ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level Technical Test Analyst - CTAL-TTA Exam Questions

QUESTION NO: 1
You are working on a new product that will provide an online pizza ordering service. Not everyone wants to create a frequent-eater pizza account, so the user can either log in to their existing account, create an account or proceed as a "guest" user. People with existing accounts have the option to update their accounts including changing address, changing credit card information and changing phone number. New account creation requires the user to enter their address, credit card information and phone number. This information Is validated to be sure the address matches the credit card information.
Once the user logs in, they are able to order their pizza. They can request up to five different pizzas and can select different ingredients on each. A user is allowed to pick up to 10 different ingredients per pizza. They can also select from a pre-defined set of ingredients as follows: "meat lovers", "all veggie', "cheese please', and
"throw it all on".
The busiest day of the year for this product will be the day of the final football game of the professional season. In addition to the normal high load, the company will also be running a special on the "cheese please" pizza (buy 3 get 2 more free). The new product will need to handle a load that Is expected to be twice as high as the load on the old product last year. Given this information, what is an important item that should be addressed In the architectural specification?

QUESTION NO: 2
Which statement about test automation being applied to a reactive test approach, is CORRECT' SELECT ONE OPTION

QUESTION NO: 3
Consider the simplified logic below for crediting money to a bank account.
Receive money and account number to be credited
IF account number is valid
IF customer account is active
Store current account balance as oldBalance
Credit money to account
IF oldBalance < zero
IF balance now >= zero
Set message "Overdraft cleared"
ELSE
Set message "A/c overdrawn"
ENDIF
ELSE
Set message = "You have more money"
ENDIF
IF account holder is VIP customer
Send message by email to customer
ENDIF
ELSE
Set message "A/c inactive"
Send message by email to supervisor
ENDIF
ELSE
Add 1 to count of invalid inputs
ENDIF
What is the minimum quantity of test cases that will give 100% statement coverage?

QUESTION NO: 4
You are an experienced tester on an Agile team that is producing a new application. The product backlog has been refined sufficiently to begin development for the first release. This stories in this backlog contain a mixture of functional and non-functional requirements, as well as some technical stories that will provide elements of the application's infrastructure The developers have decided to use TDD as a deveiopment approach but automation of the acceptance tests is not yet planned.
You have been asked to recommend whether or not the team should take an atdd approach as well as TDD.
what would be the BEST recommendation in these circumstances?
SELECT ONE OPTION

QUESTION NO: 5
An enhancement to a Social Media application allows for the creation of new Groups. Any number of existing application members can be added to a Group. An attempt to add a non-existent member of the application to a Group will result in an error, as will an attempt to add the same member twice. Members can be removed from an existing Group. An existing Group can be deleted but only if there are no current members attached to it.
Which one of the following Keyword-driven input tables provides the BEST test coverage of this enhancement?
Table 1
KeywordGroup IdMember Id
Create.GroupGroup3
Add_MemberGroup3@Member1
Add.MemberGroup3(a)Member2
Delete_GroupGroup3
Remove.MemberGroup3@Memberl
Remove_MemberGroup3@)Member2
Delete.GroupGroup3
Result
Group created
Member added to Group
Member added to Group
Error - Group not empty
Member removed from group
Member removed from group
Group deleted
Table 2
KeywordGroup IdMember IdResult
Create.GroupGrouplGroup created
Add.MemberGrouplMember4Error - member does not exist
Add.MemberGroupl(MemberlMember added to Group
Delete.GroupGrouplError - Group not empty
Remove_Member@Member 1Member removed from group
Delete.GroupGrouplGroup deleted
Table 3
KeywordGroup IdMember IdResult
Create.GroupGroup3Group created
Add.MemberGroup3Member9Error - member does not exist
Add.MemberGroup3(MemberlMember added to Group
Add_MemberGroup 3(MemberlError - member already in group
Delete.GroupGroup3Error - Group not empty
Remove-MemberGroups(Member 1Member removed from group
Delete.GroupGroupsGroup deleted
Table 4
KeywordGroup IdMember IdResult
Create.GroupGrouplGroup created
Add.MemberGroupl@Member3Member added to Group
Add.MemberGroupl@Member3Error - member already in group
Delete.GroupGrouplError - Group not empty
Remove.MemberGroupl@Member1Member removed from group
Delete.GroupGrouplGroup deleted
SELECT ONE OPTION

QUESTION NO: 6
Which of the following statements about fault seeding tools is correct?

QUESTION NO: 7
Given the following pseudocode:
Program tax check
BEGIN
yearly := 0
tax := 0
get (monthly)
get (tax_rate)
for I = 1..12 loop
yearly := yearly + monthly
tax := tax - (tax_rate * monthly)
ENDLOOP
salary := monthly * 12
IF salary = yearly THEN
print ("Salary OK")
ELSE
print ("Salary not OK")
ENDIF
year_tax := salary * tax_rate
IF year_tax = tax THEN
print ("Tax Problem")
ENDIF
END tax check
If control flow analysis is performed on the pseudocode, which of the following results is MOST likely?

QUESTION NO: 8
Which statement about test automation is TRUE7
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QUESTION NO: 9
You need to implement a Java class that validates a password entry field. The validation critena states that the password must:
1. be a minimum of 8 characters
2 contain at least one special character.
You are focusing on validation criterion 1 and have written a test class that checks that a 7 character password entry will fail validation.
You have written code designed to make this test class pass, however, on first execution of the test class it has failed What should you do next9 SELECT ONE OPTION

QUESTION NO: 10
Which of the following test categories would best characterize a test designed to confirm that the data backup tapes stored offsite by a bank can be retrieved and loaded within the business process service level agreement?