ISQI ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level Test Analyst (CTAL-TA v4.0) Sample Questions:

1. A savings bank rewards its customers with a £100 bonus when they reach the age of 21, if they have held a savings account for more than 3 years and have at least £2,000 in the account at that time.
Assume that Age is measured in whole years, Account term in whole years, and Account balance to two decimal places, i.e., pounds and pence.
The intended rule is:
IF Age = 21 AND Account term > 3 years AND Account balance > = £2000.00 THEN Pay £100 bonus You have a suite of test cases with the following values:
* TC1 Age = 21, Account term = 3 years, Account balance = £2000.00
* TC2 Age = 20, Account term = 6 years, Account balance = £500.00
* TC3 Age = 20, Account term = 2 years, Account balance = £3000.00
Which of the following test cases should you add to the suite to achieve 100% Reliable domain coverage?

A) Age = 21, Account term = 3 years, Account balance = £1999.99
B) Age = 22, Account term = 4 years, Account balance = £1999.99
C) Age = 20, Account term = 4 years, Account balance = £2000.01
D) Age = 22, Account term = 4 years, Account balance = £2000.00

2. Your project is developing an application to process claims against insurance policies. Which of the following is a good example of CRUD completeness testing?

A) A set of test cases that, when executed, verify the application's ability to independently create, read, update and delete a claim
B) A set of test cases that verify the sequence of creating, reading, updating, reading and deleting a claim, and then check that it can no longer be read
C) A review of the requirements to check that all user needs for CRUD operations on a claim record have been elicited
D) A review of the technical specifications to check that the abilities to create, read, update and delete a claim have been included in the application architecture

3. You are working on an Agile project to develop a web-based online dating service that will allow members of the service to enter their profile, meet people who would be a good match for them, arrange social events with those people and to block people with whom they do not want contact.
Functional correctness, usability, performance and security are all important but the major concern for the stakeholders is data protection. Two environments are available for testing: the regular one is similar to the development environment, the other is a pre-production environment which is configured to become the live system when operation begins, but has currently been loaded with a representative volume of artificial profiles.
The features for member profile entry have been delivered and tested. The current iteration will deliver profile matching, which will be done on-demand in response to a request from a member to see matching profiles in their browser. The tests for these user stories' acceptance criteria will be aimed primarily at functional correctness and will be scripted. Performance testing and security testing will be done by external specialists when the functionality is stable.
The other TAs in the team are on sick leave and only have time for one exploratory test session before the end of the iteration. What is the MOST appropriate test charter in these circumstances?

A) Explore the profile matching features With the pre-production environment To discover any functional or performance issues
B) Explore the profile matching features With the regular test environment To discover any usability issues and security vulnerabilities
C) Explore the profile matching features With the regular environment To discover any functional issues that were not covered by the story acceptance criteria
D) Explore the profile entry features With the regular test environment To discover any functional issues that might affect matching

4. You are working on a project to build a purchasing system. The main requirements for the system are that it shall:
* Allow users to enter details of items that they wish to have purchased and, from these details, create a purchase request.
* Take each purchase request through a workflow that will allow the requestor's line manager to approve the request, reject it or return it for clarification / modification.
* Forward approved requests to the Purchasing Department.
* Allow purchasers to find the best available supplier for each approved request and place the request on that supplier as a purchase order.
The solution is being developed according to the company's traditional V-model methodology. The requirements are clearly documented and include a business process model. Operational profiles have been created to guide performance testing.
Initial item entry will involve a check that each item entered exists on the master stock file and that the user is entitled to request it; this depends on user role and grade. Line manager authorization will be assisted by a recommendation made by the system according to relevant business rules, although the manager can override this recommendation. For approved requests, the workflow will continue to support the process through to placing of the purchase order.
Planning has begun for system testing and the Test Manager has asked you, the senior TA, to help with it.
What would be the MOST effective techniques for functional testing of this project?
a) Combinatorial testing
b) Random testing
c) CRUD testing
d) State transition testing
e) Scenario-based testing
f) Decision table testing
g) Exploratory testing

A) d, e and f
B) a, b and g
C) b, d and f
D) c, e and g

5. You are working on a project to build an application that will handle insurance claims. The main requirements for the system are that it shall:
* Allow users to enter details of claims that have been submitted by insured customers.
* Take each claim through a workflow that will allow an assessor to approve the request, reject it or request clarification from the claimant.
* Send approved requests to the accounts payable system for payment.
The solution is being developed according to the company's standard V-model methodology. The requirements are clearly documented and include a business process model. Operational profiles have been created to guide performance testing.
A risk-based approach to testing is used; frequency of use and role of the user are major factors in feature risk assessment.
System testing has almost finished but a major change to the approval workflow is just about to be delivered.
A standard regression test pack has not yet been established, but ad-hoc regression testing has already been performed on earlier builds.
As a TA. you have updated the list of product risks and must now decide the scope of the regression testing.
Which pair of techniques will be MOST effective for selecting the regression tests?
a) History-based, driven by the results of the regression tests run so far b) Risk-based, driven by the updated list of product risks and its traceability to the tests c) Operational profile-based, driven by the likely patterns of use of the relevant transactions d) Requirement traceability matrix-based, driven by the links from affected requirements to related tests e) Impact analysis, driven by consultation with technical stakeholders to identify what might be affected.

A) b) and e)
B) c) and d)
C) b) and c)
D) a) and e)

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