EMT Practice Test

1. Question Content...

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Question1: Which of the following software characteristics are possibly revealed through the application of a open source static analysis tool? [1]

Question2: You have written a defect report and have just been notified that it is in the "returned" state.
Who should take action on this defect? [1]

Question3: What is the purpose of process improvement assessment models? [1]

Question4: Mary is an external IT auditor. She is conducting a review of the system-level testing done by Greg's functional testing team.
Which of the following items from Mary's assessment summary should concern Greg the most? [2]

Question5: Your test process is fully integrated into the software development lifecycle. You are at which TMMi level?
[1]

Question6: You just handed over the Defect Accepted and Deferred report to your Maintenance team.
Which testing activity are you performing? [1]

Question7: Which of the following is likely to occur if reviewers do not have an adequate level of technical knowledge?
[1]

Question8: Your testing team has just received the test conditions for a new project. You are conducting Test Design activities for this project. Your team feels that it would be beneficial to create high-level test cases.
What should they do concurrently with creating these test cases? [2]

Question9: Your application development team is performing "test-driven" development. This is a core principal of which software development model?[1]

Question10: Test results are reported as "Requirements tested, passed, and failed".
What test strategy are you using?[1]

Question11: The Test Manager must assemble team members that have which of the following characteristics? [1]

Question12: You are the manager of a test team. You inherited most of these people from a previous manager who promoted technical skills, particularly programming skills. As a result, your people are very strong in test automation skills, white box testing and complex test design techniques. You have just been told that you can hire five new people. You want the new people to complement the existing skill sets and you want to be sure the team will have a strong mutual respect.
Given the following options, who should you hire? [3]

Question13: Which of the following statements is true regarding documentation standards? [2]

Question14: Which of the following is a typical use of risk analysis? [1]

Question15: What is the primary use for the traceability information regarding the relationship between test results and test conditions during test execution? [2]

Question16: Your organization is considering using open-source tools. You have been told you need to be aware of the terms of the GNU general public license.
What is the basic concept of this license? [1]

Question17: Which of the following should be considered the biggest risk to the schedule when trying to implement formal scripted test cases early in the SDLC for a system with a large GUI front end? [2]

Question18: You are a Test Manager on a new project. The software that is being created will be used to control the projectors in movie theaters. This is a time critical project because the software must be released before the Christmas holiday season which has the highest movie attendance of the year.
You have decided to implement a review process for the work products that are a part of this release to save both time and money. In order to expedite the training, you brought in a consultant to train the participants and moderators in proper review processes. Your team is enthusiastic about participating in the reviews.
The project is in the early planning stages. As the review leader, what is an appropriate activity for you to be doing at this point in the project? [3]

Question19: You have been carefully monitoring the progress of testing for your project. You have been using the established traceability to verify that the requirements and test conditions are being adequately addressed. The test team is proceeding well in their test case execution and you can see that you are achieving about 80% coverage of the test conditions per the traceability mapping in your test management system. You have seen a number of defects being logged against test conditions that are failing, but you do not see a mapping of the test cases to those conditions.
What is likely to be occurring in the testing area that is causing the traceability to break down? [2]

Question20: You are the Test Manager of a risk-based testing effort. You develop the following graph to show residual risk. Assume that "Risks mitigated" represents passed tests and "Risks not mitigated" represents failed tests and other discovered failures.
Which of the following answers best represents what the graph shows? [3]

Question21: Which of the following aspects should test progress metrics be mapped to? [1]

Question22: When scheduling performance testing, which of the following approaches would be most advisable? [1]

Question23: Which work experience is likely to develop the necessary skills to effectively test a software system? [3]

Question24: Which technique will assist you in determining targeted improvement areas to reduce the number of defects?
[1]

Question25: You are the Test Manager for a new product that is being developed according to an iterative lifecycle. At this point, you have 100% of your smoke tests automated, 20% of your functional tests and 50% of your regression tests. Your iterations are four weeks long. You are finding that with each iteration significant maintenance is required for your automated tests and you are not able to complete the testing within the planned timeframe. The test plan you created at the beginning of the project indicates that all automated tests should be run before any manual tests.
Which of the following is a reasonable change to this plan based on how the project is going? [2]

Question26: You are testing a new product that will turn on the windshield wipers of a car when the sensorsdetect there is moisture on the windshield. Depending on the information returned from the sensors, the wipers will be turned on at one of the following speeds: slow intermittent, medium intermittent, fast intermittent, slow constant, medium constant, fast constant. Your team has identified the following test condition:
Test Condition 1.1.1 - Verify that the windshield wipers can go from slow constant to fast constant speed when the amount of moisture increases appropriately.
Your team has defined the following steps for a test case for this test condition:
1. Set the moisture sensor to request slow constant
2. Increase the moisture to set the sensor to request fast constant
3. Verify that the wipers respond with fast constant speed
Given this information, which of the following statements is correct? [2]

Question27: Consider the following scenario:
Your customer is closely involved in the development project. Requirements are communicated verbally and rarely written down. An iterative development model is being followed and time boxing is used to stay on schedule.
Which of the following statements is true? [3]

Question28: You are a Test Manager on a new project. The software that is being created will be used to control the projectors in movie theaters. This is a time critical project because the software must be released before the Christmas holiday season which has the highest movie attendance of the year.
You have decided to implement a review process for the work products that are a part of this release to save both time and money. In order to expedite the training, you brought in a consultant to train the participants and moderators in proper review processes. Your team is enthusiastic about participating in the reviews.
Your manager is questioning the money you have spent on this training effort. He wants to know how you intend to justify the expense when you present your numbers at the annual budget meeting in February.
What would be a reasonable way for you to justify the cost of the training and the reviews when you present your information at the budget meeting? [3]

Question29: When, at a minimum, should project risks be re-evaluated? [1]

Question30: You have been promoted to Test Manager within your company. Your new manager states that your test team utilized a risk-based test approach for the last release but in production, a number of serious failures in lightly tested areas have occurred.
What would be your first action prior to the start of the next test phase for the next release? [3]