ISQI ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level Test Analyst (CTAL-TA v4.0) - CTAL-TA_V4.0 Free Exam Questions

QUESTION NO: 1
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?

QUESTION NO: 2
You have been assigned as Test Analyst on a project that is in the test design stage. Test cases have been written, which activity should you do next before test design complete?

QUESTION NO: 3
The following minimized decision table shows the rules for rewarding members of a hotel's loyalty scheme who have booked a room, according to the type of room (luxury or not) and/or whether they have prepaid for breakfast (yes or no). The loyalty scheme has tiers Bronze, Silver and Gold. All combinations are feasible.

Using the checksum procedure, what do you notice about the structure of the minimized table?

QUESTION NO: 4
You are defining key words to test an application which will create a Purchase Request (PR) from details of goods that a Merchandiser wants their organization to buy. When valid details have been entered, the resulting PR will be sent to the Merchandise Manager for authorization.
You have a diagram in Business Process Modeling Notation and this section shows the initial steps in this process:

For the first process, when "Something is needed" , which option contains the MOST appropriate keywords for action and verification?

QUESTION NO: 5
You are working on a project to build an application that will handle insurance claims. The main requirements for the system are that it shall:
* Allow users to enter details of claims that have been submitted by insured customers.
* Take each claim through a workflow that will allow an assessor to approve the request, reject it or request clarification from the claimant.
* Send approved requests to the accounts payable system for payment.
The solution is being developed according to the company's standard V-model methodology. The requirements are clearly documented and include a business process model. Operational profiles have been created to guide performance testing.
A risk-based approach to testing is used; frequency of use and role of the user are major factors in feature risk assessment.
System testing has almost finished but a major change to the approval workflow is just about to be delivered.
A standard regression test pack has not yet been established, but ad-hoc regression testing has already been performed on earlier builds.
As a TA. you have updated the list of product risks and must now decide the scope of the regression testing.
Which pair of techniques will be MOST effective for selecting the regression tests?
a) History-based, driven by the results of the regression tests run so far b) Risk-based, driven by the updated list of product risks and its traceability to the tests c) Operational profile-based, driven by the likely patterns of use of the relevant transactions d) Requirement traceability matrix-based, driven by the links from affected requirements to related tests e) Impact analysis, driven by consultation with technical stakeholders to identify what might be affected.