Certified Tester Advanced Level Test Analyst ((CTAL-TA) v4.0) - ISTQB Exam Questions

Scenario "Tax system" The tax system needs to be updated due to new legislation. For a person with a salary of less than € 20.000 and who is married, the tax needs to be re-calculated. If the person also has more than two
and less than five children, an additional 10% reduction is applicable. How many output classes can
be distinguished when applying equivalence partitioning to the Tax System specification?

Scenario "Tax system" The tax system needs to be updated due to new legislation. For a person with a salary of less than € 20.000 and who is married, the tax needs to be re-calculated. If the person also has more than two
and less than five children, an additional 10% reduction is applicable. The functionality of the newly
released tax system is now at the right level. However, there are frequent complaints about non- functional issues. In particular: i the new system does not run on PC’s with VISTA installed ii it is difficult to update the system quickly when new legislation must be implemented iii especially when many users are using the web site, the system seems to be slow iv some users enthusiastically use the system but are not able to complete some of the transactions

Which TWO types of risks are related to complaint (i) and (ii)?

What is a good review meeting practice?

Which of the following is an important principle for using experienced-based test techniques?

Scenario "Incident management"



A test team is keeping logs of the incidents that they observe. They use a commonly-available word processor to write the incident reports in individual files, which are held in shared storage. They track the incidents, along with some incident details, in a spreadsheet. Identify THREE main advantages of this approach to incident management.