CAST Exam – Actuarial & Statistical Techniques –
Comprehensive Study Guide
Primary goal of the software test professional - correct answer ✔✔To improve the quality of
software applications
Quality Assurance - correct answer ✔✔-Establishes and evaluates the processes that produce
products.
-Management responsibility, frequently performed by a staff function
Quality Assurance determines the need for, aquire, or help install: - correct answer ✔✔-System
Development Methodologies,
-Estimation processes,
-System Maintenance processes,
-Requirements definition process,
-Testing processes and standards.
Once installed, QA measures these processes to identify weaknesses and correct them to
continually improve the process
Quality Control - correct answer ✔✔process by which quality is compared with applicable
standards and actions are taken when nonconformance is detected.
TESTING IS QC
Quality control activities' focus - correct answer ✔✔Identifying defects in actual products
produced.
, What Quality Assurance does - correct answer ✔✔-helps establish processes,
-sets up measurement programs to evaluate processes,
-identifies weaknesses in processes and improves them
What QA is concerned with - correct answer ✔✔products across all projects
QA personnel should never perform QC unless: - correct answer ✔✔unless the purpose is to
validate QC
Quality Control is concerned with - correct answer ✔✔a specific product line
What Quality Control does - correct answer ✔✔-relates to a specific product or service,
-identifies defects for the purpose of correcting defects.
-verifies whether specific attributes are in, or are not in a specific product or service
Internal auditing - correct answer ✔✔an independent appraisal activity within an organization
for the review of operations, and is a service to management.
It is a managerial control that functions by measuring the effectiveness of other controls.
5 perspectives of quality - correct answer ✔✔-Transcendent- I know it when I see it.
-Product based - Possesses desired features
-User based- fitness for use.
-Development and manufacturing based - conforms to requirements.
-Value based - at an acceptable cost
Peter R Scholtes - correct answer ✔✔Contrast between effectiveness and efficiency
Comprehensive Study Guide
Primary goal of the software test professional - correct answer ✔✔To improve the quality of
software applications
Quality Assurance - correct answer ✔✔-Establishes and evaluates the processes that produce
products.
-Management responsibility, frequently performed by a staff function
Quality Assurance determines the need for, aquire, or help install: - correct answer ✔✔-System
Development Methodologies,
-Estimation processes,
-System Maintenance processes,
-Requirements definition process,
-Testing processes and standards.
Once installed, QA measures these processes to identify weaknesses and correct them to
continually improve the process
Quality Control - correct answer ✔✔process by which quality is compared with applicable
standards and actions are taken when nonconformance is detected.
TESTING IS QC
Quality control activities' focus - correct answer ✔✔Identifying defects in actual products
produced.
, What Quality Assurance does - correct answer ✔✔-helps establish processes,
-sets up measurement programs to evaluate processes,
-identifies weaknesses in processes and improves them
What QA is concerned with - correct answer ✔✔products across all projects
QA personnel should never perform QC unless: - correct answer ✔✔unless the purpose is to
validate QC
Quality Control is concerned with - correct answer ✔✔a specific product line
What Quality Control does - correct answer ✔✔-relates to a specific product or service,
-identifies defects for the purpose of correcting defects.
-verifies whether specific attributes are in, or are not in a specific product or service
Internal auditing - correct answer ✔✔an independent appraisal activity within an organization
for the review of operations, and is a service to management.
It is a managerial control that functions by measuring the effectiveness of other controls.
5 perspectives of quality - correct answer ✔✔-Transcendent- I know it when I see it.
-Product based - Possesses desired features
-User based- fitness for use.
-Development and manufacturing based - conforms to requirements.
-Value based - at an acceptable cost
Peter R Scholtes - correct answer ✔✔Contrast between effectiveness and efficiency
