You plan to introduce a new tester to your Agile team who has expertise in test automation, a necessary skill lacking in current team members. The individual has a high degree of technical competence but has only ever worked alone and admits to finding face-to-face communication difficult.
What would be the BEST course of action?

• A. Peer learning and sharing occurs naturally in Agile teams, so there is no need for any training
• B. Send them on an external training course covering communications skills and connect them with an experienced mentor
• C. Do not use this person. Face-to-face communication is essential in Agile and they will only prove disruptive
• D. Provide them with details of an online self-study program covering communication skills

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You are a test team lead working on a large project and have been subject to considerable stress due to exceptional workload. Your manager has suggested that you need to delegate more work to your team members to both reduce the pressure on yourself and allow team members to take on more responsibility which would, in turn, benefit their growth. Which phase of the Tuckman model would this situational skill represent?

• A. Forming
• B. Storming
• C. Norming
• D. Performing

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You have been carefully monitoring the progress of testing for your project. You have been using the established traceability to verify that the requirements and test conditions are being adequately addressed. The test team is proceeding well in their test case execution and you can see that you are achieving about 80% coverage of the test conditions per the traceability mapping in your test management system. You have seen a number of defects being logged against test conditions that are failing, but you do not see a mapping of the test cases to those conditions.
What is likely to be occurring in the testing area that is causing the traceability to break down? [2]

• A. The testers are not updating the test execution information in the test management system.
• B. The test cases are mapped to the test strategy and are bypassing the test conditions.
• C. The testers are executing the wrong tests.
• D. The testers are running exploratory tests that are not mapped to the test conditions.

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Which of the following statements is true regarding Fault Tree Analysis?

• A. It is used to target defect-based testing.
• B. It is used to select the pairs of items to be used in pairwise testing.
• C. It is a formal technique used to identify the likely effects of risks.
• D. It is used to determine the root cause of observed and potential failures.

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You are assigned to test a new application being developed in-house and you have designed a set of test cases to specifically address key product risks. You will issue daily reports summarising how these test cases are progressing during test execution. When considering the audience for these reports, in which stakeholder matrix quadrant would the product's users reside?

• A. Promoters (High Influence, High Interest)
• B. Latents (High Influence, Low Interest)
• C. Defenders (Low Influence, High Interest)
• D. Apathetic (Low Influence, Low Interest)

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