CTAL-TAE Exam Questions

Automated tests run by a TAS on a SUT can be subject to sudden bursts of messages to log during their execution. All log messages that occur during execution must be permanently st...

Which of the following layers within the TAA, contains technology-specific implementations that enable automated tests to have the execution of their logical actions result in actu...

Some automated regression test scripts run by a TAS in a given test environment make calls to private APIs that require authentication for all requests (the authentication method i...

You are currently conducting a (Proof of Concept) PoC aimed at selecting a tool that will be used for the development of a TAS. This TAS will exclusively be used by one team within...

Which of the following statements about how test automation is applied across different software development lifecycle models is TRUE?

A new TAS allows the implementation of automated data-driven test scripts. All the tasks planned for the initial deployment of this TAS, aimed at installing and configuring the TAS...

The last few runs for a suite of automated keyword-driven tests on an SUT were never completed. The test where the run was aborted was not the same between runs. Currently, it is n...

As a TAE, you are evaluating a test automation tool to automate some UI tests for a web app. The automated tests will first locate the required HTML elements on the web page using...

Which of the following information in API documentation is LEAST relevant for implementing automated tests on that API?

Which of the following statements about the relationship between TAA, TAS and TAF is true?

Which of the following answers describes the LEAST relevant concern in selecting suitable test automation tools for a test automation project?

Which of the following recommendations can help improve the maintainability of test automation code?

As a TA-E (Test Automation Engineer), you have successfully verified that a test automation environment and all other components of the TAS are working as expected. Now your goal i...

Which of the following descriptions of what some test automation tools can be used to do is TRUE?

An automated test script makes a well-formed request to a REST API in the backend of a web app to add a single item for a product (with ID=710) to the cart and expects a response c...

Consider a TAS aimed at implementing and running automated test scripts at the UI level on web apps. The TAS must support cross-browser compatibility for a variety of supported bro...

Which one of the following answers does NOT refer to an example of configuration item(s) that should be specified in development pipelines to identify a test environment (and its s...

Consider choosing an approach for the automated implementation of manual regression test suites written at the UI level for some already developed web apps. The TAS is based on a p...

In a first possible implementation, the automated test scripts within a suite locate and interact with elements of a web UI indirectly through the browsers using browser-specific d...

Which of the following statements about contract testing is TRUE?

A suite of automated test cases was run multiple times on the same release of the SUT in the same test environment. Consider analyzing a test histogram that shows the distribution...

Which of the following statements about a test progress report produced for an automated test suite is TRUE?

You are evaluating the best approach to implement automated tests at the UI level for a web app. Specifically, your goal is to allow test analysts to write automated tests in tabul...

Automated tests at the UI level for a web app adopt an asynchronous waiting mechanism that allows them to synchronize test steps with the app, so that they are executed correctly a...

In User Acceptance Testing (UAT) for a new SUT, in addition to the manual tests performed by the end-users, automated tests are performed that focus on the execution of repetitive...

An automated test case that should always pass, sometimes passes, and sometimes fails intermittently (non-deterministic behavior) when executed in the same test environment, even i...

To improve the maintainability of test automation code, it is recommended to adopt design principles and design patterns that allow the code to be structured into:

Which of the following is the BEST example of how static analysis tools can help improve the test automation code quality in terms of security?

Which of the following statements refers to a typical advantage of test automation?

You have been tasked with adding the execution of build verification tests to the current CI/CD pipeline used in an Agile project. The goal of these tests is to verify the stabilit...

Which of the following is NOT an advantage of test automation?

Which of the following success factors for a test automation project is TRUE?

You have been asked to determine a TAS for a new release of a SUT, test should be automated wherever. The new release will consist of 5 new interfaces and an amendment to 3 existin...

You are working on a TAS for standalone application. The automated tests are developed based on a automation framework that allows interaction with GUI elements using on object ori...

As a TAE you are evaluating a functional test automation tool that will be for several projects within your organization. The projects require that tool to work effectively and eff...

You are reviewing the testability of your SUT. Which of the following BEST refers to the characteristic of OBSERVABILITY?

Designing the System Under Test (SUT) for testability is important for a good test automation approach and can also benefit manual test execution. Which of the following is NOT a c...

Consider the following layers of the gTAA structure:

You are currently designing the TAA of a TAS. You have been asked to adopt an approach for automatically generating and executing test cases from a model that defines the SUT. The...

Which of the following BEST describes why it is important to separate test definition from test execution in a TAA?

Which of the following is NOT a technical design consideration for a TAA?

Which of the following statements BEST describe aspects of the SUT to consider when designing a TAA?

The GUI of a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) application has been delivered through internet Explorer with proprietary Active X and Java controls. This implementation enable...

You have been asked to automate a set of functional tests at system Test level via the CLI of the SUT for the first release of a software system. The automated tests will be delive...

You are using a gTAA to create a TAS for a project. The TAS is aimed specifically at automating a suit of existing manual test cases for standalone desktop applications. All the in...

You are using a gTAA to create a TAS for a project. The TAS is aimed at automatically and executing test cases based on a use-case Modeling approaching that uses UML as a modeling...

Which of the following statements about the reuse of TAS artefacts is TRUE?

A regression test suite consist of 500 test cases which are all executed manually. The business case for a pilot project is based on the adoption of test automation using a commerc...

You identified a suitable project to pilot an automation tool and planned and conduced a pilot. The pilot has been successful and tool Is being deployed within your organization, w...

Consider a TAS that is going to be deployed for the first time. The TAS requires share resources and run it its own test environment. The infrastructure for the TAS has been create...