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The CSQE exam has 175 questions and runs 4 hours 30 minutes.
These 10 free CSQE questions are organized by exam domain, so you can see how each part of the Certified Software Quality Engineer (CSQE) blueprint is tested. Reveal the answer and explanation under each question.
A software vendor advertises that its product is 'ISO 9001 certified.' A quality engineer reviewing this claim should recognize that ISO 9001 certification indicates the vendor has:
Correct answer: A - A quality management system assessed as conforming to the standard
A software quality engineer is directed by a senior manager to sign the release approval for a product with several unresolved critical defects, so the contractual ship date can be met. According to the ASQ Code of Ethics, what should the engineer do FIRST?
Correct answer: D - State the objective evidence and the risk, and decline to certify
A development team spends 120 hours debugging and correcting defects that were discovered during system testing, before the product shipped. Within the cost of quality model, this 120 hours is classified as:
Correct answer: D - Internal failure cost
After a defect is reported from the field, a team patches the faulty code, verifies the fix, and closes the report. No analysis of why the defect was introduced is performed. This activity is BEST described as:
Correct answer: B - A correction, but not a corrective action
During a process audit, the audit team documents a nonconformity in the configuration control process. Who is responsible for determining the corrective action?
Correct answer: A - The auditee, whose process was found nonconforming
An operating system vendor releases a major new version. The application continues to meet all of its requirements, but must be modified to run correctly on the new OS. This work is classified as which type of maintenance?
Correct answer: D - Adaptive maintenance
An organization's pipeline automatically builds and tests every commit, and any change that passes all stages is held in a releasable state until a product manager authorizes the push to production. This practice is BEST described as:
Correct answer: C - Continuous delivery
A stated customer requirement specifies that the system must process 10,000 transactions per hour. To satisfy it, the architect determines that a database connection pool of at least 64 connections is necessary. The connection pool specification is BEST classified as a:
Correct answer: D - Derived requirement
A traceability analysis of a release identifies a fully implemented and tested module that cannot be traced backward to any approved requirement. This MOST likely indicates:
Correct answer: B - Functionality added outside the requirements baseline
A project has a Budget at Completion (BAC) of $600,000. At the current reporting period, Earned Value is $150,000 and Actual Cost is $200,000. Assuming cost performance continues at the current rate, what is the Estimate at Completion (EAC)?
Correct answer: A - $800,000
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