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Multiple Choice:1. What is the percent of the total cost of quality that comes from rework?2. What is the percent of the total gross of sales that come from product failure?3. What is the cost of quality?4. What is management by fact?5. What are the three types of interfaces?6. What three rules should be followed for all reviews?

7. What is boundary value testing?8. What is decision/branch coverage strategy?9. Which of the following is not one of the 6 Structural Test Approaches?10. Which of the following is not one of the 8 Functional Test Approaches?11. Which of the following is not a perspective of quality?

a. transcendent  b. product-basedc. translucentd. user-basede. value-basedf. manufacturing based

12. True or False. Effectiveness is doing things right and efficiency is doing the right things.13. Which of the following is not one of Deming's 14 points for management?

a. Adopt a new philosophy b. Eliminate slogans, exhortations, and targets for the work forcec. Mobility of managementd. Create constancy of purpose

14. True or False. The largest cost of quality is from production failure.15. Defects are least costly to correct at what stage of the development cycle?

a. Requirements  b. Analysis & Designc. Construction

d. Implementation16. A review is what category of cost of quality?

a. Preventive  b. Appraisalc. Failure

17. True or False. A defect is related to the term fault.18. What type of change do you need before you can obtain a behavior change?

a. Lifestyle  b. Vocabularyc. Internald. Management

19. Software testing accounts for what percent of software development costs?a. 10-20  b. 40-50c. 70-80d. 5-10

20. The purpose of software testing is to:a. Demonstrate that the application works properly b. Detect the existence of defectsc. Validate the logical design

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21. True or False. One of the key concepts of a task force is that the leader be an expert inleading groups as opposed to an expert in a topical area.

22. Match the following terms with their definitions:a. Black box testing  b. White box testingc. Conversion testingd. Thread testing

e. Integration testing

Subjective:

1. What fields would you include in creating a new defect-tracking program (used by QA,developers, etc)? (25 points)a. Draw a pictorial diagram of a report you would create for developers to determine project

status. b. Draw a pictorial diagram of a report you would create for users and management to show

 project status.2. What 3 tools would you purchase for your company for use in testing and justify why you

would want them? (this question is in both parts, only rephrased. I think 10 points each time)3. Describe the difference between validation and verification. (5 points)4. Put the following testing types in order and give a brief description of each. System testing,

acceptance testing, unit testing, integration testing, benefits realization testing. (10 points)5. Describe automated capture/playback tools and list the benefits of using them. (10 points)6. The QAI is starting a project to put the CSTE certification online. They will use an automated

 process for recording candidate information, scheduling candidates for exams, keeping track of results and sending out certificates. Write a brief test plan for this new project. (30 points)

7. List what you think are the two primary goals of testing. (5 or 10 points)8. If you company is going to conduct a review meeting, what position would u select in the

review committee and why?

9. What are the three factors will effect the Testing to stop? When you should stop testing? (10)10. Write any three attributes which will impact the Testing Process?11. This is a Problem solving question, Write a Test Transaction for the below, If a company is

going to deduct 6.2% of sales reduction on first $62,000 earning.12. What activity is done in Acceptance Testing, which is not done in System testing to ensure the

Customer requirements? (10)13. Prepare a checklist for the developers on Unit Testing before the application comes to Testing

Department?14. What is acceptance testplan and what is should include (15 points)15. Draft testplan for an e-business software. what are the major points you will consider while

testing e-business s/w (15)

16. How will you manage testing of a software if you are not getting enough resources to test it anddevelopment manager wants to release the software as soon as possible. What testing strategyyou will implement? (15)

17. What are the product standards for testplan, test script and test report? (10)18. Describe equivalence class, equivalence partitioning and boundary value analysis (15)19. What do u test in a system which accepts inputs from multiple nodes that you will not test in a

system which has only one system? (10)