Mastering the CTFL_Syll_4.0 Dumps (V10.02) – Your Path to ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL) V4.0 Certification Success

1. The tests at the bottom layer of the test pyramid:

2. Test automation allows you to:

3. Which of the following statements about how different types of test tools support testers is true?

4. Which of the following statements about branch coverage is true?

5. Consider the following simplified version of a state transition diagram that specifies the behavior of a video poker game:

What Is the minimum number of test cases needed to cover every unique sequence of up to 3 states/2 transitions starting In the "Start" state and ending In the "End" state?

6. Consider a given test plan which, among others, contains the following three sections: "Test Scope", "Testing Communication", and "Stakeholders".

The features of the test object to be tested and those excluded from the testing represent information that is:

7. An alphanumeric password must be between 4 and 7 characters long and must contain at least one numeric character, one capital (uppercase) letter and one lowercase letter of the alphabet.

Which one of the following sets of test cases represents the correct outcome of a two-value boundary value analysis applied to the password length? (Note: test cases are separated by a semicolon)

8. A company wants to reward each of its salespeople with an annual bonus that represents the sum of all the bonuses accumulated for every single sale made by that salesperson. The bonus for a single sale can take on the following four values: 3%, 5%, 7% and 10% (the percentage refers to the amount of the single sale).

These values are determined on the basis of the type of customer (classified as "Basic" or "Premium") to which such sale was made, and on the amount of such sale classified into the following three groups G1, G2 and G3:

• [G1]: less than 300 euros

• [G2]: between 300 and 2000 euros

• [G3]: greater than 2000 euros

Which of the following is the minimum number of test cases needed to cover the full decision table associated with this scenario?

9. Which of the following statements is true?

10. A new web app aims at offering a rich user experience. As a functional tester, you have run some functional tests to verify that, before releasing the app, such app works correctly on several mobile devices, all of which are listed as supported devices within the requirements specification. These tests were performed on stable and isolated test environments where you were the only user interacting with the application. All tests passed, but in some of those tests you observed the following issue: on some mobile devices only, the response time for two web pages containing images was extremely slow.

Based only on the given information, which of the following recommendation would you follow?

11. For each of the test cases to be executed, the following table specifies the priority order and dependencies on other test cases

Which of the following test execution schedules is compatible with the logical dependencies and allows executing the test cases in priority order?

12. Which of the following statements best describes how configuration management supports testing?

13. Which of the following statements about exploratory testing is true?

14. In a two-hour uninterrupted test session, performed as part of an iteration on an Agile project, a heuristic checklist was used to help the tester focus on some specific usability issues of a web application.

The unscripted tests produced by the tester's experience during such session belong to which one of the following testing quadrants?

15. Which of the following is not an example of a typical content of a test completion report for a test project?

16. Which of the following statements about error guessing is true?

17. Which of the following is a task the Author is responsible for, as part of a typical formal review?

18. The whole-team approach:

19. Consider the following user story about the authentication functionality of an e-commerce website:

"As a logged-in user, I want to change my current password with a new one, so that I can make my account safer".

The following are some of the acceptance criteria defined for the user story:

[a] After the logged-in user has successfully changed his password, an email confirming the change must be sent to him

[b] To successfully change the password, the logged-in user must enter the current password, enter a

new valid password, and finally confirm by pressing the 'Change Password' button

[c] To be valid, the new password entered by the logged-in user is not only required to meet the criteria related to the length and type of characters, but must also be different form the last 5 passwords of that user

[d] A dedicated error message must be presented to the logged-in user when he enters a wrong current password

[e] A dedicated error message must be presented to the logged-in user when he enters the correct current password, but enters an invalid password

Based only on the given information, which of the following ATDD tests is most likely to be written first?

20. Which of the following is not an example of a typical generic skill required for testing?

21. Which of the following is a test task that usually occurs during test implementation?

22. Which of the following statements is true?

23. Which of the following statements about white-box test techniques is true?

24. Which of the following statements is true?

25. Which of the following statements about the value of maintaining traceability between the test basis and test work products is not true?

26. Which of the following statements refers to good testing practice to be applied regardless of the chosen software development model?

27. A virtual service emulating a real third-party service and the automated test scripts (aimed at testing the system under test) that interact with that service, are test work products that are typically created during:

28. The following rules determine the annual bonus to be paid to a salesman of a company based on the total annual amount of the sales made (referred to as TAS).

If the TAS is between 50k and 80k, the bonus is 10%. If the TAS exceeds 80k by a value not greater than 40k, the bonus is 15%. Finally, if the TAS exceeds the maximum threshold which entitles to a 15% bonus, the bonus is 22%.

Consider applying equivalence partitioning to the TAS (Note: 1k = 1000 euros).

Which one of the following answers contain only test cases that belong to the same equivalence partition?

29. A typical objective of testing is to ensure that:

30. Consider the following examples of risks identified in different software development projects:

[I]. The contrast color ratio for both normal text and large text of a website does not comply with the applicable accessibility guidelines, making it difficult for many users to read the content on the pages

[II]. A development vendor fails to deliver their software system on time, causing significant delays to system integration testing activities that have been planned as part of a development project for a system of systems

[III]. People in the test team do not have sufficient skills to automate tests at the test levels required by the test automation strategy which does not allow production of an effective regression test suite

[IV]. In a web application, data from untrusted sources is not subject to proper input validation, making the application vulnerable to several security attacks

Which of the following statements is true?

31. Following a risk-based testing approach you have designed 10 tests to cover a product risk with a high-risk level. You want to estimate, adopting the three-point test estimation technique, the test effort required to reduce the risk level to zero by executing those 10 tests.

You made the following three initial estimates:

• most optimistic = 6 person hours

• most likely = 30 person hours

• most pessimistic = 54 person hours

Based only on the given information, which of the following answers about the three-point test estimation technique applied to this problem is true?

32. The acceptance criteria associated with a user story:

33. Consider a review for a high-level architectural document written by a software architect. The architect does most of the review preparation work, including distributing the document to reviewers before the review meeting. However, reviewers are not required to analyze the document in advance, and during the review meeting the software architect explains the document step by step. The only goal of this review is to establish a common understanding of the software architecture that will be used in a software development project.

Which of the following review types does this review refer to?

34. Which of the following statements about the shift-left approach is true?

35. The fact that defects are usually not evenly distributed among the various modules that make up a software application, but rather their distribution tend to reflect the Pareto principle:

36. Which of the following statements is true?

37. Which of the following work products cannot be examined by static analysis?

38. Confirmation testing is performed after:

39. Which of the following statements about static testing and dynamic testing is true?

40. Which of the following is a test-first approach, where tests that express a shared understanding from stakeholders of how the application is expected to work, are first written in business-readable language (following the Given/When/Then format), and then made executable to drive development?

41. Which of the following statements is not correct?

42. Which of the following s the most correct statement about state testing techniques?

43. A test manager decided to skip static testing since he believes bugs can be found easily by doing dynamic testing.

Was this decision right or wrong?

44. In which of the following test documents would you expect to find test exit criteria described9

45. The following 4 equivalence classes are given:

Which of the following alternatives includes correct test values for x. based on equivalence partitioning?

46. Which of the following coverage criteria results in the highest coverage for state transition based test cases?

47. Which of the following lists factors That contribute to PROJECT risks?

48. Which sequence of stated in the answer choices is correct in accordance with the following figure depicting the life-cycle of a defect?

49. A Test Manager conducts risk assessment for a project. One of the identified risks is: The sub-contractor may fail to meet his commitment". If this risk materializes. it will lead to delay in completion of testing required for the current cycle.

Which of the following sentences correctly describes the risk?

A. It is a product risk since any risk associated with development timeline is a product risk.

B. It is no longer a risk for the Test Manager since an independent party (the sub-contractor) is now managing it

C. It is a object risk since successful completion of the object depends on successful and timely completion of the tests

D. It is a product risk since default on part of the sub-contractor may lead to delay in release of the product

50. Who of the following has the best knowledge to decide what tests in a test project should be automated?

51. Which of the following are the phases of the ISTQB fundamental test process?

52. Which of the following issues cannot be identified by static analysis tools?

53. A company runs a pilot project for evaluation of a test automation tool.

Which of the following is NOT a valid object of this pilot project?

54. Which of the following applications will be the MOST suitable for testing by Use Cases

55. A program is used to control a manufacturing line (turn machines on and off. start and stop conveyer belts, add raw materials to the flow. etc.). Not all actions are possible at all times. For example, there are certain manufacturing stages that cannot be stopped - unless there is an emergency. A tester attempts to evaluate if all such cases (where a specific action is not allowed) are covered by the tests.

Which coverage metric will provide the needed information for this analysis?