WGU C857 SOFTWARE QUALITY
ASSURANCE OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT
ACTUAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026
ACCURATE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES ||
100% GUARANTEED PASS
<LATEST VERSION>
1. CMMI - ANSWER ✓ Capability Maturity Model Integration
2. Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) - ANSWER ✓ a proven set
of global best practices that drives business performance through building
and benchmarking key capabilities - project management, quality
management, and engineering all glued together by process management
3. Review - ANSWER ✓ an evaluation of a life-cycle work product or project
status to determine if there are any deviations from planned results and to
recommend improvement
4. Peer reviews - ANSWER ✓ human-based testing rather than computer-
based testing
5. Anomaly, defect - ANSWER ✓ any condition that deviates from
expectations based on requirements, specification, design documents,
standards, plans, and so on, or from someone's experiences
6. Project Manager Review - ANSWER ✓ normally, a weekly project with the
development staff called by the Project manager
,7. Milestone Review - ANSWER ✓ Represent meaningful points in the
project's schedule and are documented in the project management plan,
tracked, and reviewed.
8. Buddy Check - ANSWER ✓ an informal verification technique in which the
life-cycle work product is examined by the author and one other person
9. Circulation Reviews - ANSWER ✓ A review that takes on attributes of both
a buddy check and a walkthrough; they can be informal or formal; the life-
cycle product is passed around to each reviewer who review it and either
attaches comments, questions, and recommendations directly on the life-
cycle work product or places them into a separate document.
10.Inspections - ANSWER ✓ a formal verification technique in which life-
cycle work products are examined in detail by a group of peers for the
explicit purpose of detecting and identifying defects
11.Inspection Team - ANSWER ✓ Usually consists of four people: moderator,
programmer, designer, test specialist
12.Test Coverage Analysis - ANSWER ✓ the process of finding areas of a
program not exercised by a set of test cases, creating additional test cases to
increase coverage, and determining a quantitative measure of code coverage
that serves as an indirect measure of quality
13.Statement coverage - ANSWER ✓ a measure of whether each executable
statement is encountered
14.Block coverage - ANSWER ✓ a measure of whether each executable
statement is encountered, like statement coverage except that the unit of
code measured is each sequence of non-branching statements
15.Decision coverage - ANSWER ✓ the measure of whether Boolean
expressions tested in control structures are evaluated to both true and false
16.Condition coverage - ANSWER ✓ the measure of the true or false outcome
of each Boolean subexpression; similar to decision coverage, but has better
sensitivity to the control flow
,17.Multiple condition coverage - ANSWER ✓ the measure of whether every
possible combination of Boolean subexpression occurs; requires very
thorough testing in languages with short-circuit operators
18.Path coverage - ANSWER ✓ the measure of whether each of the possible
paths in each function has been followed
19.Bench testing - ANSWER ✓ the insertion of a product component into a test
loop where all of the variables can be independently controlled, measured,
and recorded
20.System validation - ANSWER ✓ an end-to-end process that is needed to
ensure that the completed and integrated system will operate as needed in
the environment for which it was intended; a measure of customer
satisfaction, given the customer's operational need and profile
21.Testing Principles - ANSWER ✓ 1. A Necessary part of the test is a
definition of the expected output or result
2. A programmer should avoid attempting to test his or her own program.
3. A programming organization should not test its own programs.
4. Any testing process should include a thorough inspection of the results of
each test.
5. Test cases must be written for input conditions that are invalid and
unexpected, as well as for those that are valid and expected.
6. Examining a program to see if it does not do what it is supposed to do is
only half the battle; the other half is seeing whether the program does what it
is not supposed to do
7. Avoid throwaway test cases unless the program is truly a throwaway
program.
, 8. Do not plan a testing effort under the tacit assumption that no errors will
be found.
9. The probability of the existence of more errors in a section of a program is
proportional to the number of errors already found in that section.
10. Testing is an extremely creative and intellectually challenging task.
22.Black-Box Testing - ANSWER ✓ -Data driven or input/output testing
*What a program is supposed to do and who it is for
-very minimal technical knowledge required
-tests using not only valid inputs, but all possible inputs (incredibly time
consuming)
-System testing
23.White-Box Testing - ANSWER ✓ -Logic Driven Testing
-Examines the internal structure/logic of the program (and can sometimes
neglect the programs specifications or input/output)
-"Exhaustive Path Testing"
-Even more time-consuming than Blackbox
24.Induction Debugging Process - ANSWER ✓ 1. Locate the pertinent data
2. Organize the data
3. Devise a hypothesis
4. Prove Hypothesis, back to step 3 if unproven
5. Fix the Problem
ASSURANCE OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT
ACTUAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE 2025/2026
ACCURATE QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS WITH RATIONALES ||
100% GUARANTEED PASS
<LATEST VERSION>
1. CMMI - ANSWER ✓ Capability Maturity Model Integration
2. Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) - ANSWER ✓ a proven set
of global best practices that drives business performance through building
and benchmarking key capabilities - project management, quality
management, and engineering all glued together by process management
3. Review - ANSWER ✓ an evaluation of a life-cycle work product or project
status to determine if there are any deviations from planned results and to
recommend improvement
4. Peer reviews - ANSWER ✓ human-based testing rather than computer-
based testing
5. Anomaly, defect - ANSWER ✓ any condition that deviates from
expectations based on requirements, specification, design documents,
standards, plans, and so on, or from someone's experiences
6. Project Manager Review - ANSWER ✓ normally, a weekly project with the
development staff called by the Project manager
,7. Milestone Review - ANSWER ✓ Represent meaningful points in the
project's schedule and are documented in the project management plan,
tracked, and reviewed.
8. Buddy Check - ANSWER ✓ an informal verification technique in which the
life-cycle work product is examined by the author and one other person
9. Circulation Reviews - ANSWER ✓ A review that takes on attributes of both
a buddy check and a walkthrough; they can be informal or formal; the life-
cycle product is passed around to each reviewer who review it and either
attaches comments, questions, and recommendations directly on the life-
cycle work product or places them into a separate document.
10.Inspections - ANSWER ✓ a formal verification technique in which life-
cycle work products are examined in detail by a group of peers for the
explicit purpose of detecting and identifying defects
11.Inspection Team - ANSWER ✓ Usually consists of four people: moderator,
programmer, designer, test specialist
12.Test Coverage Analysis - ANSWER ✓ the process of finding areas of a
program not exercised by a set of test cases, creating additional test cases to
increase coverage, and determining a quantitative measure of code coverage
that serves as an indirect measure of quality
13.Statement coverage - ANSWER ✓ a measure of whether each executable
statement is encountered
14.Block coverage - ANSWER ✓ a measure of whether each executable
statement is encountered, like statement coverage except that the unit of
code measured is each sequence of non-branching statements
15.Decision coverage - ANSWER ✓ the measure of whether Boolean
expressions tested in control structures are evaluated to both true and false
16.Condition coverage - ANSWER ✓ the measure of the true or false outcome
of each Boolean subexpression; similar to decision coverage, but has better
sensitivity to the control flow
,17.Multiple condition coverage - ANSWER ✓ the measure of whether every
possible combination of Boolean subexpression occurs; requires very
thorough testing in languages with short-circuit operators
18.Path coverage - ANSWER ✓ the measure of whether each of the possible
paths in each function has been followed
19.Bench testing - ANSWER ✓ the insertion of a product component into a test
loop where all of the variables can be independently controlled, measured,
and recorded
20.System validation - ANSWER ✓ an end-to-end process that is needed to
ensure that the completed and integrated system will operate as needed in
the environment for which it was intended; a measure of customer
satisfaction, given the customer's operational need and profile
21.Testing Principles - ANSWER ✓ 1. A Necessary part of the test is a
definition of the expected output or result
2. A programmer should avoid attempting to test his or her own program.
3. A programming organization should not test its own programs.
4. Any testing process should include a thorough inspection of the results of
each test.
5. Test cases must be written for input conditions that are invalid and
unexpected, as well as for those that are valid and expected.
6. Examining a program to see if it does not do what it is supposed to do is
only half the battle; the other half is seeing whether the program does what it
is not supposed to do
7. Avoid throwaway test cases unless the program is truly a throwaway
program.
, 8. Do not plan a testing effort under the tacit assumption that no errors will
be found.
9. The probability of the existence of more errors in a section of a program is
proportional to the number of errors already found in that section.
10. Testing is an extremely creative and intellectually challenging task.
22.Black-Box Testing - ANSWER ✓ -Data driven or input/output testing
*What a program is supposed to do and who it is for
-very minimal technical knowledge required
-tests using not only valid inputs, but all possible inputs (incredibly time
consuming)
-System testing
23.White-Box Testing - ANSWER ✓ -Logic Driven Testing
-Examines the internal structure/logic of the program (and can sometimes
neglect the programs specifications or input/output)
-"Exhaustive Path Testing"
-Even more time-consuming than Blackbox
24.Induction Debugging Process - ANSWER ✓ 1. Locate the pertinent data
2. Organize the data
3. Devise a hypothesis
4. Prove Hypothesis, back to step 3 if unproven
5. Fix the Problem
