In your role as a Test Analyst for the development of a business application, you asked the Product Owner to help you understand how the various product risks would affect the users.
Which product risk management activity was this?

• A. Risk control
• B. Risk mitigation
• C. Risk identification
• D. Risk assessment

You have been appointed to be a TA in the development of a road traffic control application, which will be installed at busy road junctions to control the operation of traffic signal lights according to sensors that detect traffic volume on the various approaches to the junction. The project is still in the early stages of test planning, but it is already clear that despite a tight schedule its safety-critical nature demands careful and thorough testing.
You have been asked to decide whether automated test design would deliver benefits. Which characteristic of automated test design is MOST important for the development of this system?

• A. Less maintenance effort for the testware after the system has gone live
• B. Testware generated by tools usually contains fewer mistakes than testware created manually
• C. Creating the model will expose defects in the test basis early in the project
• D. Testware can be generated in various output formats, e.g. for use by different tools

A pricing system for determining the postage cost of a company's letters examines two input variables, representing the length L of the envelope in centimeters and the weight W of the letter in grams. Envelopes can only have three lengths: 15 cm Small, 20 cm Standard, and 25 cm Large.
For standard length envelopes, 20 cm, a premium postage rate is applied if the weight is equal to or greater than 50 grams. This is represented as:
IF L = 20 AND W > = 50 THEN RETURN Cost "Premium rate"
Which set of test points, each represented as variables L, W , achieves 100% simplified domain coverage for the Standard letter postage cost domain?

• A. (20,50), (20,49), (19,60), (21,60)
• B. (20,50), (20,51), (15,60), (25,60)
• C. (20,40), (20,50), (20,60), (15,60), (25,60)
• D. (20,50), (20,49), (15,60), (25,60)

The test basis for your latest project contains the activity diagram that is shown below. The business architect has confirmed that this model has been reviewed and approved by the stakeholders.

Which of the following conclusions is correct?

• A. The diagram may contain a defect but this cannot be confirmed until test cases have been designed from it
• B. The diagram is correct because it has been reviewed and approved by the stakeholders
• C. The diagram may contain a defect but this cannot be confirmed until the results of the tests created from it are known
• D. The diagram contains at least one defect because it contains an internal inconsistency

You are working on a project to build a purchasing system. The main requirements for the system are that it shall:
* Allow users to enter details of items that they would like to purchase and, from these details, create a purchase request.
* Take each purchase request through a workflow that will allow the requestor's line manager to approve the request, reject it, or return it for clarification / modification.
* Forward approved requests to the Purchasing Department.
* Allow purchasers to find the best available supplier for each approved request and place the request on that supplier as a purchase order.
The system is being developed following an Agile SDLC. Risk-based testing is practiced informally, discussion about what testing each user story will need being done in a risk-driven way during story refinement, but there is no central product risk register. Testing is exploratory, except for the acceptance tests for each story's acceptance tests. Operational profiles have been created to guide performance testing.
Regression test automation started late. The team want to automate all acceptance tests for every user story, but the test automation engineers are still playing catch up. They started with the tests that were easiest to automate, so the functional and non-functional coverage of the regression test pack is incomplete and random.
The current iteration is delivering a major change to the approval workflow and you, as a Test Analyst, have been tasked with defining the regression testing.
Which techniques would be MOST effective for selecting regression tests?
a) History-based, driven by the results of the regression tests run so far b) Risk-based, driven by the product risks and their traceability to the tests c) Operational profile-based, driven by the likely patterns of use of the relevant transactions d) Coverage-based, driven by the coverage obtained from use of relevant test techniques e) Impact analysis, driven by consultation with technical stakeholders to identify what might be affected.

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