ISTQB Foundation Sample Question Paper No. 33
1. It is an unfair test to perform stress testing at
the same time you perform
load testing.
a. True
b. False
2.Testing error message fall under __________
category of testing.
a. Incremental Testing
b. Thread Testing
c. Documentation Testing
d. Stress Testing
3.The term “defect” is related to the term “fault”
because a “fault” is a defect,
which has not yet been identified.
a. True
b. False
4.What qualities must an individual possess to test
effectively a software
application.
a. Good Communication Skill
b. Good Error Guessing
c. Good Analytical Skill
d. All of the above
5.Defects are least costly as what stage of
Development cycle.
a. Analysis and Design
b. Construction
c. Requirements
d. Implementation
6.QC is
a. Phase building activity
b. Intermediate activity
c. End of Phase activity
d. Design activity
7.________ is monitoring defects from the time of
recording until satisfactory
resolution has been determined.
a. Quality measurement
b. Defect measurement
c. Defect Tracking
d. None of the above
8. Most common cause of defects is
a. Failure to estimate
b. Failure to asses risks
c. Ambiguous or incomplete requirements
d. Weak communication
9. Verification activities during design stages are
a. Reviewing and Inspecting
b. Inspecting and Testing
c. Reviewing and Testing
d. Reviewing, Inspecting and Testing.
10. Decision to stop testing should be based upon
a. Successful use of specific test case design
methodologies
b. A percentage of coverage for each coverage category
c. Rate of error detection falls below a specified
threshold
d. All of the above
11. Testing, which is carried out using no
recognized test case design
a. Failure Testing
b. Adhoc Testing
c. Exhaustive Testing
d. Empty test case Testing
12. A test case design technique for a component in
which test cases
are designed to execute statements is called as?
a. State transition Testing
b. Static Testing
c. Transition testing
d. Statement testing
13. This testing is a mechanism that simulates
problems in the original
environment so that an alternative-processing
environment can be tested.
a. Disaster testing
b. Functional testing
c. Regression testing
d. Compliance Testing
14. Status Reports in Test Director can be generated
using
a. Document Viewer
b. Document Generator
c. Document Tracker
d. None of the above
15.The following five tasks are needed to develop,
use and maintain Test scripts.
Unit scripting
Pseudo concurrency scripting
Integration scripting
Regression scripting
Stress/Performance scripting
a.1, 2 and 3
b. 2 and 4
c. 1, 2 and 5
d. 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5
16.Testing where the system is subjected to large
number of idea.
a. System Testing
b. Volume Testing
c. Statistical Testing
d. Statement Testing
17.Integration testing where no incremental testing
takes place prior to all the
system’s components being combined to form the
system.
a. System Testing
b. Component Testing
c. Incremental Testing
d. Big bang Testing
18.Recovery testing aims at verifying the system’s ability
to recover from varying
degrees of failure.
a. True
b. False
19.Which testing methods are used by end-users who
actually test software
before they use it?
a. Alpha and Beta Testing
b. White Box Testing
c. Black Box Testing
d. Trial and Error Testing
20.The testing attempts to violate those procedures,
which should test the
adequacy of the security procedures.
a. Disaster testing
b. Functional testing
c. Regression testing
d. Compliance testing
21. Which of the following is NOT a standard related
to testing?
a. IEEE829
b. IEEE610
c. BS7925-1
d. BS7925-2
22.which of the following is the component test
standard?
a. IEEE 829
b. IEEE 610
c. BS7925-1
d. BS7925-2
23 which of the following statements are true?
a. Faults in program specifications are the most expensive
to fix.
b. Faults in code are the most expensive to fix.
c. Faults in requirements are the most expensive to
fix
d. Faults in designs are the most expensive to fix.
24. Which of the following is not the integration
strategy?
a. Design based
b. Big-bang
c. Bottom-up
d. Top-down
25. Which of the following is a black box design
technique?
a. statement testing
b. equivalence partitioning
c. error- guessing
d. usability testing
26. A program with high cyclometic complexity is
almost likely to be:
a. Large
b. Small
c. Difficult to write
d. Difficult to test
27. Which of the following is a static test?
a. code inspection
b. coverage analysis
c. usability assessment
d. installation test
28. Which of the following is the odd one out?
a. white box
b. glass box
c. structural
d. functional
29. A program validates a numeric field as follows:
values less than 10 are rejected, values between 10
and 21 are accepted, values
greater than or equal to 22 are rejected;
which of the following input values cover all of the
equivalence partitions?
a. 10,11,21
b. 3,20,21
c. 3,10,22
d. 10,21,22
30. Using the same specifications as question 29,
which of the following covers
the MOST boundary values?
a. 9,10,11,22
b. 9,10,21,22
c. 10,11,21,22
d. 10,11,20,21
31.Which of the following is NOT a reasonable test
objective:
a) to find faults in the software
b) to prove that the software has no faults
c) to give confidence in the software
d) to find performance problems
32.Which expression best matches the following
characteristics of the review
processes:
1. led by the author
2. undocumented
3. no management participation
4. led by a moderator or leader
5. uses entry and exit criteria
s) inspection
t) peer review
u) informal review
v) walkthrough
a) s = 4 and 5, t = 3, u = 2, v = 1
b) s = 4, t = 3, u = 2 and 5, v = 1
c) s = 1 and 5, t = 3, u = 2, v = 4
d) s = 4 and 5, t = 1, u= 2, v = 3
33.Which of the following is NOT part of system
testing?
a) business process-based testing
b) performance, load and stress testing
c) usability testing
d) top-down integration testing
34.Which statement about expected outcomes is FALSE?
a) expected outcomes are defined by the software’s
behaviour
b) expected outcomes are derived from a specification,
not from the code
c) expected outcomes should be predicted before a
test is run
d) expected outcomes may include timing constraints
such as response times
35.The standard that gives definitions of testing
terms is:
a) ISO/IEC 12207
b) BS 7925-1
c) ANSI/IEEE 829
d) ANSI/IEEE 729
36.The cost of fixing a fault:
a) is not important
b) increases the later a fault is found
c) decreases the later a fault is found
d) can never be determined
37.Which of the following is NOT included in the
Test Plan document of the Test
Documentation Standard?
a) what is not to be tested
b) test environment properties
c) quality plans
d) schedules and deadlines
38.Could reviews or inspections be considered part
of testing?
a) no, because they apply to development
documentation
b) no, because they are normally applied before
testing
c) yes, because both help detect faults and improve
quality
d) yes, because testing includes all
non-constructive activities
39.Which of the following is not part of performance
testing?
a) measuring response times
b) recovery testing
c) simulating many users
d) generating many transactions
40.Error guessing is best used:
a) after more formal techniques have been applied
b) as the first approach to deriving test cases
c) by inexperienced testers
d) after the system has gone live
Answers:
Q.1-B
Q.2-C
Q.3-A
Q.4-D
Q.5-C
Q.6-C
Q.7-C
Q.8-C
Q.9-D
Q.10-D
Q.11-B
Q.12-D
Q.13-A
Q.14-B
Q.15-D
Q.16-B
Q.17-D
Q.18-A
Q.19-A
Q.20-D
Q.21-B
Q.22-D
Q.23-C
Q.24-A
Q.25-B
Q.26-D
Q.27-A
Q.28-D
Q.29-C
Q.30-B
Q.31-B
Q.32-A
Q.33-D
Q.34-A
Q.35-B
Q.36-B
Q.37-C
Q.38-C
Q.39-B