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1. 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 the 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", 95% pass rate for all "medium" risks and 75% pass rate for all "low" and "very low" risks.

Given this information, which of the activities of the standard test process are the most critical for the Test Manager to perform? [3]

2. You are the Test Manager of a risk-based testing effort. You develop the following graph to show residual risk. Assume that "Risks mitigated" represents passed tests and "Risks not mitigated" represents failed tests and other discovered failures.

Which of the following answers best represents what the graph shows? [3]

3. You are managing the test team that is testing a new mobile application that provides a "step-by-step' hiking guide Your risk assessment resulted in the following table:

Your team has clone the depth and breadth testing for the GPS accuracy and usability features but when the product was given to beta testers there were some issues Despite the users reporting the app was easy to use at least one user walked off the edge of a cliff and another one ended up in a river. Your team has confirmed that the functionality is working correctly. and the GPS information is accurate.

What other area of testing should you now prioritize?

4. You have been seeing a high number of rejections of defect reports The developers are complaining that they do not understand what the problem is. even though they have been supplied with screenshots. You have checked a number of the 'problem' defect reports and have not found any information that is missing. The descriptions are very detailed and include all the necessary information in a long descriptive paragraph.

What change should you recommend that should help with the developer s problems?

5. There is a debate in your organization about who can close a defect report. The developers think they should be able to reject and close defects without any further steps. The testers are not happy with this approach as they are afraid the rejections may go undetected, and the developers may close something without understanding the real problem

How can this problem be rectified?

6. Which of the following defect statistics will provide input to be used for improvement in the defect reporting process?

7. Which of the following is an advantage of specifying test conditions at a detailed level?

8. 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]

9. Your team has been assigned to lest a new product that is tightly integrated with existing systems. The integrations include data transfers and transformations. You have access to the architectural design documents and the integration specifications and some of your testers are former developers.

Given this information, what is the most appropriate test approach?

10. What is the purpose of tracking efficiency metrics for a formal review? [1]

11. Which of the following is a key characteristic of a management review? [1]

12. Your team has been given the following test objective: Ensure that the users are happier with this version than they were with the last version.

What is wrong with the way this is defined?

13. If the least manager must repeatedly step in to resolve conflicts within the team, what phase is the team i,n and what competencies are required from the test manager?

14. You have assembled the following cost of quality numbers 1 000 defects were found prior to release and 100 were found after.

Given this information what should you conclude?

15. In an Agile project, when is it acceptable not to write a formal defect report when a defect is found:

16. At what testing level do the test management activities Include coordinating with end users7

17. You are working on a project that is having problems with regressions. With each release of software given to the test team. 50% of the defects found are actually regressions. To combat this you have decided to implement test automation. You have given your automation team the following goal 'Implement lest automation to automate 90% of the manual regression tests before the product release date.’’

Which of the following is likely an issue with this goal being defined as "SMART?

18. Which test process improvement model consists of five maturity levels?

19. You are working for an outsource testing company You have a client that will only consider candidates that are highly skilled with Salesforce. regardless of the number of years they have spent testing similar products You have looked through your skills matrix and you have no one with the right type of experience for this project.

What competence area is your team lacking?

20. Which of the Mowing Is commonly used by a test manager to identity risks'

21. Which of the following is the proper order for the stages of a tool lifecycle?

22. You just handed over the Defect Accepted and Deferred report to your Maintenance team.

Which testing activity are you performing? [1]

23. If you are monitoring code coverage during testing to determine what areas still need testing what type of testing is likely occurring?

24. You are working In an environment that is continually pushing process improvements down to the lest team You are skeptical that any of these have actually accomplished any improvement In fact you know that some of the changes have actually impaired progress

Given this information what step of the IDEAL model is missing?

25. Which of the following are primary activities in conducting product risk analysis? [1]

26. The test team is using a distributed model for testing.

What is the primary factor you should consider with this model? [1]

27. You are a new lest manager in an organization You have been asked to assess the defect process to determine if there are any efficiency improvements that could be made that would reduce the cost of quality You have started digging through the defect Information.

What information would be most helpful for this investigation?

28. Your defect opened trend is converging to the closed trend but there is still a gap.

What does that gap represent?

29. Your application development team is performing "test-driven" development. This is a core principal of which software development model? [1]

30. Your team has been assigned to test a loyalty card program for a supermarket chain. Because this is a highly competitive market significant investment has been made to determine the shortcomings of the products offered by competitors While the feature sets are mostly the same, there is a wide variance In usability and performance and the users perceptions of these quality characteristics

Given only this information what test approach would be most appropriate?

31. Your team has decided that they will build their own test management tool This will allow them to

link the requirements and test cases together providing full traceability It will also allow them to create fully customized reporting and color-coded dashboards They have estimated the time required to create the new tool and the cost These fit within the project schedule and budget

What other consideration should be taken before this decision is made?

32. Which of the following is required to apply an experience-based testing approach''

33. 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]

34. You are managing the testing for a bank card project. The testing was scheduled to take 10 weeks but by the time the software was developed only six weeks were available for testing Knowing there were a lot of risks with the software your team started testing activities early by overseeing code reviews, defining acceptance criteria by working with the users and by doing all lest creation prior to the code arriving

You are now three days away from the go-live date Your testing has mitigated all the high and medium risk items leaving only the low-risk elements unmitigated by testing You estimate it will take two weeks to manually test the low-risk elements

At this point what should you do?

35. Your team has been assigned to a new project You have a mix of manual testers and automation engineers but everyone is currently doing manual testing. The development learn has already decided to use DevOps as its approach but they have never used it before and are happy to take your input Unfortunately, about 50% of the development is completed already In the testing your team is doing they are finding that about 40% of the defects they catch are actually regressions caused by other changes

Given this information what should you do to help mitigate risk'?

36. You are looking to Improve the efficiency of testing. The developers have been claiming that the majority of defect reports they receive are invalid either due to the test environment or because the tester did not follow the right steps.

In a standard defect management process where should you look for more information about these invalid defects?

37. You are managing a project that will be using a model-based testing strategy.

Which of the following is an activity that will be needed in order to implement this strategy? [1]

38. When, at a minimum, should project risks be re-evaluated? [1]

39. You have been asked to estimate the testing effort for an upgrade to a legacy product Your team did the testing on the last upgrade, and you have ascertained that this upgrade is about 10% bigger than the last one.

Given this information which estimation technique should you use to come up with the test effort number?

40. Which of the following Is the common set of information to be produced in a test estimate''