ATA Online Practice Questions and Answers

Which of the following criteria on test progress would enable the business to determine a likely `go live' date?

(i) Number of tests planned versus number of tests executed (ii) Number of high priority defects outstanding

(iii) The test team's timesheets in order to show how much effort has been devoted to testing (iv) Number of tests passed and number failed (v) Number of defects found in each development area

(vi) The rate at which defects are being found

[K2] 1 credit

A. (ii), (iii), (iv)

B. (i), (iii), (v)

C. (i), (ii), (vi)

D. (iv), (v), (vi)

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) Provide the customer with the ability to use secure credit card transactions 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.

We now make the assumption that in the scenario described as above, exploratory testing was selected as

being the main test technique. You have now been given the task of specifying, executing and recording

the exploratory test sessions. Select TWO of the options below to define what you will typically use for

specifying, executing and recording the sessions? [K3] 2 credits

A. Record the results in email and send the email to the test manager.

B. Use external testers on the team to provide a new approach and fresh view to the testing effort.

C. Create test charters for planned test session.

D. Use debriefing sessions with stakeholders and other testers to discuss the findings and new risks identified.

E. Define concrete test cases to be executed by the developers.

You are starting to review some of the incident reports that have been submitted as a result of test execution.

Which THREE of the comments would be your main findings when you have reviewed the following incident report? [K4] 3 credits, 2 out of 3 correct 1 credit

A. Should have been two defect reports

B. Ambiguous description

C. Both severity and priority do not make sense

D. Actual cause is missing

E. Reproducibility is not indicated

F. Defect type is missing

G. Date to be fixed not defined

For an ATM banking project introduced earlier, "When the user first inserts a valid credit card type, the system considers the user to be in an unauthenticated state. When requesting a cash advance, the user must be in an authenticated state. The user authenticates by entering the proper PIN code. When authenticating the user, the system shall allow the user to enter their PIN code up to three times before failing the authentication and rejecting the card. On the first and second try, the system shall prompt the user to re-enter the PIN code." Suppose you are concerned that, depending on the exact number of invalid PIN codes entered, the system might behave improperly. Which of the following test design techniques is specifically targeted at such failures? [K4] 3 credits

A. Equivalence Partitioning extended by boundary value analysis

B. Pairwise Testing with orthogonal arrays

C. State Transition Testing using 1-switch coverage

D. Classification Tree Method

Supercar is an online vehicle sales website specializing in a single manufacturer's Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) and saloons. A vehicle has two key elements, power unit and body style.

The manufacturer offers three choices of power unit: petrol, diesel and hybrid. There are 3 main body styles: Saloon, Hatchback and SUV. SUVs only come as petrol and diesel options. Hybrid is available for Hatchback only. The site will allow an order to be processed if at least one of the chosen vehicle configuration is in stock, otherwise a message will be displayed asking the user to try again later. As a tester you are asked to review the "Supercar" specification before starting to design the corresponding test cases. Which of the comments below would you make? [K3] 2 credits

A. I have no comments, specification looks ok

B. Boundaries for stock levels are ambiguous

C. Dependencies power unit and body styles are ambiguous

D. It is not clear which message will be displayed when "out of stock"

Which of the following statements fits the principles of experience-based testing? [K2] 1 credit

A. Coverage calculations can be used to determine the amount of testing required

B. Different people will have a different experience level regarding usability testing

C. Models can be used to derive the required test cases

D. Experience in test execution is more important than experience in test design

Which of the following comments would be the MOST important one you would make? [K3] 2 credits

A. Description of flow is not detailed enough

B. Specific characteristics of actor(s) are missing

C. No usability acceptance criteria

D. User tasks not defined

You are working as a tester on a project to develop a point-of-sales system for grocery stores. Which of the following is a product risk that could be identified for such a system? [K3] 2 credits

A. The arrival of a more reliable competing product on the market

B. Delivery of an incomplete test release to the first cycle of system test

C. An excessively high number of defect fixes fail during re-testing

D. Failure to accept allowed credit cards

According to the ISTQB Advanced syllabus, which of the following would be the MOST effective method of communication between test team members who are distributed across several time zones? [K2] 1 credit

A. Accurate recording of defect information in the defect tracking system

B. Accepting frequent builds from the developers to keep all testers working on the same version at the same time

C. Skype meetings for personal interaction

D. Weekly, mandatory meeting with all personnel present

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. equivalence partitioning enhanced with boundary value analysis

D. state transition testing