The ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level - Test Analyst (CTAL-TACore)v3.1.2 (ISTQB-CTAL-TA)

A web-based system is being developed to support the administration of tennis tournaments.

The system provides advice on how much money to offer each player as their individual attendance fee. The amount depends on a combination of the following factors:

Overall attendance fund (divided into five numeric ranges)

Player's current world ranking (divided into ten numeric ranges)

Whether it is a local tournament for the player (YES or NO)

Their relationship with the tournament sponsors (clothing, equipment, or endorsement)

Their previous attendance history at this event (finalist, played, withdrew before event, or withdrew during event)

It has been noted that the attendance fee calculation does not take account of 'last minute' invitations that are made to replace a player who withdraws close to the tournament start date. In this case, enhanced attendance fees are offered depending on whether the invitation is made within a week, a fortnight, or a month of the tournament start date.

Which of the following specification-based techniques would be the BEST choice for testing the 'last minute' scenario where players are replaced close to the tournament start, and what type of defect is being targeted by the testing?

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Supercar is an online vehicle sales website specialising in a single manufacturer's Sports Utility Vehicles (SUVs) and saloons. A vehicle has two key elements, power unit and body style. The manufacturer offers three choices of power unit: petrol, diesel and hybrid. There are 3 mam body styles Saloon, Hatchback and SUV SUVs only come as petrol and diesel options Hybrid is available for Hatchback only. The site will allow an order to be processed if at least one of the chosen vehicle configurations is in stock, otherwise a message will be displayed asking the user to try again later As a Test Analyst you are asked to review the Supercar specification before starting to design the corresponding usability test cases. Which of the comments below should you make?

You work for a company that is a pioneer in smart energy technology. One of their core products is their energy monitor in-home display device, used to display current and historic energy consumption data to many thousands of customers. It has been designed to integrate with their other smart home products, including domestic lighting control systems via their HomeHub.

The company is to launch a new application for smartphones and tablets that will allow its customers to view their energy readings remotely and to view their daily budget usage based on seasonal historic data. The application must also support customers with disabilities.

The application is being delivered using a hybrid mix of agile and V-model methodologies over three iterations:

Iteration 1: Development of the new application to work on the IOS operating system only

Iteration 2: Enhancement to the application to also work on the Android operating system

Iteration 3: Enhancement to the application to provide daily budget usage

The test manager has provided you with a list of high-level test conditions and has asked you, as Test Analyst, to select the test conditions that address functional suitability, portability, usability, and accessibility for Iteration 1 only. Which TWO of the following test conditions should you select?

a) The application will accept voice recognition commands made via IOS devices

b) The application is both learnable and operable for customers when used on Android devices

c) There is no loss or corruption of data transmitted between the energy monitor and other smart-home products

d) The daily budget usage is accurately calculated from seasonal historic data running on Android

e) The application can be installed on all currently supported versions of IOS for all supported smartphones and tablets

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Based on the tax system specification as described below, using boundary value analysis, which would be the best test set to explicitly test on single boundary value fully?

Tax system

A tax system needs to be updated due to new legislation. For a person with a salary of less than € 20 000 and who is married, the tax needs to be recalculated.

If a person has at least three and less than six children, an additional 10% reduction is applicable.

What are ways in which classification trees support the application of pairwise testing?

a. They help to identify inputs to be used by the pairwise test technique

b. They show the combinations needed to cover all-pairs

c. They help to identify particular combinations of interest

d. They show both typical and atypical behavior

e. They show the expected results for the various test cases

When applying the State Transition test technique to the given State Transition diagram, and assuming that screen refreshes can be applied multiple times, how many 1-switch transitions are there starting from the state 'Screen 1'?

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You are testing a hospital patient management system. New or amended patient data is captured by hospital administrators using an in-house patient capture application and transmitted to one or more hospital departments depending on the nature of the medical condition. Each department operates its own software package.

A new release has been scheduled which includes an improved user interface to the patient capture application as well as changes to the patient data to meet new regulatory requirements.

You are the test analyst for this release, working alongside a Technical Test Analyst. Which of the following requirements MOST align to your responsibilities to test as a Test Analyst?

R01: New and amended patient data can be successfully read and processed by receiving hospital department systems

R02: Patient data will be transmitted and received by hospital department systems within ten seconds of entry

R03: Patient data transmitted to other hospital department systems will remain secure and cannot be accessed by unauthorized third parties

R04: High volumes of data can be successfully received and processed while the user interface is being used

R05: The new user interface is appropriate for the needs of all hospital administrator roles

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You work for an insurance company with parallel projects. You need to recommend the best approach for test case design for each project.

Project A: Maintenance release with minor UI changes, experienced testers, manual execution.

Project B: Development of a new algorithm for risk assessment, high risk of regression, automation needed, audit required.

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An energy monitor in-home display device has been designed to interact with the home's lighting system and automatically dim bedroom lights when the daily energy budget has reached 90%. A defect has been found causing lights to dim at 80%. What type of testing would MOST likely have uncovered this defect?

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