You are planning the testing for an emergency product update required to correct a serious...

Vendor: ISTQB
Product: CTAL-TM
Update on: Jul 21, 2025
Questions: 228

ISTQB CTAL-TM Question Answer

You are planning the testing for an emergency product update required to correct a serious security issue and to improve system maintainability of a key product in your company's catalogue. It has been estimated that the historical cost to the company for the security issue in this system has been $375,000.

In the last year a total of 10 reported "live' incidents were reported, resulting in a total external failure cost of S110.000 to correct.

The cost of prevention for this project has been estimated as $78,500 and from the development you have learned that the average cost of detection was $1,250 and the average cost of internal failure was $7,450

Which one of the following statements about cost of quality is TRUE? SELECT ONE OPTION

The historical costs of this system will be recovered in 2 years.

Each defect not found by testing will cost $1250.

Total cost of quality for this application will be $197,200.

Each defect found during testing offers a saving of $1300.