ISTQB-BCS Certified Tester Foundation Level Exam

ISTQB-BCS Certified Tester Foundation Level Exam 2006 Answer Paper

ISTQB-BCS Certified Tester Foundation Level Exam

NOTE: Only one answer per question 1. Typical defects that are easier to find in reviews than in dynamic testing are: a) Deviations from standards. b) Requirement defects. c) Design defects. d) Insufficient maintainability and incorrect interface specifications. e) All of the above.

2. Load Testing Tools (Per. Testing) a) Reduces the time spent by the testers. b) Reduces the resources spent (hardware). c) Mostly used in web testing. d) All of the above.

3. Reviews, static analysis and dynamic testing have the same objective a) Identifying defects. b) Fixing defects. c) 1 and 2 d) None

4. Defect arrival rate curve: a) Shows the number of newly discovered defects per unit time b) Shows the number of open defects per unit time. c) Shows the cumulative total number of defects found up to this time. d) Any of these, depending on the company.

5. What are the 2 major components taken into consideration with risk analysis? (Test Mgmt) a) The probability the negative event will occur b) The potential loss or impact associated with the event c) Both a and b d) Neither a nor b

ISTQB-BCS Certified Tester Foundation Level Exam

6. We can achieve complete statement coverage but still miss bugs because: a) The failure occurs only if you reach a statement taking the TRUE branch of an IF statement, and you got to the statement with a test that passed through the FALSE branch. b) The failure depends on the programs inability to handle specific data values, rather than on the programs flow of control. c) Both A and B d) We are not required to test code that customers are unlikely to execute. 7. Who is responsible for conducting test readiness review? (Performing Test) a) Test manager b) Test engineer c) both A & B d) Project Manager 8. What if the project isnt big enough to justify extensive testing? (Test Mgmt) a) Use risk based analysis to find out which areas need to be tested b) Use automation tool for testing c) a and b d) None of the above 9. What are the key features to be concentrated upon when doing a testing for world wide web sites (Test Execution) a) Interaction between html pages b) Performance on the client side c) Security aspects d) All of the above 10. What can be done if requirements are changing continuously? (Test Mgmt) a) Work with the projects stakeholders early on to understand how requirements might change so that alternate test plans and strategies can be worked out in advance, if possible. b) Negotiate to allow only easily-implemented new requirements into the project, while moving more difficult new requirements into future versions of the application c) Both a and b d) None of the above

ISTQB-BCS Certified Tester Foundation Level Exam

11. The selection of test cases for regression testing (Testing artifacts) a) Requires knowledge on the bug fixes and how it affect the system b) Includes the area of frequent defects c) Includes the area which has undergone many/recent code changes d) All of the above

12. Measurement dysfunction is a problem because: a) Even though the numbers you look at appear better, to achieve these numbers, people are doing other aspects of their work much less well. b) We dont know how to measure a variable (our measurement is dysfunctional) and so we dont know how to interpret the result. c) You are measuring the wrong thing and thus reaching the wrong conclusions. d) All of the above.

13. What do you mean by Having to say NO (test planning process) a) No, the problem is not with testers b) No, the software is not ready for production c) Both a & b d) none of the above

14. There are several risks of managing your projects schedule with a statistical reliability model. These include (choose one or more of the following): a) Testers spend more energy early in the product trying to find bugs than preparing to do the rest of the projects work more efficiently b) Managers might not realize that the testing effort is ineffective, late in the project, because they expect a low rate of bug finding, so the low rate achieved doesnt alarm them. c) It can increase the end-of-project pressure on testers to not find bugs, or to not report bugs. d) All of the above

ISTQB-BCS Certified Tester Foundation Level Exam

15. Operations testing is (Performing Test) a) Compliance testing b) Disaster testing c) Verifying compliance to rules d) Functional testing e) Ease of operations 16. Tools like change Man, Clear case are used as (test planning process) a) Functional automation tools b) Performance testing tools c) Configuration management tools d) None of the above.

17. Important consequences of the impossibility of complete testing are (Choose one or more answers): a) We can never be certain that the program is bug free. b) We have no definite stopping point for testing, which makes it easier for some managers to argue for very little testing. c) We have no easy answer for what testing tasks should always be required, because every task takes time that could be spent on other high importance tasks. d) All of the above.

18. Which is not in sequence in 11 Step Software Testing process (Testers Role SDLC) a) Assess development plan and status b) Develop the test plan c) Test software design d) Test software requirement 19. In the MASPAR case study: a) Security failures were the result of untested parts of code. b) The development team achieved complete statement and branch coverage but missed a serious bug in the MASPAR operating system. c) An error in the code was so obscure that you had to test the function with almost every input value to find its two special-case failures. d) All of the above.

ISTQB-BCS Certified Tester Foundation Level Exam

20. Complete statement and branch coverage means: a) That you have tested every statement in the program. b) That you have tested every statement and every branch in the program. c) That you have tested every IF statement in the program. d) That you have tested every combination of values of IF statements in the program 21. What if the project isnt big enough to justify extensive testing? (Test Mgmt) a) Use risk based analysis to find out which areas need to be tested b) Use automation tool for testing c) a and b d) None of the above 22. Security falls under (Performing Test) a) compliance testing b) disaster testing c) verifying compliance to rules d) functional testing e) ease of operations 23. Which is the best definition of complete testing: a) You have discovered every bug in the program. b) You have tested every statement, branch, and combination of branches in the program. c) You have completed every test in the test plan. d) You have reached the scheduled ship date. 24. What is the concept of introducing a small change to the program and having the effects of that change show up in some test? (Testing concepts) a) Desk checking b) Debugging a program c) A mutation error d) Performance testing e) Introducing mutations

ISTQB-BCS Certified Tester Foundation Level Exam

25. Software testing activities should start a) As soon as the code is written b) During the design stage c) When the requirements have been formally documented d) As soon as possible in the development life cycle

26. Faults found by users are due to: a) Poor quality software b) Poor software and poor testing c) Bad luck d) Insufficient time for testing

27. What is the main reason for testing software before releasing it? a) To show that system will work after release b) To decide when the software is of sufficient quality to release c) To find as many bugs as possible before release d) To give information for a risk based decision about release

28. Which of the following statements is not true a) Performance testing can be done during unit testing as well as during the testing of whole system b) The acceptance test does not necessarily include a regression test c) Verification activities should not involve testers (reviews, inspections etc) d) Test environments should be as similar to production environments as possible

29. When reporting faults found to developers, testers should be: a) As polite, constructive and helpful as possible b) Firm about insisting that a bug is not a feature if it should be fixed c) Diplomatic, sensitive to the way they may react to criticism d) All of the above

ISTQB-BCS Certified Tester Foundation Level Exam

30. In which order should tests be run? a) The most important tests first b) The most difficult tests first (to allow maximum time for fixing) c) The easiest tests first (to give initial confidence) d) The order they are thought of

31. The later in the development life cycle a fault is discovered, the more expensive it is to fix. why? a) The documentation is poor, so it takes longer to find out what the software is doing. b) Wages are rising c) The fault has been built into more documentation, code, tests, etc. d) None of the above

32. Which is not true-The black box tester a) Should be able to understand a functional specification or requirements document b) Should be able to understand the source code. c) Is highly motivated to find faults d) Is creative to find the systems weaknesses

33. A test design technique is a) A process for selecting test cases b) A process for determining expected outputs c) A way to measure the quality of software d) A way to measure in a test plan what has to be done

34. Testware(test cases, test dataset) a) Needs configuration management just like requirements, design and code b) Should be newly constructed for each new version of the software c) Is needed only until the software is released into production or use d) Does not need to be documented and commented, as it does not form part of the released software system

ISTQB-BCS Certified Tester Foundation Level Exam

35. An incident logging system a) Only records defects b) Is of limited value c) Is a valuable source of project information during testing if it contains all incidents d) Should be used only by the test team.

36. Increasing the quality of the software, by better development methods, will affect the time needed for testing (the test phases) by: a) Reducing test time b) No change c) Increasing test time d) Cant say

37. Coverage measurement a) Is nothing to do with testing b) Is a partial measure of test thoroughness c) Branch coverage should be mandatory for all software d) Can only be applied at unit or module testing, not at system testing

38. When should you stop testing? a) When time for testing has run out. b) When all planned tests have been run c) When the test completion criteria have been met d) When no faults have been found by the tests run

ISTQB-BCS Certified Tester Foundation Level Exam

39. Which of the following is true? a) Component testing should be black box, system testing should be white box. b) If u find a lot of bugs in testing, you should not be very confident about the quality of software c) The fewer bugs you find,the better your testing was d) The more tests you run, the more bugs you will find.

40. What is the important criterion in deciding what testing technique to use? a) How well you know a particular technique b) The objective of the test c) How appropriate the technique is for testing the application d) Whether there is a tool to support the technique