You are performing a quality risk analysis for a CSCI (Computer Software Configuration Item) used to implement a
CBIT (Continuous Built-In Test) module of a safety-critical system.
During the quality risk analysis you are trying to identify the ways in which failures of the CBIT module can occur, for each of them trying to determine the potential causes and likely effects, and the risk level (calculated as the product of three factors: severity, occurrence and detection).
Which of the following risk analysis techniques are you working with?
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• A. Wide Band Delphi
• B. Failure Mode and Effect Analysis
• C. A lightweight product risk analysis technique
• D. Cost of Exposure

Assume that no additional product risks have been identified during the first week of test execution.


Which of the following answers would you expect to best describe the residual risks associated with the identified product risks, at the end of the first week of test execution?
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• A. The test execution status table indicates that the risk has been reduced by 56%
• B. Since R3 is the only risk for which all test cases have passed, the risk has been reduced by 20%
• C. The residual risk level can't be determined, because it requires that all the test cases have been executed
• D. The test execution table doesn't give an indication of the risk level of the open defects and the test cases that failed or are not run yet

Consider an information system of a Pay-Tv company based on a SOA architecture.
The integrated system currently consists of three core systems:
-a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system
-a BRM (Billing and Revenue Management) system
-a CAS (Conditional Access System) system all of them communicating with SOA Middleware.
You have been asked to manage the testing activities for the integration of two additional off-the-shelf systems from two different vendors: a SMS (Short Message Service) server and an IVR (Interactive Voice Response) system.
Assume that there is a high likelihood that the two off-the-shelf systems will be low-quality and that you have a clear proof that the testing performed by the two vendors on their systems has been unsystematic and unprofessional. This obviously leads to higher quality risk for the overall integrated system.
You are the Test Manager of this project. Your main goal is to plan for testing activities to mitigate this risk.
Which of the following answers best describes the test activities (assuming it is possible to perform all of them) you should plan for?
Number of correct responses: 1

• A. You should plan for adequate re-testing of both the systems followed by a system integration test and an end-to- end test of the overall integrated system
• B. You should directly plan for a single end-to-end test focused on end-to-end tests of the overall integrated system without an acceptance test of the two off-the-shelf systems
• C. You should plan for two levels: a system integration test and an end-to-end test of the overall integrated system
• D. You should plan for an informal and minimal acceptance test of the two off-the-shelf systems and then a single end-to-end test of the overall integrated system

Which of the following statements, about the test reporting activities for a project adopting an iterative lifecycle model with very short iterations (e.g. two weeks iterations), is correct?
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• A. Test reporting activities are still important with an iterative lifecycle. The reports can be used to conduct post- iteration review sessions before starting with the next iteration
• B. Test reporting activities are not important for projects adopting an iterative lifecycle model with short iterations
• C. Test reporting activities are less important for projects adopting an iterative life cycle model with short iterations.
  They should be performed at the end of the last iteration
• D. Test reporting activities can't be influenced by the use of an iterative lifecycle model with short iterations

The main objectives the senior management team wants to achieve are:
-to reduce the costs associated with dynamic testing
-to use reviews to ensure that the project is on course for success and following the plan
-to use reviews as a well-documented and effective bug-removal activity following a formal process with well-defined roles
-to determine the effectiveness of reviews in terms of phase containment
-to improve phase containment effectiveness
Which of the following answers would you expect to describe the best way to achieve these objectives?
Number of correct responses: 1

• A. You should plan for lightweight exit-phase reviews at the end of each development and testing phase, and plan for a process of gathering information from testing to perform an analysis aimed at identifying the larger cluster of defects
• B. You should plan for formal exit-phase reviews at the end of each development and testing phase, and plan for a process of gathering information from testing to perform an analysis of the bugs found during testing to determine the phase in which they have been introduced
• C. You should plan for formal exit-phase reviews at the end of each development and testing phase, and plan for a process of gathering information from testing to perform an analysis aimed at identifying the larger cluster of defects
• D. You should plan for formal exit-phase reviews at the end of each development phase and testing phase, and plan for a process of gathering information from testing to perform an analysis of the bugs found during testing to determine the people responsible for those bugs