Certified Tester Advanced Level Technical Test Analyst
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Considering the following statements:
A) The data used for a test is held external to the automated script
B) The scope of an automated test suite is driven by the range of test data available
C) It uses a high-level language to separate the action to be performed on the test data from the test script
D) A spreadsheet is used to record the actions to be performed instead of the input data
Which of the following options is the correct selection of these statements to describe data-driven and keyword-driven automation?
A unit test should be deterministic. Which option correctly describes the meaning of 'deterministic' as a characteristic of a unit test9
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The following epic has been written:
As a vehicle driver
I want to find an available space In a car park
So that I can pay in advance to reserve that space
This epic will be used to develop user stories for a new National Car Parking application Both public and private car park owners will be able to utilise the system, allowing drivers of all kinds to guarantee an available car parking space on arrival at their chosen car park, according to the kind of vehicle that they may drive
There will be multiple stakeholders including different car park owners, different user groups including disabled drivers and different vehicle types such as car. van and motorbike.
From this epic, multiple user stories will be written. The following acceptance criteria have been written for the epic, and will be applicable to all user stories (each user story will also have its own acceptance cntena):
1.End-to-end response time for any individual request submitted by a user must not exceed 5 seconds
2.All correspondence with stakeholders must be via email and text message
3.The application must be accessible on most mobile technology
4.A user cannot submit a form unless all mandatory fields are entered
5.Payment method can be made using the most popular electronic options
Applying the INVEST technique to this epic, including its acceptance criteria, which of the following statements is correct?
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The requirements specification of a product begins with this sentence:
"The xyz system will provide many new user functions. These must be easy for our operators to use and tolerant of user input errors. These new functions must also be easy to learn. Because of very high transaction rates and limited processing power, the software design must be very efficient. The system must be available as close to 24x7 as possible.
Which three ISO 25010 major quality characteristics should be tested for possible defects with this implementation?
An enhancement to a Social Media application allows for the creation of new Groups. Any number of existing application members can be added to a Group. An attempt to add a non-existent member of the application to a Group will result in an error, as will an attempt to add the same member twice. Members can be removed from an existing Group. An existing Group can be deleted but only if there are no current members attached to it.
Which one of the following Keyword-driven input tables provides the BEST test coverage of this enhancement?
Table 1
KeywordGroup IdMember Id
Create.GroupGroup3
Add_MemberGroup3@Member1
Add.MemberGroup3(a)Member2
Delete_GroupGroup3
Remove.MemberGroup3@Memberl
Remove_MemberGroup3@)Member2
Delete.GroupGroup3
Result
Group created
Member added to Group
Member added to Group
Error - Group not empty
Member removed from group
Member removed from group
Group deleted
Table 2
KeywordGroup IdMember IdResult
Create.GroupGrouplGroup created
Add.MemberGrouplMember4Error - member does not exist
Add.MemberGroupl(©MemberlMember added to Group
Delete.GroupGrouplError - Group not empty
Remove_Member@Member 1Member removed from group
Delete.GroupGrouplGroup deleted
Table 3
KeywordGroup IdMember IdResult
Create.GroupGroup3Group created
Add.MemberGroup3Member9Error - member does not exist
Add.MemberGroup3(©MemberlMember added to Group
Add_MemberGroup 3(©MemberlError - member already in group
Delete.GroupGroup3Error - Group not empty
Remove-MemberGroups(©Member 1Member removed from group
Delete.GroupGroupsGroup deleted
Table 4
KeywordGroup IdMember IdResult
Create.GroupGrouplGroup created
Add.MemberGroupl@Member3Member added to Group
Add.MemberGroupl@Member3Error - member already in group
Delete.GroupGrouplError - Group not empty
Remove.MemberGroupl@Member1Member removed from group
Delete.GroupGrouplGroup deleted
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Consider the simplified logic below for crediting money to a bank account.
Receive money and account number to be credited
IF account number is valid
IF customer account is active
Store current account balance as oldBalance
Credit money to account
IF oldBalance < zero
IF balance now >= zero
Set message "Overdraft cleared"
ELSE
Set message "A/c overdrawn"
ENDIF
ELSE
Set message = "You have more money"
ENDIF
IF account holder is VIP customer
Send message by email to customer
ENDIF
ELSE
Set message "A/c inactive"
Send message by email to supervisor
ENDIF
ELSE
Add 1 to count of invalid inputs
ENDIF
What percentage of decision testing coverage has been achieved by the following suite of test cases?
Test Case A - Account number valid, account is active, oldBalance = -100, balance now = +200, not a VIP customer
Test Case B - Account number valid, account is active, oldBalance = -100, balance now = -50, is a VIP customer
Which statement about component testing tools and build automation tools is TRUE?
An enhancement to a Social Media application allows for the creation of new Groups. Any number of existing application members can be added to a Group. An attempt to add a non-existing member of the application to a Group will result in an error. Members can also be removed from an existing Group. Existing Groups can also be deleted but only if there are no current members attached to it.
Which keyword-driven input table provides an adequate test of this enhancement?
The following user story has been developed:
As a customer of Alpha Airways who has booked a flight
I want to access the flight reservation
So that I can update the booking details
Which BDD scenario written in Gherkin format correctly applies to this user story?
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Which of the following is NOT a common issue with traditional capture/playback test automation?
Which of the following best describes the reason why poorly written code is usually more difficult to maintain than well written code?
You are working on a new product that will provide an online pizza ordering service. Not everyone wants to create a frequent-eater pizza account, so the user can either log in to their existing account, create an account or proceed as a “guest" user. People with existing accounts have the option to update their accounts including changing address, changing credit card information and changing phone number. New account creation requires the user to enter their address, credit card information and phone number. This information Is validated to be sure the address matches the credit card information.
Once the user logs in, they are able to order their pizza. They can request up to five different pizzas and can select different ingredients on each. A user is allowed to pick up to 10 different ingredients per pizza. They can also select from a pre-defined set of ingredients as follows: “meat lovers", “all veggie’, “cheese please’, and “throw it all on".
The busiest day of the year for this product will be the day of the final football game of the professional season. In addition to the normal high load, the company will also be running a special on the “cheese please" pizza (buy 3 get 2 more free). The new product will need to handle a load that Is expected to be twice as high as the load on the old product last year. Given this information, what is an important item that should be addressed In the architectural specification?
You are working for a video game manufacturer You have a new title being released Market interest in the product is at an all time high and everyone in the company has been promised huge bonuses if the launch is successful You are responsible for portability testing Which area, m particular should you emphasize in your testing?
You are working on a project to develop an application that allows users to collaborate via bespoke, online whiteboards. The first release, delivering core functionality, highlighted misunderstandings of the user stories between testers, developers and the product owner during sprint development Since that release, the developers have agreed to implement a TDD approach for future software development.
Creation of the product backlog for the second release is underway and you have recommended to the project stakeholders that an atdd approach be adopted for the backlog's user stories. What would be a GOOD REASON for making this recommendation?
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A project to develop a new system has performance efficiency listed as a critical requirement. Which of the following describes how and when the Technical Test Analyst should FIRST be involved in performance test activities for the new system?
You are testing software that requires you to enter defined order numbers and either add, delete or update the information associated with that order number, which of the following is the minimum set of columns you should see in your keyword-driven input table?
Consider the following section of pseudo code and associated test Input data:
If withdrawal-amount <= amount-on-deposit then Set authorize-transaction = true
Else
If withdrawal-amount <= S100 AND preferred-customer = true then Set authorize-transaction = true
Else
Set authorize-transaction = false
Endif
Endif
Input data set #1
withdrawal-amount = 160
amount-on-deposit = 100
preferred-customer = true
Input data set #2
withdrawal-amount = 500
amount-on-deposit = 500
preferred-customer = false
Input data set #3
withdrawal-amount = 50
amount-on-deposit = 500
preferred-customer = false
What would be the decision coverage achieved if each of these test input data sets were run once?
Why could test cases need to be refactored in an Agile project?
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Which option correctly states the sequence of tasks to be undertaken when re-factoring test cases?
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Which of the following is a common technical issue that causes automation projects to fail to meet the planned return on investment?
Within the world of consumer electronics, the amount of embedded software is growing rapidly. The amount of software in high-end television sets has increased by a factor of about eight over the last six years. In addition, the market of consumer electronics has been faced with a 5 -10% price erosion per year. The price of a product is, among a number of other things, determined by the microcontroller used. Therefore, the use of ROM and RAM remains under high pressure in consumer electronic products, leading to severe restrictions on code size.
You are a Technical Test Analyst involved in the review of the architecture of this project.
Which of the following issues would be MOST important to focus on during the review and when verifying the correct implementation?
You have been assigned to perform a review on code provided below:

Which type of defect should you report as part of the code review?
Which of the following statements about performance testing tools is NOT correct?
Which of the following statements about Application Programming Interface (API) testing is TRUE?
What is MOST likely to be a consideration when implementing a new performance test tool?
Below is pseudo-code which calculates a customer's cruise credits based on past cruise history:
PROGRAM CALC CRUISE CREDITS (CUST_ID)
COUNT_CRUISES, CRUISE_CREDITS, LOYALTY_RATING: INTEGER
CRUISE_LENGTH, CRUISE_ACCOM_TYPE: VAR
LOYALTY_RATING = 0
COUNT_CRUISES = 0
CRUISE_LENGTH = 0
CRUISE_ACCOM_TYPE = 0
BEGIN
READ CUSTOMER'S CRUISE HISTORY TO OBTAIN COUNT OF CRUISES
READ CRUISE_HISTORY (CUST_ID)
WHILE COUNT_CRUISES != -1 DO
READ CUSTOMER'S NEXT CRUISE
READ NEXT_CRUISE
IF CRUISE_ACCOM_TYPE = 3 THEN
CRUISE_CREDITS = CRUISE_CREDITS + 5
ELSE
IF CRUISE_ACCOM_TYPE = 2 THEN
CRUISE_CREDITS = CRUISE_CREDITS + 3
ELSE
CRUISE_CREDITS = CRUISE_CREDITS + 2
ENDIF
ENDIF
COUNT_CRUISES = COUNT_CRUISES - 1
ENDWHILE
LOYALTY_RATING = CRUISE_CREDITS / COUNT_CRUISES
WRITE ("CRUISE CREDIT TOTAL IS:")
WRITE (CRUISE_CREDITS)
END PROGRAM CALC CRUISE CREDITS
The variable Cruise_Length (line 3) results in which type of data flow anomaly?
Which of the following statements best captures the difference between data-driven and keyword-driven test automation?
As a technical test analyst, you are involved in a risk analysis session using the Failure Mode and Effect Analysis technique. You are calculating risk priorities. Which of the following are the major factors in this exercise?
Below is the pseudo-code for the Win program:

The bingo program contains a data flow anomaly. Which data flow anomaly can be found in this program?
You are planning an exploratory test session for the current sprint which includes the following user stories:
User Story AA-008
As a booked customer of Alpha Airways
I want to access an open flight reservation
So that I can update the booking details
User Story AA-012
As a booking clerk for Alpha Airways
I want to access a customer's flight reservation
So that i can view their reservation details
what three things should be considered when creating the session's test charter?
a)What are the user roles specified in the two user stories?
b)What level of coverage and efficiency was should be achieved by the session’
c)Will the session fit within a 60 to 120 minutes time box’
d)Do Will the findings from the exploratory sessions need to be documented?
e)What actions are performed by the user roles according to the acceptance criteria for these user stories’
f)Should the exploratory session be automated’
g)Has the Definition of Done been met for both user stories’
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Consider the following code segments.
Segment 1:
If a > b then setc = 12
elseif c >7 set c = 5
endif
Segment 2: setc= 12 for n = 1 to c
display c
endfor
Segment 3:
If (a > b) or (c < d) then
set c = 12
else
set c = 5
endlf
Segment 4:
set y = 4
call (segments)
segments:
start
for I = 1 to y
print y
endfor
end
Which segment would receive the highest cyclomatic complexity value?
When planning and specifying security tests which of the following is NOT likely to be a useful part of the approach?
Below is pseudo-code which calculates a customer's cruise credits based on past cruise history:
PROGRAM CALC CRUISE CREDITS (CUST_ID) COUNT_CRUISES, CRUISE_CREDITS, LOYALTY_RATING: INTEGER CRUISE_LENGTH, CRUISE_ACCOM_TYPE: VAR
LOYALTY_RATING = 0
COUNT_CRUISES = 0
CRUISE_LENGTH = 0
CRUISE_ACCOM_TYPE = 0
BEGIN
READ CUSTOMER'S CRUISE HISTORY TO OBTAIN COUNT OF CRUISES
READ CRUISE_HISTORY (CUST_ID)
WHILE COUNT_CRUISES != -1 DO
READ CUSTOMER'S NEXT CRUISE
READ NEXT_CRUISE
IF CRUISE_ACCOM_TYPE = 3 THEN
CRUISE_CREDITS = CRUISE_CREDITS + 5
ELSE
IF CRUISE_ACCOM_TYPE = 2 THEN
CRUISE_CREDITS = CRUISE_CREDITS + 3
ELSE
CRUISE_CREDITS = CRUISE_CREDITS + 2
ENDIF
ENDIF
COUNT_CRUISES = COUNT_CRUISES - 1
ENDWHILE
LOYALTY_RATING = CRUISE_CREDITS / COUNT_CRUISES
WRITE ("CRUISE CREDIT TOTAL IS:")
WRITE (CRUISE_CREDITS)
END PROGRAM CALC CRUISE CREDITS
The code contains data flow anomalies on lines 14 and 27. Which examples of data flow anomalies can be found on these lines?
You are working on project where re-use of software is an objective. You are involved in the project as a Technical Test Analyst and have been given the task to develop a checklist for code reviews.
Which question from the list below should you implement as part of the code review checklist?
Given the following pseudo code for a program to solve quadratic equations:
program Quadratic Formula
integer: a, b, c, d
floating point: r1, r2
READ (a)
READ (b)
READ (c)
d := (b * b) - (4 * a * c)
IF d < 0 THEN
PRINT ("Imaginary Roots")
ELSE
r1 := (-b + sqrt(d)) / (2 * a)
r2 := (-b - sqrt(d)) / (2 * a)
PRINT ("first root is: " r1)
PRINT ("second root is: " r2)
ENDIF
END program Quadratic_Formula
Which of the following checklist items is MOST likely to indicate a problem in this program?
A new Payroll system calculates the amount of tax that each employee must pay (TaxToPay) on their gross monthly salary (in (), and the net salary (NetSal) that they will receive after that amount of tax has been deducted It also calculates the amounts of tax (TaxPdYTD) and net salary (SalPdYTD) paid in the year to date (YTD) by adding them to the stored amounts from last month (for month 1 these will be zero), inputs Include Employee id (Empid) and Gross Salary this month (GrossSal). Tax Rate is looked up on the key of Employee Id, the amounts of tax and net salary paid in the year to date are looked up on the key of (Employee Id and [month • 1]) except that for month 1 they will be zero.
if both employees were paid the same in month 1 as in the current month 2. for which tax has now to be calculated, which data-driven input and expected output table is correct for this situation?
Table 1
MonthEmpidGrossSalTaxRateTaxToPayNetSalTaxPdYTD
212000153001700600
222200204401760880
Table 2
MonthEmpidGrossSalTaxRateTaxToPayNetSalSalPdYTD
2120000.153001700600
2222000.24401760880
Table 3
MonthEmpidGrossSalTaxToPayNetSalTaxPdYTDSalPdYTD
11200030017006003400
12220044017608803520
Table 4
MonthEmpidGrossSalTaxToPayNetSalTaxPdYTDSalPdYTD
21200030017006003400
22220044017608803520
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As Technical Test Analyst on a test automation project covering the acquisition of a commercial test execution tool, what would you MOST likely be responsible for?
Which TWO of the following describe a function of some common web-based testing tools?
A) To generate HTML and XML that is compliant with industry standards such as W3C
B) To provide information on the size of the web pages and on the time necessary to download them
C) To scan and check that no broken or missing hyperlinks are present on a web site
D) To allow applications to be tested by simulating a mobile platform's runtime environment
E) To provide an engine that allows a user to execute a model describing a system's intended run-time behavior
Within an embedded software project, the maintainability of the software is considered to be critical. It has been decided to use static analysis on each delivered software component.
Which of the following metrics is NOT a maintainability metric typically used with static analysis?
You are working on an internet banking project. Your company is offering this product to the financial market. For each new customer, some customization will typically be needed. To make the product successful there is a strong focus during development on a reliable and maintainable architecture. To support architectural reviews, a checklist will be developed. Within the checklist specific sections will be attributed to reliability and maintainability.
Which question from the list below should you include in the maintainability section of the architectural review checklist?
BestFor Incorporated is a rapidly growing online financial services company that offers guidance to its customers on a range of financial products. Its first website, BestForMortgages, was launched two years ago, shortly followed by BestForPensions. The popularity of both sites has driven the company to expand its offerings into other sectors and a third website, BestForFood, is currently under development.
The first two websites have proven to be functionally robust but suffered from performance issues due to:
Underestimation of concurrent user access at peak times in its original operational profiles
Data volumes rapidly growing beyond expectations on a single database shared by both sites.
All three websites will share the same web server.
In consideration of the problems encountered with the first two websites, which TWO of the following types of testing should be performed on the BestForFood website to see whether similar defects exist?
A) Load Testing
B) Stress Testing
C) Scalability testing
D) Portability Testing
E) Recoverability testing
The F in the mnemonic FIRST stands for Fast Which option correctly states the meanings of the other four letters (IRST)?
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You have conducted static analysis on several new modules for an existing product. You are now executing test cases and are seeing inconsistent problems including crashes. Intermittent error messages are appearing. Despite all your best efforts, you are not able to find reproducible scenarios to force these errors.
What problem in the code are you likely seeing?
Consider the code fragment provided below:

The comment frequency of the code fragment is 13%.
To which non-functional quality characteristic does a good level of comment frequency especially contribute?
Consider the following section of code:
If ((A > B) or (C > D)) and (E = F) then
print A;
Endlf
Which of the following sets of test data can be used to achieve multiple condition coverage with the least number of tests?

You are responsible for the non-functional testing of a website supporting a popular restaurant chain. Due to the rapid expansion of the number of restaurants in the chain, the company is expecting the peak number of concurrent website views to more than triple in the next 6 months. As a result, it has purchased two further production servers to support the existing one. A new hardware release has been scheduled for which the following product risk has been recorded:
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Which one of the following non-functional test typos would be BEST to mitigate this risk?

Which of the following statements is true regarding fault seeding and fault injection tools?