Free Practice Questions for ISTQB CTAL-TM Exam

Which one of the following will allow phase containment to be assessed within a testing project? SELECT ONE OPTION

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.

You are a newly appointed Test Manager in an organisation that has no separate test team, no formal testing process and testing is considered to be, at best, ad-hoc in approach. The IT director is keen to introduce improvement across all areas of the organisation, not just testing. This is so that the current level of maturity can be assessed and roadmaps outlined for improving processes in a staged way. He has asked you to recommend a test process improvement model and you have suggested TMMi.

Which ONE of the following is a valid reason for your recommendation? SELECT ONE OPTION

You have recently implemented a new defect management process which now includes a defect triage committee whose job is to review all new defects. The process is shown in the following diagram:

b. The total number of defects rejected as not a problem following investigation by the product author

c. The number of defects returned to the defect author, expressed as a percentage of all defects raised

d. The total number of defects that failed re-test more than once

e. The total number of defects closed by the defect triage committee

SELECT ONE OPTION

You are Test Manager of a project delivering a workflow system for complex business processes It has been decided a tool is required to increase the efficiency of test execution. What would be a valid issue to consider when deciding whether to build a custom made tool?

SELECT ONE OPTION