CTAL-TM Online Practice Questions and Answers

Regarding the process described above, what is the most important recommendation you would make using IEEE 1044 as a guide?

A. No priority or severity assigned

B. Incident numbering is manual rather than automated

C. No mentioning of reproduceability

D. No classification on type of incident

The development manager is managing the review of the responses received from bidders, and has asked the in-house test manager to provide a review checklist for the test management aspects of the responses.

Which of the following checkpoints would be appropriate?

A. The bidder's test policy should enforce that incident management fully conforms to IEEE 1044.

B. The bidder's project strategy shows that the data content of all the test environments conforms to EU standards.

C. The bidder's test plan shows that the application will be delivered for acceptance in six months time.

D. The bidder's project test plan depicts a phased implementation with later delivery dates to be confirmed and states that test deliverables will be developed using IEEE 829 as a guide.

Which of the following phases in the fundamental test process is considered to deliver a document which can be used as a major input for test process improvement?

A. Test planning and control

B. Test implementation and execution

C. Evaluating exit criteria and reporting

D. Test project closure

During test process improvement it is recommended to use standards where possible. Standards originate from various sources and they cover different subjects in relation to testing.

Pick TWO sources of software standards, useful to software testing from the ones mentioned below.

A. ISO 9126-1 `Software engineering- Product quality Part 1: Quality model' is an international standard, that provides a basis on which to define quality assurance solutions.

B. ISA 4126-1 `Software engineering- Product quality Part 1: Quality model' is an international standard, that provides a basis on which to define quality assurance solutions.

C. BS-7925-2 `Software testing. Software component testing is a national standard used internationally. It covers a number of testing techniques that may be useful both on component testing level and on system testing level.

D. SY-395-01 `Standard for East Coast Hospital software' is a regional standard adapted from a national one. Besides hospital software, this standard ought to be used also by other types of software system in the region.

E. IEEE 829 `standard for software test documentation' is an international standard to be following mandatory by all testing origination regardless of lifecycle models.

The test improvement project will take place in an organization developing a safety- critical avionics application.

Which one of the following standards do you believe would be most appropriate to take into account for compliance during your assignment?

A. ISO 9126

B. IEEE 829

C. BS 7925/2

D. DO-178B

Which of the following team roles would be most appropriate to enhance the team and why?

A. A person with the ability to complete tasks

B. A quality assurance officer

C. A person with in-depth technical skills

D. A person who brings new ideas to the team

Which of the following is a project risk mitigation step you might take as test manager?

A. Testing for performance problems

B. Hiring a contractor after a test analyst leaves the company

C. Arranging a back-up test environment in case the existing one fails during testing

D. Performing a project retrospective meeting using the test results after each increment

Which test management control option is most appropriate to adopt under these circumstances?

A. Introduce mandatory evening and weekend working to retrieve the 3 week slippage.

B. Reconsider the exit criteria and review the test plan in the context of the current situation.

C. Advise the user community regarding the reduced scope of requirements and the additional incremental delivery.

D. Arrange a meeting with the user community representatives to discuss the user interface.

Which of the following would be the most significant input to estimating the time to carry out the specified testing tasks?

A. The skills and experience of developers to correct the failures.

B. The standards used for the requirements specification.

C. The metrics recorded from testing the capture-replay tool.

D. The number of testers in the company and their grade.

IEEE 1028 also defines "management review" as a type of review.

What is the main purpose of a management review?

A. Align technical concepts during the design phase

B. Establish a common understanding of requirements

C. Provide independent evaluation of compliance to processes, regulations, standards etc.

D. To monitor progress, assess the status of a project, and make decisions about future actions