CSTE: Paper3 Date: 1st March, 2008

Duration: 45 mins

1. ------------ is the means used by organizations to minimize risk.

a. Costing
b. Quality Assurance
c. Controls
d. None of the above

2. The criteria involved in Testing Policy is

a. Definition of Testing
b. Testing System
c. Evaluation
d. All the above
e. None of the above

3. -------------------- is called black box testing

a. Structural
b. Functional
c. Both
d. None of the above

4. Decision /Condition coverage is a part of

a. Black Box Testing
b. White Box Testing
c. Incremental Testing
d. Thread Testing

5. Which of these is Therapeutic listening?

a. Directed at selecting specific pieces of information and not entire
communication.
b. Designed to get a complete message with minimal distortion.
c. The listener is sympathetic to listener’s point of view.
d. The listener is performing an analysis of what speaker said.

6. . is a condition that can result in a loss to an organization?

a) Threat
b) Control
c) Risk
d) Vulnerability

7. is the process in which a team of people agrees to the severity of magnitude

of a Risk?
a) Consensus
b) Risk Formula
c) Intuition/Judgment
d) None of the above

8. Entrance and Exit criteria for each stage of testing could be documented in
a. Test design
b. Testing objectives
c. Test schedules and resources
d. Assumptions

9. Methods for preparing test data, backup and roll back procedures, high level data requirements
and data security issues will be specified at what section of the test plan
a. Test Resources
b. Test Data Management
c. Test Tools
d. Test Design

10. Which one of these is not a statistical test tool?

a) Pareto analysis
b) Check sheet
c) Run charts
d) Flow Charts

11. What are Histograms commonly know as;

a) Pie charts
b) Scatter plots
c) Bar Charts
d) None of the above

12. Which of the following test approaches is not a structured test approach?
a. Load/Stress
b. Operations
c. Regression
d. None of the above

13. Top-down integration testing has as it's major advantage(s) that

a. low level modules never need testing
b. major decision points are tested early
c. no stubs need to be written
d. none of the above

14. The Pareto analysis is most effective for

a. ranking items by importance
b. Showing relationships between items
c. Measuring the impact of identified items

15. Difficulties surrounding the introduction of tools can arise in three areas…
a) Organizational obstacles
b) Problems arising from the tools
c) Obstacles in the computer environment
d) All the above

16. ___ is the process by which product quality is compared with applicable standards.
a) Quality assurance
b) Quality control
c) None of the above
d) a and b
17. Quality control over quality control is…
a) Quality Assurance
b) Testing
c) Verification
d) None of the above

18. ____ is managerial desires and intents concerning either process or products
a) Standards
b) Procedure
c) Policy
d) None of the above

19. Procedure is step-by-step method followed to ensure that ______ are met
a) Requirements
b) Standards
c) Goals
d) Policy

20. Policies do not define specific products or procedures

a) True
b) False

21) Smoke testing might best be described as

a. bulletproofing shrink-wrapped software
b. rolling integration testing
c. testing that hides implementation errors
d. unit testing for small programs

22) To test two or more people accessing the same File, -------------------scripting is Used.
1. Pseudoconcurrency Scripting
2. Regression Scripting
3. Integration Scripting
4. Unit Scripting

23) is the process of evaluating risks,threats,controls and vulnerabilities

a) Risk Avoidance
b) Risk Mitigation
c) Risk Acceptance
d) Risk Analysis

24) Challenges faced with testing COTS software

A) Does not meet operational needs
B) Relinquishment of Control
C) Loss of Control over reallocation of resources.
D) None of the Above

25) 50% of the software developed by offshore organizations fails to

Meet the expectations of the contracting organization because of the following reasons:
A) Cultural differences
B) Communication barriers
C) Loss of employee morale and support
D) All of the above

26) The differences in testing software developed in-house and software developed by a
contractor
A) Training and deployment may be difficult
B) Extra features
C) Software fails to perform
D) All of the above

27) ) As the cost of testing ------------- the number of undetected defects -------------.
a)       decreases ; decreases
b)       increases ; increases
c)       increases ; decreases
d)       decreases ; remains same
e)       remains constant ; decreases

28) Which one of these is not Cost of Quality?

a. Failure Cost
b. Prevention cost
c. Appraisal cost
d. None of the above

29) Which is not a type of review?

a. Formal
b. Informal
c. Semiformal
d. None of the above

30) Interim stubs are used in

a. Black box testing
b. White Box testing
c. Thread testing
d. Incremental Testing

31) Which of the following is not a group of COSO?

a) Financial Executives International
b) American Institute of Certified Public Accountants
c) American Accounting Association
d) Institute of Management Association
e) The Institute of Internal Auditors

32) Who is ultimately responsible for the internal control system?

a) Chief Executive Officer
b) Chief Financial Officer
c) General Manager
d) Every employee of the company
e) None of the above
 33) Wireless Local Area Networks are implemented as an extension to
a) WAN
b) LAN
c) (a) & (b)
d) None of the above

34) ___________is designed to determine whether the software is fit for use.
A. Usability testing
B. Acceptance testing
C. System testing
D. Security testing

35) Which of following is component of “fit for use” ?

A. Data
B. People
C. Rules
D. Structure
E. All of above

36) A review is what category of cost of quality?

a. Preventive
b. Appraisal
c. Failure

37) Which is a type of Regression testing?

a. Unit Regression testing
b. Regional Regression Testing
c. Full Regression Testing
d. All the above

38) Which of the following is not a perspective of quality?

a. transcendent
b. product-based
c. translucent
d. user-based
e. value-based

39) According to IEEE standard for test documentation ---------------- refines the test approach
and identifies the features to be covered by the design and its associated tests
a. Test case Specification
b. Test Design Specification
c. Test Procedure Specification
d. Test Plan Specification

40) At what section of Test plan will the following be covered : “Requirements for H/W and S/W
configuration, the location of Individual test events, defect tracking mechanism be used”
a. Test Environment
b. Test Design
c. Test Tools
d. None of the above
41) Which of the following is not a defect category?
a) Missing
b) Insufficient
c) Inaccurate
d) Incomplete

42) Which is not a data collected during the testing

a) Test Results Data
b) Test Transactions
c) Test Suites
d) None of the Above

43) Detail information about the specific project component can be obtained by __
a) Project Status report
b) Summary Status report
c) Both
d) None of the above

44) Which are the measures for status of each project.

a) Technical
b) Scheduling
c) Budget
d) All

45) -----------is a term used to quantify the total cost of failure, appraisal and prevention costs
associated with the production of software.
a. Production cost
b. Engineering cost
c. Development cost
d. Cost of Quality

46) --------------- means testing until the optimum point is reached, which is the point where the
cost of testing no longer exceeds the value received from the defects uncovered.
a. Cost of Quality
b. Cost-effective perspective
c. Both
d. None of the above