ISTQB_CTFL_v4.0_Sample-Exam-C-Questions_v1.5
ISTQB_CTFL_v4.0_Sample-Exam-C-Questions_v1.5
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Sample Exam – Questions Layout Template used: Version 2.11 Date: October 16, 2023
Table of Contents
Copyright Notice ............................................................................................................................. 2
Document Responsibility................................................................................................................. 2
Acknowledgements ......................................................................................................................... 2
Revision History .............................................................................................................................. 3
Table of Contents............................................................................................................................ 4
Introduction ..................................................................................................................................... 5
Purpose of this document ............................................................................................................ 5
Instructions .................................................................................................................................. 5
Questions ....................................................................................................................................... 6
Question #1 (1 Point) ................................................................................................................................. 6
Question #2 (1 Point) ................................................................................................................................. 6
Question #3 (1 Point) ................................................................................................................................. 6
Question #4 (1 Point) ................................................................................................................................. 6
Question #5 (1 Point) ................................................................................................................................. 7
Question #6 (1 Point) ................................................................................................................................. 7
Question #7 (1 Point) ................................................................................................................................. 7
Question #8 (1 Point) ................................................................................................................................. 8
Question #9 (1 Point) ................................................................................................................................. 8
Question #10 (1 Point) ............................................................................................................................... 8
Question #11 (1 Point) ............................................................................................................................... 9
Question #12 (1 Point) ............................................................................................................................... 9
Question #13 (1 Point) ............................................................................................................................... 9
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Question #40 (1 Point) ............................................................................................................................. 21
Introduction
• Assisting ISTQB® Member Boards and Exam Boards in their question writing activities
• Providing training providers and exam candidates with examples of exam questions
Note, that real exams may include a wide variety of questions, and this sample exam is not
intended to include examples of all possible question types, styles or lengths, also this sample
exam may both be more difficult or less difficult than any official exam.
Instructions
In this document you may find:
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In this sample exam the questions are sorted by the LO they target; this cannot be expected of a live exam.
Questions
Question #1 (1 Point)
Which of the following is a typical test objective?
a) Validating that documented requirements are met - Validation: đáp ứng yêu cầu và kì vọng của người dùng.
b) Causing failures and identifying defects - Verification: đáp ứng yêu cầu đã được chỉ định.
c) Initiating errors and identifying root causes
d) Verifying the test object meets user expectations
Question #2 (1 Point)
Which of the following statements BEST describes the difference between testing and debugging?
Question #3 (1 Point)
The ‘absence-of-defects fallacy’ is one of the principles of testing. Which of the following is an
example of addressing this principle in practice?
a) Explaining that it is not possible for testing to show the absence of defects
b) Supporting the end users to perform acceptance testing
c) Ensuring that no implementation defects remain in the delivered system
d) Modifying tests that cause no failures to ensure few defects remain
Question #4 (1 Point)
Which of the following test activities are MOST likely to involve the application of boundary value
analysis and equivalence partitioning?
a) Test implementation
b) Test design
c) Test execution
d) Test monitoring
e) Test analysis
Question #5 (1 Point)
Given the following testware:
1. Coverage items
2. Change requests
3. Test execution schedule
4. Prioritized test conditions
Which of the following BEST shows the testware produced by the activities?
Question #6 (1 Point)
Which of the following statements about the different testing roles is MOST likely to be
CORRECT?
a) In Agile software development, the test management role is the primary responsibility of the
team, while the testing role is primarily the responsibility of a single individual from outside
the team
b) The testing role is primarily responsible for test monitoring and control, while the test
management role is primarily responsible for test planning and test completion
c) In Agile software development, test management activities that span multiple teams are
handled by a test manager outside the team, while some test management tasks are
handled by the team itself
d) The test management role is primarily responsible for test analysis and test design, while
the testing role is primarily responsible for test implementation and execution
Question #7 (1 Point)
Which of the following is an advantage of the whole-team approach?
Question #8 (1 Point)
Which of the following statements about the independence of testing is CORRECT?
a) Independent testers will find defects due to their different technical perspective from
developers, but their independence may lead to an adversarial relationship with the
developers
b) Developers’ familiarity with their own code means they only find a few defects in it, however
their shared software background with testers means these defects would also be found by
the testers
c) Independent testing requires testers who are outside the developer’s team and ideally from
outside the organization, however these testers find it difficult to understand the application
domain
d) Testers from outside the developer’s team are more independent than testers from within
the team, but the testers from within the team are more likely to be blamed for delays in
product release
Question #9 (1 Point)
Which of the following is a good testing practice that applies to all software development lifecycles?
a) When agreed by the developers, manual activities on the left-hand side of the test process
are automated to support the principle of ‘early testing saves time and money’
b) Where cost-effective, test activities are moved to be performed earlier in the software
development lifecycle (SDLC) to reduce the total cost of quality by reducing the number of
defects found later in the SDLC
c) When they have spare time available, testers are required to automate tests for regression
testing, starting with component tests and component integration tests
d) When available, testers are trained to perform tasks early in the SDLC to allow more test
activities to be automated later in the SDLC
a) Component testing
b) Component integration testing
c) System integration testing
d) Acceptance testing
Which of the following BEST identifies example defects that could be found by static testing (rather
than dynamic testing)?
a) ii, v
b) iii, v
c) i, ii, iv
d) i, iii, iv
Which of the following BEST matches the review types and the descriptions?
Which of the following sets of input test data cover all equivalence partitions for this scenario?
You design the test cases using 2-value boundary value analysis.
Which of the following sets of test inputs achieves the greatest coverage?
R1 R2 R3
What test data will show that there are contradictory rules in the decision table?
a) C1 = T, C2 = T, C3 = F
b) C1 = T, C2 = F, C3 = T
c) C1 = T, C2 = T, C3 = T and C1 = F, C2 = T, C3 = T
d) C1 = F, C2 = F, C3 = F
What is the MINIMUM number of test cases required to achieve 100% valid transitions coverage?
a) 3
b) 2
c) 5
d) 6
a) 2
b) 4
c) 8
d) 7
a) White-box coverage measures can help testers evaluate black-box tests in terms of the
code coverage achieved by these black-box tests
b) White-box coverage analysis can help testers identify unreachable fragments of the source
code
c) Branch testing subsumes black-box test techniques, so achieving full branch coverage
guarantees achieving full coverage of any black-box technique
d) White-box test techniques can provide coverage items for black-box techniques
What test technique is MOST PROBABLY used by the tester who uses this list when performing
testing?
a) Exploratory testing
b) Fault attack
c) Checklist-based testing
d) Boundary value analysis
a) Checklist items can be defined at a sufficiently low level of detail, so the tester can
implement and execute detailed test cases based on these items
b) Checklists can be automated, so each time an automated test execution covers the
checklist items, it results in additional coverage
c) Each checklist item should be tested separately and independently, so the elements cover
different areas of the software
d) Two testers designing and executing tests based on the same high-level checklist items will
typically perform the testing in slightly different ways
a) The application must allow users to delete their account and all associated data upon
request
b) When a customer adds an item to their cart and proceeds to checkout, they should be
prompted to log in or create an account if they haven’t already done so
c) IF (contain(product(23).Name, cart.products())) THEN return FALSE
d) The website must comply with the ICT Accessibility 508 Standards and ensure that all
content is accessible to users with disabilities
As a Regular or Special user, I want to be able to use my electronic floor card, to access specific
floors.
Acceptance Criteria:
a) To define test data and expected results for component tests and component integration
tests
b) To define as exit criteria from the component test level that “100% statement coverage and
100% branch coverage must be achieved”
c) To describe what fields the test progress report shall contain and what should be the form
of this report
d) To explain why system integration testing will be excluded from testing, although the test
strategy requires this test level
3 ∗ 𝐴(𝑛 − 1) + 𝐴(𝑛 − 2)
𝐸(𝑛) =
4
The graph shows the estimated and actual amount of work for the first four iterations.
Estimated Actual
a) 10.5 person-days
b) 8.25 person-days
c) 6.5 person-days
d) 9.4 person-days
The following figure includes the priorities of these test cases (1=highest priority, 3 = lowest
priority).
The figure also shows the dependencies between test cases using arrows. For instance, the arrow
from TC 4 to TC 5 means that TC 5 can only be executed if TC 4 was previously executed.
a) TC 3
b) TC 5
c) TC 6
d) TC 2
a) Testing quadrants represent particular combinations of test levels and test types, defining
their location in the software development lifecycle
b) Testing quadrants describe the degree of granularity of individual test types performed at
each test level
c) Testing quadrants assign the test types that can be performed to the test levels
d) Testing quadrants group test levels and test types by several criteria such as targeting
specific stakeholders
a) Test design
b) Test completion
c) Test analysis
d) Test planning
a) All commits to the repository are uniquely identified and version controlled
b) All changes in the test environment elements are tracked
c) All requirement specifications are referenced unambiguously in test plans
d) All identified defects have an assigned status
Steps to Reproduce:
Severity: High
Priority: Urgent
What is the MOST important information that is missing from this report?
a) The capability of generating test cases without access to the test basis
b) The achievement of increased coverage through more objective assessment
c) The increase in test execution times available with higher processing power
d) The prevention of human errors through greater consistency and repeatability