EMT Practice Test

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Question1: You are the Test Manager for a software house (SoftTech), who provide a core banking product to retail banks around the world to enable their customers to process payments via the Internet and telephone banking.
Your current project is to integrate SoftTech's core banking product with Welsh Bank's existing bank systems.
However, Welsh Bank's systems are maintained by experienced developers and are poorly documented.
Welsh Bank has stated that this project must comply with Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) regulatory banking standards.
A specification for the 10 interfaces to Welsh Bank's existing systems has been produced by SoftTech's development team.
You have been asked to plan and conduct reviews for the system integration and support documentation of all the systems. Which of the following is the BEST approach for this project?
SELECT ONE OPTION

Question2: Your test process is fully integrated into the software development lifecycle. You are at which TMMi level?
[1]

Question3: Which of the following metrics would be most beneficial to collect to determine the effectiveness of a review process? [2]

Question4: You have directed one of your testers to construct a "smoke test" to execute against new builds prior to starting formal testing. This is an example of which software development lifecycle activity?
[1]

Question5: Your test team has created a custom automation tool that will be used for an upcoming release. Now that the tool has been coded, what should be the next step? [1]

Question6: 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]

Question7: Which three of the following would be considered a good mix of technical and interpersonal skills (hard and soft), for a test team leader?
a. Ability to compliment a developer.
b. Presenting information regarding a test project progress to stakeholders c. Using a configuration management tool.
d. Ability to read a development coding language
e. Assessing a failure and documenting it correctly.

Question8: Which ONE of the following is considered to be the LEAST independent form of testing for an organisation?
SELECT ONE OPTION

Question9: Your Project Manager has challenged you to come up with a process improvement strategy using the IDEAL model.
Which step within the process defines the success criteria? [2]

Question10: SCENARIO 3
You are the Test Manager for a software house called "MakeMyApp" that specialise in mobile phone applications, agile techniques are used for all software development projects.
A new project is underway to develop enhancements to a 'photo sharing' application, known as
'PictureFriend'. There are two types of user account available -Premium Users and Guest Users. Guest users only have limited functionality available. The enhanced features to PictureFriend are:
* Feature 1: Guest Users can share photos with other Guest Users and Premium Users;
* Feature 2: Premium Users can edit pictures before posting to their account;
* Feature 3: Premium Users can create '3D-effect' photographs
The requirements for each feature will be broken down into a number of User Stories with acceptance criteria created for each of them. User Stories are planned and delivered in 2-week 'Sprints'. The project will have 3 sprints.
Refer to SCENARIO 3
You have been asked to select an appropriate review type and review remit for the project.
Which of the following is the BEST review type and remit for this project?
SELECT ONE OPTION

Question11: You are performing a risk assessment for a financial application using quantitative risk analysis. The following is a table describing the analysis undertaken so far:

Which of the following statements correctly describes the outcome of the risk assessment using the "Cost of Exposure" technique in this scenario? SELECT ONE OPTION

Question12: When, at a minimum, should project risks be re-evaluated? [1]

Question13: SoftTech provides a core banking product to retail banks to enable their customers to process payments via the Internet and telephone banking and. as SoftTech's Test Manager, you are responsible for system testing and system integration testing of all SoftTech's products.
Your current project is to integrate SoftTech's core banking product with an existing bank's systems, which are maintained by experienced developers but poorly documented.
A specification for the 10 interfaces to the bank's existing systems has been produced by SoftTech's development team. There is an estimating matrix for system integration testing that allows 2 man days per interface for preparation, plus 2 man days per interface for test execution. The exit criteria for the completion of system integration testing has been agreed as:
1. No open Severity 1 defects
2 No more than 10 open severity 2 and/or 3 defects
3. All interfaces tested
4. Cost estimate must not be exceeded
System integration test execution is scheduled to last 5 weeks, with week 5 reserved for regression and bug fixing only.
At the end of week 3 the following test report has been produced (figures on a week by week basis, not cumulative):

(b). Open severity 2 and 3 defects
(c). Interface testing progress
(d). Development resource for debugging
(e). Available budget
SELECT ONE OPTION

Question14: You are documenting a test methodology for your organisation and have specified that the following activities must be adopted for all future projects: 1. The design, implementation and execution of tests to mitigate the quality risks
2 Extensive use of checklists to test web page navigation
3 Exploratory test sessions to be integrated into the test schedule Consider the following test strategies:
a. Analytical test strategy
b Methodical test strategy
c. Process or standard compliant test strategy
d Reactive test strategy
e. Regression-averse test strategy
Which three of these strategies is MOST appropriate for this organisation?

Question15: What is the purpose of tracking efficiency metrics for a formal review? [1]

Question16: As a Test Manager, which one of the following do you think is the MOST important reason for ensuring effective processes are in place for test monitoring and reporting?
SELECT ONE OPTION

Question17: Which of the following is a typical use of risk analysis? [1]

Question18: 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]

Question19: You are a new Test Manager on a maintenance release for an existing mature product that is expected to be retired in the not too distant future. The previous release had utilized a performance regression test suite written in an in-house custom tool using the same programming language as the product itself. This suite will most likely require tweaking to ensure it works with the new version of the product. While there are several members in the performance testing team, the original author of the performance testing tool has moved on to another company, and none of the remaining staff have a great deal of familiarity with the performance test scripts used to test this product.
How would you recommend this scenario be addressed? [3]

Question20: Your last project was released three months ago and used a risk-based approach. In production, a number of serious failures in low risk areas have occurred.
What is the most important lesson to be learned from this information? [2]

Question21: Which of the following statements correctly describes a 'depth-first approach' to managing risk based testing?
SELECT ONE OPTION

Question22: Refer to SCENARIO 2 - Which two of the following are test strategies that would need to be implemented to meet the objectives defined in the Safe as Houses' test policy?
a. Analytical strategy
b. Reactive strategy
c Methodical strategy
d. Regression averse strategy
e. Process compliant strategy

Question23: You are planning the testing for an emergency product update required to correct a serious security issue and to improve system maintainability of a key product in your company's catalogue. It has been estimated that the historical cost to the company for the security issue in this system has been $375,000.
In the last year a total of 10 reported "live' incidents were reported, resulting in a total external failure cost of S110.000 to correct.
The cost of prevention for this project has been estimated as $78,500 and from the development you have learned that the average cost of detection was $1,250 and the average cost of internal failure was $7,450 Which one of the following statements about cost of quality is TRUE? SELECT ONE OPTION

Question24: You are a Test Manager at a company that develops mobile phone applications. Based on historical data in your company, you have calculated the following average metrics for system testing:
* for each 100 LOC (Lines Of Code). 4 test cases are executed
* each test case takes on average 15 minutes to execute and check
* for each 1000 LOC, 5 defects are found
You have used this information to create an estimate for the system testing of a new mobile phone application being developed to submit gas and electricity readings.
The application delivered for system testing has 50.000 lines of code. At the end of system testing, 250 defects are discovered.
Assume that:
* the system test of the new mobile phone application will require the same amount of effort as previous applications
* defect density = number of defects/1000 LOC
* no new tools or processes have been introduced to the test team
Based only on the given information, which one of the following statements is true about this new mobile phone application?
SELECT ONE OPTION

Question25: You are reviewing the project's traceability matrix after the first cycle of testing. You have discovered that new requirements have been introduced and others have changed.
What should you do? [2]

Question26: Referring to SCENARIO 2 It has been agreed that Project 1 will be delivered using an Agile approach, with user stories delivered across three sprints, each lasting 4 weeks. The programme manager is concerned about RISK 3 and wants the Master Test Plan to specify an effective test process improvement approach.
Which of the following is the best test process improvement approach for Project 1 ? SELECT ONE OPTION

Question27: You are Test Manager for a project which is in the Test Implementation stage for the first planned iteration, creation of the initial Test Cases and required test data is progressing well.
The Test Strategy documents the Stakeholders view that small teams should collaborate together to create and test functionality which is to be released in iterations, with each release building on the success of the last.
Stakeholders are willing to accept the risks of a partly working system in the early stages. Delivery of working functionality (particularly around interfaces to third party systems and performance of back end databases) is the priority for the early releases.
Which of the following test types would you select for this first planned iteration, in order to meet Stakeholders expectations?
a) Usability testing
b) Structural testing
c) Functional testing of process flows
d) Performance testing
e) Business process testing
f) Component integration testing
You are Test Manager for a project which is in the Test Implementation stage for the first planned iteration, creation of the initial Test Cases and required test data is progressing well.
The Test Strategy documents the Stakeholders view that small teams should collaborate together to create and test functionality which is to be released in iterations, with each release building on the success of the last.
Stakeholders are willing to accept the risks of a partly working system in the early stages. Delivery of working functionality (particularly around interfaces to third party systems and performance of back end databases) is the priority for the early releases.
Which of the following test types would you select for this first planned iteration, in order to meet Stakeholders expectations?
a) Usability testing
b) Structural testing
c) Functional testing of process flows
d) Performance testing
e) Business process testing
f) Component integration testing

Question28: Which one of the following options would help ensure success in using an Exploratory Testing approach?
SELECT ONE OPTION

Question29: 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]

Question30: Which of the following is a key characteristic of a management review? [1]

Question31: You have recently implemented a new defect management process which now includes a defect triage committee whose job is to review all new defects. The process is shown in the following diagram:

b. The total number of defects rejected as not a problem following investigation by the product author c. The number of defects returned to the defect author, expressed as a percentage of all defects raised d. The total number of defects that failed re-test more than once e. The total number of defects closed by the defect triage committee SELECT ONE OPTION

Question32: When scheduling performance testing, which of the following approaches would be most advisable? [1]

Question33: 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]

Question34: The Test Manager must assemble team members that have which of the following characteristics? [1]

Question35: 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]

Question36: Consider the following metrics:
a Percentage of all product risks identified during initial risk analysis b. Average time taken by developers to fix defects for each severity level c. Statement coverage achieved by the component test suite d. Breakdown of defects detected by test level How many of the five primary dimensions for test progress monitoring have been addressed by these metrics?
SELECT ONE OPTION

Question37: Your company is installing a third-party enterprise-wide business software package. This is the first time the company has done anything like this.
Which technique would be the best one to use to estimate the testing effort? [3]

Question38: As a Senior Test Manager for a large UK based software company, you have been tasked with setting up an outsourced test facility in another country and another time zone. Test effort will be equally split between the UK and the outsourced test facility.
Which of the following factors is MOST LIKELY to lead to the success of the new working arrangement?
a. Introduce clearly defined lines of communication.
b Increase the use of informal test execution.
c Align the testing methodologies used at each site
d. Implement a weekly team meeting where reps from each site attend in person.
e. Increase the overlap of allocated testing tasks.
f. Introduce local defect management processes for each site.

Question39: You are Test Manager on a new project and have estimated the test effort to be 500 days, assuming that you will find no more than 50 defects and 5 test iterations being required. The project manager has said the estimate is too high. Which of the following options could enable you to reduce this estimate?
SELECT ONE OPTION

Question40: 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]

Question41: Refer to SCENARIO 2 - You are the test manager for Project 3 and have performed a skills assessment of your Safe as Houses' test team. You must now decide what training or skills development is required.

The matrix shows the skill level (5 being highest, 1 lowest) for each team member. Which two of the above skills need the closest attention for potential training or development on this project?
SELECT ONE OPTION

Question42: You have just conducted a skills assessment for your team. You decided to rate everyone from 1 to 5 in the skill areas as follows:
5 = expert
4 = proficient
3 = can use this skill effectively but will need some assistance
2 = interested in learning this skill but has only minimal knowledge
1 = not interested in learning this skill
Given these values, you have rated your team as shown in the table below for the designated skill areas:

You will be starting to test a new product that is an upgrade from one of your existing end user products.
Your testing will include white box,
performance, security, usability, and black box. You also have a goal to automate 100% of the smoke test and
50% of the regression tests by the end of the release.
Your team willingly shares knowledge and conducts regular lunch time cross-training sessions.
Your manager wants to know if you would like to bring in someone to help train your team in preparation for this project. In which area could you best utilize this help? [3]

Question43: As the Test Manager working for a company developing safety related software for defence equipment, you have been asked to consider how you can track test progress and report on the following:
1) Test cases adequately cover all requirements
2) Issues relating to safety critical vulnerabilities are being addressed in priority order
3) How much of the developed system has been exercised through testing What tools would help to achieve this?
SELECT ONE OPTION

Question44: Test Analysts are doing test design for a change request to an insurance comparison system. The system provides car insurance quotations, using data input by the user.
The change request states:-
Drivers must be aged between 17 to 85 years inclusive to qualify for insurance comparison.
The following Test Conditions have been identified:
1 Driver's age is less than the minimum
2. Driver's age is within the valid range
3. Driver's age is more than the maximum
The Test Strategy states the test techniques to be used include Equivalence Partitioning and Boundary Value Analysis. Using the Test Conditions and techniques stated in the Test Strategy, the following Test Cases have been created.

As the Test Manager you are reviewing these Test Cases for traceability to the Test Conditions and to ensure that the change request will be adequately tested in accordance with the Test Strategy.
Which of the following statements is FALSE? SELECT ONE OPTION

Question45: You just handed over the Defect Accepted and Deferred report to your Maintenance team.
Which testing activity are you performing? [1]

Question46: You are the Test Manager on a new project. The schedule is aggressive and will require the team to work at peak efficiency. The requirements are not well defined yet, but it is clear that the project will be using new technologies. To help the developers meet the development schedule, an offshore group will be added to the development team.
At this time there is not enough budget to add more testing resources. The project stakeholders are very concerned about the quality of delivered product and will be watching the project closely, particularly during the testing cycles. The exit criteria from the system test level require no open high priority
/severity defects, 100% pass rate for all test cases covering risks that are classified as
"high" or "very high", 90% pass rate for all "medium" risks and 50% pass rate for all "low" and "very low" risks.
Given this information, which lifecycle model should you recommend? [3]

Question47: Which of the following are primary activities in conducting product risk analysis? [1]

Question48: Refer to SCENARIO 3
Which of the following are test planning activities that would be MOST appropriate for Sprint 1?
a) Analyse the risk for each of the user stories in sprint 1
b) Publish lest progress reports throughout the sprint
c) Arrange informal reviews of the user stories by the test team
d) Plan an automated system test suite for the user stories.
e) Specify system test conditions at a detailed level for all user stories Chose one of the following options:
SELECT ONE OPTION

Question49: 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]

Question50: You are Test Manager of a project delivering a workflow system for complex business processes It has been decided a tool is required to increase the efficiency of test execution. What would be a valid issue to consider when deciding whether to build a custom made tool?
SELECT ONE OPTION

Question51: A test team is working long hours to achieve a deadline for release of a new product which has had problems throughout development and is well behind schedule. Which of the following is most likely to have a MOTIVATING effect on the testers in the team?
SELECT ONE OPTION

Question52: You are Test Manager on a major project that is of strategic importance to your company. Your team has access to a suite of testing tools that provide support across the development life cycle and this suite of tools has been in place for the last two projects. You are concerned that the suite does not have an integrated defect management tool and have negotiated a small budget to find and implement such a tool. Your first choice is an open source tool that has been available for just over a year and appears to be popular with its users, who have found it easy to learn. The main disadvantage of the tool would be that current manual defect management processes would need to be modified to embrace use of the tool.
Which of the following would be the MAIN risk to consider in deciding whether or not to acquire the defect management tool? SELECT ONE OPTION

Question53: You are the Test Manager for a critical system and are using a risk-based approach for this project.
Which of the following would most clearly convey the current status to project stakeholders? [3]

Question54: Your company just won a contract to create a new sales application and has committed to a very aggressive delivery timeline. Due to the quick turnaround your primary stakeholder wants to be heavily involved in the design and is very anxious to see the outcome. Because of this, your company has decided to use a spiral development approach. You have a defined test policy and typically use an analytical approach to testing, however, this approach will not work with the development approach.
What test strategy should be utilized? [3]

Question55: Your application development team is performing "test-driven" development. This is a core principal of which software development model?[1]

Question56: When closing out a defect report, which of the following developer commentaries is most likely to motivate a tester? [1]

Question57: 'Safe as Houses' is a company that specialises in home security software, including alarm systems, surveillance cameras and other forms of deterrence.
It is currently developing the software for a device which simulates an active television, producing sound and light images that suggest someone is home watching the television. 'Safe as Houses' recently won a lucrative contract to supply the software to Smart Alarms', who will be manufacturing the hardware devices Sound will be created using actual television and film archives, licensed through a third-party supplier, 'Silver Sound Ltd'. A user interface will be developed in house to allow the customer to choose sound tracks.
The software will be delivered as a programme of work, consisting of three projects. Project 1 will develop the software for the light images. Project 2 will develop the sound system and Project 3 will integrate the two using hardware prototypes supplied from 'Smart Alarms'. The programme will conclude with 'Smart Alarms' performing User Acceptance testing in usability labs.
The 'Safe as Houses' test team has experience in testing alarm and surveillance systems but lacks experience in testing light imagery software. The organisational test policy includes the following objectives:
1 Exploratory testing should be used to augment more formal, structured testing within constraints of time and budget
2. Test automation tools should be purchased and employed to maximise the breadth and efficiency of regression testing The Programme risk register currently includes the following risks:
RISK1 Working prototypes will be delivered late to the integration test environments RISK 2 A delay in signing the contract with 'Silver Sound Ltd' will impact the programme schedule RISK 3 Inexperience in testing light imagery software will cause major defects to be missed RISK 4 The user interface software for the sound systems will be delivered late into testing Refer to SCENARIO 2 - The IT Director for 'Safe as Houses' is recruiting a Programme Test Manager and has been provided with a skills matrix for four prospective candidates. The matrix shows the skill level (5 being highest. 1 lowest) for each candidate:

Consider which of these skills are key for a Programme Test manager in this scenario. Based on these, which candidate would be the most suitable?
SELECT ONE OPTION

Question58: Which of the following are Test Closure activities?
a All results lodged in configuration management system - for example test plans, results, logs, reports.
b. Plans in place for lessons to be learnt to ensure that good practices are repeated and poor practices are not.
c. Checks undertaken to ensure that all test work is completed - all tests executed or skipped, all defects managed to appropriate conclusion.
d. All project closure activities completed - for example customer training completed, and analysis of vendor performance undertaken.
e. AM testing work products delivered to those that need them - for example environments/ regression test sets passed to maintenance.
f. Checks undertaken to ensure that all tests have been executed, with all defects confirmed as fixed by retesting.
SELECT ONE OPTION

Question59: Refer to SCENARIO 2 It has been agreed that the following test planning documents will be produced;
* A single overarching document outlining the general testing methodology for the whole programme of work
* A subordinate test plan for each of the three projects
* A separate test plan for performance testing within each project
Which one of the following options BEST describes the type of test management document that will meet the programme requirements?

Question60: 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]

Question61: You have initiated a test process improvement project for your organisation using the STEP model. You have agreed the objectives, goals, scope and coverage of the process improvements with the stakeholders and defined the success criteria that will be applied to the project. Success criteria make risk reduction the most important target benefit for the process improvements, but overall return on investment is also an important consideration. You have just received the initial test assessment report.
Which ONE of the following would be the next step? SELECT ONE OPTION