ISTQB Agile Public Sector Exam (ISTQB-Agile-Public) Free Practice Test

Question 1

You are working in a software development company which, for many years, used a sequential development model and was organized into separate departments for each functional group (e.g. business analysts, developers, testers) located within their own office space. Your organization has recently changed to a SCRUM agile framework. Which of the following is an important organizational and behavioral best practice for a tester in the SCRUM team that should have also been practiced when using the sequential model?
SELECT ONE OPTION

A. Cross-functional teamwork means that all team members contribute to testing in various ways. For example, involving people with the test strategy, test planning and execution as well as test reporting.

B. Co located teamwork means that all team members, including developers and testers, must sit together in the same office, so they can quickly communicate face-to-face.

C. Resilient testing means that the testing process is capable of dealing with rapid changes throughout the development process with test plans being updated during each iteration.

D. ( ) Credibility means that the tester must share information with the stakeholders about the test process so that they find the selected test strategy and testing activities trustworthy.

Correct Answer: A

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Question 2

Which statement about an Agile task board is CORRECT?
SELECT ONE OPTION

A. It is a detailed visual representation of the status of testing.

B. It provides detailed visual representation of the whole team's status.

C. It is updated once at the end of each iteration.

D. Only "in progress' tasks are shown on the task board.

Correct Answer: B

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Question 3

You are a tester in an agile team. The user story you are due to test is still under development so your tests are blocked. The main issue holding progress on this user story is that the developer's unit tests are constantly failing.
As an agile tester, which of the following actions should you take?
SELECT ONE OPTION

A. Work together with the developer, suggesting reasons why the tests are failing.

B. Use the time to improve and automate existing test cases of other user stories.

C. Review the design of the problematic user story and improve it where possible.

D. Create a bug report for each of your blocked tests.

Correct Answer: A

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Question 4

Which agile development approach incorporates the following practices:
- a project is divided into iterations called sprints
- each sprint results in a potentially releasable/shippable product?
SELECT ONE OPTION

A. Continuous Integration

B. Scrum

C. Kanban

D. Extreme Programming

Correct Answer: B

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Question 5

During a retrospective, which of the following items would be the LEAST effective to generate discussions on process improvement?
SELECT ONE OPTION

A. For the last sprint the estimated and actual effort were much higher than the team capacity.

B. One of the testers was regarded as being both disruptive and lazy and did not contribute to team success.

C. The build process was slow and this often caused delays waiting for the build to complete.

D. The automation tests failed frequently without any logs to help in debugging the failure reason.

Correct Answer: B

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