ISQI CTAL-TA_V4.0 Exam Questions : ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level Test Analyst (CTAL-TA v4.0)

You are working on a project to build an application that will handle insurance claims. The main requirements for the system are that it shall:
* Allow users to enter details of claims that have been submitted by insured customers.
* Take each claim through a workflow that will allow an assessor to approve the request, reject it or request clarification from the claimant.
* Send approved requests to the accounts payable system for payment.
The solution is being developed according to the company's standard V-model methodology. The requirements are clearly documented and include a business process model. Operational profiles have been created to guide performance testing.
A risk-based approach to testing is used; frequency of use and role of the user are major factors in feature risk assessment.
System testing has almost finished but a major change to the approval workflow is just about to be delivered.
A standard regression test pack has not yet been established, but ad-hoc regression testing has already been performed on earlier builds.
As a TA. you have updated the list of product risks and must now decide the scope of the regression testing.
Which pair of techniques will be MOST effective for selecting the regression tests?
a) History-based, driven by the results of the regression tests run so far b) Risk-based, driven by the updated list of product risks and its traceability to the tests c) Operational profile-based, driven by the likely patterns of use of the relevant transactions d) Requirement traceability matrix-based, driven by the links from affected requirements to related tests e) Impact analysis, driven by consultation with technical stakeholders to identify what might be affected.

• A. c) and d)
• B. a) and e)
• C. b) and e)
• D. b) and c)

You have been appointed to be a TA in the development of a road traffic control application, which will be installed at busy road junctions to control the operation of traffic signal lights according to sensors that detect traffic volume on the various approaches to the junction. The project is still in the early stages of test planning, but it is already clear that despite a tight schedule its safety-critical nature demands careful and thorough testing.
You have been asked to decide whether automated test design would deliver benefits. Which characteristic of automated test design is MOST important for the development of this system?

• A. Testware can be generated in various output formats, e.g. for use by different tools
• B. Less maintenance effort for the testware after the system has gone live
• C. Creating the model will expose defects in the test basis early in the project
• D. Testware generated by tools usually contains fewer mistakes than testware created manually

You are developing test cases for an application which performs complex calculations and have decided to model these calculations on a spreadsheet, to determine expected results from inputs.
Which solution to the test oracle problem BEST describes the approach you are using?

• A. Metamorphic testing
• B. Property-based testing
• C. Deterministic testing
• D. A pseudo-oracle

Your project is developing an application to process claims against insurance policies. Which of the following is a good example of CRUD completeness testing?

• A. A set of test cases that, when executed, verify the application's ability to independently create, read, update and delete a claim
• B. A set of test cases that verify the sequence of creating, reading, updating, reading and deleting a claim, and then check that it can no longer be read
• C. A review of the requirements to check that all user needs for CRUD operations on a claim record have been elicited
• D. A review of the technical specifications to check that the abilities to create, read, update and delete a claim have been included in the application architecture

The following decision table shows the rules for sending a package. Same day delivery will not be provided for big packages. All combinations of same day delivery and international destination have been removed as they are infeasible.

How many columns will the table have after all possible minimization has been performed?

• A. 7
• B. 8
• C. 9
• D. 10