ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level Technical Test Analyst Sample Questions:

1. BestFor Incorporated is a rapidly growing online financial services company that offers guidance to its customers on a range of financial products. Its first website, BestForMortgages, was launched two years ago, shortly followed by BestForPensions. The popularity of both sites has driven the company to expand its offerings into other sectors and a third website, BestForFood, has recently been released.
The first two websites have proven to be functionally robust but suffered from performance issues due to:
Underestimation of concurrent user access at peak times in its original operational profiles Data volumes rapidly growing beyond expectations on a single database shared by both sites.
All three websites share the same web server.
The BestForFood system has been running live for several months, however the following significant non-functional defects have been recorded:
A) The layout and navigation of the BestForFood website was not considered by the users as consistent with BestForPensions and BestForMortgages B) Soon after delivering the BestForFood system the performance of both BestForPensions and BestForMortgages noticeably slowed C) The time taken to diagnose, repair and re-test production defects did not meet BestForFood service level agreements D) BestForFood performance was adversely impacted by unexpected growth in data volumes E) The time taken to install monthly builds into the production system exceeded agreed timescales.
Which TWO of these defects might have been prevented had portability testing and compatibility testing been employed?

A) a and b
B) c and e
C) b and c
D) a and d

2. When conducting a data flow analysis of following section of pseudo code:
Declare C, F, Z Decimal
Set Z = 32
Read F
SetC = (F-Z) * 5/9
Free C, F. Z
Print F
Which of the variables utilized above has a potential anomalie?

A) AI1 of the variables
B) C and Z
C) None of the variables
D) F

3. Which of the following statements is true regarding API and GUI testing?

A) API testing usually requires the use of tools, whereas GUI testing usually does not
B) Negative testing is used primarily with GUI testing
C) API testing usually tests Individual inputs rather than combinations whereas GUI testing usually tests combinations
D) In a service-oriented architecture. GUI testing is more important because of the need to verify the service supplied to the user

4. Consider the following section of code:
If ((A > B) or (C > D)) and (E = F) then
print A;
Endlf
Which of the following sets of test data can be used to achieve multiple condition coverage with the least number of tests?

A) Set 3
B) Set 1
C) Set 4
D) Set 2

5. When conducting a data flow analysis of following section of pseudo code:
Declare Function_Biggest integer (inputl integer. Input2 Integer) }
Declare output Integer
Set output = inputl
If input2 > output then
Set output = input2
Endif
Return output
}
Which of the variables utilized above has a potential anomalie?

A) output
B) Function_Biggest
C) Inputl and input2
D) None of the variables

Solutions: