Performance Testing Activities CT-PT Practice Questions (Page 1)

Questions 1–5

1. 1application · easy

   A performance test team is preparing to test a web application. They have created the test scripts and validated them with a smoke test. The test plan specifies a load of 500 virtual users with a ramp-up of 10 users per second. What is the NEXT task in the process?

   • AAnalyze the results from the smoke test to identify any performance issues.
   • BExecute the load test with the specified load profile and monitor the system under test.
   • CUpdate the test plan to reflect the actual load profile used in the smoke test.
   • DReport the smoke test results to stakeholders.
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2. 2application · medium

   A performance test team is defining the activities for a new project. They need to ensure that the performance test results can be compared across different test runs. What is the MOST important activity to include?

   • AStandardize the test environment, load profile, and monitoring tools across all test runs.
   • BUse different load profiles for each test run to cover more scenarios.
   • CRun tests at different times of the day to capture variability.
   • DChange the monitoring tools for each run to get a broader view of the system.
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4. 3expert · hard

   A performance test team is testing a system that is being upgraded from version 1.0 to 2.0. The team has baseline results from version 1.0. During the test of version 2.0, the team observes that the response times are 20% slower than the baseline. What is the MOST appropriate action?

   • AReport the degradation to stakeholders and recommend rolling back to version 1.0.
   • BAnalyze the differences between the two versions to identify the cause of the performance degradation.
   • CIgnore the degradation because the new version has more features and is expected to be slower.
   • DRerun the test on version 1.0 to confirm the baseline is still valid.
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5. 4application · medium

   A company is adopting Agile development with two-week sprints. The performance test team is asked to integrate their activities into the lifecycle. The team currently only runs full performance tests at the end of each release. What is the BEST way to adapt performance testing to the Agile lifecycle?

   • ARun lightweight performance checks on every sprint's completed features and reserve full-scale tests for release candidates.
   • BAsk developers to run performance tests locally before each sprint review.
   • CMove all performance testing to production and monitor real users to avoid slowing down the sprints.
   • DKeep the current end-of-release testing approach because it is the only way to get accurate results.
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6. 5application · medium

   A performance test team is executing a test and notices that the application server's CPU is at 100% while the database server is idle. The response times are increasing. What is the MOST appropriate immediate action?

   • AIncrease the load to see if the database server becomes active.
   • BStop the test and investigate the application server's CPU usage to identify the bottleneck.
   • CContinue the test to see if the response times stabilize.
   • DReduce the load to see if the application server CPU usage decreases.
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