CTAL-TM ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level Test Management (CTAL-TM) v3.0 Free Practice Exam Questions (2025 Updated)

You are a Test Manager on a new project. The software that is being created will be used to control the projectors in movie theaters. This is a time critical project because the software must be released before the Christmas holiday season which has the highest movie attendance of the year.

You have decided to implement a review process for the work products that are a part of this release to save both time and money. In order to expedite the training, you brought in a consultant to

train the participants and moderators in proper review processes. Your team is enthusiastic about participating in the reviews.

Your manager is questioning the money you have spent on this training effort. He wants to know how you intend to justify the expense when you present your numbers at the annual budget

meeting in February.

What would be a reasonable way for you to justify the cost of the training and the reviews when you present your information at the budget meeting? [3]

You are the Test Manager on a new project. The schedule is aggressive and will require the team to work at peak efficiency. The requirements are not well defined yet, but it is clear that the

project will be using new technologies. To help the developers meet the development schedule, an offshore group will be added to the development team.

At this time there is not enough budget to add more testing resources. The project stakeholders are very concerned about the quality of delivered product and will be watching the project closely,

particularly during the testing cycles. The exit criteria from the system test level require no open high priority/severity defects, 100% pass rate for all test cases covering risks that are classified as

"high" or "very high", 90% pass rate for all "medium" risks and 50% pass rate for all "low" and "very low" risks.

Given this information, which lifecycle model should you recommend? [3]

SCENARIO 1

DreamPartner dating agency are redesigning their dating application following a major security breach in which sensitive customer data was made publically available. The redesign includes stronger security encryption and performance tuning.

The product risk register for the redesign project, which was produced after all requirements had been agreed, includes the following:

The organisational Test Strategy contains the following objectives:

1. A Risk-based lest approach must be adopted for all projects

2. Functional regression testing should start as soon as functional testing is complete

3. Automated tests may be run before or in parallel with manual tests

The project Test Plan has allocated 6 weeks to complete all test execution, with functional testing taking 3 weeks to execute, performance and security testing 2 weeks each and regression testing 1 week.

Which of the following options places the test suites (TS1 to TS5) in the correct order for test execution?

SELECT ONE OPTION

When closing out a defect report, which of the following developer commentaries is most likely to motivate a tester? [1]

An old stock control system is being decommissioned and replaced with a new system that has been running successfully in the live environment for the last few months. The stakeholders would like to -

• retain historical information held in the database to comply with their data retention policy (which requires order information to be retained for 7 years)

• query the historical information by running pre-written SQL queries.

• all commands must be invoked by keyboard as one of the end users is unable to use a mouse

The pre-written SQL queries will be designed, developed and tested by the developers who are decommissioning the system and writing the data migration routine.

As the system to be decommissioned is integrated to other systems that will remain operational, the stakeholders have requested that testing incorporates all systems that are part of the stock control suite.

The stakeholders and project manager have identified the following risks, in priority order -

• 1st - Data has not been successfully migrated to an archived data store, resulting in the inability to query past stock levels and re-order details.

• 2nd - Historical data for the last 7 years is unavailable, resulting in the failure to meet the data retention policy.

• 3rd - Failure of existing systems within the stock control suite, adversely affecting the operational running of the business

The risks are to form the basis of the test objectives. Which three of the following test activities, work products and/or resources achieves the test objectives?

a. Use of the live database to test the data migration does not corrupt or lose data

b. A test plan detailing the test approach for ST. SIT & OT test levels

c. Accessibility testing of the pre-defined SQL queries

d. Security and Penetration testing of the archived database

e Performance testing of the data migration exercise to ensure it completes in the time specified by the stakeholders

f. Functional testing of the pre-defined SQL queries

g. Regression testing of the end to end process for maintaining specified stock levels.

You are a Test Manager on a new project. The software that is being created will be used to control the projectors in movie theaters. This is a time critical project because the software must be

released before the Christmas holiday season which has the highest movie attendance of the year.

You have decided to implement a review process for the work products that are a part of this release to save both time and money. In order to expedite the training, you brought in a consultant to

train the participants and moderators in proper review processes. Your team is enthusiastic about participating in the reviews.

The project is in the early planning stages. As the review leader, what is an appropriate activity for you to be doing at this point in the project? [3]

Which of the following is NOT true when following the V-Model lifecycle to organise and plan testing activities? SELECT ONE OPTION

Which of the following aspects should test progress metrics be mapped to? [1]

You are Test Manager on a major project that is of strategic importance to your company. Your team has access to a suite of testing tools that provide support across the development life cycle and thissuite of tools has been in place for the last two projects. You are concerned that the suite does not have an integrated defect management tool and have negotiated a small budget to find and implement such a tool. Your first choice is an open source tool that has been available for just over a year and appears to be popular with its users, who have found it easy to learn. The main disadvantage of the tool would be that current manual defect management processes would need to be modified to embrace use of the tool.

Which of the following would be the MAIN risk to consider in deciding whether or not to acquire the defect management tool? SELECT ONE OPTION

You are a newly appointed Test Manager in an organisation that has no separate test team, no formal testing process and testing is considered to be, at best, ad-hoc in approach. The IT director is keen to introduce improvement across all areas of the organisation, not just testing. This is so that the current level of maturity can be assessed and roadmaps outlined for improving processes in a staged way. He has asked you to recommend a test process improvement model and you have suggested TMMi.

Which ONE of the following is a valid reason for your recommendation? SELECT ONE OPTION

While mining the defect database for patterns of problems in the last release, a Test Manager notices that many of the most damaging failures were caused by defects

injected during the low-level design phase.

Which of the following actions will likely give this project the most effective solution to this problem? [3]

You are responsible for porting a performance testing tool to a new operating system. You are at what stage in the tool's lifecycle? [1]

You have just conducted a skills assessment for your team. You decided to rate everyone from 1 to 5 in the skill areas as follows:

5 = expert

4 = proficient

3 = can use this skill effectively but will need some assistance

2 = interested in learning this skill but has only minimal knowledge

1 = not interested in learning this skill

Given these values, you have rated your team as shown in the table below for the designated skill areas:

You will be starting to test a new product that is an upgrade from one of your existing end user products. Your testing will include white box,

performance, security, usability, and black box. You also have a goal to automate 100% of the smoke test and 50% of the regression tests by the end of the release.

Your team willingly shares knowledge and conducts regular lunch time cross-training sessions.

Your manager wants to know if you would like to bring in someone to help train your team in preparation for this project. In which area could

you best utilize this help? [3]

How does a risk based testing approach address risks in a software product? SELECT ONE OPTION

The teams are two days away from the end of the current iteration. The rate at which users have been reporting defects has been trending upward in the last few weeks and so far during this latest iteration has shown another increase.

The scrum master of the team responsible for most defects has asked you for ideas about how to perform the next retrospective in order to learn the appropriate lessons.

You have suggested that they should provide the retrospective meeting with a breakdown, by nature and severity, of the defects relevant to that team.

Assuming that this is done, which next three steps of the retrospective will be MOST effective?

Refer to SCENARIO 2 - Which two of the following are test strategies that would need to be implemented to meet the objectives defined in the Safe as Houses' test

policy?

a. Analytical strategy

b. Reactive strategy

c Methodical strategy

d. Regression averse strategy

e. Process compliant strategy

As test manager, you need to determine if there are likely to be new security risks arising from proposed changes to an in-house purchasing application. You invite a security testing consultant, who is external to the organisation, to assess the changes and provide you with their written report of perceived security risks.

Which risk identification technique are you using?

You are Test Manager on a new project and have estimated the test effort to be 500 days, assuming that you will find no more than 50 defects and 5 test iterations being required. The project manager has said the estimate is too high. Which of the following options could enable you to reduce this estimate?

SELECT ONE OPTION

A tester has just completed a challenging assignment as the sole tester in an agile development team and is now being reassigned. Which of the following is most likely to DEMOTIVATE this tester?

SELECT ONE OPTION