ISTQB Certified Tester Advanced Level, Test Automation Engineering (CTAL-TAE) Free Practice Test

Question 1

An API's response to a request made to the corresponding endpoint should return some specific data about a payment transaction in JSON format. In particular, your goal is to write the test automation code, keeping it as short as possible, aimed at determining whether that response includes certain properties (transaction_id, amount, status, timestamp) with the data types and formats expected. Assuming that the TAF provides all the necessary support to validate the specified API response, how would you BEST achieve your goal?

A. Use an artificial intelligence algorithm based on machine learning and image recognition to implement a self-healing capability

B. Specify the schema for the expected response data (properties, data types, and formats) and validate the actual response data against this schema

C. Write custom code that parses the actual response data and checks whether the extracted properties, data types, and formats are as expected

D. Write a single assertion for each property to check whether the data types and formats for that property are as expected in the actual response

Correct Answer: B

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Question 2

Which of the following statements about the reuse of TAS artefacts is TRUE?

A. Reusable TAS artefacts can include components (or parts of components) associated with different layers of the TAA

B. Communications maintenance and improvements for reusing TAS artefacts are modify addressed during the design of the TAA

C. Reusable TAS artifacts associated with the definition layer of the TAA include the adaptors to the SUT components and/or interfaces

D. To enable reuse of TAS artefacts, a good design for reuse is built into the TAA and to further action are needed during the TAS lifecycle

Correct Answer: D

Question 3

As a TA-E, you have successfully verified that a test automation environment and all other components of the TAS are working as expected. Now your goal is to verify the correct behavior for a given automated test suite that will be run by the TAS. Which of the following should NOT be part of the verifications aimed at achieving your goal?

A. Does the level of intrusion of automated test tools influence confidence in the suite's test results?

B. Is the connectivity between the TAS and the necessary internal and external systems available and stable?

C. Do all automated tests within the suite always provide the same results across multiple runs?

D. Are all automated tests within the suite complete in terms of test data, including expected results?

Correct Answer: B

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Question 4

In a first possible implementation, the automated test scripts within a suite locate and interact with elements of a web UI indirectly through the browsers using browser-specific drivers and APIs, provided by an automated test tool used as part of the TAS. In an alternative implementation, these test scripts locate and interact with elements of the same web UI directly at the HTML level by accessing the DOM (Document Object Model) and internal JavaScript code. The first possible implementation:

A. Has a lower level of intrusion than the alternative implementation, and therefore its test scripts are less likely to produce false positives

B. Has a higher level of intrusion than the alternative implementation, and therefore its test scripts are less likely to produce false positives

C. Has a lower level of intrusion than the alternative implementation, and therefore its test scripts are more likely to produce false positives

D. Has the same level of intrusion as the alternative implementation, and therefore the risk of test scripts producing false positives is the same in both cases

Correct Answer: A

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Question 5

You identified a suitable project to pilot an automation tool and planned and conduced a pilot. The pilot has been successful and tool Is being deployed within your organization, with a plan to increase tool use by the one project at a time. During this rollout some test processes will be changed slightly to gain additional benefits from using the tool.
In the pilot project, a small set of manual tests were automated for the first time. You are currently monitoring the test automation efficiency and this reveals that the automation regime for the tests is not yet mature.
Which of the following statements is TRUE?

A. The pilot project should have been critical so that maximum benefits were delivered

B. The test process should be radically changed to gain additional benefits from using the tool.

C. The target defined for the project was inappropriate, because the automation regime for the automated tests at the end of the pilot is not yet mature.

D. The approach used for deployed this tool is aligned to the standard success factor for deployment

Correct Answer: D

Question 6

Some automated regression test scripts run by a TAS in a given test environment make calls to private APIs that require authentication for all requests (the authentication method is the same for all APIs). The SUT is a business-critical system. The following two changes are planned: a change in the authentication method of all APIs and a minor upgrade of the OS (Operating System) in the test environment. You have updated the test scripts to cope with the change in the API authentication method. Which of the following sequences of activities is BEST to ensure that the test scripts are not adversely affected by these changes?

A. First implement the change in the API authentication method, then upgrade the OS, and finally run all the updated test scripts

B. Implement one change at a time and run a subset of the updated test scripts after each change

C. First upgrade the OS, then implement the change in the API authentication method, and finally run all the updated test scripts

D. Implement one change at a time and run a subset of the updated test scripts after each change, and finally run all the updated test scripts

Correct Answer: D

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Question 7

(Which of the following statements refers to a typical advantage of test automation?)

A. Automated tests can allow defects to be detected earlier than manual tests because their execution times can be shorter

B. Artificial intelligence can be used to help identify redundant tests within large, long-running automated regression test suites

C. Automated tests can determine whether actual results match expected results, even for non-machine- interpretable results

D. On average, automated tests written at the API level are likely to run faster than automated tests written at the UI level

Correct Answer: D

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Question 8

You are using a gTAA to create a TAS for a project. The TAS is aimed specifically at automating a suit of existing manual test cases for standalone desktop applications. All the interfaces between the TAS and SUT will be from the CUI of the application.
Which of the following layers of the gTAA should you focus on for the TAS?

A. The Test Execution layer

B. The Test Definition layer

C. The test Generation layer

D. The Test Adaption layer

Correct Answer: D

Question 9

Which of the following recommendations can help improve the maintainability of test automation code?

A. Avoid using static analyzers on test automation code and other development tools, as they are designed to improve the maintainability of SUT code

B. Use error codes in test automation code instead of exceptions (if exceptions are supported by the programming language) for error handling

C. Avoid producing test automation code containing methods with too many levels of nesting, as deeply nested code is more difficult to understand

D. Avoid adopting design patterns that introduce high levels of abstraction in test automation code, such as the flow model pattern

Correct Answer: C

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