Authentic ISTQB-CTAL-TA Dumps (V8.02) – The Best Study Materials to Clear the ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level Test Analyst (CTAL-TA) v4.0 Exam

1. You are testing a significant enhancement to the user interface design for a mortgage approval program, used internally by mortgage lenders. There are many user roles involved in the process of reviewing and approving new mortgage applications. You have completed the testing that ensures the enhancements are functionally correct, and you must now ensure that the enhanced user interface meets the needs of all user roles in a way that will be considered acceptable by them.

Which test technique would be MOST suitable for this next stage of testing?

2. A tablet manufacturer offers the following options for its customers:

- Colour: Black, White, Silver, Gold (4 options)

- Model: Standard, Mini, Pro (3 options)

- Gigabytes: 32, 64, 128, 256 (4 options)

- Connectivity: Wifi-only, Wifi+Cellular (2 options)

Using the pairwise technique, what is the MINIMUM number of test cases needed to achieve a full 2-wise coverage?

3. Based on the tax system specification as described below, using boundary value analysis, which would be the best test set to explicitly test on single boundary value fully?

Tax system

A tax system needs to be updated due to new legislation. For a person with a salary of less than 20 000 and who is married, the tax needs to be recalculated.

If a person has at least three and less than six children, an additional 10% reduction is applicable.

4. 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?

5. A software component for a game application calculates a player’s trophy level based on two input parameter values: Points Earned and Level of Difficulty.

A total score is calculated by the component as:

Total Score = Points Earned × Level of Difficulty

The trophy levels are:

- Blue- total score equal to or less than 40

- Silver- total score > 40

- Gold- total score > 70

- Diamond- total score > 80

- Platinum- total score > 90

The component then outputs the correct trophy level.

Applying the Equivalence Partition test design technique to this component, what percentage of output partitions have been exercised by the following suite of test cases?

Player 1 - Points earned 25, level of difficulty 2

Player 2 - Points earned 20, level of difficulty 3

Player 3 - Points earned 30, level of difficulty 1

6. A car navigation system needs to be integrated in the overall car software It is important to verify that the car navigation is functioning correctly once integrated. Thus functional correctness is considered to be important.

Which of the following techniques is most likely to support the required functional correctness testing?

7. Which of the following statements about defect-based techniques is TRUE?

8. You are a Test Analyst in the banking domain. You have received the following requirement: "The system shall allow cash advances of at least 200 Euros for all supported credit cards. The following credit cards are supported: American Express, Diners, Visa, Mastercard and Eurocard.

Which one of the findings described below is true regarding this requirement?

9. Sell-It-Cheap salesrooms organize general and specialist sales where items are sold to the highest bidder. There is a sliding scale of commission charges, based on the price of items sold, with lower-priced items attracting a higher percentage. All items sold have a price in multiples of £1.

New commission bandings after customer feedback:

- Items sold for£150 or less attract a flat-rate fee of£7.00

- Items otherwise sold for less than £500have a fee of6%

- Items otherwise sold for less than £1000have a4.5%fee

- Items otherwise sold for less than £5000have a3.5%fee

- Items sold for£5000 or more have a3%fee

- Updated rule: Items sold between£500 and £749have a fee of5.5%

What tests would be appropriate to test this change in commission bandings, using the 2-point boundary value analysis technique?

10. 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.

11. 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?

12. When applying the State Transition test technique to the given State Transition diagram, and assuming that screen refreshes can be applied multiple times, how many 1-switch transitions are there starting from the state 'Screen 1'?

13. Which pair of statements correctly describes when functional completeness, functional correctness, and /or functional appropriateness are undertaken?

14. 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?

15. A game component calculates a player's trophy level based on Points Earned and Level of Difficulty.

The total score is calculated as (Points Earned * Level of Difficulty).

Trophy levels are as follows:

- Blue: # 40

- Silver: > 40

- Gold: > 70

- Diamond: > 80

- Platinum: > 90

Test cases:

- Player 1: Points earned 25, level of difficulty 2 # Total Score = 50 (Silver)

- Player 2: Points earned 20, level of difficulty 3 # Total Score = 60 (Silver)

- Player 3: Points earned 30, level of difficulty 1 # Total Score = 30 (Blue)

What percentage of output partitions have been exercised by the following suite of test cases?

16. You work for a company that is a pioneer in smart energy technology. The company is planning to launch a new application for smartphones and tablets that will allow customers to view their energy readings remotely. The application must support customers with disabilities.

The application is being delivered using a hybrid mix of agile and V-model methodologies over three iterations:

- Iteration 1: Development of the application for the iOS operating system

- Iteration 2: Enhancement to support the Android operating system

- Iteration 3: Enhancement to provide daily budget usage

You have been asked to review the risk register and design test conditions for the highest priority product risks that fall into your area of responsibility, relating to Iterations 1 and 2 only.

17. Which of the following descriptions is an example of the use of defect taxonomies?

18. Which task is considered the responsibility of the Test Analyst and ONLY performed as part of the test implementation activities?

19. You are testing software which is being ported from one platform to another. There are no documented requirements and there is no time budgeted for writing them.

Which type of test technique is most useful in this situation?

20. 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?

21. How many cases are required to test the tax system specification as described below, using a decision table which is not collapsed?

Tax system

A tax system needs to be updated due to new legislation. For a person with a salary of less than 20.000 and who is married, the tax needs to be recalculated. If the person also has more than two and less than five children, an additional 10% reduction is applicable.

22. A new web site must operate correctly with different browsers (Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Firefox, Opera, Safari), using different plug-ins (Realplayer, Mediaplayer), will be receiving pages from different servers (IIS, Apache and WebLogic) and will be running on various operating systems

(Windows, Android, iOS and Linux).

Which of the following test techniques should you use to define the required test cases for testing this new web site in its various environments?

23. Consider the following decision table:

This decision table has been created to test the following specification: Persons that study at a university (C1) and have parents whose total annual income is less than 30.000 (C2), receive a scholarship In in addition to these qualifications, if they also live away from home (C3), they receive an addition to their scholarship (A2)

How many cases are left when this decision table is collapsed?

24. A web-based system is being developed to support the administration of tennis tournaments. Testing schedules are severely challenged.

Which specification-based technique would be the BEST choice in the circumstances?

25. You are testing an ATM based on the following use

ATM start screen is showing

1. The user inserts card

2. The user types in PIN

3 The user selects cash with receipt'

4. The user selects 50

5. The user selects no further service' Expected results - The ATM provides 50 to the user

- The ATM returns the card and balance slip - The ATM clears the screen

- The ATM returns to start menu You are asked to review this use case. You are asked to review this use case.

What is the most important information that is missing from this use case?

26. You are testing a hospital patient management system after a change to the patient capture application. You are running interoperability 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 recognise 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

27. 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?

28. You work for a software testing consultancy firm, SOFTEST, that specializes in the travel industry. It has built up a portfolio of clients across two main travel sectors: thecruiseandrailsectors. SOFTEST has an established test process, an experienced team of testers, and maintains comprehensive organizational defect taxonomies for both sectors.

A project has started for a new cruise sector client. It will deliver a new user interface allowing customers to search for cruises using several drop-down fields, each with many values, providing a much greater range of combinations than customers previously had. The project is using a SCRUM methodology with 2-week sprints and well-specified user stories.

Which option below describes the BEST test techniques to apply for each project?

29. 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 had vague and inconsistent requirements. More formal reviews have been introduced to improve quality.

Project D: Emphasis on regression testing, with most test cases forming part of the regression pack, initially manual but planned for automation.

30. A PIN entry component of an ATM system has been developed using the following state table:

Using the state transition test technique, how many 0-switch test cases are needed to achieve 100% 0-switch coverage?

31. Rather than developing an e-commerce product, management has decided to acquire a COTS package. The e-commerce product needs to interface.

with backend applications such a finance, stock control and order delivery. You are asked to define a test plan for this project.

Given just the information in the scenario, which of the following software quality characteristics must be included in your test plan?

32. You are running a regression test suite using a keyword-driven test approach for automation.

The test suite has been enhanced for the current release to include:

Three new test cases covering new business functionality

Several new keywords, as project schedule constraints mean that more effective maintenance of the automated test cases is required

However, the automated suite failed unexpectedly when executing one of the new test cases, which was also utilizing a new keyword.

As Test Analyst, what should be your first step?

33. You are testing a hospital patient management system that has undergone a release including an improved user interface and changes to meet new regulatory requirements. You are a Test Analyst working with a Technical Test Analyst.

Which of the following requirements MOST align with your responsibilities as a Test Analyst?

R01: New and amended patient data can be successfully read and processed by receiving hospital department systems

R02: Patient data will be transmitted and received by hospital department systems within ten seconds of entry

R03: Patient data transmitted to other hospital department systems will remain secure and cannot be accessed by unauthorized third parties

R04: High volumes of data can be successfully received and processed while the user interface is being used

R05: The new user interface is appropriate for the needs of all hospital administrator roles

34. 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.

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?

35. 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.

A new release has been scheduled which includes an improved user interface to the patient capture application as well as changes to the patient data to meet new regulatory requirements.

You are the test analyst for this release, working alongside a Technical Test Analyst.

Which of the following requirements MOST align to your responsibilities to test as a Test Analyst?

R01: New and amended patient data can be successfully read and processed by receiving hospital department systems

R02: Patient data will be transmitted and received by hospital department systems within ten seconds of entry

R03: Patient data transmitted to other hospital department systems will remain secure and cannot be accessed by unauthorized third parties

R04: High volumes of data can be successfully received and processed while the user interface is being used

R05: The new user interface is appropriate for the needs of all hospital administrator roles