Chapter 1

Question 1

Inspection of source code of a program - Quality Assurance or Quality Control?

Answer 1

Quality Control

Question 2

Unit testing to validate that the program works - Quality Assurance or Quality Control?

Answer 2

Quality Control

Question 3

Identifying defects in a program for the primary purpose of correcting defects - Quality Assurance or Quality Control?

Answer 3

Quality Control

Question 4

The customer`s view of quality is - Meets Requirements or Fit For Use?

Answer 4

Fit For Use

Question 5

The producer’s view of quality is - Meets Requirements or Fit For Use?

Answer 5

Meets Requirements

Question 6

Requirements definition processes - Quality Assurance or Quality Control?

Answer 6

Quality Assurance

Question 7

Testing processes and standards - Quality Assurance or Quality Control?

Answer 7

Quality Assurance

Question 8

System development methodologies - Quality Assurance or Quality Control?

Answer 8

Quality Assurance

Question 9

Retesting falls into which category of the Cost of Quality? Prevention, Appraisal or Failure?

Answer 9

Failure

Question 10

Final inspections fall into which category of the Cost of Quality? Prevention, Appraisal or Failure?

Answer 10

Appraisal

Question 11

Money spent establishing methods and procedures? Prevention, Appraisal or Failure?

Answer 11

Prevention

Question 12

The cost of quality can be reduced by? Testing at beginning of Software Development Life Cycle, Testing at end of Software Development Life Cycle or Testing throughout Software Development Life Cycle?

Answer 12

Testing throughout Software Development Life Cycle

Question 13

Most IT groups have two quality gaps - which two of these are they - Provider, Producer, Customer, Supplier?

Answer 13

Producer and Customer Quality Gaps

Question 14

The extent to which a program satisfies its specifications and fulfills the users mission objectives is called - Correctness, Efficiency, Usability, Flexibility?

Answer 14

Correctness

Question 15

The effort required to locate and fix an error is a program is called - Integrity, Efficiency, Usability, Maintainability?

Answer 15

Maintainability

Question 16

Which is NOT a process improvement standard for software development or testing - TMMi, CMMI-Dev, P-CMM, ISO 29119?

Answer 16

P-CMM

Question 17

One of the strengths of the CMMI is the detailed testing processes - True or False?

Answer 17

False - CMMI pays little attention to QA

Question 18

Which of the following is/are SDLC models - Waterfall, Spiral, Incremental, All of the above, None of the above?

Answer 18

All of the above are SDLC models

Question 19

In a cost of quality analysis, the costs required to avoid errors to do the job right the first time is called - Prevention Costs, Appraisal Costs, Failure Costs?

Answer 19

Prevention Costs

Question 20

Agile works well in an environment where it is hard to get solid requirements - True or False?

Answer 20

True - Agile works well when requirements are not always clear.

Question 21

Exploratory Testing combines the tester`s _______ to develop better test cases: Experience, Creativity, Things they learn while testing, All of the above, None of the above?

Answer 21

All of the above.

Question 22

White box testing is normally performed by whom - Independent Tester, Business Analyst, Developer who wrote the code, End User?

Answer 22

The Developer who wrote the code typically does White Box testing.

Question 23

Problems inherent in the Water Fall SDLC model is/are - Change Averse, Unclear Process, Too Flexible, All of the above, None of the above?

Answer 23

Change Averse

Question 24

Outsourcing aligns well with which ‘School of Thought’ - Agile, Context-driven, Factory or Analytical?

Answer 24

Factory

Question 25

ALM is another acronym for SDLC - True or False?

Answer 25

False - ALM (Application Lifecycle Management) is not the same as SDLC.

Question 26

Testing is a - Process, Craft or Art, Specific Science, Cost-effective Initiative, Quality?

Answer 26

Process

Question 27

Static Testing generally refers to - Testing by executing programming code, Testing that does not execute code?

Answer 27

Testing that does NOT execute code

Question 28

Dynamic Testing generally refers to - Testing by executing programming code, Testing that does not execute code?

Answer 28

Testing that DOES execute programming code