ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level - Test Manager - CTAL_TM_001 FREE EXAM DUMPS QUESTIONS & ANSWERS

You are the Test Manager for a new product that is being developed according to an iterative lifecycle. At this point, you have 100% of your smoke tests automated, 20% of your functional tests and 50% of your regression tests. Your iterations are four weeks long. You are finding that with each iteration significant maintenance is required for your automated tests and you are not able to complete the testing within the planned timeframe. The test plan you created at the beginning of the project indicates that all automated tests should be run before any manual tests.
Which of the following is a reasonable change to this plan based on how the project is going? [2]

You have been asked to implement formal reviews at your company. From the list below, what are the correct characteristics of a formal review?
a. Entry and exit criteria have been defined.
b. Checklists created to be used by all reviewers.
c. Consistency with current project plan is checked.
d. Metrics on effectiveness will be gathered.
e. The review will be moderated by a lead auditor.

You have assembled the following cost of quality numbers 1 000 defects were found prior to release and 100 were found after.

Given this information what should you conclude?

There is a debate in your organization about who can close a defect report The developers think they should be able to reject and close defects without any further steps The testers are not happy with this approach as they are afraid the rejections may go undetected and the developers may close something without understanding the real problem How can this problem be rectified7

You are the manager of a test team. You inherited most of these people from a previous manager who promoted technical skills, particularly programming skills. As a result, your people are very strong in test automation skills, white box testing and complex test design techniques. You have just been told that you can hire five new people. You want the new people to complement the existing skill sets and you want to be sure the team will have a strong mutual respect.
Given the following options, who should you hire? [3]

Which two items are MOST relevant for inclusion in your tool selection plan for functional test automation in Agile?

Which of the following is an advantage of specifying test conditions at a detailed level?

You are reviewing the project's traceability matrix after the first cycle of testing. You have discovered that new requirements have been introduced and others have changed.
What should you do? [2]

Your company specialises in the manufacture of luxury garden furniture to the UK market and it is starting a project that will deliver a major update to its payment processing component, addressing improvements to functional suitability and performance efficiency.
A decision has been made to transfer responsibility for functional system test procedure creation and execution to a software house, located offshore. System test analysis and design will be performed onshore, at the company's UK headquarters. As the senior test manager for your company, you want to employ another experienced test manager to oversee the daily operations of the software house to ensure that their work meets required quality standards and adheres to the agreed organisational test strategy and project test plan.
Which option presents the skills that are of MOST relevance for the new test manager role?

You have been asked to estimate the testing effort for an upgrade to a legacy product Your team did the testing on the last upgrade, and you have ascertained that this upgrade is about 10% bigger than the last one Given this information which estimation technique should you use to come up with the test effort number?

As a Senior Test Manager for a large UK based software company, you have been tasked with setting up an outsourced test facility in another country and another time zone. Test effort will be equally split between the UK and the outsourced test facility.
Which of the following factors is MOST LIKELY to lead to the success of the new working arrangement?
a. Introduce clearly defined lines of communication.
b Increase the use of informal test execution.
c Align the testing methodologies used at each site
d. Implement a weekly team meeting where reps from each site attend in person.
e. Increase the overlap of allocated testing tasks.
f. Introduce local defect management processes for each site.

What is the purpose of process improvement assessment models?

Test Analysts are doing test design for a change request to an insurance comparison system. The system provides car insurance quotations, using data input by the user.
The change request states:-
Drivers must be aged between 17 to 85 years inclusive to qualify for insurance comparison.
The following Test Conditions have been identified:
1 Driver's age is less than the minimum
2. Driver's age is within the valid range
3. Driver's age is more than the maximum
The Test Strategy states the test techniques to be used include Equivalence Partitioning and Boundary Value Analysis. Using the Test Conditions and techniques stated in the Test Strategy, the following Test Cases have been created.

As the Test Manager you are reviewing these Test Cases for traceability to the Test Conditions and to ensure that the change request will be adequately tested in accordance with the Test Strategy.
Which of the following statements is FALSE? SELECT ONE OPTION

Which three of the following would be considered a good mix of technical and interpersonal skills (hard and soft), for a test team leader?
a. Ability to compliment a developer.
b. Presenting information regarding a test project progress to stakeholders c. Using a configuration management tool.
d. Ability to read a development coding language
e. Assessing a failure and documenting it correctly.

You are writing a system test level plan and are defining the test activities that must take place during test implementation. There is an established project risk register in place, with product risks addressing all new features to be developed. Three time-boxed cycles of system test execution are planned, and all the new features will be delivered in the first cycle.
The project test strategy states that the stakeholders require an overall view of the product quality for these features. This should be achieved by planning to test each product risk, to some degree, during the first cycle of test execution.
Which risk-based mitigation approach should be adopted during test implementation, to BEST meet the stakeholders' requirement?