ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level - Test Manager - CTAL_TM_001 Exam Questions

QUESTION NO: 1
You are looking to Improve the efficiency of testing. The developers have been claiming that the majority of defect reports they receive are invalid either due to the test environment or because the tester did not follow the right steps In a standard defect management process where should you look for more information about these invalid defects?

QUESTION NO: 2
Which of the following is NOT true when following the V-Model lifecycle to organise and plan testing activities? SELECT ONE OPTION

QUESTION NO: 3
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

QUESTION NO: 4
Risks have been identified for a project and they have been analysed using a quantitative method, with the following results for probability and impact.

Which risk should the System Testing focus on mitigating first?
SELECT ONE OPTION

QUESTION NO: 5
Following identification of a number of costly system performance failures late in the development lifecycle, your organisation has introduced a more rigorous review process for system design documents and source code to enhance phase containment. There will be subsequent checks to see if the improved review process detects/prevents these types of performance defects which are likely to have the highest impact on the technical behavior of the system. You have been tasked with evaluating the current defect management tool that will be used to support the reviews and dynamic testing, to ensure that the correct defect data attributes will be captured to enable these checks to be done.
Which three of the following attributes would be MOST effective?
a) Phase of introduction
b) Severity
c) Steps to reproduce the failure
d) Resolution details
e) Phase of detection
SELECT ONE OPTION

QUESTION NO: 6
Which of the following organizational structures would be considered unorthodox?

QUESTION NO: 7
Which technique will assist you in determining targeted improvement areas to reduce the number of defects?
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QUESTION NO: 8
You have assembled the following cost of quality numbers 1 000 defects were found prior to release and 100 were found after.

Given this information what should you conclude?

QUESTION NO: 9
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?
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QUESTION NO: 10
What test process is included as part of TPI Next?