Certified Tester Agile Test Leadership at Scale
Domain 2Objective 5
Identify Non-Value-Adding Activities (Waste) CT-ATLAS Practice Questions (Page 2)
Part of the Improve Quality and Flow in a Value-Driven Organization domain, which makes up ~24% of our current practice bank. ISTQB does not publish an official question count, but from its 120-minute exam (~50–80 total, ~12–19 in this domain), expect 2–4 from this objective — we provide 25 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)
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Questions 6–10
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Which category of waste is represented by a team building features that the customer did not ask for and may not use?
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A team believes that the time spent on code reviews is waste because it slows down delivery. However, they have no data on how many defects the reviews catch. Which technique would BEST help the team objectively assess whether code reviews are waste?
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A team has a policy that every code change must be reviewed by two developers, even for a one-line typo fix in a comment. The team is spending 30 minutes per review on trivial changes. Which category of waste does this policy MOST directly represent?
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A value stream map shows that a team's testing phase has a 70% defect escape rate, meaning most defects are found by customers after release. The team is considering: (1) adding more manual test cases, or (2) investing in a test automation framework. The team has limited budget and must choose one. Which option should they choose based on the value stream data?
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A team has a dedicated business analyst who is highly skilled in data modeling, but spends most of their time writing meeting minutes and scheduling meetings. Which category of waste does this situation MOST directly represent?
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