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True or False: Bugs that are found and fixed early in the process will cost more to fix when compared to finding them later and fixing all the bugs at once.
Pregunta 2
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Which test type will satisfy the final validation and verification criteria?
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Packaging and delivery
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Systems validation
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Acceptance testing
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Functional testing
Pregunta 3
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Which of the following is a key principle of testing?
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Testing does not need to be planned.
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Complete testing is not possible.
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Testing requires dependence on developers.
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Formal exit criteria must be defined.
Pregunta 4
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True or False: Process improvement helps software development build and retain product and service quality.
Pregunta 5
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True or False: Studies have shown that defects found and fixed in the requirements phase carry the highest cost.
Pregunta 6
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True or False: System validation is an end-to-end process that ensures that the completed and integrated system will operate as needed in the environment for which it was intended.
Pregunta 7
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What can be achieved with a process improvement initiative based on the CMMI?
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A measurable business result
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A sense of when a project is done
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A way to evaluate customers
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An approach to monitoring employees
Pregunta 8
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Which type of review is considered a walkthrough?
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Progress review
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Milestone review
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Management review
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Peer review
Pregunta 9
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When is the appropriate time to include the people responsible for quality in the development cycle?
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As early as possible in the cycle
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When requirements are formulated
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When formal testing begins
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When coding begins
Pregunta 10
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What key best practice brings the development process together in order to meet the deliverable deadline?
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Having clearly defined goals for every milestone
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Racing ahead with your eyes focused on the finish line
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Not wasting time on trivial items that have no impact
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Making hard decisions regarding the direction of development
Pregunta 11
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Which element of a bug record will provide the programmer with a visual representation of the problem?
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The steps to recreate the problem
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A screenshot
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A description of expected versus actual results
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A brief and accurate description
Pregunta 12
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What is the benefit of building a discrete list of defects and ranking them in order of importance?
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Giving the team the opportunity to voice their concerns and advocate for their own priorities
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Allowing for performance issues to be identified and elevated to the top of the list
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Helping to define the severity of each issue
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Creating an opportunity to examine quality goals and how defects affect the milestone schedule
Pregunta 13
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What is the best way to document and keep track of test cases?
Pregunta 14
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True or False: A bug model is based on historical data and planned activities and predicts how many bugs will be found during the project.
Pregunta 15
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What is a visual definition of how you will prioritize bugs as they are discovered?
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A matrix of impacts versus severity
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A list of all bugs
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A PowerPoint presentation
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A matrix of severity versus stakeholder concerns
Pregunta 16
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How is a solid IT-QA relationship fundamental to business success?
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It can lower cost by fixing issues early in the process
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It provides a usability perspective for the business to understand
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It will help deliver compliant business-enabling systems
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It finds and fixes bugs before systems are delivered
Pregunta 17
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True or False: A bug base is a system for keeping track of every bug logged in a database system.
Pregunta 18
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True or False: The goal of automation is to completely eliminate the need for a human to participate in the testing process.
Pregunta 19
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What can a developer employ to identify and resolve code quality issues?
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Code-level tools
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Unit testing
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Bug tracking systems
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Peer reviews
Pregunta 20
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True or False: When the testing is focused on how the application behaves at a code level, a white-box tester should create the tests.
Pregunta 21
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What is the intent of test automation?
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To automatically record issues to be fixed
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To test as many pieces of functionality as possible
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To optimize your process and make testing more efficient
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To find as many defects as possible
Pregunta 22
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Who should create automated unit tests?
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QA engineer
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Program developer
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White-box tester
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Automation tester
Pregunta 23
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When is a good time to start automation testing?
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At the end of the project, right before the user starts acceptance testing
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When you begin coding, so that the automation tests can be done ahead of time
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When the scheduled milestone for automation testing is reached
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When you are confident that you do not want anything to change in the code
Pregunta 24
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Which logic coverage test will test all possible combinations of condition outcomes in each decision and all points of entry at least once?
Pregunta 25
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Which test case methodology should be used for a specification that contains combinations of input conditions?
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Condition coverage
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Cause-effect graphing
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Error guessing
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Boundary value analysis
Pregunta 26
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True or False: Each test-case design methodology is a particular set of useful test cases, and each one by itself is a thorough set of test cases.
Pregunta 27
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True or False: Cause-effect graphing is a systematic method of generating test cases representing an ad hoc set of conditions.
Pregunta 28
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True or False: The most important consideration in program testing is the design and creation of effective test cases.
Pregunta 29
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Which test case design technique is based on writing test cases around probable types of errors?
Pregunta 30
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Which black-box methodology focuses on finding a subset of all possible inputs with the highest probability of finding the most errors?
Pregunta 31
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Which type of testing combines one module with a set of previously tested modules before it is tested?
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Big-bang testing
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Logic testing
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Non-incremental testing
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Incremental testing
Pregunta 32
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What is an advantage of bottom-up testing?
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Skeletal programs allow demonstrations
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Observation of test results is easier
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Driver modules are produced
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Major flaws occur toward the top of the program
Pregunta 33
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True or False: Testing each module independently and then combining the modules to form the program is called nonincremental testing.
Pregunta 34
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True or False: The only rule in top-down testing is that when selecting the next module for testing, it must be eligible to be the next module, with at least one of the module's subordinate (calling) modules previously tested.
Pregunta 35
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What is an advantage of incremental testing?
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Programming errors are detected earlier
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Labor costs are smaller
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Provides opportunities for parallel activities
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It uses less machine time
Pregunta 36
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What does the specification for a module typically define?
Pregunta 37
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What type of test is a module test?
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White-box
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Regression
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Functionality
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Black-box
Pregunta 38
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True or False: Module testing is a process of testing the individual subprograms, subroutines, classes, or procedures in a program.
Pregunta 39
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What type of module testing includes strategies such as top-down and bottom-up?
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Non-incremental testing
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Coverage testing
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Big-bang testing
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Incremental integration
Pregunta 40
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Which step in the software development process defines the exact representation of the program to users?
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Requirements
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System design
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Program structure design
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External specifications
Pregunta 41
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True or False: Software development is the process of moving from the conceptual to the concrete.
Pregunta 42
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What is the key to successful higher-order testing?
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Acceptance testing
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Consistent and well-planned testing
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Appropriate system testing
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Function testing that uncovers errors
Pregunta 43
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True or False: Requirements translate the program user's needs and specify why the program is needed.
Pregunta 44
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Which test requires the organization that produced the program to create the test cases?
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Function test
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System test
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Integration test
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Installation test
Pregunta 45
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Which test will show that a program does not match its external specifications?
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Acceptance test
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System test
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Function test
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Module test
Pregunta 46
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What type of test compares the program to its initial requirements and the current needs of its end users?
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Unit test
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Acceptance test
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Regression test
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Function test
Pregunta 47
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Which type of test would reveal that the program as a whole either meets or doesn't meet its objectives?
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System test
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Function test
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Integration test
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Acceptance test
Pregunta 48
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Which step in the software development process translates requirements into specific objectives?
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System design
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External specifications
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Requirements
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Objectives
Pregunta 49
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True or False: A system test should be performed by the programmer and the organization responsible for developing the program.
Pregunta 50
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True or False: User-based testing requires the user to know the inner workings of a program.
Pregunta 51
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True or False: Selecting random users—persons who are not familiar with the program's specification, or perhaps even the industry or market for which it is intended—can uncover errors or user interface problems that might not be found by experts.
Pregunta 52
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What is the main consideration for a usability test?
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The program meets all functionality requirements
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The program passes all module testing
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The program performs according to its specifications
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The program has no reported issues
Pregunta 53
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Based on the work of Jakob Nielsen, how many testers will collectively find 83% of errors during a usability test?
Pregunta 54
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True or False: Videotaping a user test and using a think-aloud protocol can provide excellent data on software usability and user perceptions about the application.
Pregunta 55
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Which approach gathers information and comments that can be counted and analyzed across the spectrum of testers?
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User questionnaire
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Think-aloud process
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Remote user testing
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Test user selection
Pregunta 56
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Which debugging method looks at a reverse execution of the program?
Pregunta 57
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True or False: Debugging by brute force is both efficient and successful.
Pregunta 58
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Which of the following is a brute-force debugging technique?
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Backtracking
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Studying error symptoms
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Dumping memory locations
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Process of elimination
Pregunta 59
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True or False: The most effective method of debugging involves a mental process.
Pregunta 60
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Which of the following is a debugging principle?
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Where there is one bug, there is likely to be another
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The likelihood of a fix being correct is 100%
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Change the object code, not the source code
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Fix the symptom, not the error
Pregunta 61
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Which debugging method moves from the particulars of a situation to the larger picture?
Pregunta 62
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How is quality defined in Extreme Programming?
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Meeting design specifications and customer expectations
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Implementation of complicated designs
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Good communication between developers and testers
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Testing the code base once
Pregunta 63
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Which agile method is being used when the programmer designs an application to pass the unit tests, therefore increasing the probability that it will meet specifications?
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Extreme unit testing
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Open Unified Process
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Scrum
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Extreme Programming
Pregunta 64
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Which form of testing involves everyone in the process through the design, implementation, and execution of the test plan?
Pregunta 65
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Which agile methodology is an iterative and incremental project management approach that supports many other agile methodologies?
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Extreme Programming
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Scrum
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Agile Modeling
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Open Unified Process
Pregunta 66
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Which type of testing includes the rule: "All code modules must have unit tests before coding begins"?
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Open Unified Process
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Agile testing
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Unit testing
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Extreme unit testing
Pregunta 67
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Which agile methodology includes the concept of collective ownership of the code?
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Extreme Programming
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Agile testing
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Scrum
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Open Unified Process
Pregunta 68
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What does agile testing rely on in order to facilitate the timely feedback needed for rapid development?
Pregunta 69
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When verifying the business layer of an application, which test will blast the application with multiple logins and simulate transactions to the point of failure?
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Performance testing
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Data validation
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Response time testing
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Transactional testing
Pregunta 70
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What is being verified when testing the business tier?
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The backend data entry and management routines
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That graphics are the correct size and resolution
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That transactions are completed properly
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That recovery can be done using current backups
Pregunta 71
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True or False: When verifying an internet application, testing browser compatibility is a significant challenge.
Pregunta 72
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Which layer of an internet application houses data used by the application or collected from the end user?
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Business
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Data
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Presentation
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Browser
Pregunta 73
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Which area is being tested when we test the failover capabilities of web, application, and database servers?
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Business rules
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Network architecture
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System reliability
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Performance
Pregunta 74
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Which area of an application is being tested when a tester confirms that all links point to valid files or websites?
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Presentation
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Data
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Browser
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Business
Pregunta 75
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What plays a major role in whether users accept or reject an application?
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Consistent and user-friendly operations
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Fonts, colors, and graphics
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Database operations that meet performance goals
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Transactions that roll back correctly
Pregunta 76
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True or False: Independently testing each internet application layer allows the tester to more easily identify bugs and errors.
Pregunta 77
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Which test category verifies that the application responds appropriately to a weak signal?
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Device interaction
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Network infrastructure
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Install/uninstall
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Key mappings
Pregunta 78
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True or False: When testing a mobile application on a real device, manual testing is unavoidable.
Pregunta 79
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What is an advantage to using an emulator when device testing?
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It can identify device-specific bugs
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It is cost-effective
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It can test the responsiveness of an application
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It can test the code base once
Pregunta 80
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Which testing challenge category is concerned with overcoming location-based obstacles?
Pregunta 81
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In a mobile environment, which term is used to describe something that has the capability to run a network-based application over a cellular or satellite data link?
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Device constraint
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Mobile device
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Input device
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Mobile application