ISTQB Certified Tester Foundation Level (CTFL v4.0) Sample Questions:

1. Which of the following answers describes a reason for adopting experience-based testing techniques?

A) Experience-based test techniques provide more systematic coverage cnteria than black-box and white- box test techniques
B) Experience-based test techniques allow designing test cases that are usually easier to reproduce than those designed with black-box and white-box test techniques.
C) Experience-based test techniques completely rely on the tester's past experience for designing test cases.
D) Experience-based test techniques tend to find defects that may be difficult to find with black-box and white-box test techniques and are often useful to complement these more systematic techniques.

2. Which of the following are the phases of the ISTQB fundamental test process?

A) Test planning. Test specification and design. Test implementation and execution. Evaluating exit criteria and reporting. Retesting and test closure activities
B) Test planning and control, Test analysis and design, Test implementation and execution, Evaluating ex t criteria and reporting. Test closure activities
C) Test planning, Test analysis and design. Test implementation and control. Checking test coverage and reporting, Test closure activities
D) Test planning and control, Test specification and design. Test implementation and execution, Evaluating test coverage and reporting, Retesting and regression testing, Test closure activities

3. Which of the following would be LEAST appropriate as part of an incident report covering the observation of a failure during testing?

A) The updates made as part of the add new member' function did not reflect the expected change as the name was written into the address field.
B) The expected result for the 'list friends' response time was less than 10 seconds, whereas the average response time obtained was 13 seconds.
C) SOL injection into the username entry field allowed a variety of SQL commands to be executed by the application without the appropriate authority.
D) The user interface was complicated and confusing and I found It quite difficult to follow the test script.

4. A tester created a decision table(DT) given below. While reviewing the DT some of the actions for the given conditions were found to be incorrect. The user is trying to view the profile, which of the given conditions has CORRECT action(s) listed?

A) C2
B) C3
C) C1
D) C4

5. As the last stage of a test cycle of an embedded device, you are performing exploratory testing. You observed that some character. (A, X and Z) sent via a serial port to the device do not get registered on the device whereas they should be. You suspect that this could be due to a wrong configuration of the "bit parity" parameter.
Which of the following items of an incident report would you be UNABLE to write down based on this information?

A) Expected result
B) Test setup details
C) Actual result
D) Test case identifier

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