CTFL 2018 Sample Exam C v1.2

1.

Question (1 Point) 

Consider the following list of undesirable outcomes that could occur on a mobile app development effort: 

A. Incorrect totals on reports 

B. Change to acceptance criteria during acceptance testing 

C. Users find the soft keyboard too hard to use with your app 

D. System responds too slowly to user input during search string entry 

E. Testers not allowed to report test results in daily standup meetings 

Which of the following properly classifies these outcomes as project and product risks? 

Select ONE option. 

2.

Question(1 Point) 

You are working as a project manager on an in-house banking software project. To prevent rework and excessive find/fix/retest cycles, the following process has been put in place for resolving a defect once it is found in the test lab: 

a) The assigned developer finds and fixes the defect, then creates an experimental build 

b) A peer developer reviews, unit tests, and confirmation tests the defect fix on his/her desktop 

c) A tester – usually the one who found the defect – confirmation tests the defect fix in the development environment 

d) Once a day, a new release with all confirmed defect fixes included, is installed in the test environment 

e) The same tester from step 3 confirmation tests the defect fix in the test environment 

Nevertheless, a large number of defects which the testers confirmed as fixed in the development environment (in step 3) are somehow failing confirmation testing in the test environment, with the resulting rework and cycle time outcomes. You have the highest confidence in your testers, and have ruled out mistakes or omissions in step 3. 

Which of the following is the MOST likely part of the process to check next? 

Select ONE option. 

3.

Question (1 Point) 

Consider the following state transition diagram for a credit-card only, unattended gasoline pump: 

Assume that you want to develop the minimum number of tests to cover each transition in the state transition diagram. Assume further that each test must start at the beginning state, waiting for customer, and each test ends when a transition arrives at the beginning state. How many tests do you need? 

Select ONE option. 

4.

Question (1 Point) 

You are defining the process for carrying out product risk analysis as part of each iteration on an Agile project. Which of the following is the proper place to document this process in a test plan? 

Select ONE option. 

5.

Question (1 Point) 

Consider the following decision table for the portion of an online airline reservation system that allows frequent flyers to redeem points for reward travel: 

Suppose that there are two equivalence partitions for the condition where Account/password okay is not true, one where the account is invalid and another where the account is valid but the password is invalid. Suppose that there is only one equivalence partition corresponding to the condition where Account/password okay is true, where both the account and password are valid. 

If you want to design tests to cover the equivalence partitions for Account/password okay and also for this portion of the decision table, what is the minimum number of tests required? 

Select ONE option. 

6.

Question (1 Point) 

You are testing an e-commerce system that sells cooking supplies such as spices, flour, and other items in bulk. The units in which the items are sold are either grams (for spices and other expensive items) or kilograms (for flour and other inexpensive items). Regardless of the units, the smallest valid order amount is 0.5 units (e.g., half a gram of cardamom pods) and the largest valid order amount is 25.0 units (e.g., 25 kilograms of sugar). The precision of the units’ field is 0.1 units. 

Which of the following is a MINIMAL set of input values that cover the equivalence partitions for this field? 

Select ONE option. 

7.

Question (1 Point) 

Consider a mobile app that allows customers to access and manage their bank accounts. A user story has just been added to the set of features that checks customers’ social media accounts and bank records to give personalized greetings on birthdays and other personal milestones. Which of the following test techniques could a PROGRAMMER use during a unit test of the code to ensure that coverage of situations when the greetings ARE supposed to occur and when the greetings ARE NOT supposed to occur? 

Select ONE option. 

8.

Question (1 Point) 

You are engaged in planning a test effort for a new mobile banking application. As part of estimation, you first meet with the proposed testers and others on the project. The team is well-coordinated and has already worked on similar projects. To verify the resulting estimate, you then refer to some industry averages for testing effort and costs on similar projects, published by a reputable consultant. 

Which statement accurately describes your estimation approach? 

Select ONE option. 

9.

Question (1 Point) 

You are testing a mobile app that allows customers to access and manage their bank accounts. You are running a test suite that involves evaluating each screen and each field on each screen against a general list of user interface best practices, derived from a popular book on the topic, that maximize attractiveness, ease-of-use, and accessibility for such apps. Which of the following options BEST categorizes the test technique you are using? 

Select ONE option. 

10.

Question (1 Point) 

A tester participated in a discussion about proposed database structure. The tester identified a potential performance problem related to certain common user searches. This possible problem was explained to the development team. Which of the following is a testing contribution to success that BEST matches this situation? 

Select ONE option. 

11.

Question (1 Point) 

A mass market operating system software product is designed to run on any PC hardware with an x86-family processor. You are running a set of tests to look for defects related to support of the various PCs that use such a processor and to build confidence that important PC brands will work. What type of test are you performing? 

Select ONE option. 

12.

Question (1 Point) 

A batch application has been in production unchanged for over two years. It runs overnight once a month to produce statements that will be e-mailed to customers. For each customer, the application goes through every account and lists every transaction on that account in the last month. It uses a nested-loop structure to process customers (outer loop), each customer’s accounts (middle loop), and each account’s transactions (inner loop). 

One night, the batch application terminates prematurely, failing to e-mail statements to some customers, when it encounters a customer with one account for which no transactions occurred in the last month. This is a very unusual situation and has not occurred in the years since this application was placed in production. 

While fixing the defect, a programmer asks you to recommend test techniques that are effective against this kind of defect. Which of the following test techniques would most likely have been able to detect the underlying defect? 

Select ONE option. 

13.

Question (1 Point) 

A phone ringing momentarily distracts a programmer, causing the programmer to improperly program the logic that checks the upper boundary of an input variable. Later, during system testing, a tester notices that this input field accepts invalid input values. The improperly coded logic for the upper boundary check is: 

Select ONE option. 

14.

Question (1 Point) 

Which of the following is a true statement about exploratory testing? 

Select ONE option. 

15.

Question #31 (1 Point) 

You are testing a mobile app that allows users to find a nearby restaurant, based on the type of food they want to eat. Consider the following list of test cases, priorities (smaller number is high priority), and dependencies, in the following format: 

Which of the following is a possible test execution schedule that considers both priorities and dependencies? 

Select ONE option. 

16.

Question (1 Point) 

You are working as a tester on an online banking system. Availability is considered one of the top products (quality) risks for the system. You find a reproducible failure that results in customers losing their connections to the bank Web site when transferring funds between common types of accounts and being unable to reconnect for between three and five minutes. 

Which of the following would be a good summary for a defect report for this failure, one that captures both the essence of the failure and its impact on stakeholders? 

Select ONE option. 

17.

Question (1 Point) 

Prior to an iteration planning session, you are studying a user story and its acceptance criteria, deriving test conditions and associated test cases from the user story as a way of applying the principle of early QA and test. What test technique are you applying? 

Select ONE option. 

18.

Question (1 Point) 

Programmers often write and execute unit tests against code which they have written. During this self-testing activity, which of the following is a tester mindset that programmers should adopt to perform this unit testing effectively? 

Select ONE option. 

19.

Question (1 Point) 

During a period of intensive project overtime, a system architecture document is sent to various project participants, announcing a previously-unplanned technical review to occur in one week. No adjustments are made to the participants’ list of assigned tasks. Based on this information alone, which of the following is a factor for review success that is MISSING? 

Select ONE option. 

20.

Question (1 Point) 

Which of the following are two factors that can be used to determine the level of risk? 

Select ONE option. 

21.

Question (1 Point) 

Consider the following testing activities: 

1. Selecting regression tests 

2. Evaluating completeness of test execution 

3. Identifying which user stories have open defect reports 

4. Evaluating whether the number of tests for each requirement is consistent with the level of product risk 

Consider the following ways traceability can help testing: 

A. Improve understandability of test status reports to include status of test basis items 

B. Make testing auditable 

C. Provide information to assess process quality 

D. Analyze the impact of changes 

Which of the following best matches the testing activity with how traceability can assist that activity? 

Select ONE option. 

22.

Question (1 Point) 

Consider the following types of defects that a test level might focus on: 

1. Defects in separately testable modules or objects 

2. Not focused on identifying defects 

3. Defects in interfaces and interactions 

4. Defects in the whole test object 

Which of the following list correctly matches test levels from the Foundation syllabus with the defect focus options given above? 

Select ONE option. 

23.

Question (1 Point) 

During a project following Agile methods, you find a discrepancy between the developer’s interpretation of an acceptance criteria and the product owner’s interpretation, which you bring up during a user story refinement session. Which of the following is a benefit of test independence exemplified by this situation? 

Select ONE option. 

24.

Question (1 Point) 

In a formal review, what is the role name for the participant who runs an inspection meeting? 

Select ONE option. 

25.

Question (1 Point) 

What is quality? 

Select ONE option. 

26.

Question (1 Point) 

You are working as a tester on an Agile team and have participated in over two dozen user story refinement sessions with the product owner and the developers on the team at the start of each iteration. As the reviews have gotten more effective at detecting defects in user stories and the product owner more adept at correcting those defects, you and the team notice that the team’s velocity, as shown in your burndown charts, has started to increase. Which of the following is a benefit of static testing that MOST DIRECTLY applies to increased velocity? 

Select ONE option. 

27.

Question (1 Point) 

During an Agile development effort, a product owner discovers a previously-unknown regulatory requirement that applies to most of the user stories within a particular epic. The user stories are updated to provide for the necessary changes in software behavior. The programmers on the team are modifying the code appropriately. As a tester on the team, what types of tests will you run? 

Select ONE option. 

28.

Question (1 Point) 

Which of the following is an example of a task that can be carried out as part of the test process? 

Select ONE option. 

29.

Question (1 Point) 

Which of the following is a common test metric often used to monitor BOTH test preparation and test execution? 

Select ONE option. 

30.

Question (1 Point) 

You are testing an unattended gasoline pump that only accepts credit cards. Once the credit card is validated, the pump nozzle placed into the tank, and the desired grade selected, the customer enters the desired amount of fuel in gallons using the keypad. The keypad only allows the entry of digits. Fuel is sold in tenths (0.1) of a gallon, up to 50.0 gallons. 

Which of the following is a minimum set of desired amounts that covers the equivalence partitions for this input? 

Select ONE option. 

31.

Question (1 Point) 

Which of the following statements is true? 

Select ONE option. 

32.

Question (1 Point) 

You are running a performance test with the objective of finding possible network bottlenecks in interfaces between components of a system. Which of the following statements describes this test? 

Select ONE option. 

33.

Question (1 Point) 

You have just completed a pilot project for a regression testing tool. You understand the tool much better and have tailored your testing process to it. You have standardized an approach to using the tool and its associated work products. Which of the following is a typical test automation pilot project goal that remains to be carried out? 

Select ONE option. 

34.

Question (1 Point) 

Which of the following is a typical test objective? 

Select ONE option. 

35.

Question (1 Point) 

You are reading a user story in the product backlog to prepare for a meeting with the product owner and a developer, noting potential defects as you go. Which of the following statements is true about this activity? 

Select ONE option. 

36.

Question (1 Point) 

A product owner says that your role as a tester on an Agile team is to catch all the bugs before the end of each iteration. Which of the following is a testing principle that could be used to respond to this (false) statement? 

Select ONE option. 

37.

Question (1 Point) 

What is decision coverage? 

Select ONE option. 

38.

Question (1 Point) 

You are testing an e-commerce system that sells cooking supplies such as spices, flour, and other items in bulk. The units in which the items are sold are either grams (for spices and other expensive items) or kilograms (for flour and other inexpensive items). Regardless of the units, the smallest valid order amount is 0.5 units (e.g., half a gram of cardamom pods) and the largest valid order amount is 25.0 units (e.g., 25 kilograms of sugar). The precision of the units field is 0.1 units. 

Which of the following is a set of input values that cover the boundary values with two-point boundary values for this field? 

Select ONE option. 

39.

Question (1 Point) 

Which of the following tools is most useful for reporting test metrics? 

Select ONE option. 

40.

Question (1 Point) 

You are working on a video game development project, using Agile methods. It is based on Greek mythology and history, and players can play key roles in scenarios such as the battles between the Greeks and Trojans. 

Consider the following user story and its associated acceptance criteria: 

As a player, 

I want to be able to acquire the Rod of Midas (a new magic object), 

so that I can turn objects and other players into gold 

AC1: The Rod must work on any object or player, no matter what size, which can be touched anywhere by the player holding the Rod 

AC2: Holding the Rod does not change the player holding it into gold 

AC3: Any object or player touched by the Rod transforms completely into gold within one millisecond 

AC4: The Rod appears as shown in Prototype O.W.RoM 

AC5: The transformation starts at the point of contact with the Rod and moves at a rate of one meter per millisecond 

You are participating in a checklist-based review session of this user story. 

This user story and its associated acceptance criteria contain which of the following typical defects identified by static testing in this type of work product? 

Select ONE option.