CTAL-TM_SYLL2012 Exam Questions

The following are the requirements identified as "critical": REQ-SEL-001. The user shall be able to combine all the three products with all the four durations to define an item to...

You are the Test Manager for a project to develop a web customer portal of a Pay-TV company that allows customers (with a smartcard and a set-top box) to purchase digital contents....

You are the Test Manager for a project to develop a client-server application that allows wine vendors to order custom-assorted packages of wines of several winemakers to sell spec...

You are working on a project to develop an authentication system for an e-commerce website. This system provides two features: Registration and authentication. Two different develo...

Which of the following statements describing how identified product quality risks should be mitigated and managed, is true?

Which of the following statements about management of product quality risks in mature organizations with respect to the lifecycle, is true?

Assume you are currently working on a project developing a system where functional requirements are very well specified. Unfortunately non-functional requirements do almost not exi...

In the test strategy document your organization declares: - To adopt a V-model development lifecycle, with three formal levels of testinG. unit, integration and system testing - To...

In the next two months some new features will be constantly added to new releases of a project you are working on as Test Manager. You have identified as one of the main project ri...

Consider the following test strategies:

You are managing the system testing for a SOA based system. The integrated system consists of several subsystems: - A SOA middleware - A CRM (Customer Relationship Management) syst...

For which of the following activities would the costs be classified as a cost of detection?

Assume you have some data related to confirmation testing during system testing of a past project. In that project 240 bug reports have been opened once, 80 were opened twice, 10 w...

Which of the following answers describes a factor that may reduce the effort spent when using distributed test teams without negatively affecting system quality?

You are the Test Manager on a project following an iterative life-cycle model. The project should consist of nine iterations of one month duration each. It is planned to develop th...

Which of the following statements, about the test reporting activities for a project adopting an iterative lifecycle model with very short iterations (e.g. two weeks iterations), i...

Which of the following factors could negatively influence a review?

You are the Test Manager of a project that adopts a V-model with four formal levels of testinG. unit, integration, system and acceptance testing. On this project reviews have been...

Which of the following information would you expect to be the most useful to perform a defect clustering analysis?

Assume you are working on a defect management process to be used by a software organization to track the current status of the defects reports for several projects. When a defect i...

During the system testing phase a tester from your test team observes a failure in the system under test and he/she decides to create an incident report. The incident report is cur...

Consider a defect report and assume that a part of its lifecycle includes the following states: New: Is the initial state Working. Means that the developers are addressing the defe...

Consider the following statements describing the importance of improving the test process:

Which of the following statements about the TMMi test process improvement model is true?

Which of the following statements about the STEP test process improvement model is true?

After the presentation, you are asked to explain the chart. Assume you have applied a full risk-based testing strategy. Which of the following answers would you expect to best desc...

A chart showing the trend in the lag time from defect reporting to resolution during system testing is also available. The chart shows that the daily closure period is consistently...

In your organization the following tools of the same vendor are currently in use. a requirements management tool, a test management tool and a bug tracking tool. You are the Test M...

Assume you are managing a test automation project for a mission-critical system. Because vendor provided tools and open source solutions don't meet the needs of this project, you a...

Assume you are the Test Manager in charge of independent testing for avionics applications. You are in charge of testing for a project to implement three different CSCI (Computer S...

After a selection process you have selected a test management tool that is going be introduced in your organization and used by your test team in a pilot project. You have already...

Assume you are a Test Manager involved in system testing of a CRM application for a Pay-TV company. Currently the application is able to support a proper number of users assuring t...

Consider the following skills assessment spreadsheet for your test team (consisting of four team members): This spreadsheet has three sections: technical expertise, testing skills...

Your test team consists of four members (Mary, Bob, Mark, Dave) with different interpersonal skills. The following skills assessment spreadsheet shows the characteristics of the te...

Assume you are managing the system testing execution phase of a project. The system test execution period for that project is scheduled for eighteen weeks and the release date is s...

An agile development team decides to hire a tester who has always workeD. - in independent test teams, reporting the problems found in a defect tracking system - in safety-critical...

Which of the following would you expect to be most likely an example of a motivating factor for testers?

Which of the following would you expect to be most likely an example of a demotivating factor for testers?

Consider the following skills assessment spreadsheet for your test team (consisting of four team members): This spreadsheet has three sections: technical expertise, testing skills...

Which of the following statements describing the consequences of specifying test conditions at a detailed level is NOT true?

Assume you are the Test Manager for a new software release of an e-commerce application. The server farm consists of six servers providing different capabilities. Each capability i...

Consider an information system of a Pay-Tv company based on a SOA architecture. The integrated system currently consists of three core systems: - a CRM (Customer Relationship Manag...

Which of the following is an example of the test closure activity indicated as "lessons learned"?

Assume that you are the Test Manager for a small banking application development project. You have decided to adopt a risk-based testing strategy and 5 product risks (R1, R2, R3, R...

The following chart plots the cumulative number of defects opened against the cumulative number of defects closed during system testing of a software product. Which of the followin...

Which one of the following metrics to be produced needs traceability between the test cases and each item in a proper test basis?

Consider an agile team adopting Extreme Programming (XP) with five developers and one tester without any coding experience. To which of the following activities would you expect th...

Which of the following statements best describes an appropriate approach for managing exploratory testing?

The main objectives the senior management team wants to achieve are: - to reduce the costs associated with dynamic testing - to use reviews to ensure that the project is on course...

Consider the following list of statements about audits and management reviews: