ISTQB Advance Level Technical Tester

You are involved in testing a system in the medical domain. Testing needs to comply with the FDA requirements and is rated as being safety critical. A product risk assessment has been performed and various mitigation actions have been identified. Reliability testing is one of the test types that needs to be performed throughout the development lifecycle.
Based on the information provided, which of the following activities would need to be addressed in the test plan?

• • Perform a vulnerability scan.

  
  

• • Design and execution of specific tests that evaluate the software’s tolerance to faults in terms of handling unexpected input values.

  
  

• Design and execution of test cases for scalability.

• Testing whether the installation/de-installation can be completed.

The following characteristics were identified during an early product risk-assessment for a software system:
• the software system needs to manage synchronization between various processes
• microcontrollers will be used that will limit product performance
• the hardware that will be used will make use of timeslots
• the number of tasks supported in parallel by the software system is large and are often highly complex.
Based on the information provided, which of the following non-functional test types is MOST appropriate to be performed?

• • Maintainability testing

• • Security testing

• • Time-behaviour testing

• • Portability testing

A major Caribbean bank typically develops their own banking software using an Agile methodology. However, for some specific components COTS software is acquired and used. The bank does not want to create a dependency on any external COTS supplier.
As part of the test approach, portability testing will be performed. Which portability sub-characteristic is especially relevant for the Caribbean bank?

• Installability

• Adaptability

• Replaceability

• • Co-existence

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Which of the following does NOT contribute to a more effective review preparation by the Technical Test Analyst?

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• .Ensure that participants spend enough time during preparation, e.g., by managing checking rate (number of pages checked per hour during review preparation).

• Managing logging rate (number of defects logged per minute during the meeting).

• The usage of review checklists.

• Review training for the Technical Test Analyst.

A product risk assessment has revealed the following product risks:
• lack of usability requirements
• security during on-line transactions
• perceived performance of the system and response time from the user interface
• a required availability of almost 100%
To address the 4th risk, which of the following quality characteristics for technical testing should be part of the test approach?

• Adaptability

• Reliability

• Portability

• Compatibility

Which of the following reasons can be given for including co-existence testing in a test approach?

• An application is intended to be operated on different platforms

• Several changes are planned to an application’s code modules. Changes to one module should have an impact on other modules

• More than one unrelated application is to be deployed on the same environment

• The usage of system resources must be measured against a predefined benchmark

A new business application is being developed for deployment on a Windows-based platform. If the application is successful there are plans for deployment to other platforms.

Which of the following quality characteristics should be given priority in the test approach?

• Installability

• Adaptability

• Replaceability

• Co-existence

When an automator is writing a test automation script, how should the script handle failures?

• It should continue on with the next test after the failure because that’s how the software will work in production

• It should terminate when a failure is encountered

• It should execute a wait loop and retry the failed action

• It depends on the type of failure and where it occurs during execution

The planning and specification of security tests for a new web-based hotel reservation system is to be carried out at your next sprint planning meeting. Which of the following activities should NOT be considered at the meeting?

• Deciding on the code modules for static analysis

• Agreeing with developers on their participation

• Deciding on the operational profiles to use

• Checking on approvals for performing the tests

Your organization is implementing an enterprise service bus (ESB) to use between your CRM system and your e-commerce system. You are particularly concerned about issues that may occur if a component or interface is down.

What type of testing should you do to find these types of defects?

• Security

• API

• Performance

• Usability