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Advanced Test Analyst Mock Exam 
As of July 1, 2008, the ISTQB has directed its National Boards and Exam Boards 
to transition to exams based on the new Advanced Syllabus 2007. This mock 
exam is based on the new Advanced Syllabus 2007. However, the ISTQB has not 
yet released exam guidelines that National Boards and Exam Boards must follow 
for generation of the exams. Therefore, this mock exam follows the exam 
guidelines in force as of the transition to the new Advanced Syllabus 2007 exam 
on July 1, 2008. 
On such an exam, you will have 90 minutes to work through about 30 questions 
of approximately the same difficulty mix and syllabus distribution as shown in 
the following mock exam. After you have taken this mock exam, check your 
answers with the answer key. 
1. You are doing compatibility testing of a browser-based application. On the 
client side, it runs on three operating systems: Windows 2000 (W2K), 
Windows 2003 (W23) and Windows XP Pro (WXP). It works within four 
browsers: Firefox (FF), Internet Explorer 5.x (IE5), Internet Explorer 6.x 
(IE6), and Opera (O). It supports five connection speeds: Local Area 
Network (LAN), Cable (Cab), DSL (DSL), High-speed dial-up (D56) and 
Low-speed dial-up (D33). 
The following figure shows the classification tree for these configuration 
options. 
 
 
Design a set of test environment configurations to cover the classification 
tree with the minimum combinations. How many configurations are 
required? 
A. 3 
B. 5 
C. 20 
D. 60 
 
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2. Which of the following is the primary test basis for acceptance 
testing? 
A. High-level design specification 
B. Low-level design specification 
C. Requirements specification 
D. Defect reports from earlier releases 
 
3. Assume that the failure of a particular on-board computer software 
application on an airplane can cause a catastrophic failure of the airplane 
itself. Which level of code coverage is required under DO-178B standard? 
A. None 
B. Statement 
C. Decision and statement 
D. Modified condition/decision, decision, and statement 
 
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4. Assume you are testing a maintenance release which will add a new 
supported model to a browser-based application that allows car dealers to 
order custom-configured cars from the maker. The following three 
sentences appear in the requirements specification: 
Version 2.7B is the monthly maintenance release for this application. It 
adds support for the Racinax 917, which comes in two models, a base 
model and the 917X with a turbo charged version of the engine. Racinax 
vehicles are available in Pearl Grey (PG), Ninja Black (NB), Midnight Violet 
(MV), and Electric Blue (EB). 
Selection of model numbers and colors are via pull-down lists on a screen. 
You want to develop a set of test cases that cover these requirements. 
Which is an adequate set of test cases based on equivalence partitioning of 
the model variants and the colors? 
A. All pairwise combinations of valid models and colors, plus one 
invalid color and one invalid model. 
B. All pairwise combinations of valid and invalid models and colors. 
C. (917, PG, accept), (917, NB, accept), (917X, MV, accept), (917X, EB, 
accept), and (invalid model, invalid color, reject) 
D. (917, PG, accept), (917, NB, accept), (917X, MV, accept), (917X, EB, 
accept), (invalid model, PG, reject), and (917X, invalid color, reject) 
 
5. Assume you are testing a browser-based application that helps individuals 
track and manage their investment portfolios. Each user’s data is stored in 
a central repository, and users log in to authenticate themselves prior to 
accessing their portfolio information. Assume you are looking for bugs 
related to the accuracy of the investment performance calculations the 
application performs. Which of the following attacks would be most likely 
to find such bugs? 
A. Input very long strings and SQL commands into input fields 
B. Perform calculations with very small numbers, very large numbers, 
and zero 
C. Search the system registry for user names and passwords 
D. Attempt to use the application on a system with minimum memory 
and CPU capabilities 
 
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6. You are participating in a review meeting for a project plan during the 
beginning of a project. The author, the project manager, is leading the 
meeting. He is leading the team sequentially through the sections of the 
plan. This meeting would be considered what type of review? 
A. Pair programming 
B. Audit 
C. Inspection 
D. Walkthrough 
 
7. Consider the following documents that might be produced during a typical 
project: 
I. Requirements specification 
II. Project plan 
III. Test plan 
IV. Design specification 
V. Defect report 
Which of these items could benefit from a review? 
A. Items I, II, and IV 
B. Items III and V 
C. Items I, II, and III 
D. Items I, II, III, IV, and V 
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8. What is the difference between designing tests with three boundary values 
per boundary and designing boundary value tests with two boundary 
values per boundary? 
A. Use of three boundary values per boundary results in one valid 
value and two invalid values per boundary, while with two 
boundary values per boundary, there is one valid value and one 
invalid value 
B. Use of three boundary values per boundary results in two valid 
values and one invalid values per boundary, while with two 
boundary values per boundary, there is one valid value and one 
invalid value 
C. With three boundary values per boundary, the boundary itself is 
considered a possible value, while with two boundary values per 
boundary, the boundary lies between two adjacent possible values 
D. With three boundary values per boundary, you are guaranteed to 
test the two equivalence partitions on each side of the boundary, 
while with two boundary values per boundary you might not test 
the two equivalence partitions on each side of the boundary 
 
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9. A point-of-sales system for pharmacies is implementing a change based on 
legal restrictions related to the sale of over-the-counter decongestant 
medicines that can be used to create illegal narcotics such as 
methamphetamine. The law restricts the purchase of these so-called 
“precursor” medications to 24 pills of these decongestants per day. The 
pharmacies sell these pills in packages of 6 (6-pack), 10 (10-pack), 12 (12-
pack), and 24 (24-pack). The point-of-sales system should reject any 
transaction that violates the law. 
In the following, a test case consists of description of the transaction in 
terms of the collection of packages of decongestant the customer wants to 
purchase, followed by an expected result. Which of the following covers 
the boundary values for decongestant pills purchased with the minimum 
number of test cases? 
A. None, accept; 6-pack, accept; 12-pack, accept; two 12-packs, accept. 
B. 6-pack, accept; 12-pack, accept; two 12-packs, accept; two 12-packs 
and one 6-pack, reject. 
C. None, accept; 6-pack, accept; two 12-packs, accept; two 10-packs and 
one 6-pack, reject. 
D. None, accept; 6-pack, accept; 12-pack, accept; two 10-packs accept; 
two 10-packs and one 6-pack, reject. 
 
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10. An on-line shoe-selling e-commerce Web site stocks the following options 
for men’s loafers: 
Tassel: Tassel (T) or non-tassel (~T) 
Color: Black (B), cordovan (C), or white (W) 
Size: all full and halfsizes from 8 to 14 (S=n) 
The store is overstocked with tasseled loafers of all sizes and colors, along 
with white loafers in all sizes, and cordovan loafers in sizes 13, 13 ½, and 
14. As a result, they are offering a 10% discount (10%) and free shipping 
(FS) on these items. The following cause/effect graph shows the interaction 
of these conditions and actions. 
 
Design a full decision table that shows all combinations of conditions, then 
collapse that table by using don’t care (“-“) notation where one or two 
conditions cannot influence the action. Which of the following statements 
is true about these two tables? 
A. The full table has 8 rules; the collapsed table has 5. 
B. The full table has 12 rules; the collapsed table has 7. 
C. The full table has 12 rules; the collapsed table has 5. 
D. Both tables have 12 rules, as no combinations can collapse. 
 
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11. You are involved in managing all the testing activities at all levels of 
testing, including unit testing, integration testing, and system testing. 
(There is no acceptance testing planned for this mass-market product.) A 
requirements specification, high-level design specification, and a low-level 
design specification will be written. You are currently writing the test plan, 
and deciding which test techniques should be applied to each level of 
testing. Which of the following statements is true? 
A. Functional testing techniques are useful in all three levels of testing. 
B. Structural testing techniques are useful only in unit testing. 
C. Functional testing techniques are useful only in integration and 
system testing. 
D. Structural testing techniques are useful only in integration and 
system testing. 
 
12. On a project to develop an accounting system for large business customers, 
the following people participate in an inspection of a module that creates 
end-of-year financial reports: 
• The author of the code module being reviewed 
• Three fellow programmers 
• A marketing manager with a computer science degree 
• A tester who previously worked as a programmer 
During the review, the author and the tester disagree on whether a 
particular method of calculation is error prone. Which of the following 
statements is true? 
A. The participants must resolve the disagreement before the meeting 
proceeds. 
B. The author has the last word such decisions, as inspection input is 
only advisory. 
C. The participants may note the disagreement and continue with the 
meeting. 
D. To avoid being disruptive influences in inspections, testers should 
only observe, not comment. 
 
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13. You are testing a computerized gas pump that allows users to pay using 
credit cards. The pump is initially in the waiting-for-customer state. A 
transaction is initiated when a customer first inserts a credit card. Four 
types of cards are accepted: Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and American 
Express. The pump will reject any other type of card. If given an accepted 
credit card, the pump validates the card. If the card is valid, the pump is 
turned on and the customer is told to begin pumping gas. The pump 
remains on until the transaction ends. The transaction ends when one of the 
following events occurs: 
• Pump handle is returned to pump 
• Amount reaches transaction limit for card 
• No gas is pumped within two minutes of validation of card 
• The station attendant throws the emergency shut-off switch 
Once the transaction ends, the pump processes the transaction, charging the 
credit card and producing a receipt. It then returns to the waiting-for-
customer state. 
The following state transition diagram applies for the pump. 
 
Assume a test always starts and may only end in the waiting-for-customer 
state, a test must end after a transaction-ending event, and a test input 
consists of (initial state, event[condition], next state, event[condition], …, 
event[condition], initial state). Design tests covering every unique 
sequence of up to four states/three events. How many tests are needed for 
this level of coverage? 
A. 2 
B. 7 
C. 14 
D. 26 
 
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14. You are testing a print server whose state-based responses to various events 
is shown by the following state transition diagram. 
 
You want to design tests that cover both the state/ event[condition] 
combinations shown above and along with various state/event=[condition] 
combinations not shown above. To do so, you create a state transition table 
based on this diagram that shows all such combinations, one combination 
per row. How many rows does this table contain? 
A. 5 
B. 7 
C. 12 
D. 35 
 
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15. You are testing the check-out feature of an e-commerce application. The 
payment screen gathers the following information: credit card number and 
type, credit card expiration date, card verification number (CVV), and 
name on credit card. A previous screen calculated the amount to be 
charged based on the final shopping cart contents. When the data gathered 
by the payment screen (at the customer’s browser) is processed, the 
following decision table determines the action to be taken on the 
transaction. Note that the expiration, CVV, and name must match the card 
number. Note also that a negative amount triggers a “bad amount” 
message. 
Condition 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 
Number/type valid N Y Y Y Y Y Y Y 
Card expired - Y N N N N N N 
Expiration match - - N Y Y Y Y Y 
CVV match - - - N Y Y Y Y 
Name match - - - - N Y Y Y 
Amount positive - - - - - N Y Y 
Amount authorized - - - - - - N Y 
Action 
Reenter message Y N Y Y Y N N N 
Expired message N Y N N N N N N 
Bad amount message N N N N N Y N N 
Amount reject message N N N N N N Y N 
Email confirmation N N N N N N N Y 
Process purchase N N N N N N N Y 
You are creating a set of tests for this transaction processing. In addition to 
covering the decision table, you also want to ensure that both positive 
(amount authorized) and negative (amount not authorized) tests are run for 
each of the four types of credit cards accepted, American Express, Discover, 
Master Card, and Visa. 
Design a set of tests to achieve this level of coverage, where each test 
consists of seven conditions and six expected actions. Which of the 
following gives the number of tests you will need? 
A. 8 
B. 10 
C. 13 
D. 14 
 
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16. Which of the following is the strongest (i.e., most test coverage) coverage 
criteria that can apply to a classification tree? 
A. All partitions covered at least once 
B. All partitions combined with one another 
C. All possible pairs of combinations of partitions 
D. All possible triples of combinations of partitions 
 
17. Consider the following program that accepts a request for a Fibonacci series 
of a certain size and prints that series. 
main() 
{ 
 int i, n, pp, p, c; 
 printf("Enter element count: "); 
 scanf("%d", &n); 
 if (n < 0) { 
 printf("No %d series!\n", n); 
 n = -1; 
 } else { 
 printf("{ "); 
 pp = 0; 
 p = 1; 
 for (i=0; i < n; i++) { 
 c = pp + p; 
 printf("%d ", c); 
 pp = p; 
 p = c; 
 } 
 printf("} \n"); 
 } 
 exit(n); 
} 
Assume that you test with an input value of –1 and 7. Which of the 
following statements correctly describes the level of code coverage 
achieved? 
A. No level of coverage is achieved. 
B. Statement coverage is achieved. 
C. Branch coverage is achieved. 
D. Complete path coverage is achieved. 
 
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18. You are responsible for system testing a safety-critical medical device that 
uses embedded software. A failure in the software may result in 
catastrophic failure of the device and patient death. Which of the following 
describes the best use of exploratory testing and bug-based attacks in your 
overall testing strategy? 
A. Do not use these techniques for safety-critical systems, as they are 
likely to miss important bugs. 
B. Only use these techniques at the very end of system test, as they are 
unlikely to find important bugs. 
C. Use these techniques throughout system test, as they are likely to 
find some bugs that systematic techniques miss. 
D. Use these techniques exclusively, as they are more efficient than 
systematic techniques and find all important bugs. 
 
19. You are performing an exploratory testing session for a browser-based 
personal-finance application running on a PC. The charter of this testing 
session is to test check-printing capabilities for various supported printer 
types, check formats, operating systems, and browsers. Since there are over 
750 supported combinations, you are considering using a classification tree 
to identify all possible pairs of options. Which statement is correct? 
A. You should use the classification tree because exploratory testing 
always relies on structured test design techniques. 
B. You should not use the classification tree because exploratory testing 
never relies on structured test design techniques. 
C. You should not use exploratory testing for tests of compatibility and 
configuration, as it only applies to testing functionality. 
D. You should use the classification tree because exploratory testing 
promotes the use of any available skills and techniques. 
 
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20. Your company’s Chief Information Officer manager returns from a 
conference where she learned the economic and schedule benefits of 
reviews. She directs you, the quality assurance manager, to institute 
reviews immediately across all current and future projects. You are given 
a budget to bring in training in the review process. You are instructed to 
gather metrics on defects found and effort expended in reviews so that 
return on investment can be calculated. 
Which of the following is a success factors for review introduction which is 
missing? 
A. Management support 
B. Pilot projects 
C. Ability to measure return on investment 
D. Provision for training in the review process 
 
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21. You are involved in testing a software component that gathers and analyzes 
various kinds of sensor input. This software will be sold to a customer that 
will integrate it into their systems, which are subject to government 
regulations. You have determined that a particular standard that requires 
statement and decision coverage as well as 100% requirements specification 
coverage applies to this software. In addition, the contract specifies a 
particular set of acceptance criteria that will determine whether they must 
pay for the software upon delivery. 
Which of the following statements describes the best way to select test 
techniques for this project? 
A. Select techniques that provide coverage of the acceptance criteria 
with the minimum number of tests, assuming the customer will test 
for standards compliance. 
B. Select techniques that provide coverage to the mandated standard, 
assuming the customer will run acceptance tests based on the 
acceptance criteria. 
C. Select techniques that provide coverage of those areas that are felt to 
be the most risky by technical contributors, as doing so will 
necessarily cover the standards and acceptance criteria, too. 
D. Select techniques that provide coverage to the mandated standard, 
augment those with techniques needed to cover the acceptance 
criteria, and address any remaining coverage gaps through 
appropriate techniques. 
 
22. Which of the following statements is true? 
A. MISRA Report 6 recommends use of decision tables 
B. MISRA Report 6 does not address requirements coverage 
C. MISRA Report 6 recommends testing errors and out-of-range 
conditions 
D. MISRA Report 6 recommends testing as the only quality assurance 
technique 
 
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23. You are managing the testing effort for a new software application. In a 
meeting with the project manager, you recommend that requirements, 
designs, and code undergo reviews. The project manager says, “That 
sounds like a lot of work. What is the benefit?” Which of the following is a 
good response that will answer the project manager’s question and address 
the big picture concerns that she would have? 
A. Bugs are much cheaper to find and remove early in the lifecycle. 
B. Finding too many bugs during system testing makes the test team’s 
life difficult. 
C. Holding review meetings for these items can slow down changes in 
the system. 
D. We can use the review sessions to brainstorm new features and 
design decisions. 
 
24. Which of the following is NOT a possible outcome of a review? 
A. Declaring the item under review complete 
B. Declaring the item under review complete if certain changes are 
made 
C. Declaring the item under review as needing major changes followed 
by a re-review 
D. Changing the person responsible for writing the item under review 
 
25. A programmer working in the Czech Republic writes a new object to be 
included in an existing system. He sends the files out for review via e-mail 
to some other people working on the same project, including a fellow 
programmer in India, a senior programmer in her office, and two test 
engineers in Austin. He asks for comments back via e-mail within three 
days. What would this type of review be called? 
A. Informal 
B. Inspection 
C. Walkthrough 
D. Technical review 
 
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26. During a walkthrough meeting for a high-level design, a tester who is 
participating as a reviewer asks the system architect who created the 
document why only physical network connections are supported in the 
design, rather than also supporting wireless connections. The designer 
replies that they did not have time to address the security concerns raised 
by wireless access to the system. The tester accepts that answer and the 
review proceeds. 
Which of the following is an objective of a review that was achieved in that 
exchange? 
A. Increased reviewer understanding 
B. Early detection of a defect 
C. Correction of a defect 
D. Analysis of system design 
 
27. Which of the following statements is true? 
A. To make the review meeting efficient, reviewers should bring points 
for discussion to a technical review. 
B. To keep an open mind, reviewers should not read the item under 
review prior to a technical review. 
C. To make problem resolution faster, reviewers should bring problems 
and solutions to a technical review. 
D. To keep the review meeting under two hours, reviewers should 
avoid discussion of controversial points in a technical review. 
 
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28. Your organization instituted requirements and design reviews for all 
projects 18 months ago. Reviews are still happening, are effective when 
they do occur, and data from the reviews is being used to locate other 
process improvement opportunities. However, you notice that only less 
critical projects manage to hold reviews for requirements and design 
documents. Ironically, the more business-critical projectsare skipping 
some or all reviews and losing out on the schedule and quality benefits. 
Typically, as the schedule pressures build up on a project, fewer reviews 
are carried out, compounding schedule problems later when more bugs are 
discovered during system test. 
Which of the following common causes of review failure is most likely at 
work in this scenario? 
A. Insufficient training for the reviewers. 
B. No continuous improvement from reviews. 
C. Resistance by staff to the chosen review procedures. 
D. Insufficient time scheduled for reviews in critical projects. 
 
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29. You are testing a computerized gas pump that allows users to pay using 
credit cards. Four types of cards are accepted: Visa, Mastercard, Discover, 
and American Express. The pump will reject any other type of card. If 
given an accepted credit card, the pump validates the card. If the card is 
valid, the pump is turned on and the customer is told to begin pumping 
gas. The pump remains on until the transaction ends. The transaction ends 
when one of the following events occurs: 
• Pump handle is returned to pump 
• Amount reaches transaction limit for card 
• No gas is pumped within two minutes of validation of card 
• Emergency shut-off switch is thrown by the station attendant 
Assume that a test is consists of a triple set of values, (card type, card 
validity, transaction ending). Design the minimum number of tests needed 
to cover all the equivalence partitions for each card brand, including both 
valid and invalid cards of each accepted type, along with covering each 
equivalence partition for transaction endings. 
How many tests do you need? 
A. 4 
B. 5 
C. 9 
D. 17 
 
30. What is a review? 
A. An evaluation of a product or project status to ascertain 
discrepancies from planned results and to recommend 
improvements. 
B. An independent evaluation of software products or processes to 
ascertain compliance to standards, guidelines, specifications, and/or 
procedures. 
C. Testing of software or specification by manual simulation of its 
execution. 
D. A systematic evaluation of software acquisition, supply, 
development, operation, or maintenance process, performed by or 
on behalf of management. 
 
 
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Answer Key 
1. B 
2. C 
3. D 
4. D 
5. B 
6. D 
7. D 
8. C 
9. C 
10. C 
11. A 
12. C 
13. D 
14. D 
15. D 
16. B 
17. B 
18. C 
19. D 
20. B 
21. D 
22. C 
23. A 
24. D 
25. A 
26. A 
27. A 
28. D 
29. C 
30. A 
 
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