You have just conducted a skills assessment for your team.

You decided to rate everyone from 1 to 5 in the skill areas as follows:

5 = expert

4 = proficient

3 = can use this skill effectively but will need some assistance

2 = interested in learning this skill but has only minimal knowledge

1 = not interested in learning this skill

Given these values, you have rated your team as shown in the table below for the designated skill areas:

You will be starting to test a new product that is an upgrade from one of your existing end user products. Your testing will include white box, performance, security, usability, and black box. You also have a goal to automate 100% of the smoke test and 50% of the regression tests by the end of the release.

Your team willingly shares knowledge and conducts regular lunch time cross-training sessions.

Your manager wants to know if you would like to bring in someone to help train your team in preparation for this project.

In which area could you best utilize this help? [3]

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Which of the following BEST explains how test process improvement can benefit an organization? SELECT ONE OPTION

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Which of the following BEST explains how test process improvement can benefit an organization? SELECT ONE OPTION

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You have replaced informal code reviews with technical reviews for the most complex and critical components, in an attempt to reduce the high number of defects being found during component and integration test levels. The project manager is concerned about the costs of implementing formal reviews and has asked you to measure whether they actually provide a return on investment.

Which three of the following metrics would be MOST effective in helping you to achieve this?

a. Identification of defect clusters across components

b. Number of lines of code reviewed

c. Number of defects found during reviews

d. Root cause for each defect detected

e. Post-review cost of detection and internal failure per defect

f. Type of review

g. Effort to conduct the review including rework

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Your last project was released three months ago and used a risk-based approach. In production, a number of serious failures in low risk areas have occurred.

What is the most important lesson to be learned from this information? [2]

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Which one of the following standards would a Test Manager be expected to understand when planning and organising activities with a Project Manager? SELECT ONE OPTION

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Which technique will assist you in determining targeted improvement areas to reduce the number of

defects? [1]

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Which technique will assist you in determining targeted improvement areas to reduce the number of

defects? [1]

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You are the Test Manager on a new project. The schedule is aggressive and will require the team to

work at peak efficiency. The requirements are not well defined yet, but it is clear that the

project will be using new technologies. To help the developers meet the development schedule, an

offshore group will be added to the development team.

At this time there is not enough budget to add more testing resources. The project stakeholders are very concerned about the quality of delivered product and will be watching the project closely, particularly during the testing cycles. The exit criteria from the system test level require no open high priority/severity defects, 100% pass rate for all test cases covering risks that are classified as "high" or "very high", 90% pass rate for all "medium" risks and 50% pass rate for all "low" and "very low" risks.

Given this information, which lifecycle model should you recommend? [3]

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An old stock control system is being decommissioned and replaced with a new system that has been running successfully in the live environment for the last few months.

The stakeholders would like to C • retain historical information held in the database to comply with their data retention policy (which requires order information to be retained for 7 years)

• query the historical information by running pre-written SQL queries.

• all commands must be invoked by keyboard as one of the end users is unable to use a mouse The pre-written SQL queries will be designed, developed and tested by the developers who are decommissioning the system and writing the data migration routine.

As the system to be decommissioned is integrated to other systems that will remain operational, the stakeholders have requested that testing incorporates all systems that are part of the stock control suite.

The stakeholders and project manager have identified the following risks, in priority order –

• 1st – Data has not been successfully migrated to an archived data store, resulting in the inability to query past stock levels and re-order details.

• 2nd – Historical data for the last 7 years is unavailable, resulting in the failure to meet the data retention policy.

• 3rd – Failure of existing systems within the stock control suite, adversely affecting the operational running of the business

The risks are to form the basis of the test objectives.

Which three of the following test activities, work products and/or resources achieves the test objectives?

a. Use of the live database to test the data migration does not corrupt or lose data b. A test plan detailing the test approach for ST. SIT & OT test levels

c. Accessibility testing of the pre-defined SQL queries

d. Security and Penetration testing of the archived database

e Performance testing of the data migration exercise to ensure it completes in the time specified by the stakeholders

f. Functional testing of the pre-defined SQL queries

g. Regression testing of the end to end process for maintaining specified stock levels.

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