People Skills – Team Composition
Which of the following would you expect to be most likely an example of a demotivating
factor for testers?
Number of correct responses: 2
K2 1 credit

Test Management
You are performing a quality risk analysis for a CSCI (Computer Software Configuration
Item) used to implement a CBIT (Continuous Built-In Test) module of a safety-critical
system.
During the quality risk analysis you are trying to identify the ways in which failures of the
CBIT module can occur, for each of them trying to determine the potential causes and likely
effects, and the risk level (calculated as the product of three factors: severity, occurrence
and detection).
Which of the following risk analysis techniques are you working with?
Number of correct responses: 1
K2 1 credit

People Skills – Team Composition
Consider the following analysis of testing skills performed on four people: Alex, Robert,
John and Mark (all the skills have been rated on an ascending scale: The higher the score,
the better the skill):

Which of these people, based on this analysis, would you expect to be most suitable to
work specifically as test designer?
Number of correct responses: 1
K4 3 credits

Test Management
You are estimating the effort for the integration testing activities of a new project. Consider
the following factors, which can affect that estimation:
I. Availability of re-usable test systems and documentation from previous, similar projects
II. Unexpected timing of components arrival
III. Stability of the integration test team (no turnover)
IV. Many and geographically distributed sub-teams
Which of the following statements is true?
Number of correct responses: 1
K2 1 credit

People Skills – Team Composition
Your test team consists of four members (Mary, Bob, Mark, Dave) with different
interpersonal skills.
The following skills assessment spreadsheet shows the characteristics of the team
members with respect to a list of interpersonal-skills (for each characteristic only the
member with the highest level of that characteristic is indicated and marked with ‘X’):

On the next project a member of your test team will have to perform some routine tasks
requiring collaboration with other teams.
Who in your test team would you expect to be most suitable at doing these tasks?
Number of correct responses: 1
K4 3 credits

Improving the Testing Process
Which of the following statements about the STEP test process improvement model is
true?
Number of correct responses: 1
K2 1 credit

Test Management
In the test strategy document your organization declares:
- to adopt a V-model development lifecycle, with three formal levels of testing: unit,
integration and system testing
- to use a blended risk-based and regression-averse testing strategy for each level of
testing
The following is an excerpt of the “approach” section for the system test plan document of a
new project:
“Testing will only use manual tests. Due to the short period of time for test execution, the
following activities will be performed in parallel with test execution: Test planning, test
analysis and test design.
Basic metrics will be taken for test effort (i.e. person-hours), test cases executed
(passed/failed), and incidents (no more metrics, such as code coverage, will be collected).”
In the system test plan, no deviations from the test strategy are described.
Based only on the given information, which of the following statements is true?
Number of correct responses: 1
K4 3 credits

After the presentation, you are asked to explain the chart.
Assume you have applied a full risk-based testing strategy.

Which of the following answers would you expect to best describe the pie chart?
Number of correct responses: 1
K4 3 credits