A team is developing a mobile banking app. The product owner emphasizes new features, but the technical test analyst is concerned about security and reliability. During a risk identification workshop, which action best ensures these product risks are explicitly considered?

Ask the developers to estimate the number of defects they expect in each module.

Focus on the new features and ask the team to identify risks only for those features.

Review the project schedule to identify potential delays in testing.

Ask the team to list all possible security threats and failure scenarios for each feature.

A technical test analyst is examining the design of a microservices architecture. The design shows that several services share a common database, and a change to the database schema could affect multiple services. Which risk should be documented?

A schema change in the shared database may cause failures in multiple services.

The test environment may not have enough resources to run all services.

The services may have a poor user interface.

The project team may not have experience with microservices.

A Technical Test Analyst has identified a risk that the system may not handle a high volume of concurrent users. To document this risk properly for further analysis, which information should be recorded?

The risk description and the planned mitigation actions

The risk description and the name of the person who identified it

The risk description, likelihood, and impact

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Risk Identification CTAL-TTA Practice Questions (Page 6)

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26application · medium
A team is developing a mobile banking app. The product owner emphasizes new features, but the technical test analyst is concerned about security and reliability. During a risk identification workshop, which action best ensures these product risks are explicitly considered?
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27foundation · easy
A Technical Test Analyst is examining the architecture of a new system and notices that several modules directly depend on a single shared database. A change to the database schema could affect many modules. Which design risk is this an example of?
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28foundation · easy
A project has a fixed release date, but the development team is already two weeks behind schedule. The test manager is concerned that there will not be enough time to complete all planned testing activities. Which type of risk does this represent?
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29expert · medium
A technical test analyst is examining the design of a microservices architecture. The design shows that several services share a common database, and a change to the database schema could affect multiple services. Which risk should be documented?
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30foundation · easy
A Technical Test Analyst has identified a risk that the system may not handle a high volume of concurrent users. To document this risk properly for further analysis, which information should be recorded?
Select an answer first

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Questions 26–30

A team is developing a mobile banking app. The product owner emphasizes new features, but the technical test analyst is concerned about security and reliability. During a risk identification workshop, which action best ensures these product risks are explicitly considered?

A Technical Test Analyst is examining the architecture of a new system and notices that several modules directly depend on a single shared database. A change to the database schema could affect many modules. Which design risk is this an example of?

A project has a fixed release date, but the development team is already two weeks behind schedule. The test manager is concerned that there will not be enough time to complete all planned testing activities. Which type of risk does this represent?

A technical test analyst is examining the design of a microservices architecture. The design shows that several services share a common database, and a change to the database schema could affect multiple services. Which risk should be documented?

A Technical Test Analyst has identified a risk that the system may not handle a high volume of concurrent users. To document this risk properly for further analysis, which information should be recorded?

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