B layout is amended to introduce the ability to populate a new data item for Financial Conduct Authority registration number (optional field - to be reported from the start of the next tax year). This is a numeric item, unique to any company.
Security access will be controlled by SSO (Single Sign-On) from the users' network logon
Users without authorized access will not see any CRM screen
The requirements will be reviewed using a standard checklist:
a. Requirements should be testable
b. Each requirement should be consistent with other requirements
c. Each requirement should be unambiguous
d. Each requirement should have a unique identifier
e. Documents should be versioned, dated, and the author specified
Which checklist items would identify issues in this requirements document?
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company in the medical domain has adopted methodical testing as its preferred test strategy Before being able to release to the market an external audit on the test process is mandatory. The test team consists of a mix of highly experienced domain-based testers and junior testers who only recently joined the company.
What is the BEST option regarding the level of detail and documentation required for test cases in the project?
When preparing test cases for an interoperability test, not all interactions may be clearly specified in the requirements documents. Which type of document is typically also used by a Test Analyst as the test basis for interoperability testing?
Ticket machines are to be installed at the train station of a major European airport to enable newly arriving passengers to quickly purchase their tram tickets.
You are testing this new application and the following Use Case has been provided:
USE CASE: Credit Card Purchase
Use Case ID: UC-001401
Purpose: To purchase a single ticket to the city center
Actors: User
Preconditions: Ticket machine is at the "select language" screen, user has a valid credit card
You have been asked to review this Use Case. Which ONE of the following checklist items are TRUE and will pass?
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You work for an insurance company that is running several parallel projects. You need to recommend the best approach for test case design for each project.
Project C:Previous releases hadvague and inconsistent requirements. More formal reviews have been introduced to improve quality.
Project D:Emphasis onregression testing, with most test cases forming part of the regression pack, initially manual but planned for automation.
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Which test technique is MOST closely associated with classification tree diagrams?
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Return Item Use Case: The following depicts a main path through the use case, 'Return Item'.
Coverage Rules:
One test case for basic behavior
Multiple alternate behaviors may be incorporated into one test case if mutually compatible
Nested alternate behaviors (like retry attempts) should be amalgamated into a single test case
How many test cases should be designed?
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Which of the following is a TYPICAL defect found in functional completeness testing?
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Which TWO of the following are MOST likely to be defects found as part of portability testing?
a) Insufficient, unclear installation or de-installation instructions
b) Clumsy screen navigation and input screen labeling
c) Inability to log on as an administrator
d) Time out errors when entering incorrect login details
e) The stock control barcodes cannot be read by the replaced barcode scanner
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You work for an insurance company with parallel projects. You need to recommend the best approach for test case design for each project.
Project A:Maintenance release with minor UI changes, experienced testers, manual execution.
Project B:Development of a new algorithm for risk assessment, high risk of regression, automation needed, audit required.
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