System Development and Change Mgmt

Question 1

What are the change mgmt and new systems controls?

Answer 1

• policies and procedures
• emergency change policies
• standardized change requests
• impact assessments
• authorization
• separation of duties
• conversion controls
• reversion access- ability to revert to the prior system or process that existed before the change
• pre-implementation testing
• post-implementation testing
• ongoing monitoring

Question 2

What is a Functional system test?

Answer 2

• focus on testing the functions performed by the system
• realistic business scenarios are run through the system to validate that they are working effectively and efficiently

Question 3

What is a Black Box system test?

Answer 3

• type of functional test in which there is little info about how the product is designed
• focuses on the end user’s perspective by evaluating interfaces and features in the same manner as an end user

Question 4

What is a White Box system test?

Answer 4

• involves evaluating a system from a design perspective, with a focus on code and its design improvement as opposed to testing functionality

Question 5

What is a Gray Box system test?

Answer 5

• combines both white and black box testing techniques
• evaluates a system from both a user perspective and design perspective
• while evaluating user interfaces, the tester has access to source code but does not analyze it
• whent the tester evaluates the design of the system, that person focuses on the logical structure of the program instead of fuctionality

Question 6

What is an Exploratory system test?

Answer 6

• utilized for the less-common or exception-based situations with no specified test cases

Question 7

What is a Performance system test?

Answer 7

• designed to test the run time (speed) performance of software when processing the required workload

Question 8

What is a Recovery system test?

Answer 8

• checks the system’s ability to recover from failures

Question 9

What is a Security system test?

Answer 9

• verifies that system protection mechanisms prevent improper penetration or data alteration and validate that authorized access levels function properly

Question 10

What is a Regression system test?

Answer 10

• rerun previous test cases within the entire application after new features or functionalities have been incorporated. This is to determine whether the new features caused any breaks or mods to functionality

Question 11

What is a Stress system test?

Answer 11

• the program is checked to see how well it deals with abnormal and/or extreme resource demands

Question 12

What is a Sanity system test?

Answer 12

• exercises the logical reasoning and behavior of the software to determine whether system logic is functioning as designed

Question 13

What is unit testing?

Answer 13

• testing the smallest level of code or software program

Question 14

What is integration testing?

Answer 14

• testing the combo of two or more units of code or a program

Question 15

What is system testing?

Answer 15

• testing the system as a whole once all parts have been combined (11 types)

Question 16

What is acceptance testing?

Answer 16

• testing to see if the system works for users as intended and meets all requirements (alpha and beta tests)