CTAL-TAE Exam Questions

What is the PRIMARY advantage of using abstraction in the TAA?

When if the BEST time for automation to consider legal and/or standard requirements for a SUT?

You are working on a web-based application called Book Vault that allows people to upload books and order books. This application must be available on all major browsers. You have...

You are working on a government system called "Making Tax Digital" or MTD for short. This system is being implemented to stop manual human input error and also to reduce fraudulent...

You are implementing test automation for a project that has a business critical application. A test execution tool is being used to run automated regression tests. The results from...

You are implementing test automation for a project and you want to be able to generate test cases automatically using a series of test design tools which use a variety of test desi...

In order to achieve re-use of a TAS, where SHOULD the design for reuse occur?

You have investigated a new tool which enables the modelling of the SUT and can then generate test cases either manually or automatically. You have convinced your managers that the...

You are planning the pilot for an in-house developed Test Automation solution (TAS). Which two of the following would be important steps to take as part of the planning process?

You have inherited a TAS that is working well. It uses keyword-driven scripting and was well architected. The automation architect who built the system has now moved on to another...

Your organisation has successfully implemented a Test Automaton Solution (TAS) for a new project which has since been delivered into production via a number of sprints. A series of...

A major component of your organisation's Test Automation Solutions (TAS) is a popular open- source third-party capture-replay tool for automated functional testing. Which two of th...

As the TAE, you are working with the organisation's Test Manager to decide which external metrics and which internal metrics should be gathered for the new TAS. Which of the follow...

You have been asked to implement test automation for a project that is not meeting its deadlines. After further analysis you discover that the manual testers are not able to keep u...

The Test Automation Manager has asked you to provide a solution for collecting metrics from the TAS that measures code coverage every time the automated regression test pack is run...

Your functional regression test automation suite ran successfully for the first two sprints and no failures were encountered during the runs. The automation suite records the statu...

Which of the following describes how a test execution report is likely to be used?

If you are tracking the frequency that a test automation code reports a defect that is not really a defect, what metric are you gathering?

You are implementing a TAS for a system that has been live for over three years, using a hybrid waterfall and agile lifecycle. Live updates are made on a monthly basis. There is no...

Your project is transitioning from manual to automated testing. You have decided to implement a pilot project so that lessons learned can inform future time estimates and schedules...

What represents good practice when automating a manual regression test suite?

New features have been added for the current release of a SUT. Which action would NOT be appropriate for the TAE to perform when evaluating the impact on the TAS?

Which of the following CORRECTLY describes how automation SHOULD be applied to confirmation testing?

You are a TAE working for a software house which provides quarterly releases of its software to its customers. There are many different versions of the SUT that need to be tested s...

Your company is new to test automation and as TAE, you have designed a TAS which successfully supports the SUT for the current project. There are other systems currently in operati...

You have executed an automated test suite for a product that was released into production. Although all the tests passed, there was a major failure in production in an area that wa...

You are the TAE for an Agile project which has six sprints for the current release. Sprint five is underway and the automated regression suite is due to start later today. You have...

You have implemented a keyword-driven scripting framework, which uses a test execution tool to run the tests. This has been in use for the past year and all of the teams now use th...

You are testing a major enhancement to an air traffic control user interface. You have use of a sophisticated pre-production test environment, created specifically for large scale...

Your TAS has been running successfully on a Windows/GUI based SUT for some years. The SUT has undergone minimal change over the years to maintain business as usual, deploying six-...

In which way would a feature toggle configuration be used?

When would you be MOST likely to store a test environment configuration with other testware?

When is automated API testing BEST performed?

What does contract testing verify?

You are working for a clothing retailer that has big stores in many cities. Your TAS, for the first time, been just been used for reliability and stress testing of the overnight ba...

Your TAS is being used for automated functional suitability testing of a stock management system. Several tests have crashed. Despite the fact that the SUT creates detailed logs of...

You are employed as a TAE on a project to build a purchasing system. The main requirements for the system are to: 1. Allow users to enter details of items that they wish to have pu...

Which items should be included in a report that is produced after execution of a test suite?

You work for a company that produces a credit checking software package. This product comes in three variants, each of which is tailored to the meet the rules and attitudes of lend...

You work as a TAE for a software vendor that produces bespoke software. Your current project is developing a process control system where data from sensors on the factory floor and...

What outcome can happen as a result of a high level of test tool intrusion?

When looking for the cause of an intermittent failure, which action is MOST likely to help?

Which statement about static analysis is TRUE?

You are a TAE responsible for a TAS that is used on several products, all of which have simple UI's and utilize a range of API's. Automation of the regression test suites for these...

You are a TAE responsible for a TAS that is used on several products, all of which have complex UI's. A substantial proportion of the automated tests break on a regular basis, usua...

You have been recruited as a TAE by a large travel agency and are now responsible for a mature TAS that is dedicated to functional testing of the company's booking system, which co...

You have been recruited as a TAE by a large travel agency and are now responsible for a mature TAS that is dedicated to functional testing of the company's booking system, which co...

You are a TAE responsible for a TAS that is used on several products, all of which have complex UI's. It has been decided that all radio buttons in one of the products will be chan...

Your TAF writes detailed test logs for every test that it executes. Data storage space in the test environment is limited, so after each run it is necessary to remove unnecessary d...

Which of the following should be done when checking the composition of the test suite?