In your role as a Test Analyst for the development of a business application, you asked the Product Owner to help you understand how the various product risks would affect the users.
Which product risk management activity was this?

• A. Risk assessment
• B. Risk control
• C. Risk mitigation
• D. Risk identification

A simple drinks machine is described in the following state transition diagram:

How many test cases will be needed for Chow's 1-switch coverage?

• A. 40
• B. 28
• C. 23
• D. 19

You are working on an Agile project to develop a web-based online dating service that will allow members of the service to enter their profile, meet people who would be a good match for them, arrange social events with those people and to block people with whom they do not want contact.
Functional correctness, usability, performance and security are all important but the major concern for the stakeholders is data protection. Two environments are available for testing: the regular one is similar to the development environment, the other is a pre-production environment which is configured to become the live system when operation begins, but has currently been loaded with a representative volume of artificial profiles.
The features for member profile entry have been delivered and tested. The current iteration will deliver profile matching, which will be done on-demand in response to a request from a member to see matching profiles in their browser. The tests for these user stories' acceptance criteria will be aimed primarily at functional correctness and will be scripted. Performance testing and security testing will be done by external specialists when the functionality is stable.
The other TAs in the team are on sick leave and only have time for one exploratory test session before the end of the iteration. What is the MOST appropriate test charter in these circumstances?

• A. Explore the profile matching features With the pre-production environment To discover any functional or performance issues
• B. Explore the profile matching features With the regular environment To discover any functional issues that were not covered by the story acceptance criteria
• C. Explore the profile matching features With the regular test environment To discover any usability issues and security vulnerabilities
• D. Explore the profile entry features With the regular test environment To discover any functional issues that might affect matching

You are your employer's most experienced TA. The organisation performs root cause analysis (RCA) thoroughly, but infrequently and only on individual defects that went live at the highest of the five Severity levels.
After six months of live operation for one system, particular concern has been expressed about the volume of usability and security defects and there is a strong desire to reduce their quantities. You have recommended adding product quality characteristics, per ISO 25010, to the defect report template.
How might this recommendation support RCA?

• A. It will enable Pareto analysis to be performed across the quality characteristics, in order to focus on those which have most defects
• B. In combination with knowledge about how the defect was fixed, it will speed up RCA
• C. Classification by Quality Characteristic will enable more detailed analysis of the defect detection percentage (DDP)
• D. In combination with Severity, Quality Characteristic will isolate groups of defects that are causing most concern, so that RCA can be performed at group level