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CSTE Sept 17, 2005:

Objective Paper1:

Q1. Who defined the standards?

A) ISO

B) QAI

Ans. ISO

Q2. Juran is famous for

A) Quality Control

B) Management

Ans. Quality Control

Q3. Which one is not Statistical Tool?

A) Cause & effect GraphingB) Stratification

C) Run Chart

D) Regression Analysis

Ans. Cause & effect Graphing

Q4. Histogram refers to

A) Bar Chart

B) Run Chart

C) Pareto

Ans. Bar Chart

Q5. Who are there in External IT TEAM?

A) Non Developer

B) Customer/ User

Q6. Which one is not Structural Testing?

A) Regression

B) Parallel

c) Acceptance

d) StressAns. Acceptance

Q7. Who is not part of Inspection?

A) Prj Manager

B) Author

c) Moderator

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d) Reader

e) Inspetor

Ans. Prj Manager

Q8. Tester job is not to

A) Report Defect

b) Who entered the defect in system

Ans. Who entered the defect in system

Q9. Which one is not secondary role of tester

A) Raising Issues

b) Instilling Confidence

c) cts improving process

d) Insight

e) developer work

Ans. developer work

Q10. Acceptance testing is

A) White Box

b) Black box

c) White box & black Box

d) none of the above

Ans. Black box

Q11. Deming 14 principle includes

A) mobility of mgmt

b) new philosphy

c) adobt leadership

d) both b& c

e) both a & c

Ans. both b& c

Q12 Configuration Management tool used in which phase.

A) Unit tetsing

b) Integration

c) accepting

d) all the phases

Ans. all the phases

Q13. Max Defects created in which phases

A) req

b) design

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c) Implementaion

d) Coding

Ans. Req

Q14. 50% Defect found in which phase

A) req

b) design

c) Implementaion

d) Coding

Ans. req

Q15. defects are least costly in which phase

A) req

b) design

c) Implementaion

d) Coding

Ans. req

Some questions from Paper2 are below:

1) Software inspections categorize defects as Wrong, Missing and Extra.

A) TRUE

B) FALSE

2) The purpose of Risk Management in a project is to

A) Eliminate Risks

B) Minimize Risks

C) Avoid risks

D) Anticipate the risks

3) Testing of the system to demonstrate system compliance with user

requirements is:

A) Black box testing

B) System testing

C) Independent testing

D) Acceptance Testing

4) Function point is a measure of

A) Effort

B) Complexity

C) Usability

D) None of the above

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5) An activity that verifies compliance with policies and procedures and ensures

that resources are conserved is

A) an inspection

B) an audit

C) a review

D) an assessment

6) Which is the application for the process management and quality improvement

concepts to software development and maintenance.

A) Malcolm Baldridge

B) ISO 9000

C) QAI

D) QS14000

7) Software testing accounts for what percent of software development costs?

A) 10-20

B) 30-60

C) 70-80

8) Software errors are least costly to correct at what stage of the development

cycle?

A) Requirements

B) Construction

C) Acceptance test

D) Design

9) Which of the following test approaches is not a Functional test approach?

A) Control Technique

B) Stress Technique

C) Regression Technique

D) Cause/effect Graphing

E) Requirements

10) Effectiveness is doing things right and efficiency is doing the right things

A) True

B) False

11) Juran is famous for

A) Quality Control

B) Quality Assurance

C) Trend Analysis

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12) Top down & Bottom Up are the part of Incremental Testing

A) True

B) False

13) Achieving quality requires:

A) Understanding the customers expectations

B) Exceeding the customers expectations

C) Meeting all the definitions of quality

D) Focusing on the customer

E.) All the above

14) Which is NOT the exit criteria for unit testing

Objective Paper3:

Q1. there is a application which is delivered to the customer now customer found

bugs and assume each bug cost is $125 and there are 4 bugs found each day and

there are 5 working day. What should be the cost to fix those bugs

A) $300

b) $25000

c) $ 15000

d) $ 13,000

e) $ 26,000

Ans $2500

Q2. Tester should know

A) Test planning

b)Automation tool

c) Defect tracking tool

d) programming language

Ans. Defect Tracking tool

Q3. Pareto Analysis

A) 80-20 rule

b) Trend analysis

Ans. 80-20 Rule

Q4. Testing efforts in SDLC

A) 10-20 %

b) 30-60%

c) 60-80%

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d) 80-90%

Ans 30-60%

Q5. Critical Listening is

A) Listen analyses what speaker said

b) Listen what is required

c) Listen only summary

Ans. Listen analyses what speaker said

Q6. Who finds vulnuralibility in system?

A) ICO

b) ISS

c) It Manager

Ans. ICO

Q7. COQ is not

A) Production

b) Appraisal

c) Prevention

d) Failure

Ans. Production

Q8. Training come under what category cost of quality?

A) Appraisal

b) Preventive

c) Failure


Ans. Preventive

Q9. Why testing is called negative

A) Easy

b) delay in implementation

c) No training reqd

Q10. Incremental testing is Top down & bottom Up testing

A)True B) false

Q11. Effectiveness is doing right thing & efficency is doing thing right

True/ false

Ans False

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Q12. Which one is not part of Demind

A) Plan

b) do

c) check

d) act

e) risk analysis

Ans. risk analysis

Q13. Defect fixed in which phase is lease cost

A) same phase

b) production

c) next phase

d) none

Ans. same phase

Q14. In White box testing test coverage is

a) Decision

b) Statement

c) branch

d) modified decision

e) user specified data coverage

Ans. Decision

Q15. Test Plan should not contain

A) Scope

b) Objective

c) Policy

d) Risk Analysis

Ans. policy

Q16. This question was on Test coverage?

Q17. Acceptance Testing is the responsibility of the:

A) Programmer

B) Project Leader

C) Independent Tester

D) Assistance programmer

E) User/Customer

Q18. Cost of Quality is least among

A) Prevention

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B) Appraisal

C) Failure

Subjective Paper1: (Most of the subjective questions were from the back of CSTE book.)

1. Why we need to test the software.

2. Write the procedure for Test Plan, Test Script, Test Status Report.

3. You have to test the Web Application, what should be considered for the same.

4. Write test cases for the Data model & data field validation.

5. There is applications which can be accessible by one terminal & other by multiple terminals,

write the points which wont be considered for the Single terminal Application (Test factors)

6. Write the Test Strategy.

Subjective Paper 2:

1. Differentiate between Verification & validation. 15 marks

2. Define Test Efficiency & test Effectiveness. 15 marks

3. Your client would like to do Acceptance test on one of your projects but does not know to

prepare a test plan for that. Describe the components that should be included in the test plan. 30marks

4. You are the tester in the organization and organization thinks that the tester also introduce

defects in the system, write the 5 such defects introduced by tester in the system. 15 marks

5. What is Over Testing? 15 marks

6. You have to do the Unit Testing of the system, define what is Unit testing and how it can be

done, what are the types of it also how can you ensure that your application is compliance to the

standards. 30 marks

7. Define Equivalence portioning, Boundary value Analysis and Error Guessing with examples.

15 marks

8. Your company is doing a project in automation of aircrafts and timing. You are asked to

involve in the testing. What should be the testing strategy for that. One Airline Web Application

has to be tested, write test factor or What is to be tested? (Landing & take off) 15 marks

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9. Define

a) Boundary Analysis

b) Equivalent Partitioning

c) Error Guessing

Give one example for each.

Subjective Paper 1 - December 2005:

1. Describe four tests you would use to test COTS software.

2. A Web-application is to be installed but suspected that it will might fail in production.

Describe four tests you would recommend to your manager to answer the question How long it

would take for the application to recover after it fails

3. You are the Test Manager of a company, which has outsourced its testing activities. What you

would state to your IT Manager in terms of your responsibilities as Test Manager to give himassurance that testing would be conducted properly

4. Describe any four processes you would establish in a test environment and why?


1. What would you include in a defect report.

2. What is v in v-testing concept and list the stages.

3. Draw a Unit testing workbench, describe each activity in the workbench.

4. You are to introduce automated testing tools. List any four automated test tools with vendor

name and why did you choose them.

5. Describe Risk, risk analysis, threat, vulnerability, internal control.

6. Describe statement, branch, condition, expression, path coverage

7. Describe any 3 defect-related metrics.

8. For a web-based application, list 4 important quality factors you would test for. Also state

why are they important.

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Objective Questions:

1. A question on fit components. Which of the following contributes to fit.

a. Data b. Structure c. People d. Rule e. All of the above

2. Reliability, timeliness, consistency are included in which component of fit

a. Data b. Structure c. People d. Rule

3. Who will develop the test process for software development using new

technology?

a. Management b. Project team c. Auditor d. Tester and few more options

4. Which of the following are relatively complete acceptance criteria?

a. Performance should increase b. Response time should be with in 10 sec Few more statements.

5. One question was on "Experienced people can be used as a tool for estimating

the cost- Budgeting"

6. The communication type which is rarely emphasized

a. Listening Few more options...

7. There were 2 questions on maturity level e.g which level enforces control for

technology.

8. There were 3 question on standard, policy and procedure.

9. Which of the following model has these steps .. event identification , risk

assessment, risk response

a. ERM b. COSO internal control framework c. CobiT model

10. Utilize the computer resources to perform their work.. belong to which type ofactivity specified below

a. Interface b. Development c. Computer operation

11. Obligations of both contractual parties should be spelled out in detail in which

part of the contract?

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a. What b. Who c. When d. How

12. There was a question on "when the contracted software will be completed"

13. Test planning activity which includes starting and end time for each test

milestone.

a. Budgeting b. Scheduling c. Estimation d. Staffing

Subjective Questions:

1. There are many factors like maintainability and reliability among softwares. Give 5 most

important software quality factors that u would mention for testing a web based testing?

2. Create a Test plan for a simple project not a complex project?

3. Write a standard template for testplan, testscript, Status report of a project?

4. Design a screen which will show the fields necessary for a defect description? Diagram a

defect reporting tool screen and label what all things you would need to mention to log a defect?

5. Question related to usecase like guidelines for writing usecase for customer?

6. Draw a control chart and explain how it can be used to see that the testing process is in

control?

7. Difference between system test and acceptance test?

8. Aspects of computer software that should be observed during the demonstration of COTS

software?

9. Define unit, integration, system, regression, acceptance testing and explain what would you

recommend for the new independent test team formed. Previously in the organization, testing

was being performed by software development team?

10. Explain any 4 factors for preventive controls?

11. Question on securityTesting technique. What tests you would include in the testplan for

testing security with minimal knowledge about security testing?

12. Risks involved in testing wireless technology and how will u develop controls on it to gain

confidence about the wireless technology used.

13. Give Measurements for

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a] Test Effectiveness and b] Test Efficiency

14. Your Company is about to roll out an E-Commerce application. It is not possible to test the

application on all types of browsers on all platforms and operating systems. What steps would

you take in the testing environment to reduce the business risks and commercial risks?

15. Developing compatibility and motivation with a test team helps assure effective testing. List

at least four guidelines you would follow to develop compatibility and motivation within your

test team?

16. In a development project Test planning, resource allocation , test scripting is also completed.

Testing is being executed. At this stage if there is a major change in requirement, what will be

the testers role here (actions in response to the changes) .- The question is already asked in one

of the previous year papers .

17. There is a delay of 5 days in the development project. How will the tester handle the testing

activities, without changing on resources, working time, . - The question is already asked inone of the previous year papers.

18. Explanation on total number of defects found Vs defects corrected using Graph.

19. Explain and diagram report which will be used for reporting uncorrected and corrected

defects to the development team?

20. one question on control chart

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1. Which communication skill will be neglected by most

a. Reading

b. Listening

c. Writing

2. Therapeutic listening is

a. Sympathetic listening

b. Listening to pieces of information

3. Which model demonstrates relation between 2 or more parameters of effort,

duration or resource?

a. Cost

b. Constraint

c. Function Point

4. In which model expertise can be used to estimate cost

a. Top-Down

b. Expert Judgment

c. Bottom-Up

5. Two objective questions on responsibility like who is responsible in issuing IT

policy, work policy etc.

6. Fit for use is

a. Transcendent

b. Product Based

c. User Based

d. Value Based

7. Re-Use of data is done in which type of testing (Similar type 2 questions on

retesting and regression testing)

a. Capture/Play back

b. System Testing

c. Regression Testing

d. Integration Testing

8. one question each on configuration management / Change Management /

Version Control.

9. In Acceptance testing, which data is used.

a. Test Cases

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b. Use Case

c. Test Plan

10. In four components of FIT, reliability is included in (Similar type 2 qs)

a. Data

b. People

c. Structure

d. Rules

11. Obligations of both contractual parties should be spelled out in

a. What is done

b. Who does it

c. When it is done

d. How it is done

12. Dates on which Obligations need to be filled out should be specified in

a. What is done

b. Who does it

c. When it is done

d. How it is done

13. Two questions on Internal Auditor and Internal Control responsibilities

14. One question on ERM model

15. One question on Control Frame Work Model

16. Two questions on CMM 5 levels of maturity (Like in which level controls are

implemented).

Subjective Questions:

1. You gave the software for independent testers. You are responsible for Unit, Integration,System and Acceptance testing. Explain about each testing methods and tell which testing can

be given to Independent Testing and Which for development team.

2. Tell about any 3 tools and vendor of the tools.3. One question on Optimum testing.4. You developed Risk Plan, Test Plan, Test Scripts. You are doing testing. At this point you got

major requirements change. What changes are required to in-corporate these changes in your

plan.

5. Explain about Complexity Measures, Data Flow Analysis, Symbolic Execution6. Acceptance Test Plan for Inventory Control Software contents and explanation.

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7. What are CSFs. What are the CSFs that u ll look for in a contactor delivered software. Definethem.

8. Security Vulnerabilities for e-comm application.9. E-commerce project is newly developed in your organization. You are not able to test all types

ofOperating Systems and Browsers. Prepare mitigation plan.

10.Explain V-Model.11. Reliability and maintainability are certain Quality factors given explicitly in the requirements.If so, list a few other QFs for a web based project and write the rationale for selecting the same.

12.5 important things you consider for writing test plan, why do you think they are important.13.The UI for a defect management tool.14.Difference between Acceptance and System Testing.15.Mention and write on a few techniques for the defect prevention - internal control testing. 16.3 important issues for wireless technology.17. One question on Pareto Charts - Like gave a scenario for no. of critical, minor and major bugs

and no. of days to fix the bugs. Analyze the scenario.

18.What are important Quality factors that u will test for in a multiple workstation scenario that uwill not do in a single work station scenario.

19.The contents of a system test report.20.List 5 test metrics and explain how u can use them.21.Which steps in a testing process are defect prone- explain why?22.What according to you are the important docs that u would refer when u r testing a change that

has been made in a project that has been released.(i.e. operational)

23.What do u mean by defect expectation. How can u use it for improving the testing process.24.Mention three techniques for unit testing. State an objective for unit testing, Based on those,

how will ensure that the unit testing has complied to the expectations.

25.Steps involved in testing for security26.What are the important things that u ll look for during a demo of a contractor software.27.How do u use control charts for controlling the testing process. Explain control charts.28.If the code to be delivered will be delivered after a week but no change in release date, how will

you as test manager plan yr test. (a question that has appeared in lot of previous question

papers. the phrasing is wrong here. but the same)

29.As a test manager - test skill set relates question.

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CSTE Sept 17, 2005:

Objective Paper1:

Q1. Who defined the standards?

A) ISO

B) QAI

Ans. ISO

Q2. Juran is famous for

A) Quality Control

B) Management

Ans. Quality Control

Q3. Which one is not Statistical Tool?

A) Cause & effect GraphingB) Stratification

C) Run Chart

D) Regression Analysis

Ans. Cause & effect Graphing

Q4. Histogram refers to

A) Bar Chart

B) Run Chart

C) Pareto

Ans. Bar Chart

Q5. Who are there in External IT TEAM?

A) Non Developer

B) Customer/ User

Q6. Which one is not Structural Testing?

A) Regression

B) Parallel

c) Acceptance

d) StressAns. Acceptance

Q7. Who is not part of Inspection?

A) Prj Manager

B) Author

c) Moderator

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d) Reader

e) Inspetor

Ans. Prj Manager

Q8. Tester job is not to

A) Report Defect

b) Who entered the defect in system

Ans. Who entered the defect in system

Q9. Which one is not secondary role of tester

A) Raising Issues

b) Instilling Confidence

c) cts improving process

d) Insight

e) developer work

Ans. developer work

Q10. Acceptance testing is

A) White Box

b) Black box

c) White box & black Box


Ans. Black box

Q11. Deming 14 principle includes

A) mobility of mgmt

b) new philosphy

c) adobt leadership

d) both b& c

e) both a & c

Ans. both b& c

Q12 Configuration Management tool used in which phase.

A) Unit tetsing

b) Integration

c) accepting

d) all the phases

Ans. all the phases

Q13. Max Defects created in which phases

A) req

b) design

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c) Implementaion

d) Coding

Ans. Req

Q14. 50% Defect found in which phase

A) req

b) design

c) Implementaion

d) Coding

Ans. req

Q15. defects are least costly in which phase

A) req

b) design

c) Implementaion

d) Coding

Ans. req

Some questions from Paper2 are below:

1) Software inspections categorize defects as Wrong, Missing and Extra.

A) TRUE

B) FALSE

2) The purpose of Risk Management in a project is to

A) Eliminate Risks

B) Minimize Risks

C) Avoid risks

D) Anticipate the risks

3) Testing of the system to demonstrate system compliance with user

requirements is:

A) Black box testing

B) System testing

C) Independent testing

D) Acceptance Testing

4) Function point is a measure of

A) Effort

B) Complexity

C) Usability

D) None of the above

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5) An activity that verifies compliance with policies and procedures and ensures

that resources are conserved is

A) an inspection

B) an audit

C) a review

D) an assessment

6) Which is the application for the process management and quality improvement

concepts to software development and maintenance.

A) Malcolm Baldridge

B) ISO 9000

C) QAI

D) QS14000

7) Software testing accounts for what percent of software development costs?

A) 10-20

B) 30-60

C) 70-80

8) Software errors are least costly to correct at what stage of the development

cycle?

A) Requirements

B) Construction

C) Acceptance test

D) Design

9) Which of the following test approaches is not a Functional test approach?

A) Control Technique

B) Stress Technique

C) Regression Technique

D) Cause/effect Graphing

E) Requirements

10) Effectiveness is doing things right and efficiency is doing the right things

A) True

B) False

11) Juran is famous for

A) Quality Control

B) Quality Assurance

C) Trend Analysis

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12) Top down & Bottom Up are the part of Incremental Testing

A) True

B) False

13) Achieving quality requires:

A) Understanding the customers expectations

B) Exceeding the customers expectations

C) Meeting all the definitions of quality

D) Focusing on the customer

E.) All the above

14) Which is NOT the exit criteria for unit testing

Objective Paper3:

Q1. there is a application which is delivered to the customer now customer found

bugs and assume each bug cost is $125 and there are 4 bugs found each day and

there are 5 working day. What should be the cost to fix those bugs

A) $300

b) $25000

c) $ 15000

d) $ 13,000

e) $ 26,000

Ans $2500

Q2. Tester should know

A) Test planning

b)Automation tool

c) Defect tracking tool

d) programming language

Ans. Defect Tracking tool

Q3. Pareto Analysis

A) 80-20 rule

b) Trend analysis

Ans. 80-20 Rule

Q4. Testing efforts in SDLC

A) 10-20 %

b) 30-60%

c) 60-80%

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d) 80-90%

Ans 30-60%

Q5. Critical Listening is

A) Listen analyses what speaker said

b) Listen what is required

c) Listen only summary

Ans. Listen analyses what speaker said

Q6. Who finds vulnuralibility in system?

A) ICO

b) ISS

c) It Manager

Ans. ICO

Q7. COQ is not

A) Production

b) Appraisal

c) Prevention

d) Failure

Ans. Production

Q8. Training come under what category cost of quality?

A) Appraisal

b) Preventive

c) Failure


Ans. Preventive

Q9. Why testing is called negative

A) Easy

b) delay in implementation

c) No training reqd

Q10. Incremental testing is Top down & bottom Up testing

A)True B) false

Q11. Effectiveness is doing right thing & efficency is doing thing right

True/ false

Ans False

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Q12. Which one is not part of Demind

A) Plan

b) do

c) check

d) act

e) risk analysis

Ans. risk analysis

Q13. Defect fixed in which phase is lease cost

A) same phase

b) production

c) next phase

d) none

Ans. same phase

Q14. In White box testing test coverage is

a) Decision

b) Statement

c) branch

d) modified decision

e) user specified data coverage

Ans. Decision

Q15. Test Plan should not contain

A) Scope

b) Objective

c) Policy

d) Risk Analysis

Ans. policy

Q16. This question was on Test coverage?

Q17. Acceptance Testing is the responsibility of the:

A) Programmer

B) Project Leader

C) Independent Tester

D) Assistance programmer

E) User/Customer

Q18. Cost of Quality is least among

A) Prevention

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B) Appraisal

C) Failure

Subjective Paper1: (Most of the subjective questions were from the back of CSTE book.)

1. Why we need to test the software.

2. Write the procedure for Test Plan, Test Script, Test Status Report.

3. You have to test the Web Application, what should be considered for the same.

4. Write test cases for the Data model & data field validation.

5. There is applications which can be accessible by one terminal & other by multiple terminals,

write the points which wont be considered for the Single terminal Application (Test factors)

6. Write the Test Strategy.

Subjective Paper 2:

1. Differentiate between Verification & validation. 15 marks

2. Define Test Efficiency & test Effectiveness. 15 marks

3. Your client would like to do Acceptance test on one of your projects but does not know to

prepare a test plan for that. Describe the components that should be included in the test plan. 30marks

4. You are the tester in the organization and organization thinks that the tester also introduce

defects in the system, write the 5 such defects introduced by tester in the system. 15 marks

5. What is Over Testing? 15 marks

6. You have to do the Unit Testing of the system, define what is Unit testing and how it can be

done, what are the types of it also how can you ensure that your application is compliance to the

standards. 30 marks

7. Define Equivalence portioning, Boundary value Analysis and Error Guessing with examples.

15 marks

8. Your company is doing a project in automation of aircrafts and timing. You are asked to

involve in the testing. What should be the testing strategy for that. One Airline Web Application

has to be tested, write test factor or What is to be tested? (Landing & take off) 15 marks

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9. Define

a) Boundary Analysis

b) Equivalent Partitioning

c) Error Guessing

Give one example for each.


1. Describe four tests you would use to test COTS software.

2. A Web-application is to be installed but suspected that it will might fail in production.

Describe four tests you would recommend to your manager to answer the question How long it

would take for the application to recover after it fails

3. You are the Test Manager of a company, which has outsourced its testing activities. What you

would state to your IT Manager in terms of your responsibilities as Test Manager to give himassurance that testing would be conducted properly

4. Describe any four processes you would establish in a test environment and why?


1. What would you include in a defect report.

2. What is v in v-testing concept and list the stages.

3. Draw a Unit testing workbench, describe each activity in the workbench.

4. You are to introduce automated testing tools. List any four automated test tools with vendor

name and why did you choose them.

5. Describe Risk, risk analysis, threat, vulnerability, internal control.

6. Describe statement, branch, condition, expression, path coverage

7. Describe any 3 defect-related metrics.

8. For a web-based application, list 4 important quality factors you would test for. Also state

why are they important.

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Mark the answers somewhere so that you can check the score at the end of the test.

1. The customers view of quality means:

a. Meeting requirementsb. Doing it the right way

c. Doing it right the first timed. Fit for use

e. Doing it on time

2. The testing of a single program, or function, usually performed by the developer is

called:a. Unit testing

b. Integration testingc. System testing

d. Regression testinge. Acceptance testing

3. The measure used to evaluate the correctness of a product is called the product: a. Policyb. Standard

c. Procedure to do workd. Procedure to check work

e. Guideline

4. Which of the four components of the test environment is considered to be the most

important component of the test environment:a. Management support

b. Tester competencyc. Test work processes

d. Testing techniques and tools

5. Effective test managers are effective listeners. The type of listening in which the tester is

performing an analysis of what the speaker is saying is called:a. Discriminative listeningb. Comprehensive listening

c. Therapeutic listening

d. Critical listeninge. Appreciative listening

6. To become a CSTE, an individual has a responsibility to accept the standards of conduct

defined by the certification board. These standards of conduct are called: a. Code of ethicsb. Continuing professional education requirement

c. Obtaining references to support experience

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d. Joining a professional testing chaptere. Following the common body of knowledge in the practice of software testing

7. Which of the following are risks that testers face in performing their test activities:a. Not enough training

b. Lack of test toolsc. Not enough time for testingd. Rapid change

e. All of the above

8. All of the following are methods to minimize loss due to risk. Which one is not a method

to minimize loss due to risk:a. Reduce opportunity for errorb. Identify error prior to loss

c. Quantify lossd. Minimize loss

e. Recover loss

9. Defect prevention involves which of the following steps:a. Identify critical tasks

b. Estimate expected impactc. Minimize expected impact

d. a, b and ce. a and b

10. The first step in designing use case is to:a. Build a system boundary diagram

b. Define acceptance criteriac. Define use cases

d. Involve userse. Develop use cases

11. The defect attribute that would help management determine the importance of the

defect is called:a. Defect type

b. Defect severityc. Defect name

d. Defect locatione. Phase in which defect occurred

12. The system test report is normally written at what point in software development: a. After unit testing

b. After integration testingc. After system testing

d. After acceptance testing

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13. The primary objective of user acceptance testing is to:a. Identify requirements defects

b. Identify missing requirementsc. Determine if software is fit for use

d. Validate the correctness of interfaces to other software systems

e. Verify that software is maintainable

14. If IT establishes a measurement team to create measures and metrics to be used in

status reporting, that team should include individuals who have:a. A working knowledge of measures

b. Knowledge in the implementation of statistical process control toolsc. A working understanding of benchmarking techniques

d. Knowledge of the organizations goals and objectivese. All of the above

15. What is the difference between testing software developed by a contractor outside your

country, versus testing software developed by a contractor within your country: a. Does not meet people needs

b. Cultural differencesc. Loss of control over reallocation of resources

d. Relinquishment of controle. Contains extra features not specified

16. What is the definition of a critical success factor: a. A specified requirement

b. A software quality factorc. Factors that must be present

d. A software metrice. A high cost to implement requirement

17. The condition that represents a potential for loss to an organization is called: a. Riskb. Exposure

c. Threatd. Control

e. Vulnerability

18. A flaw in a software system that may be exploited by an individual for his or her

advantage is called:a. Riskb. Risk analysisc. Threat

d. Vulnerabilitye. Control

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19. The conduct of business of the Internet is called:a. e-commerce

b. e-businessc. Wireless applications

d. Client-server system

e. Web-based applications

20. The following is described as one of the five levels of maturing a new technology into an

IT organizations work processes. The People-dependent technology level is equivalent to

what level in SEIs compatibility maturity model: a. Level 1b. Level 2

c. Level 3d. Level 4

e. Level 5

Answers to sample CSTE exam questions1. (d) Fit for use2. (a) Unit testing

3. (b) Standard

4. (a) Management support

5. (d) Critical listening6. (a) Code of ethics

7. (e) All of the above8. (c) Quantify loss

9. (d) a, b and c10. (a) Build a system boundary diagram

11. (b) Defect severity12. (c) After system testing

13. (c) Determine if software is fit for use14. (e) All of the above

15. (b) Cultural differences16. (c) Factors that must be present

17. (a) Risk18. (d) Vulnerability

19. (b) e-business

20. (a) Level 1

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