CSQA Exam Questions

The IT tool that teams can use to identify root causes of a problem is:

Three fundamental types of mistakes that IT leaders make are:

Which of the following is the correct definition of the quality attribute reliability?

A type of "Review" where the producer of the material facilitates the review is a:

At low levels of process maturity, people believe they are subjectively evaluated and focus their attention on:

When comparing the ratio of testers to developers in your organization with the ratio of testers to developers in another organization, this would be:

Severity levels for defects should be defined at the start of the project:

How do you objectively measure operational reliability?

A brainstorming session should be used to develop a cause-and-effect diagram identifying all possible causes of _________________.

The team for establishing a security baseline should consist of:

Integration Testing_____________________ and System Testing _________________.

The objective for having a common body of knowledge for quality assurance is:

Which of the following attributes of a process are associated with measurement?

Which of the following would be associated with contracted software developed by a contractor in another country?

When should the Test Manager or Test Team Lead join the Software Project Team?

If you use the PDCA cycle for managing processes, which activity is associated with the planning component?

Which of the following is NOT a component of a workbench? (A workbench is a graphic representation of a process.)

Boundary analysis techniques are used to create test cases that divide equivalence partitioned groups.

Mode is the measures of central tendency. What does it represent?

Within ISO 9001, Resource Management includes:

Consensus is reached when all participants:

Which of the following is NOT a QFD vertical deployment?

Statement Coverage is:

Measurement has a high cost; too much investment is required and the return is too low.

Causes of variation that are typically "external" to the process are referred to as:

The code walkthrough and code inspection are the same thing.

An objective for conducting a 'baseline study' can be to identify quantitatively 'potential problems'.

As processes mature, there is a decrease in cycle time to produce a product.

Which of the following is NOT an example of metrics used to manage and control the products?

Which of the following three questions would NOT be answered by establishing a security baseline?

There is a risk that products shipped will not be invoiced. If we were to assume that an average of two products will be shipped per day and not be invoiced and the average billing...

The objective of estimation sampling is to select a sample, which represents the universe as closely as possible and is a snapshot of the universe. Estimation will permit the Quali...

Customer software requirements are an attribute of a:

The workbench definition should contain a policy statement. The objective of the policy statement is which of the following?

Compliance Assessments can be done through:

Which of the following is NOT normally considered one of the questions that must be answered in performing quality planning?

Which of the following is NOT one of the five types of listening?

Process ___________ allows priorities to be set for defining or improving processes.

Which one of the following is a disadvantage of Functional Testing?

Cooperation is required to improve quality and to implement quality management.

The primary responsibility of a quality program, from a consumer's standpoint, is that the product should be:

In which company was the concept known as "Just in Time" first implemented?

Prior to TQM, the distinction between "little-Q" and "big-Q" was given by:

After establishing the team for conducting security baseline, the first step should be to:

Which management tool would you use if your QA team needed to prioritize issues?

In a software system a control implemented to protect the security of the system is:

Which of the following would be considered a verification technique?

Three of the four interconnected project variables are: scope, resources, and schedule. What is the fourth variable?

There are five levels of ISO Process Capability.

The theory of levels of maturity is that organizations can skip a level if business needs require them to be at a higher maturity level.