Authentic Best resources for CTFL-AT Test Engine Practice Exam [Q14-Q32]

NEW QUESTION 14
You are working in a software development company which, for many years, used a sequential development model and was organized into separate departments for each functional group (e.g. business analysts, developers, testers) located within their own office space. Your organization has recently changed to a SCRUM agile framework. Which of the following is an important organizational and behavioral best practice for a tester in the SCRUM team that should have also been practiced when using the sequential model?

Resilient testing means that the testing process is capable of dealing with rapid changes throughout the development process with test plans being updated during each iteration.

Credibility means that the tester must share information with the stakeholders about the test process so that they find the selected test strategy and testing activities trustworthy.

Cross-functional teamwork means that all team members contribute to testing in various ways. For example, involving people with the test strategy, test planning and execution as well as test reporting.

Co-located teamwork means that all team members, including developers and testers, must sit together in the same office, so they can quickly communicate face-to-face.

NEW QUESTION 15
Which one of the following is a testable acceptance criterion?

The solution shall support business processes.

The system shall be easy to use.

The response time to confirm a customer submission must not exceed 5 seconds.

The tools for testing are tested before use and are meeting the requirements.

NEW QUESTION 16
Which of the following statements about the benefits of the Agile processes promoting early and frequent feedback is NOT true?

In Agile projects where feedback is provided early and frequently, defects and incorrect requirements are caught earlier and those problems can be fixed faster.

Feedback from well-conducted Agile retrospectives can be used to positively affect the development process over the course of the next iteration.

Early and frequent feedback enables the team to deliver the features that represent the highest business value to the customer first.

Increasing the frequency of feedback and communication between all the stakeholders involved in Agile projects eliminates all communication problems.

NEW QUESTION 17
You are working in a team preparing a bank loan application. Your task is the preparation of acceptance tests for the following user story:
“IF a customer needs a loan for less than 50,000 Euros and they have made repayments regularly (without any delay) and the customer’s monthly income is more than 3000 Euros for the last year, THEN the bank will accept the loan request; in other cases, the bank will not accept the request. A customer assistant is responsible for preparing data for approval but the approval is done by the bank manager.” Which of the following test cases can be treated as acceptance test criteria for the above user story?
1) As a customer assistant I can log in to the system and check the history of the customer account for the last year.
2) As a customer assistant I can log in to the system and check the history of the customer debts and repayments.
3) As a customer assistant I can log in to the system and change my password.
4) As a bank manager I can log in to the system and receive the information of all requests waiting for approval.
5) As a bank manager I can log in to the system and decide whether to approve a loan for a customer.
6) As a bank manager I can log in to the system within 10 seconds.

Acceptance test criteria are 1, 2, 3 and 6

Acceptance test criteria are 1, 3, 4 and 5

Acceptance test criteria are 2, 4, 5 and 6

Acceptance test criteria are 1, 2, 4 and 5

Explanation
Acceptance test criteria are the conditions that a user story must satisfy to be accepted by the customer or the stakeholder. They are usually derived from the user story and its acceptance scenarios, and they should cover the functional and non-functional requirements of the user story. Acceptance test criteria should be clear, concise, testable, and agreed upon by the team and the customer or the stakeholder.
In this case, the user story describes the business rule for approving a loan request based on the customer’s income, repayment history, and loan amount. The user story also specifies the roles of the customer assistant and the bank manager in the process. Therefore, the acceptance test criteria should verify that the user story is implemented correctly and that the system behaves as expected for different scenarios and inputs.
The following test cases can be treated as acceptance test criteria for the above user story:
As a customer assistant I can log in to the system and check the history of the customer account for the last year. This test case verifies that the customer assistant can access the system and view the customer’s income information, which is one of the factors for approving the loan request.
As a customer assistant I can log in to the system and check the history of the customer debts and repayments. This test case verifies that the customer assistant can access the system and view the customer’s repayment history, which is another factor for approving the loan request.
As a bank manager I can log in to the system and receive the information of all requests waiting for approval. This test case verifies that the bank manager can access the system and see the list of loan requests that have been prepared by the customer assistant, and that the system provides the necessary information for each request.
As a bank manager I can log in to the system and decide whether to approve a loan for a customer. This test case verifies that the bank manager can access the system and perform the approval action for a loan request, and that the system applies the business rule correctly and updates the status of the request accordingly.
The following test cases cannot be treated as acceptance test criteria for the above user story:
As a customer assistant I can log in to the system and change my password. This test case is not related to the user story, as it does not verify any of the functional or non-functional requirements of the user story. It is a generic test case that applies to any user of the system, not specific to the customer assistant role or the loan approval process.
As a bank manager I can log in to the system within 10 seconds. This test case is not related to the user story, as it does not verify any of the functional or non-functional requirements of the user story. It is a performance test case that applies to any user of the system, not specific to the bank manager role or the loan approval process.
References: ISTQB Foundation Level Agile Tester Syllabus1, Section 2.3.1, pages 15-16; ISTQB Glossary of Testing Terms2, version 4.0, pages 2 and 3.

NEW QUESTION 18
Which of the following statements about Agile retrospectives is CORRECT?

During Agile retrospectives, testers should be encouraged to provide constructive suggestions only on non-testing activities.

In an Agile retrospective the moderator can encourage and make sure that good practices are kept by the team, by asking what the team is doing well.

Agile retrospectives should be focused mainly on impediments that are outside the control of the team because these issues are more challenging.

Unlike working sessions or meetings held in non-Agile projects, Agile retrospectives do not require follow-up activities.

NEW QUESTION 19
Which of the following is a benefit of a whole-team approach?

Enables reduction in test duplication as the testers and test engineers function as a single team.

Enables testers to execute their responsibility for quality for the combined team.

Enables the team to focus on solely their separate areas of expertise and responsibility.

Enables the various skill sets within the team to be leveraged to the benefit of the project.

NEW QUESTION 20
Which of the following would provide the MOST independence for testers working with agile teams?

Testers are fully embedded in each Agile team to perform many of the testing tasks.

Testers from an independent test team who do not get involved with the Agile team, but are assigned to do System Testing once all sprints are completed.

Testers from an independent test team are assigned on-demand for the final days of each sprint.

Testers from an independent test team are assigned to the Agile team at the beginning of the project, returning for re-assignment to a new agile team.

NEW QUESTION 21
Which ONE of the following is an example of a typical “Business-oriented work product”?

The released product.

Acceptance testing entry criteria.

A user manual.

Usability testing test results.

NEW QUESTION 22
Which of the following statements about the benefits of the Agile processes promoting early and frequent feedback is NOT true?

In Agile projects where feedback is provided early and frequently, defects and incorrect requirements are caught earlier and those problems can be fixed faster.

Feedback from well-conducted Agile retrospectives can be used to positively affect the development process over the course of the next iteration.

Early and frequent feedback enables the team to deliver the features that represent the highest business value to the customer first.

Increasing the frequency of feedback and communication between all the stakeholders involved in Agile projects eliminates all communication problems.

NEW QUESTION 23
You are working on an Agile project and have been asked to implement exploratory testing for the current sprint. Which one of the following is a correct approach to adopt?

Allocate independent testers to design exploratory tests using test charters in time boxed sessions. Plan to run all sessions in parallel with each session lasting more than 5hours.

Ask experienced testers to try and find new defects by using the system without the constraint of documentation and tools.

Use testers who have not been involved in the sprint to write new test cases from the user stories. These test cases are then executed in a time boxed session for the sprint.

Ask experienced testers to prepare test charters for time boxed sessions lasting no more than 2hours.
Tests should be designed and executed within each session using heuristics, creativity and intuition.

NEW QUESTION 24
During a retrospective, which of the following items would be the LEAST effective to generate discussions on process improvement?

The build process was slow and this often caused delays waiting for the build to complete.

For the last sprint the estimated and actual effort were much higher than the team capacity.

The automation tests failed frequently without any logs to help in debugging the failure reason.

One of the testers was regarded as being both disruptive and lazy and did not contribute to team success.

NEW QUESTION 25
You are a tester in an agile team. The user story you are due to test is still under development so your tests are blocked. The main issue holding progress on this user story is that the developer’s unit tests are constantly failing.
As an agile tester, which of the following actions should you take?

Review the design of the problematic user story and improve it where possible.

Create a bug report for each of your blocked tests.

Work together with the developer, suggesting reasons why the tests are failing.

Use the time to improve and automate existing test cases of other user stories.

NEW QUESTION 26
User Story: As a user I want to be able to calculate tax percentage based on amount of income.
What is the best black box test design technique for verifying the accuracy of this user story?

Statement testing – test all statements in income calculation.

User story testing – test that the user can enter an income amount and get a result.

State transition testing – test all states of income entry.

Equivalence partitioning – test with low, medium and high income.

NEW QUESTION 27
Consider an online application that allows registered users to pay the annual car tax based on the vehicle’s engine power in kW. Given the following user story:
“As a customer I need the online application to calculate the annual car tax amount that I need to pay for my car:
* If the power of the vehicle is less than 20 kW, then the annual car tax is free
* If the power of the vehicle is more or equal than 20 kW but less or equal than 150 kW, then the annual car tax is 250 Euros
* If the power of the vehicle is more than 150 kW, then the annual car tax is 750 Euros” What is the MOST suitable use of a black-box test design technique for this user story?

Decision table testing. Test the following conditions:
Conditions=registered user logged in; inserted power of the vehicle=20kW; Action=Car tax paid

State transition testing. Test the transitions between the following states:
logging in, inserting the power of the vehicle, making payment, logging out.

Equivalence partitioning. Test the annual car tax value for the following partitions:
[power of the vehicle<20 kW ; 20 kW power of the vehicles150 kW; power of the vehicle>150 kW]

Use case testing Test the following use case (Actor=registered user):Pre-condition=registered user logged in Scenario=registered user inserts the power of the vehicle, making payment and logs out Post-condition=car tax paid and registered user logged out

NEW QUESTION 28
Which statement about an Agile task board is CORRECT?

It provides detailed visual representation of the whole team’s status.

It is updated once at the end of each iteration.

Only “in progress” tasks are shown on the task board.

It is a detailed visual representation of the status of testing.

NEW QUESTION 29
Which one of the following is a testable acceptance criterion?

The solution shall support business processes.

The system shall be easy to use.

The response time to confirm a customer submission must not exceed 5 seconds.

The tools for testing are tested before use and are meeting the requirements.

NEW QUESTION 30
Which of the following allows a developer to define accurate unit tests focused on business needs?

Design-Driven Development

Behavior-Driven Development

Test-Driven Development

Acceptance Test-Driven Development

NEW QUESTION 31
Which of the following sentences related to Risk-based testing is CORRECT?

Risk-based testing fits well in Agile development processes, as risks are analyzed twice – during release and iteration planning.

Risk-based testing does not fit well in Agile development processes, as short iterations mandate short test times.

Risk-based testing does not fit in Agile development processes, as each iteration focuses on limited parts of the product.

Risk-based testing fits well in Agile development processes, as risks are easy to identify when the work is divided into user stories.

NEW QUESTION 32
Which tasks are typically performed by a tester on an Agile project?
1) Implementing test strategy.
2) Documenting business requirements.
3) Measuring and reporting test coverage.
4) Coaching development team in relevant aspects of testing.
5) Executing test-driven development tests.

2, 5

2, 4, 5

1, 3, 4

1, 3

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