Systems Thinking CT-ATLAS Practice Questions (Page 3)

Questions 11–15

1. 11foundation · easy

   What is a leverage point in a testing and quality system?

   • AA point where the system is most vulnerable to external threats
   • BA point where the system is most stable and resistant to change
   • CA point where a small change can produce a significant, often non-linear, improvement in the system
   • DA point where all testing activities converge, such as a test environment
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2. 12foundation · easy

   Why is systems thinking relevant to continuous improvement in agile testing at scale?

   • AIt allows testers to identify and address the underlying causes of quality issues rather than just symptoms
   • BIt provides a framework for automating all testing activities
   • CIt helps teams focus on their own testing processes without external distractions
   • DIt ensures that testing is performed as early as possible in the development lifecycle
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4. 13expert · hard

   A test leader at a retail company is trying to reduce the time to release a new feature. The current process includes a manual security review that takes 2 weeks, a manual performance test that takes 1 week, and a manual regression suite that takes 3 weeks. These activities are done sequentially after development is complete. The test leader wants to apply systems thinking to find a high-leverage intervention. Which intervention is MOST likely to have the highest leverage?

   • AHire more testers to speed up all three activities simultaneously.
   • BAutomate the manual regression suite to reduce its duration from 3 weeks to 2 days.
   • CSkip the security review for low-risk features to save time.
   • DRun the security review, performance test, and regression suite in parallel instead of sequentially, reducing the total time to the longest activity.
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5. 14foundation · easy

   Which action best demonstrates the application of systems thinking to improve testing at scale?

   • AMapping the flow of defects from discovery to resolution and identifying delays
   • BConducting a retrospective that focuses only on the testing team's performance
   • CIncreasing the number of test environments to reduce conflicts
   • DAssigning a single person to be responsible for all quality issues
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6. 15application · medium

   A large financial services organization runs 15 agile teams delivering a single platform. The test automation team reports that their end-to-end regression suite takes 14 hours to execute, so they run it only nightly. Recently, several defects escaped to production because feature teams merged code that broke integration points with other teams' services. The automation team proposes buying faster hardware to reduce execution time. Applying systems thinking, what should the test leader do FIRST?

   • AMap the flow of changes from feature teams to the shared regression suite, identifying where delays and integration failures originate.
   • BPurchase the faster hardware to shorten the feedback loop, since faster execution directly reduces the escape rate.
   • CIncrease the frequency of the nightly run to twice per night, halving the time to detect integration issues.
   • DRequire each feature team to run the full regression suite locally before merging, ensuring no integration defects reach the nightly run.
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