Answers: Knowledge Domain 1 - Test

Principles and Concepts

1. Which of these is NOT part of the Cost of Quality?
Your answer: RTF costs
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2. The term "fit for use" refers to whose view of quality?
Your answer: Customer's
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3. Which of these is a challenge/obstacle to implementing testing in an organization?
Your answer: All of the above
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4. "PDCA", or "Plan, Do, Check, Act" is also known as
Your answer: both
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5. What are the three main categories defects can fall into?
Your answer: Wrong, Missing, and Extra
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6. Which of these is NOT an important part of a Test Strategy?
Your answer: the procedure for logging defects
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7. Which of these are good ways to raise management's awareness of the importance
of testing?
Your answer: all of the above
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8. Continuous process improvement only works if you:
Your answer: all are needed
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9. Which is a more effective approach to risk mitigation?
Your answer: Test more heavily in areas deemed higher risk
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10. Establishing a testing policy should include four main criteria. A definition of
testing, the testing system, evaluation methods, and ________?
Your answer: Standards against which testing will be measured
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11. Which of these is the most effective method for establishing a testing policy?
Your answer: Users Meeting
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12. During what phase of the project should you START thinking about Testing
Scenarios?
Your answer: Requirements
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13. What is the appropriate timing for Static, Structural tests?
Your answer: as early as possible and in every phase thereafter
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14. Test coverage tools are useful starting in which phase?
Your answer: Coding (unit testing)
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15. A Test Factor is:
Your answer: the risk or issue that needs to be addressed during testing
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16. ________ means that the data entered, processed, and output by the application is
accurate and complete.
Your answer: Correctness
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17. Validating that the right file is used and the data on that file is correct and in the
correct sequence is known as:
Your answer: File integrity testing
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18. _____________ can substantiate the processing that has occurred and allow
analysts to reconstruct what happened at any point in a transaction.
Your answer: Audit Trails
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19. Failover testing at Chase is verification that ___________ is intact
Your answer: continuity of processing
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20. Processing time and "up time" goals are examples of
Your answer: service levels
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21. Access control testing is also known as
Your answer: Security testing
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22. Audits to ensure that the system is designed in accordance with organization
strategy, policies, procedures, and standards are designed to test which quality
factor?
Your answer: compliance
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23. An application which performs its intended function with the required precision
over an extended period of time has this quality factor:
Your answer: reliability
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24. If it is difficult to locate and fix errors in a program, that program is missing
which quality factor?
Your answer: maintainability
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25. The quality factor "ease of use" is best measured by doing what type of testing?
Your answer: acceptance test
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26. portability refers to
Your answer: how easy it is to transfer a program to other hardware or OS
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27. The effort required to interconnect components of an application to other
applications for data transfer is:
Your answer: coupling
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28. If defects are hard to find, that's a sign that...
Your answer: either of these
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29. Which way(s) can lower the cost of testing without reducing it's effectiveness?
Your answer: all of the above
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30. ________ ensures that we designed and built the right system, while _________
ensures that the system works as designed.
Your answer: verification, validation
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31. Walkthroughs, peer reviews, and other structural tests tend to be __________
tasks
Your answer: verification
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32. Input, Procedures to DO, Procedures to CHECK, and Output are the four
components of the:
Your answer: test phase
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33. Which of these are considerations when developing testing methodologies?
Your answer: both of these
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34. Deriving test cases based on known program structure and logic is...
Your answer: white box testing
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35. Functional testing that simulates the end user's actions is known as...
Your answer: structural testing
Wrong.
36. Breaking variables into chunks that should have the same expected results is:
Your answer:
Wrong.
37. developing tests based on where you think the program's weak points are is
known as
Your answer:
Wrong.
38. Top-down and Bottom-up are two ways to approach
Your answer:
Wrong.
39. an end-to-end, task based test that uses integrated components of a system is a...
Your answer:
Wrong.
40. Which is a benefit of having a user committee develop the company's test policy?
Your answer:
Wrong.
41. Which of these types of reviews is NOT an effective phase containment
mechanism?
Your answer:
Wrong.
42. Which of these was not a Quality professional?
Your answer:
Wrong.
43. The successful implementation of a quality improvement program will have what
long-term effect on producttivity?
Your answer:
Wrong.
44. Which of these are some of Deming's 7 Deadly Management Diseases?
Your answer:
Wrong.
45. The scientific method is
Your answer:
Wrong.
46. Deming's biggest contribution to the quality profession is:
Your answer:
Wrong.
47. Instituting pride in workmanship and eliminating numerical quotas were
suggestions for management created by
Your answer:
Wrong.
48. Which is an important source of data for Continuous Process Improvement?
Your answer:
Wrong.
49. Who should NOT participate in testing?
Your answer:
Wrong.
50. According to Deming, 90% of defects are attributable to:
Your answer:
Wrong.
51. Which of these are NOT test factors
Your answer:
Wrong.
52. A test strategy matrix does not include:
Your answer:
Wrong.
53. Of the four options listed below, which is able to detect an infeasible path?
Your answer: structural testing
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54. Black box testing, thread testing, and incremental testing are all kinds of:
Your answer: dynamic testing
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55. Which catches errors earlier, verification or validation?
Your answer: Verification
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56. Mapping requirements to tests in order to prove that the system functions as
designed is known as:
Your answer: requirements tracing
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57. Who should not be allowed to participate in and contribute to the improvement of
processes?
Your answer: nobody - all should be allowed
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58. Improving weaknesses in a process you just piloted is an example of which piece
of the Shewhart cycle?
Your answer: Act
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