EMT Practice Test

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Question1: Consider the following statements about risk-based testing.
I) Risk-based testing has the objective to reduce the level of protect risks.
II) Tests should be prioritized to find tie critical detects as early as possible.
III) Non-testing activities may also help to reduce risk
IV) Risks have to bereassessedon a regular basis.
V) The project stakeholders can give useful input to determine the risks

Question2: A QA manager of a start-up company needs to implement within a week a low cost incident management tool.
Which of the following is the best option?

Question3: Which of the following statements about reviews are TRUE?
I. In walkthroughs the review meeting is typically led by the author.
II Inspection is characterized by an open-ended review meeting
III Preparation before the review meeting is part of informal reviews
IV Management rarely participates in technical review meetings

Question4: 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?

Question5: Which of the following statements about Experience Based Techniques (EBT) is correct?

Question6: During system testing phase of a word processor, a tester finds that on opening a file from a particular set of files, which are part of a critical workflow, the word processor crashes. Which of the following is the next step the tester should take poor to recording the deviation?

Question7: The following sentences refer to the 'Standard for Software Test Documentation' specification (IEEE 829).
Which sentence is correct?

Question8: The following chart represents metrics related to testing of a project that was competed. Indicate what is represented by tie lines A, B and the axes X.Y

Question9: Which of the following is a function of a dynamic analysis tool?

Question10: During component testing of a program if 100% decision coverage is achieved, which of the following coverage criteria is also guaranteed to be 100%?

Question11: Which of the following is NOT a deciding factor m determining the extent of testing required?

Question12: Which of the following statements about decision tables are TRUE?
I. Generally, decision tables are generated for low risk test items.
II. Test cases derived from decision tables can be used for component tests.
III. Several test cases can be selected for each column of the decision table.
IV. The conditions in the decision table represent negative tests generally.

Question13: Which of the following statements about test reports are TRUE?
I Test reports shall be approved by the test team.
II. Test reports shall give stakeholders information as basis for decisions.
Ill Test reports shall summarize what happened through a period of testing.
IV. Test reports shall be approved by the development team, the test team and the customer
V. Test reports shall include information about remaining risks.

Question14: Which of the following are valid testing principles?
I) Exhaustive testing is in general impossible.
II) Exhaustive testing should be executed for code intended to be reused.
III) Testing may guarantee that a program is correct.
IV) Testing cannot guarantee that a program is correct.
V) Defects cluster together in certain areas of the product.

Question15: The four test levels used in ISTQB syllabus are:
1. Component (unit) testing
2. Integration testing
3. System testing
4. Acceptance testing
An organization wants to do away with integration testing but otherwise follow V-model. Which of the following statements is correct?

Question16: Which of the following statements is CORRECT?

Question17: Mark the correct sentences:
* Defects are a result of environmental conditions and are also referred to as "Failures"
* A human mistake may produce a defect
* A system mil totally fail to operate correctly when a failure exists in it
* When a defect exists in a system it may result in a failure
* Defects occur only as a result of technology changes

Question18: Which test approach will best fit a new project, with little documentation and high probability for bugs?

Question19: Which of the following would be the LEAST likely to be used as the basis for a test exit criteria?

Question20: The following 4 equivalence classes are given:

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

Question21: Consider the following testing levels:
1) Component Testing
2) Integration Testing
3) System Testing
4) Acceptance Testing
Which of the following statements is true?

Question22: A team's test strategy was to invest equal effort in testing each of a system's modules. After running one test cycle, it turned out that most of the critical bugs were detected in one of the system's modules.
Which testing principal suggests a change to the current test strategy for the next test cycle?

Question23: Which of the following issues cannot be identified by static analysis tools?

Question24: Which of the following should be included in a test status report?
I. Estimation details
II. Total number of open and closed defects
III Actual effort spent
IV. Defect reports
V. Number of executed, failed, blocked tests

Question25: Which of the following statements about independent testing is WRONG?

Question26: A system has a self-diagnostics module that starts executing after the system is reset. The diagnostics are running 12 different tests on the systems memory hardware. The following is one of the requirements set for the diagnostics module:
'The time taking the diagnostics tests to execute shall be less than 2 seconds' Which of the following is a failure related to the specified requirement?

Question27: Which of the following lists factors That contribute to PROJECT risks?

Question28: Why it is essential that defects found in a review be reported objectively?

Question29: As the last stage of a test cycle of an embedded device, you are performing exploratory testing. You observed that some character. (A, X andZ)sent via a serial port to the device do not get registered on the device whereas they should be. You suspect that this could be due to a wrong configuration of the "bit parity" parameter.
Which of the following items of an incident report would you beUNABLEto write down based on this information?

Question30: A software system checks age in order to determine which welcome screen to display. Age groups are:
Group I: 0-12
Group II; 13-18
Group III: over 18
Which of the below represent boundary values?

Question31: Which ONE of the following statements about acceptance testing isNOTcorrect?

Question32: Manager responsibilities in formalreview includes adexceptone of the following:

Question33: Which of the following isNOTan objective of testing?

Question34: Which of the following isNOTa common objective of testing?

Question35: A bank software has a feature of locking down accounts that have and overdraft higher than $10,000.
Due to a bug in the code, the system locks down accounts once they reached $1000 overdraft.
Based on this context, which of the following is correct statement

Question36: The following part of a business process flow is specified; REPEAT (book a bill) UNTIL (User presses Cancel). How many test cases are necessary in order to achieve 100% branch coverage of the process flow?

Question37: Which of the following isNOTan experience-based technique?

Question38: In which of the following cases you wouldNOTexecute maintenance testing?

Question39: A system has valid input numbers ranging between 1000 and 99999 (both inclusive). Which of the following inputs are a result of designing tests for all valid equivalence classes and their boundaries?

Question40: What is 'Component Testing'?

Question41: A test manager defined the following test levels in her test plan; Component, System and Acceptance.
Which Software Development lifecycle is the Test Manager most likely following?

Question42: A mid-size software product development company has analyzed data related to defects detected in its product and found out that detects fixed in earlier builds are getting re-opened after a few months.
The company management now seeks your advice in order to reverse this trend and prevent re-opening of defects fixed earlier.
What would be your FIRST recommendation to the company?

Question43: Who of the following has the best knowledge to decide what tests in a test project should be automated?

Question44: An Incident Management tool implements the following defect states; Open, Assigned, Solved, Closed Consider the following defect report:
Id T000561
Test Object "Warehouse Management' application
Tester name; John Bishop
Date: 10th. April 2010
Test Case MRT558I
Status OPEN
Severity Serious
Priority
Problem- After inputting the Total Quantity item = 450 in the SV034 screen, the system shows an unexpected Error message=47 Correction:
Developer name:
Closing date:
Which of the following is a valid criticism of this report?

Question45: Which of the following isNOTa product risk?