ISTQB Foundation Sample Question Paper No. 32


1. What is not the primary data given by the tester in test execution
a. Total number of tests
b. Number of test cases written for change request
c. Number of test executed to date
d. Number of tests executed successfully to date

2. Do the current project results meet the performance requirements? Which
section of Project Status Report I should look for:
a. Vital Project Information
b. General Project Information
c. Project Activities Information
d. Essential Elements Information

3. Which is a section of Summary status report
a. Vital project information
b. Essential elements information
c. Project activities information
d.Time Line Information

4.Test Result data is
a. Test Transactions
b. Test events
c. Business objectives
d. Reviews

5.What types of efficiench can be evaluated during testing?
a. Software system
b. Testing
c. Development
d. A and C
e. A and B

6.Who is essentially responsible for the quality of a product?
a. Customer
b. QA Manager
c. Development Manager
d. Test Manager

7.What are the 3 costs that make up the Cost of Quality?
a. Prevention, Appraisal, Failure
b. Appraisal, Developement, Testing
c. Testing, Prevention, rework
d. Failure, Prevention, Testing

8.What are expected production costs?
a. labor, materials, and equipment
b. personnel, training, and rollout
c. training, testing, user-acceptance

9.Appraisal costs are:
a. Costs associated with preventing errors
b. Costs associated with detection of errors
c. Costs associated with defective products delivered to customers

10.An example of a Failure Cost is:
a. Training
b. Inspections
c. Rework

11. If you could build a 0 defect product, would there be any costs involved?
If yes, what costs?
a. Preventive costs, but they are minimally involved
b. No costs will be involved
c. Failure costs

12. How many Deming principles are there?
a. 10
b. 14
c. 5
d. 7

13. How many levels are in the CMM?
a. 18
b. 3
c. 4
d. 5

14. The Pareto analysis is most effective for:
a) Ranking items by importance
b) Showing relationships between items Measuring the impact of identified items

15. What is COTS?
a. Commercial On-the-shelf software
b. Commercial off-the-shelf software
c. Common Offshore testing Software

16. What is the purpose of code coverage tools?
a. They are used to show the extent to which the logic in the program
was executed during testing.
b. They are used as an alternative to testing
c. They are used to compile the program

17.Four examples of test specific metrics.
a. Testing  Effort variation, Defect Density, Testing Efficiency, Requirements tested.
b. Inspection, review efficiency, Testing Effort variation, Defect Density
c. Test scalability, Defect deviation, Testing Efficiency, Schedule variation

18.Give one commonly recognized size measurement tool.
a. Effort analysis
b. LCO Analysis
c. LOC Analysis
d. Code Analysis

19.Give three components included in a system test report.
a. Description of Testing; resource requirement; and Recommendation
b. Testing requirements; defects; and usability
c. Description of test results and finding(defects); Summary(environment and references; and Recommendation)

20.Reviews is what category of cost of quality?
a. preventive
b. Appraisal
c. Failure

21.The largest cose of quality is from production failure
a. True
b. False

22. Defects are least costly to correct at what stage of the development cycle?
a. Requirements
b. Analysis and Design
c. Construction
d. Implementation

23. The purpose of software testing is to:
a. Demonstrate that the application works properly
b. Detect the defects
c. Validate the logical design

24. _________must be developed to describe when and how testing will
occur.
a. Test Strategy
b. Test Plan
c. Test Design
d. High Level document

25. It is difficult to create test scenarios for high-level risks
a. True
b. False

26. __________ testing assumes that the path of logic in a unit or program
is known.
a. Black Box testing
b. Performance Testing
c. White Box testing
d. Functional testing

27. _________ test is conducted at the developers site by a customer.
a. Beta
b. System
c. Alpha
d. None of the above

28. Juran is famous for
a. Quality Control
b. Working on Trend Analysis
c. Pareto
d. Fish Bone Diagram

29.Software testing activities should start
a. As soon as the code is written
b. During the design stage
c. When the requirements have been formally documented
d. As soon as possible in the development lifecycle

30.Non statistical tools are used in the
a. Work Practice process
b. Benchmarking process
c. Both A and B
d. None of the above

31.Quality Function deploement(QFD) is a
a. Statistical tool
b. Non statistical tool
c. Development tool
d. None of the above

32.The sequence of the four Phases involved in Bench marking process is
a. Action, Planning, Integration, Analysis
b. Planning, Analysis, Integration, Action
c. Analysis, Planning, Integration, Action
d. Analysis, Action, Planning, Integration

33.Defect Density is calculated by
a. Total no. of Defects/Effort
b. Valid Defects/ Total no. of Defect
c. Invalid Defects/ Valid Defects
d. Valid Defects/ Effort

34.Effort Variation is calculated by
a. (Planned-Actual)/Actual
b. (Actual-Planned)/Actual
c. (Actual-Planned)/Planned
d. (Planned-Actully)/Planned

35.Percentage Rework is calculated by
a. (Review effort + Rework effort)/Actual Effort expended
b. (Review effort + Rework effort)/Actual Effort expended
c. Rework Effort/Planned Effort
d. Rework Effort/Actual Effort expanded

36. The ______________ is an application of process management and quality
improvement concepts to software development and maintenance.
a. Malcolm Baldridge
b. ISO 9000
c. SEI/CMM
d. QS14000

37. A quantitative measurement used to determine the test completion is
a. Defect measurement
b. Requirements coverage
c. Statistical Analysis

38. The categories of Error Oriented Techniques are
a. Statistical assessment and Error-based testing
b. Error-based testing and Fault based testing.
c. Fault based testing and Statistical assessment
d. Statistical assessment, Error-based testing and Fault based testing.

39. The following factors should be considered for the Test Tool selection
1.Test Phase
2.Test Objective
3.Test Technique
4.Test Deliverable
a. 1 & 2
b. 1,2,3 & 4
c. 2 & 3
d. 1,2 & 3

40. Equivalence partitioning consists of various activities:
a. Ensure that test cases test each input and output equivalence class
at least once
b. Identify all inputs and all outputs
c. Identify equivalence classes for each input
d. All of the above

Answers:
Q.1-B
Q.2-D
Q.3-D
Q.4-C
Q.5-E
Q.6-C
Q.7-A
Q.8-A
Q.9-B
Q.10-C
Q.11-A
Q.12-B
Q.13-D
Q.14-A
Q.15-B
Q.16-A
Q.17-A
Q.18-C
Q.19-C
Q.20-B
Q.21-A
Q.22-A
Q.23-A
Q.24-B
Q.25-A
Q.26-C
Q.27-C
Q.28-A
Q.29-D
Q.30-B
Q.31-B
Q.32-B
Q.33-A
Q.34-C
Q.35-D
Q.36-C
Q.37-B
Q.38-D
Q.39-B
Q.40-D

42 comments:

  1. I think Q28 should be a) as Juran mostly worked on quality control and has written most of his books about that subject.

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    1. Hello Ardi,

      Thanks for pointing.
      The error has been corrected.

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  2. Also Q29 should be d) I think as testing is not always possible after writing requirements. And on many other tests d) is put as right answer.

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    1. Hello Ardi,

      Thanks for pointing.
      The error has been corrected.

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  3. Hi All,

    I am going to give My foundation lavel exam on 17 Nov. I have been gone through all the papers from 1-27. Although they not seems very difficult. But the question papers from 18-33 for Mar'12 relatively hard than before :-(
    Can any one please guide me about the toughness of questions to be asked in exam , or the syllabus has been changed, or these questions are some different or something else. Please suggest me .

    Yours valuable comments are really appreciate.

    Thanks
    -Amit Singh

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    1. Hello Amit,

      The questions for the foundation level are not tough.
      It all depends on your understanding about the concepts explained in the ISTQB Foundation level book.
      Once you clearly understand the concept everything will be easy.
      So focus on the basic concepts and its aspects.
      In exams you will get questions like this, just read the question and analyze it will and you will get the answers.
      Syllabus is has not changed.

      Sincerely,

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  4. Hi ,
    is this test (test 32 ) based on foundation syllabus ? i am self - taught and i am using foundations of s/w testing (by rexblack + dorothy + erik van and isabel evans ) is this enough /

    waiting for a reply
    thanks

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    1. Hello Aimy,

      The books you are reading for ISTQB foundation level exam is correct.
      To clear the foundation level with 100% marks this book is enough.

      Please read the book well and understand the core concepts, then it will be easier for you to get a good amount of marks.

      Sincerely,

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  5. Hi,
    I planning to do ISTQB in jan 2013 and I want link of istqb foundation level book
    plz send me link.
    plz. plz. plz.........
    send me on my E-mail raju2pol@gmail.com

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    1. @Rajesh-If possible,could you let me know the pattern of exams when you give it off.

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  6. Hello Rajesh,

    I have sent the ISTQB Foundation level book to your gmail.
    Please check it.

    Sincerely,

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    1. HI i am giving my exam on 25th of may , can you please email me the link for the book to shamiali_anju@yahoo.com.
      thanks !!

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    2. Hello Shamili,

      I have sent the ISTQB Foundation level book to your email account.
      Please check it.

      Sincerely,

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  7. hello,
    would you kindly send me the ISTQB Foundation level book
    my email musjaster@gmail.com

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    1. Hi. I would appreciate if you send me this book as well. Thanks in advance

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    2. Hello Musja and Ksenja,

      I have sent the ISTQB Foundation level book to your email accounts.
      Please check it.

      Sincerely,

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  8. Ksenja Gluschuk1 April 2013 10:26

    Hi. I would appreciate if you send me this book as well. Thanks in advance

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    1. Please provide me your email ID?

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    2. Hi. I would appreciate if you send me this book as well. Thanks in advance
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  9. I think q23 should be b). Can you please confirm the same. thanks

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    1. Came here looking for this also. 23 is b and was marked as correct on previous tests.

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  10. Hi I am preparing for ISTQB Certification (ASTQB) and planning to give exam by next week. I am self taught and I am using foundations of s/w testing (by rexblack + dorothy + erik van and isabel evans . But your test 32 is really tough. I am confused as most of the topics (especially after question 18 onwards) are not covered in Syllabus/the book I mentioned. I am pretty confused......Please guide me. Your answer is highly appreciated.- Basu My email id- basuari@gmail.com

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  11. Please could you send me the book too....Thanks in advance

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  13. Please could you send me the book too....Thanks a lot.

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  14. Please explain why Q5's ans is E i thought its D.

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  15. Please could you send me the ISTQB Foundation level book. Thanks in advance
    Email :- lakshinid@gmail.com

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  16. HI i am giving my exam on 17 Aug 2013 , can you please email me the link for the ISTQB foundation level book to my id: jbhagya@gmail.com

    Please let me know if I need to refer anything else. Also requires latest question papers of 2013.

    thanks in advance!!

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  17. I am also preparing from Foundation of software testing which is updated for syllabus 2011 and book is from Rex Black , Erik and Dorothy G but most of the stuff which is here in these sample papers is not in that book specially sample papers between 26---33 !

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    1. Hi Saad, i got the same problem. My exam is on 28.01, questions from 26-33papers are very strage, a lot of terms are not included in glossary for foundation level. I hope there're some random questions from other levels too.

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  18. I think that answer to Q.23 is B not A as the purpose of testing is to find defects.

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  19. Q.35 - the first 2 answer options are the same:

    35.Percentage Rework is calculated by
    a. (Review effort + Rework effort)/Actual Effort expended
    b. (Review effort + Rework effort)/Actual Effort expended

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  21. I'm most confident that Q33 is b.

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    I see that there are a lot of question papers for me to practise.
    But was wondering what textbook to follow (instead of so many recommended ones from the istqb wesite)
    Can you pls help to send the book to my email id.. its chatterbox.vpk@gmail.com

    Thanks a lot in advance

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  23. Please could you send me the ISTQB Foundation level book. Thanks in advance
    Email : jegarsam@gmail.com

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  24. Hi. I would appreciate if you send me this book as well. Thanks in advance
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