Your company just won a contract to create a new sales application and has committed to a very aggressive delivery timeline. Due to the quick turnaround your primary stakeholder wants to be
heavily involved in the design and is very anxious to see the outcome. Because of this, your company has decided to use a spiral development approach. You have a defined test policy and
typically use an analytical approach to testing, however, this approach will not work with the development approach.
What test strategy should be utilized? [3]
You are the Test Manager of a risk-based testing effort. You develop the following graph to show residual risk. Assume that "Risks mitigated" represents passed tests and "Risks not mitigated"
represents failed tests and other discovered failures.
Which of the following answers best represents what the graph shows? [3]
Your application development team is performing "test-driven" development. This is a core principal of which software development model?[1]
The Test Manager must assemble team members that have which of the following characteristics? [1]
Your organization is considering using open-source tools. You have been told you need to be aware of the terms of the GNU general public license.
What is the basic concept of this license? [1]
You are a Test Manager on a new project. The software that is being created will be used to control the projectors in movie theaters. This is a time critical project because the software must be released before the Christmas holiday season which has the highest movie attendance of the year.
You have decided to implement a review process for the work products that are a part of this release to save both time and money. In order to expedite the training, you brought in a consultant to
train the participants and moderators in proper review processes. Your team is enthusiastic about participating in the reviews.
Your manager is questioning the money you have spent on this training effort. He wants to know how you intend to justify the expense when you present your numbers at the annual budget
meeting in February.
What would be a reasonable way for you to justify the cost of the training and the reviews when you present your information at the budget meeting? [3]
Which of the following software characteristics are possibly revealed through the application of a open source static analysis tool? [1]
Your test process is fully integrated into the software development lifecycle. You are at which TMMi level? [1]
What is the primary use for the traceability information regarding the relationship between test results and test conditions during test execution? [2]
You are the Test Manager for a critical system and are using a risk-based approach for this project.
Which of the following would most clearly convey the current status to project stakeholders? [3]
You are the Test Manager of a four-person test team working for a small distribution company with a single warehouse. Your team has been working with a third party development team on a new
inventory management system. The company expects this system to generate approximately one million dollars per annum in profits for the company. Early in the project, various risks were
identified, and steps taken to mitigate those risks.
For example, you sent your test team for training on the new system, and upgraded the test environment. There are still some lingering risks that have not been addressed, but they have been
determined to have a low chance of occurring, with minimal impact if they do occur.
What would be the best option to mitigate these remaining risks? [3]
When closing out a defect report, which of the following developer commentaries is most likely to motivate a tester? [1]
Mary is an external IT auditor. She is conducting a review of the system-level testing done by Greg's functional testing team.
Which of the following items from Mary's assessment summary should concern Greg the most? [2]
Your last project was released three months ago and used a risk-based approach. In production, a number of serious failures in low risk areas have occurred.
What is the most important lesson to be learned from this information? [2]