ISQI ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level - Test Analyst (Syllabus 2012) Sample Questions:

1. Ken, an entrepreneur in Leeds finds the quality of the tea locally available so low, that he decides to research superior teas around the world. He decides to market, sell and distribute these superior teas via the web. His market strategy is to offer superior products on a well-designed website with graphics that are fast to load, has high availability, superior usability and fast response times.
The website will offer the following: -An innovative interactive catalogue of teas, which not only enables customers to buy the product, but also enables them to provide feedback by rating the teas (which will influence his stock purchasing levels)
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Provide the customer with the ability to use secure credit card transactions
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Provide the customer to give general feedback
Ken selects an iterative model for the development of the prototypes. The team consists of three developers that are experienced in web development. Ken, although he doesn't have technical skillset, is concerned with quality. He doesn't believe a lot of documentation is necessary and he wants the website to be completed quickly.
The test basis contains the following:
-Story boards that show the information flow and page links through the site
-HTML pages developed to date.
-A statement of non-functional requirements.
With the strategy taking shape, Ken asks your advice on the specific testing techniques that should be used to complete the required testing, bearing in mind the nature of the application and the nature of Ken's overall objectives.
How does phase containment contribute to reducing the cost of development?
[K2] 1 credit

A) By using specific test techniques at each level and only at that level
B) By concentrating the testing effort on the phases where failures occur
C) By ensuring that the deliverables from any life cycle phase are tested only in that phase
D) By eliminating defects as early as possible to minimize defect propagation

2. You are testing the processing of a critical traffic control system to which various regulations apply. The processing of the input variables is dependent of defined ranges within which the actual retrieved data values can lie.
Which of the following test techniques will you use to the processing functionality of the traffic control system?
[K4] 3 credits

A) defect taxonomies
B) exploratory testing
C) state transition testing
D) equivalence partitioning enhanced with boundary value analysis

3. Study the "Supercar" classification tree, which of the following statements is correct?

[K3] 2 credits

A) The error message is missing
B) The options for "in stock" are missing
C) Order information is missing
D) The classification tree is correct and complete

4. A new web site must operate correctly with different browsers (Internet Explorer, Google
Chrome, Firefox, Netscape, Mozilla), using different plug-ins (Realplayer, Mediaplayer), will be receiving pages from different servers (IIS, Apache and WebLogic) and will be running on various server operation systems (windows 2007, XP, Linux)
Which of the following test techniques will you use to test this new web site in its various environments?
[K4] 3 credits

A) use case testing
B) exploratory testing
C) pairwise testing
D) decision table testing

5. You are applying pairwise testing and using orthogonal arrays. The following steps are all part of the process to be followed.
i) Determine the number of choices for each variable ii) Map the test problem onto the orthogonal array iii) Construct the test cases iv) Identify the variables v) Locate an appropriate orthogonal array
What is the correct order of the above mentioned process steps?
[K3] 2 credits

A) iv, i, iii, v, ii
B) iv, ii, v, iii, i
C) iv, i, v, ii, iii
D) i, ii, iv, v, iii

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