A team is planning a release with a fixed deadline. They have identified two high-risk areas: a new payment gateway (high impact) and a legacy module that is rarely used (low impact but high likelihood of defects). The team has limited test resources. Which approach best balances risk and effort?

Focus all test effort on the legacy module because it has a higher likelihood of defects.

Reduce test effort on both areas to meet the deadline, accepting the risk.

Prioritize the payment gateway with more test effort, and apply a lighter regression to the legacy module.

Allocate equal test effort to both high-risk areas to ensure both are thoroughly tested.

A team is transitioning from a traditional to an Agile approach. They are used to writing a detailed test plan at the start of a project. The team is now working in iterations. What is the most appropriate way to handle test plan documentation?

Write a comprehensive test plan at the start of the release and update it only at the end of each iteration.

Keep the traditional test plan but shorten it to one page.

Abandon test plan documentation entirely, as Agile values working software over documentation.

Create a lightweight release test plan and maintain detailed test plans at the iteration level, updating them continuously.

During a sprint, a tester notices that a newly completed story has not been tested and the team is behind schedule. The daily stand-up is about to start. What is the most appropriate action for the tester?

Raise the untested story in the stand-up and coordinate with the team to prioritize testing it.

Ask the product owner to remove the story from the sprint to avoid testing it.

Quietly test the story after the stand-up without mentioning it, to avoid slowing the team.

Wait until the next sprint to test the story, since daily planning is only for development tasks.

An Agile team is creating a release test plan. They want to keep it lightweight and useful. Which content is most appropriate for an Agile release test plan?

A document that is created once at the start of the release and never updated.

A comprehensive document detailing every test case, expected result, and traceability matrix for the entire release.

A document that only lists the testers' responsibilities and does not include risks or scope.

A brief document outlining test objectives, scope, risks, and the overall test approach, with details deferred to iteration planning.

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Domain 3Objective 1

Test Planning CTAL-AT Practice Questions (Page 1)

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1foundation · easy
Which of the following is a type of risk considered in risk-based test estimation in Agile?
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2expert · hard
A team is planning a release with a fixed deadline. They have identified two high-risk areas: a new payment gateway (high impact) and a legacy module that is rarely used (low impact but high likelihood of defects). The team has limited test resources. Which approach best balances risk and effort?
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3expert · hard
A team is transitioning from a traditional to an Agile approach. They are used to writing a detailed test plan at the start of a project. The team is now working in iterations. What is the most appropriate way to handle test plan documentation?
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4application · medium
During a sprint, a tester notices that a newly completed story has not been tested and the team is behind schedule. The daily stand-up is about to start. What is the most appropriate action for the tester?
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5application · medium
An Agile team is creating a release test plan. They want to keep it lightweight and useful. Which content is most appropriate for an Agile release test plan?
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