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

1. In your role as a Test Analyst for the development of a business application, you asked the Product Owner to help you understand how the various product risks would affect the users.
Which product risk management activity was this?

A) Risk identification
B) Risk mitigation
C) Risk control
D) Risk assessment

2. The following activity diagram, drawn in Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN), shows the process of raising a Purchase Request (PR), getting it authorized and raising a Purchase Order from it.

What is the minimum quantity of test cases that will be needed to cover all scenarios?

A) 4
B) 1
C) 3
D) 2

3. In which of the following circumstances is the transition from a high-level test case to a low-level test case MOST LIKELY to be deferred from test design to test implementation?

A) When the details required depend on the test execution schedule
B) When product risk analysis has not been completed
C) When the person who runs the test will not be its author
D) When specific test data are needed for the test case

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

5. You are defining key words to test an application which will create a Purchase Request (PR) from details of goods that a Merchandiser wants their organization to buy. When valid details have been entered, the resulting PR will be sent to the Merchandise Manager for authorization.
You have a diagram in Business Process Modeling Notation and this section shows the initial steps in this process:

For the first process, when "Something is needed" , which option contains the MOST appropriate keywords for action and verification?

A) Enter Details of Required Goods / Is PR Created?
B) Required Goods Entry / PR Creation Check
C) Enter Required Goods / Check PR Created
D) Required Goods / Check PR

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