ASTQB Mobile Tester Certification Mock Exam

Question 1 of 40

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What types of testing are particularly important for mobile applications based on the user’s expectations?

Select one of the following:

Suitability and Accuracy
Usability and Performance
Portability and Usability
Performance and Security

Explanation

Question 2 of 40

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If an application resides on the mobile device and was written specifically for that device, what type of application is it?

Select one of the following:

Web-based
Hybrid
Native
Device-specific

Explanation

Question 3 of 40

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You are testing an application for a smart phone. You have determined that you only need to test one device from the target family of devices because the behavior of all devices in that family will be the same for this application. This is an example of what test design technique?

Select one of the following:

Boundary value analysis
Combinatorial
Decision tables
Equivalence partitioning

Explanation

Question 4 of 40

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If you are testing a mobile application that is not safety-critical, which lifecycle model is most likely to be used?

Select one of the following:

V-model
Waterfall
Mobile model
Iterative

Explanation

Question 5 of 40

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Which of the following requirements documents would be the best source to determine normal
usage scenarios?

Select one of the following:

Requirements specification
Use cases
User stories
Usability requirements

Explanation

Question 6 of 40

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In a project that is feature-rich but time-poor, which is the most reasonable approach to risk analysis?

Select one of the following:

Conduct a full risk analysis, including weighted likelihood and impact ratings for each item
Use a lightweight approach and assign relative importance of each identified item
Skip the risk analysis step and proceed to test execution based on experience
Concentrate on the functional capabilities and disregard the physical capabilities of the device
since those should be tested by the manufacturer

Explanation

Question 7 of 40

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If you are testing a mobile banking application, is it important to test the interaction between the software and the device?

Select one of the following:

No, it is not necessary to extend the functional testing to cover interaction with the device
Yes, using the physical device is how the user interacts with the application and how the
application interacts with the Internet
No, if the application is developed as a native application, there is no need to test the
interaction because the application is portable across many different types of devices
Yes, each feature of the device should be tested to verify if it interacts with the application

Explanation

Question 8 of 40

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You are testing a native application for a smart phone. The application allows the user to make grocery lists on the phone and store up to three lists at a time. A list can contain up to 50 items. Which of the following is the minimum set of test conditions to achieve 100% coverage with the equivalence partitioning test technique?

Select one of the following:

List with 47 items
List with 0 items, List with 1 item, List with 50 items, List with 51 items, 0 lists saved, 1 list
saved, 3 lists saved, 4 lists saved
List with 0 items, List with 25 items, List with 51 items, 3 lists saved
List with 0 items, List with 12 items, List with 58 items, 0 lists saved, 3 lists saved, 7 lists saved

Explanation

Question 9 of 40

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You are testing a native application for a smart phone. The application allows the user to make grocery lists on the phone and store up to three lists at a time. A list can contain up to 50 items. Which of the following is the minimum set of test conditions to achieve 100% coverage with the boundary value analysis test technique?

Select one of the following:

List with 47 items
List with 0 items, List with 1 item, List with 50 items, List with 51 items, 0 lists saved, 1 list
saved, 3 lists saved, 4 lists saved
List with 0 items, List with 25 items, List with 51 items, 3 lists saved
List with 0 items, List with 12 items, List with 58 items, 0 lists saved, 3 lists saved, 7 lists
saved

Explanation

Question 10 of 40

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Correctness can be defined as a combination of which two quality characteristics?

Select one of the following:

Suitability and accuracy
Usability and performance
Portability and interoperability
Security and usability

Explanation

Question 11 of 40

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When conducting security testing on a mobile application, which is the correct set of basic areas to cover?

Select one of the following:

Access, data protection, documentation
Code, functionality, documentation, security policy
Data creation, data storage, data transfer
Access, data storage, data transfer, security policy

Explanation

Question 12 of 40

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Which of the following types of testing might consider the user’s age?

Select one of the following:

Scenario-based testing
Use case testing
User story testing
Persona-based testing

Explanation

Question 13 of 40

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If your application can only be used within a specific country, what feature of the device might be used to supply information that the application can use to make this determination?

Select one of the following:

Geolocation
Telephony
Magnetometer
Altimeter

Explanation

Question 14 of 40

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What is the primary use of teststorming?

Select one of the following:

Load and stress testing from multiple locations
Testing the device’s ability to deal with weather conditions
Deriving test cases and test scenarios
Creating masses of test data

Explanation

Question 15 of 40

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You have information from production that the previous version of your product has had a high rate of abandonment after the initial download. In fact, it appears people download the application and never use it. Poor performance is thought to be the main problem that is causing people to give up the application. Which of the following aspects of the application should be specifically targeted for testing to help determine if this is really the problem?

Select one of the following:

User interface delays
Irregular performance
Resource usage
Application launch time

Explanation

Question 16 of 40

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Your company has created an application for doing crossword puzzles. The target users are in the age class of over 65 years old. There has already been considerable concentration on creating screens that are easy to navigate and intuitive. It is a primary goal that the software be easy to use. Viewability has been implemented with a revolutionary magnification ability based on moving a magnifying glass across the screen. The beta testers have still had problems using the application, particularly when trying to enter the letters into the squares. Given this information, which area should you target for more complete testing?

Select one of the following:

Simplicity
Layout
Intuitiveness
Navigation

Explanation

Question 17 of 40

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You are planning to conduct performance testing on a new application. You have been given a set of personas to use during this testing. How should you apply the personas in the performance testing approach?

Select one of the following:

Personas should be duplicated by the automated tools to create virtual users who can create a realistic load on the system.
Personas should be reviewed to understand the individual tasks being performed. These tasks can then be scripted and performed in sets.
Personas are used primarily for usability testing and should not be used as guidelines for performance testing.
Personas should be used to derive use cases which can be broken down into user stories and then scripted into performance test scripts.

Explanation

Question 18 of 40

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If you are testing how much battery is being used by your application, what are you testing?

Select one of the following:

Task completion
Delays
User interface delays
Resource usage

Explanation

Question 19 of 40

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You have been doing your mobile application performance testing on a simulator. Why would you need to do some testing on a real device?

Select one of the following:

Because a simulator is not an exact replica of the real device and may give different performance results
Because it is not possible to thoroughly test a simulator to ensure it is working correctly
Because simulators cannot be cloned to provide enough devices to generate a realistic
load
Because simulators cannot run concurrent applications

Explanation

Question 20 of 40

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Which of the following is a requirement for portability testing for the future of a mobile application?

Select one of the following:

Knowing how the application works today with today’s devices
Anticipating which devices will be popular and how they will be used
Predicting how personas will change
Creating new devices via emulators and testing the application on those emulators

Explanation

Question 21 of 40

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For a navigation application on a smart phone, which is the most importance device capability?

Select one of the following:

Telephony
Camera
Email
Geolocation

Explanation

Question 22 of 40

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If a tool is able to simulate the way in which a specific device would respond to an application, it is considered to be what type of simulator?

Select one of the following:

A hybrid simulator
A native device simulator
A web-based application simulator
A browser-based application simulator

Explanation

Question 23 of 40

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Which of the following is a generic tool that would be useful for a mobile application testing project?

Select one of the following:

A simulator
An emulator
A defect tracking system
A performance testing tool

Explanation

Question 24 of 40

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In what way might a mobile device itself supply data to the mobile application?

Select one of the following:

By providing location information by using its geolocation capability
By gathering input from the user
By communicating with a backend system
By connecting to another device

Explanation

Question 25 of 40

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Which of the following is true about a browser-based application?

Select one of the following:

It is designed to exercise capabilities of a particular device
It runs on the device
It is portable to any device that can run the supported browser
It is generally faster than a native application

Explanation

Question 26 of 40

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Which of the following is a reason to use simulators for testing?

Select one of the following:

Simulators give more accurate performance than real devices
Real devices can be difficult and expensive to procure in large quantities
Simulators can interact with users to provide feedback on usability
Real devices can be quickly configured to provide new testing scenarios

Explanation

Question 27 of 40

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You have just been assigned to test a native mobile application for a delivery recording device used by mail and package couriers. This is a new version of a product that is already in production. The production version of the product has had issues with the hardware particularly with capturing signatures entered on the device and with associating photo images to the proper delivery addresses. This has resulted in a problem with reconciling the package delivery information. You need to test the application on a network with 1000 of these devices sending information back to the main office. Budget is limited as is the ability to obtain 1000 devices. What should you do?

Select one of the following:

Find or develop a simulator that can simulate the network interaction of many devices
Find or develop an emulator that can emulate the application running on the hardware
and OS of the device
Implement crowd-source testing to get a large number of people to use their own devices to test the network
Obtain the real devices because any other testing will not be representative of the real
behavior of the device

Explanation

Question 28 of 40

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You are responsible for performance testing for a new hybrid mobile application that will run on smartphones. The application will use the phone’s GPS capability to determine the altitude of the phone. This information will be used to send information to the user indicating the change in their “safe limit” for alcohol consumption. You expect your highest usage of the system to be on New Years Eve when many people are skiing at high altitudes and will need to check their safe limit. For the first year of usage, 5,000 concurrent users are expected to use the application on that one evening. Given this information, what is the best approach to use for conducting the performance test?

Select one of the following:

Clone simulators to create 5000 users and conduct the test with those simulators
Clone emulators to create 5000 users and conduct the test using the emulators
Use a mix of simulators and emulators to give the most realistic results
Use crowd-sourcing and real users to get accurate results from real devices

Explanation

Question 29 of 40

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You have a need to test network connectivity in a variety of environments to determine if your web site will respond fast enough and reliably enough to the requests from your mobile web-based application. You don’t have the ability to create these environments within your test facilities. What is the best option to use to conduct this testing?

Select one of the following:

Find or develop a simulator that can simulate the network interaction of many devices on varied networks
Find or develop an emulator that can emulate the network interaction of many devices on varied networks
Find a cloud-based network simulator that can generate network traffic from a variety of different networks
Implement crowd-source testing to get a large number of people to use their own devices to connect via various networks

Explanation

Question 30 of 40

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What is the best way to verify that a simulator is giving reliable results?

Select one of the following:

Read the requirements
Test the simulator
Compare the results to the results from a real device
Compare the results from the simulator to the results from an emulator

Explanation

Question 31 of 40

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Which cloud capability is most beneficial for performance testing?

Select one of the following:

Supporting a variety of network types
Supporting a variety of protocols
Supporting a variety of device types
Supporting a variety of device quantities and usages

Explanation

Question 32 of 40

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Which of the following is a type of data that a mobile performance testing tool should be able to monitor, track and generate?

Select one of the following:

Bursts of activity
Usability information
Navigation flow data
Secure data transactions

Explanation

Question 33 of 40

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You are testing an application that will allow users to scan the barcode from a package mailing label and then receive emails from the package shipper as the package moves through the various stages of its delivery (e.g., pickup, receipt at central processing, routing, delivery). If requested, the user can also receive a picture of the signature of the recipient of the package. This is a web browser-based application. It is expected that this application will have wide usage across a large set of devices and networks with varying speeds and reliability.
Your company has several competitors who are working on similar products although your company’s product has some new innovations and a very attractive user interface. As a result, once it is released, your company expects to grab that majority market share.
Given this information, what would be the best approach for doing your testing to ensure the capabilities of the product are tested as well as the range of environments and networks?

Select one of the following:

Use a remote device lab that is provided by a device manufacturer to ensure your application works across the whole family of devices
Use crowd sourcing to get the widest distribution of device locations and types with minimal cost
Use a set of simulators that can simulate the various capabilities of a wide variety of devices
Use a cloud-based virtual test environment to simulate various devices and networks

Explanation

Question 34 of 40

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You are testing an application that will allow users to scan the barcode from a package mailing label and then receive emails from the package shipper as the package moves through the various stages of its delivery (e.g., pickup, receipt at central processing, routing, delivery). If requested, the user can also receive a picture of the signature of the recipient of the package.
This is the second version of this application. The first version was web browser-based and was quite slow to start up. The new version is a native application with all the same functionality. It is expected that this application will have wide usage across a large set of networks with varying speeds and reliability.
Given this information, what would be the best approach for doing your testing to ensure the capabilities of the product are tested as well as the range of devices, environments and networks?

Select one of the following:

Use a remote device lab that is provided by a device manufacturer to ensure your application works across the whole family of devices
Use crowd sourcing to get the widest distribution of device locations and types with minimal cost
Use a set of simulators that can simulate the various capabilities of a wide variety of devices
Use a cloud-based virtual test environment to simulate various devices and networks

Explanation

Question 35 of 40

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In the future, what is the expectation for device capabilities?

Select one of the following:

They will decrease as devices get smaller
They will increase as demand increases
They will stay the same
They will stay about the same but expand across a greater range of devices

Explanation

Question 36 of 40

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What will the future user expect in terms of application performance?

Select one of the following:

They will expect it to be slower because they will understand that adding more features will necessarily compromise the speed of existing features
They will expect it to be slower because devices will become smaller
They will expect it to stay constant
They will expect it to continue to increase

Explanation

Question 37 of 40

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When building a flexible testing framework, how does the short product lifecycle affect the test approach and tool decisions?

Select one of the following:

The framework must support long-term maintainability
The framework should utilize stable and reliable tools from known vendors
The framework must provide a good ROI
The framework should leverage a formal risk analysis

Explanation

Question 38 of 40

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Your organization has just hired a test automation architect who has previously worked on medical software with strict regulatory requirements. His test automation framework is very solid and will allow the staff to build maintainable data-driven test cases. His tool choice is the top of the line tool that has been used for many years for traditional test automation. You are concerned that this is a very expensive tool and may not have the flexibility needed in your environment, particularly since the mobile applications your company develops are intended to exist in the market for only six months before being re-worked to add new features and change the user interface. The software development lifecycle is iterative and the team uses continuous integration to provide testable software faster. Given this information, what should you recommended for the test approach?

Select one of the following:

Search for other tools that are more suited for the mobile environment and consider creating test automation with keyword-driven tests rather than data-driven.
Go with the proven framework and seek high coverage in the test automation software to ensure good reuse.
Bypass test automation and go with crowd-sourcing to get a high amount of testing done in a short period of time. Test repeatability is not an issue with this software.
Use test automation for performance testing and conduct the functional testing manually since the product has a short life expectancy.

Explanation

Question 39 of 40

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ASTQB Mobile Tester Certification Mock Exam

Question 1 of 40

What types of testing are particularly important for mobile applications based on the user’s expectations?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 2 of 40

If an application resides on the mobile device and was written specifically for that device, what type of application is it?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 3 of 40

You are testing an application for a smart phone. You have determined that you only need to test one device from the target family of devices because the behavior of all devices in that family will be the same for this application. This is an example of what test design technique?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 4 of 40

If you are testing a mobile application that is not safety-critical, which lifecycle model is most likely to be used?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 5 of 40

Which of the following requirements documents would be the best source to determine normal usage scenarios?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 6 of 40

In a project that is feature-rich but time-poor, which is the most reasonable approach to risk analysis?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 7 of 40

If you are testing a mobile banking application, is it important to test the interaction between the software and the device?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 8 of 40

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 9 of 40

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 10 of 40

Correctness can be defined as a combination of which two quality characteristics?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 11 of 40

When conducting security testing on a mobile application, which is the correct set of basic areas to cover?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 12 of 40

Which of the following types of testing might consider the user’s age?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 13 of 40

If your application can only be used within a specific country, what feature of the device might be used to supply information that the application can use to make this determination?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 14 of 40

What is the primary use of teststorming?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 15 of 40

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 16 of 40

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 17 of 40

You are planning to conduct performance testing on a new application. You have been given a set of personas to use during this testing. How should you apply the personas in the performance testing approach?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 18 of 40

If you are testing how much battery is being used by your application, what are you testing?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 19 of 40

You have been doing your mobile application performance testing on a simulator. Why would you need to do some testing on a real device?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 20 of 40

Which of the following is a requirement for portability testing for the future of a mobile application?

Select one of the following:

Explanation

Question 21 of 40

For a navigation application on a smart phone, which is the most importance device capability?

Which of the following requirements documents would be the best source to determine normal
usage scenarios?