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This certification covers the fundamental concepts, terminology, and practices of software testing across delivery approaches including Waterfall, Agile, DevOps, and Continuous Delivery. It is aimed at people who need practical foundation-level testing knowledge, including testers, test analysts, test engineers, test managers, user acceptance testers, consultants, and developers. Passing demonstrates practical understanding of core software testing concepts and the baseline knowledge used across the ISTQB Certified Tester scheme.

Exam Topics

  • Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Testing40%
  • Chapter 2: Testing Throughout the Software Development Lifecycle25%
  • Chapter 3: Static Testing10%
  • Chapter 4: Test Analysis and Design25%
  • Chapter 5: Managing the Test Activities20%
  • Chapter 6: Test Tools5%

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QuestionQ1

Chapter 5: Managing the Test Activities

Establishing the schedule for each testing activity and the test milestones for a test project, based on activity estimates, available resources, and other constraints, is a typical task carried out during:

  • A Test execution.
  • B Test design.
  • C Test analysis.
  • D Test planning.
Explanation

Test planning establishes the overall test approach, required resources, estimates, schedules for test activities, and milestones while accounting for project constraints. ISTQB identifies scheduling test activities as a test-planning activity.

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QuestionQ2

Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Testing

Which of the following statements is correct?

  • A Experience-based test techniques rely on the experience of testers to identify the root causes of defects found by black-box test techniques.
  • B Some of the most common test basis used by white-box test techniques include user stories, use cases and business processes.
  • C Experience-based test techniques are often useful to detect hidden defects that have not been targeted by black-box test techniques.
  • D The primary goal of experience-based test techniques is to design test cases that can be easily automated using a GUI-based test automation tool.
Explanation

Experience-based test techniques draw on testers’ knowledge and experience and complement black-box and white-box techniques. They can reveal defects that those techniques have not targeted or may miss.

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QuestionQ3

Chapter 4: Test Analysis and Design

The following decision table is an extract from a larger table that helps a doctor determine drug therapy for a patient aged 6 to 65 years who has acute sinusitis. The table contains four Boolean conditions and six actions:

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Based solely on the information provided, which of the following represents an impossible situation?

  • A 7
  • B 1
  • C 8
  • D 3
Explanation

A person cannot be both over 35 years old and younger than 12 years old. Rule 8 sets both of these mutually exclusive conditions to true, making it impossible.

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QuestionQ4

Chapter 4: Test Analysis and Design

Which ONE of the following options MOST PRECISELY defines statement testing?

  • A In statement testing, the coverage items are control flow transfers between branches. The aim is to design test cases to exercise branches in the code until an acceptable level of coverage is achieved, expressed as a percentage.
  • B In statement testing, the coverage items are decisions and statements. The aim is to design test cases that exercise statements in the code until an acceptable level of coverage is achieved, expressed as a percentage.
  • C In statement testing, the coverage items are branches, and the aim is to design test cases to exercise branches in the code until an acceptable level of coverage is achieved, expressed as a percentage.
  • D In statement testing, the coverage items are executable statements. The aim is to design test cases that exercise statements in the code until an acceptable level of coverage is achieved, expressed as a percentage.
Explanation

Statement testing uses executable statements as its coverage items. Test cases are designed to execute those statements until an acceptable percentage of statement coverage is achieved.

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QuestionQ5

Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Testing

Which of the following statements is correct?

  • A Functional testing focuses on what the system should do while non-functional testing focuses on the internal structure of the system.
  • B Non-functional testing includes testing of both technical and non-technical quality characteristics.
  • C Testers who perform functional tests are generally expected to have more technical skills than testers who perform non-functional tests.
  • D The test techniques that can be used to design white-box tests are described in the ISO/IEC 25010 standard.
Explanation

Non-functional testing evaluates quality characteristics that include both technical qualities, such as performance and security, and non-technical qualities, such as usability.

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