ISQI ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level Test Analyst (CTAL-TA v4.0) - CTAL-TA_V4.0 Exam Questions

QUESTION NO: 1
In your role as a Test Analyst for the development of a business application, you asked the Product Owner to help you understand how the various product risks would affect the users.
Which product risk management activity was this?

QUESTION NO: 2
A simple DVD player is described in the following state transition diagram:
States shown in the diagram:

All round trips are feasible, even those that do not start at OFF. How many test cases will be needed for complete round-trip coverage?

QUESTION NO: 3
A savings bank rewards its customers with a £100 bonus when they reach the age of 21, if they have held a savings account for more than 3 years and have at least £2,000 in the account at that time.
Assume that Age is measured in whole years, Account term in whole years, and Account balance to two decimal places, i.e., pounds and pence.
The intended rule is:
IF Age = 21 AND Account term > 3 years AND Account balance > = £2000.00 THEN Pay £100 bonus You have a suite of test cases with the following values:
* TC1 Age = 21, Account term = 3 years, Account balance = £2000.00
* TC2 Age = 20, Account term = 6 years, Account balance = £500.00
* TC3 Age = 20, Account term = 2 years, Account balance = £3000.00
Which of the following test cases should you add to the suite to achieve 100% Reliable domain coverage?

QUESTION NO: 4
You are working on a project to build an application that will handle insurance claims. The main requirements for the system are that it shall:
* Allow users to enter details of claims that have been submitted by insured customers.
* Take each claim through a workflow that will allow an assessor to approve the request, reject it or request clarification from the claimant.
* Send approved requests to the accounts payable system for payment.
The solution is being developed according to the company's standard V-model methodology. The requirements are clearly documented and include a business process model. Operational profiles have been created to guide performance testing.
A risk-based approach to testing is used; frequency of use and role of the user are major factors in feature risk assessment.
System testing has almost finished but a major change to the approval workflow is just about to be delivered.
A standard regression test pack has not yet been established, but ad-hoc regression testing has already been performed on earlier builds.
As a TA. you have updated the list of product risks and must now decide the scope of the regression testing.
Which pair of techniques will be MOST effective for selecting the regression tests?
a) History-based, driven by the results of the regression tests run so far b) Risk-based, driven by the updated list of product risks and its traceability to the tests c) Operational profile-based, driven by the likely patterns of use of the relevant transactions d) Requirement traceability matrix-based, driven by the links from affected requirements to related tests e) Impact analysis, driven by consultation with technical stakeholders to identify what might be affected.

QUESTION NO: 5
You are assigned to an Agile team as a Test Analyst. In most ways, the team seems to be working well.
Iteration planning goes smoothly because the user stories are good quality. Most defects that are found by testing are fixed in the same iteration and those that do go live are not causing significant dissatisfaction amongst stakeholders. However, the team is unhappy because the Defect Removal Efficiency rate, measured for each iteration, is less than 80%.
What would be the MOST effective contribution by you as a TA, to improve the situation?