Reviews
Consider the following list of statements about audits and management reviews:
I. Audits are usually more effective than management reviews at finding defects II. Audits and management reviews have the same main goals, the only difference is related to the roles and level of formality III. A typical outcome of an audit includes observations and recommendations, corrective actions and a pass/fail assessment IV. An audit is not the appropriate mechanism to use at the code review in order to detect defects prior to dynamic testing Which of the following statements is true?
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• A. II. and III are true; I. and IV. are false;
• B. I, III and IV are true; II. is false;
• C. III. and IV. are true; I and II are false;
• D. I. and III. are true; II. and IV. are false;

You are a Test Manager on a new project. The software that is being created will be used to control the projectors in movie theaters. This is a time critical project because the software must be released before the Christmas holiday season which has the highest movie attendance of the year.
You have decided to implement a review process for the work products that are a part of this release to save both time and money. In order to expedite the training, you brought in a consultant to train the participants and moderators in proper review processes. Your team is enthusiastic about participating in the reviews.
The project is in the early planning stages. As the review leader, what is an appropriate activity for you to be doing at this point in the project? [3]

• A. Gathering metrics to determine the success of the review process
• B. Calculating the ROI for the review process
• C. Setting a minimum number of defects to be identified in each review
• D. Selecting the review items and the appropriate review type

You have done a comprehensive risk analysis. You have involved the appropriate people in assessing the risks and determining the likelihood and impact of those risks. You have been testing for three months and have been able to mitigate 75% of the high risk items. You have two weeks left in testing and you now do not expect to be able to complete all the items on the high-risk mitigation list, never mind any from the medium or low-risk lists.
What is the most effective action you should take? [3]

• A. Retest the highest risk areas to ensure no regressions have occurred.
• B. Present your risk mitigation progress and project status to the project's stakeholders, and request additional time or assistance in re-prioritizing the remaining high-risk items.
• C. Use a random selection algorithm to pick tests from the high, medium, and low risk mitigation lists - thereby ensuring that each risk list has some mitigation.
• D. Concentrate testing in areas that have already found numerous problems.

When scheduling performance testing, which of the following approaches would be most advisable? [1]

• A. Requiring all performance tests to pass before starting functional testing
• B. Deferring the start of performance testing until all functional defects have been resolved
• C. Leveraging end users to do unit-level performance testing and automated tools for system-level performance testing
• D. Starting the performance testing during unit and integration testing

Test Management
For which of the following activities would the costs be classified as a cost of detection?
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• A. Fixing field failures
• B. Writing test specifications according to the test design
• C. Re-running a test case, during the system testing phase, to verify that a fix eliminates a previously found defect
• D. Training developers to better understand the new features of the coding language they will use on the project