01. A team's product owner revises requirements every few days. New user stories arrive with a one-line description and a single acceptance criterion, and the iteration leaves the tester about half a day per story for test analysis and design. A new story for bulk-editing customer tags has just been delivered for testing.
Which test approach should the tester apply to this story?
Select ONE answer.
a) Detailed scripted test cases written from the story before any execution, reviewed and approved by the product owner
b) Automated GUI regression scripts written for the story on the day it is delivered for testing
c) Charter-based exploratory sessions that adapt as the story changes
d) Defer testing until requirements stabilize
02. For a new feature, a team needs tooling to create and run its unit tests, its API tests, its GUI tests and a set of manual test cases.
Which statement BEST describes the tool category that covers this need?
Select ONE answer.
a) Continuous integration tools, which design the unit and API tests as part of every single build
b) Test design, implementation and execution tools, which support automated and manual tests
c) Exploratory testing tools, which convert manual test cases into GUI automation
d) Configuration management tools, which version and execute the unit, API and GUI tests
03. A team is building a booking web application for a network of community sports centers. Builds are assembled by hand by a separate operations group, as the organization has no CI/CD pipeline. The team has no test doubles or service virtualization, and containers are not permitted on the shared servers. Releases go out monthly, and the domain carries no special legal or safety obligations.
The test manager is outlining the project test strategy. Which strategy element BEST fits these tooling constraints?
Select ONE answer.
a) Mainly manual Quadrant 3 testing, offset by broader exploratory coverage and feature toggles
b) Extensive automated component and API testing in Quadrants 1 and 2, run against test doubles and virtualized services on every commit
c) Automated performance, security and compatibility testing from Quadrant 4, run in containerized environments on each nightly build
d) Structured Quadrant 2 black-box test design with boundary values and decision tables, executed by an automated regression pipeline
04. A developer says a user story is finished because its code has been merged, but the increment still fails the performance and accessibility checks that the product requires. The team points to its Definition of Done.
Which explanation of what the Definition of Done describes is MOST accurate?
Select ONE answer.
a) It lists the tasks needed to implement and test the selected user stories, as estimated by the team
b) It defines the release-level test objectives and the quality risks across the release scope
c) It formally describes the state of the increment when it meets the quality measures required for the product
d) It is an informal team agreement that is set once and then left unchanged
05. A tester is chartering a session for the user story 'As a team lead, I want to rate each backlog item's quality risk as low, medium or high so that testing effort can follow the risk.' The charter's Activities field already lists three ideas: rate a new backlog item, change an existing rating, and view the backlog sorted by risk rating.
Which entry BEST belongs in the charter's Variations field?
Select ONE answer.
a) Rate a new backlog item as high
b) The user story, the risk-storming notes from iteration planning and the team's agreed rating scale
c) High priority, matching the story's top position in the backlog and its planned effort
d) Change a rating while another lead edits it; undo a rating change
06. A team writes its acceptance criteria in Given/When/Then form and automates them as executable specifications.
Which description of how bias can affect these artifacts is MOST accurate?
Select ONE answer.
a) Tests built on biased criteria grow ambiguous, because bias reduces the criteria's clarity
b) Bias makes the criteria more precise and the automated tests built on them less ambiguous
c) Bias stays in manual exploratory work, because criteria checked by a tool remain objective once they are automated
d) Bias disappears once the Given/When/Then structure is applied, because that structure allows a single reading of each criterion
07. A pair has tested together for several sessions, and the same person has driven every time while the other has always navigated.
Which change BEST addresses the risk in this pattern?
Select ONE answer.
a) Add a moderator to the pair
b) Remove the navigator role and let both people operate the computer in turns
c) Keep the current roles fixed and let the stable driver set the pace
d) Clearly define driver and navigator, then switch them regularly
08. An Agile team wants to agree which events should prompt it to adjust its testing during an iteration.
Which TWO inputs should the team treat as critical triggers for test control decisions?
Select TWO answers.
a) The number of hours each tester recorded in the time-tracking tool
b) The page count of the test plan document approved before the release began
c) A rise in failing automated regression checks after a merge
d) The ratio of testers to developers on the team
e) Production monitoring alerts showing rising error rates in a feature released last week
09. A team finds pair testing valuable but is concerned about the effort it consumes when two people work on every task.
Which approach BEST addresses this concern?
Select ONE answer.
a) Pair the two people on low-risk, routine features where the session can run quickly
b) Pair strategically on complex or high-risk features only, to contain the effort
c) Stop pair testing completely and rely on individual testing, because its cost outweighs its benefits
d) Keep pairing on every task but shorten each session so the effort stays the same as solo testing
10. Two teams document the same feature. Team A writes "The report should load fast and look professional." Team B writes "The monthly report lists every account with its closing balance, sorted by account number."
Which statement BEST explains why Team B's specification supports shift left?
Select ONE answer.
a) Its precise wording guides early test creation, so anomalies are found sooner
b) It makes reviews unnecessary, because precise wording rules out anomalies in the requirement
c) It lets testing wait until implementation is finished, since the expected results are already fixed in the text
d) Its extra detail tells developers more than they need and slows the start of implementation