ISTQB Sample Questions Set - 15

1.    In case of Large Systems :

A.    Only few tests should be run

B.    Testing should be on the basis of Risk

C.    Only Good Test Cases should be executed.

D.   Test Cases written by good test engineers should be executed.

2.    What is the expected result for each of the following test cases?

	Rule1	Rule2	Rule3	Rule4
Conditions
Citibank Card Member	Yes	Yes	No	No
Type of Room	Silver	Platinum	Silver	Platinum
Actions
Offer upgrade To Gold Luxury	Yes	No	No	No
Offer upgrade to Silver	N/A	Yes	N/A	No

A. Citibank card member, holding a Silver room
B. Non Citibank-member, holding a Platinum room

A.    A – Don’t offer any upgrade, B – Don’t offer any upgrade.

B.    A – Don’t offer any upgrade, B – Offer upgrade to Gold.

C.    A – Offer upgrade to Silver, B – Offer upgrade to Silver.

D.   A – Offer upgrade to Gold, B – Don’t offer any upgrade.

3.    Which of the following is not phase of the Fundamental Test Process?

A.    Test Planning and Control

B.    Test implementation and Execution

C.    Requirement Analysis

D.   Evaluating Exit criteria and reporting

4.    The structure of an incident report is covered in the Standard for Software Test Documentation IEEE 829 and is called as:

A.    Anomaly Report

B.    Defect Report

C.    Test Defect Report

D.   Test Incident Report

5.    Repeated Testing of an already tested program, after modification, to discover any defects introduced or uncovered as a result of the changes in the software being tested or in another related or unrelated software component:

A.    Re Testing

B.    Confirmation Testing

C.    Regression Testing

D.   Negative Testing

6.     Consider the following state transition diagram of a switch. Which of the following represents an invalid state transition?

A.    OFF to ON

B.    ON to OFF

C.    FAULT to ON

7.    We use the output of the requirement analysis, the requirement specification as the input for writing:

A.    User Acceptance Test Cases

B.    Integration Level Test Cases

C.    Unit Level Test Cases

D.   Program specifications

8.    Regression testing should be performed:

i. Every week
ii. After the software has changed
iii. As often as possible
iv. When the environment has changed
v. When the project manager says

A.    i & ii are true, iii, iv & v are false

B.    ii, iii & iv are true, i & v are false

C.    ii & iv are true, i, iii & v are false

D.   ii is true, i, iii, iv & v are false

9.    Evaluating testability of the requirements and system are a part of which phase:-

A.    Test Analysis and Design

B.    Test Planning and control

C.    Test Implementation and execution

D.   Evaluating exit criteria and reporting

10.                       Which of the following has highest level of independence in which test cases are:

A.    Designed by persons who write the software under test

B.    Designed by a person from a different section

C.    Designed by a person from a different organization

D.   Designed by another person

11.                       Test planning has which of the following major tasks?

                                                             i.      Determining the scope and risks, and identifying the objectives of testing.

                                                           ii.      Determining the test approach (techniques,test items, coverage, identifying and interfacing the teams involved in testing , testware)

                                                        iii.      Reviewing the Test Basis (such as requirements,architecture,design,interface)

                                                         iv.      Determining the exit criteria.

A.    i,ii,iv are true and iii is false

B.    i,,iv are true and ii is false

C.    i,ii are true and iii,iv are false

D.   ii,iii,iv are true and i is false

12.                       Deciding How much testing is enough should take into account :-

i. Level of Risk including Technical and Business product and project risk
ii. Project constraints such as time and budget
iii. Size of Testing Team
iv. Size of the Development Team

A.    i,ii,iii are true and iv is false

B.    i,,iv are true and ii is false

C.    i,ii are true and iii,iv are false

D.   ii,iii,iv are true and i is false

13.                       Which of the following will be the best definition for Testing:

A.    The goal / purpose of testing is to demonstrate that the program works.

B.    The purpose of testing is to demonstrate that the program is defect free.

C.    The purpose of testing is to demonstrate that the program does what it is supposed to do.

D.   Testing is executing Software for the purpose of finding defects.

14.                       Minimum Tests Required for Statement Coverage and Branch Coverage:

Read P
Read Q
If p+q > 100 then
Print "Large"                 
End if
If p > 50 then
Print "pLarge"
End if

A.    Statement coverage is 2, Branch Coverage is 2

B.    Statement coverage is 3 and branch coverage is 2

C.    Statement coverage is 1 and branch coverage is 2

D.   Statement Coverage is 4 and Branch coverage is 2

15.                       Match every stage of the software Development Life cycle with the Testing Life cycle:

i. Hi-level design a Unit tests
ii. Code b Acceptance tests
iii. Low-level design c System tests
iv. Business requirements d Integration tests

A.    i-d , ii-a , iii-c , iv-b

B.    i-c , ii-d , iii-a , iv-b

C.    i-b , ii-a , iii-d , iv-c

D.   i-c , ii-a , iii-d , iv-b

16.                       Which of the following is a part of Test Closure Activities?

i. Checking which planned deliverables have been delivered
ii. Defect report analysis.
iii. Finalizing and archiving testware.
iv. Analyzing lessons.

A.    i , ii , iv are true and iii is false

B.    i , ii , iii are true and iv is false

C.    i , iii , iv are true and ii is false

D.   All of above are true

17.                       Which of the following is NOT part of a high level test plan?

A.    Functions not to be tested.

B.    Environmental requirements.

C.    Analysis of Specifications.

D.   Entry and Exit criteria.

18.                       If a candidate is given an exam of 40 questions, should get 25 marks to pass (61%) and should get 80% for distinction, what is equivalence class.

A.    23, 24, 25

B.    0, 12, 25

C.    30, 36, 39

D.   32,37,40

19.                       Which of the following statements is true of static analysis:

A.    Compiling code is not a form of static analysis.

B.    Static analysis need not be performed before imperative code is executed.

C.    Static analysis can find faults that are hard to find with dynamic testing.

D.   Extensive statistic analysis will not be needed if white- Box testing is to be performed.

20.                       In a system designed to work out the tax to be paid: An employee has $4000 of salary tax free. The next $1500 is taxed at 10% The next $28000 is taxed at 22% Any further amount is taxed at 40%

Which of these groups of numbers would fall into the same equivalence class?

A.    $5800; $28000; $32000

B.    $0; $200; $4200

C.    $5200; $5500; $28000

D.   $28001; $32000; $35000

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