CSTE - 2009 Objective questions

OBJECTIVE QUESTIONS:

1. Blue tooth
a. Wireless technology

2. COSO ERM
a. There were on what

3. You are asked to test a software in less and less time, what approach would you take:

a. Test the high risk components
b. Hire more testers
c. Abandon the project

4. Around fit for use, choose the one that does not fit into fit for use
a. Data
b. Metrics
c. People
d. Structure
e. Rules

5. Budgeting, scheduling, staffing is:
a. Test administration
b. Test Leadership
c. Test supervision

6. Hacker trying to hack into a system. Act of hacking is:
a. System risk
b. System threat
c. System exposure
d. System control

7. $500 is needed to train a person on new technology for a day. If it would cost $1000 to train a person for two days, $1000 would be considered:
a. Risk
b. Threat
c. Exposure
d. Control

8. Regression testing is done:
a. After unit testing
b. Before systems testing
c. Throughout the Systems Development Life Cycle

9. Integration testing is done:
a. After unit testing
b. Before systems testing
c. Throughout the Systems Development Life Cycle

10. Leader and Manager means the same. (true or false)

11. A systems tester never executes Acceptance test plan. (true or false)

12. Data flow analysis
a. Functional testing
b. Structural testing

13. Subjective measure
a. Line of code
b. Defects
c. (cannot remember all of the choices)

14. If taken by two people, would the same, results be obtained attributes to:
a. Reliability
b. Validity

15. Error based testing
a. Fault seeding

16. Maintain high personal standards of moral responsibility, character, and business integrity.
a. code of ethics

17. Figure 6-3 on page 6-13
a. Pareto
b. Histogram
c. Run Chart

18. Figure 1-7 on page 1-18
a. In-control
b. Out of control
c. Special cause

19. Classifies possible causes of a problem
a. Cause and effect diagram
b. Histogram
c. Scatter plot

20. ensure that you are testing the right software application
a. version control

21. Work broken down as to when to start and end
a. Scheduling
b. Budgeting

22. Conflict is resolved when one party is successful in achieving its own interests at the expense of the other party’s interest through the use of high relative power. This is the win-lose approach
a. Force
b. Withdrawal
c. Smoothing
d. Compromise

23. Inspection is what part of quality cost
a. Prevention
b. Appraisal
c. Failure

24. Producer’s view of quality
a. Meets the requirement
b. Fit for use

25. Regression testing part of
a. Quality control
b. Quality assurance

26. Effort required locating and fixing an error in an operational program.
a. Maintainability
b. Flexibility
c. Integrity

27. Individual operates a computer to perform his tasks
a. Development activity
b. Computer operations
c. Interface activity

28. Primary reason for improving a process
a. Reduce variability

29. Statistical process

30. Question around issues with COTS software.
a. Communication barriers

31. the organization that decides to use COTS software, needs to ………
a. Loss of employee moral

32. An individual USE CASE does not include
a. Preconditions that set the stage for the series of events that should occur for the use case
b. Post-conditions that state the expected outcomes of the above process
c. Sequential narrative of the execution of the use case
d. Test environment

33. The primary objective of user acceptance testing is to:
a. Determine if software is fit for use
b. Identify requirements defects

34. Type of listening in which the tester is performing an analysis of what the speaker is saying is called:
a. Appreciative listening
b. Critical listening

35. Type of listening in which the tester is …….. sympathetic listening
a. Therapeutic listening
b. Comprehensive listening

36. web based system consists of
a. hardware components
b. software components
c. user roles and responsibilities
d. a and b
e. a, b and c

37. question around process maturity level. If maturity level moves form 2-5 what does it mean
a. increased competency of the tester
b. improvement in process efficiency and effectiveness

38. fixing errors in the same phase
a. stage (phase) containment

39. Publishes a body of standards that address software engineering and maintenance and creates standards addressing software testing and test reporting.
a. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
b. COSO
c. ISO

40. Formal procurement
a. acquisition plan
b. technical requirements document
c. user review documents
d. RFP generation
e. All of the above

41. First and the most important step in conflict resolution
a. Get on your customer’s wavelength
b. Get the facts

42. Most organizations understand the importance of managing source code and the changes made to it, but all artifacts need to be managed ……
a. software configuration management

43. Organization does not have a risk management plan. The prerequisite to preparing to measure the risk would be:
a.
b.
c.

44. Decision table
a. Functional testing
b. Structural tesing

45. Determine that various modules can be properly linked
a. Unit scripting
b. Integration scripting

46. Lower modules are tested first …… are not invoked……
a. Top down testing
b. Bottom up testing

47. Acceptance requirements that a system must meet
a. Performance reqs

48. The eight ERM components indicate: (not sure of the choices below)
a. Open design
b. Provides direction for companies….

49. A tester uses his expertise to detect errors.
a. Error guessing
b. Top down