SAMPLE PERFORMANCE TESTING CERTIFICATION QUESTIONS

Exercise 1- Introduction Performance Testing

1. What is Performance Testing?

            a. to find bottlenecks

            b. to find its functionality working properly

            c. both a and b

            d. none

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2. Types of Performance Testing?

a. Load Testing & Stress Testing.

b. Endurance Testing

c. Functionality

d. Responsiveness

e. Reliability Testing & Volume Testing.

            1. a, c, d & e

            2. a, b, c & d

            3. b, c, d & e

            4. a, b, d & e

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3. Which is not a Performance tool (VSTS, Load Runner, JMeter, QTP etc.)

            a. VSTS

            b. JMeter

            c. QTP

            d. Loadrunner

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4. What is Stress Testing?

            a. To know the servers break down point

            b. To know the bottlenecks of the N/W

            c. To know the break-event point of the application

            d. all of the above

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5. What are the parameters for Performance Testing ?

a. Response Time

b. Error message

c. % CPU usage

d. % Memory usage

e. Throughput

f.  Hit Ratio per second

g. Bandwidth

            1. b, c, d, e, f & g

            2. a, c, d, e, f & g

            3. a, b, d, e, f & g

            4. All the Above

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6. What is Endurance testing?

            a. executing a script for short duration

            b. executing a script for long duration

            c. executing a script in a high speed servers

            d. none

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7. What is Throughput?

            a. no. of requests going to the server

            b. nothing but Response Time

            c. no. of Bytes/sec that the server transfers for a request

            d. none

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8. One of the Objective of Endurance Testing is

            a. to find memory leaks

            b. to find % CPU utilization

            c. both a and b

            d. none

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9. Performance Testing comes under

            a. Compatibility Testing

            b. Functional Testing

            c. Non-Functional Testing

            d. All of the above

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10. Hits/Secs  demonstrates

            a. no. of Responses from the server per second

            b. no. of Requests to the server per second

            c. Elapsed time of the request

            d. both b and c

Ans     _________________ 

11. Reliability Testing - the probability that the software will not cause the failure of the system for a specified time under specified conditions.

           

            a. True

            b. False

Ans     _________________ 

12. Spike Testing means

            a. sudden increase or decrease of Users

            b. linearly increasing the users

            c. both a & b.

            d. none

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13. Which comes under Performance Testing

a. Reliability Testing

b. Functionality Testing

c. Portability Testing

d. Maintainability Testing

            1. a & b

            2. b & d

            3. a & c

            4. a, c & d

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14. Can we do performance testing manually?

            a. Yes

            b. No

Ans     _________________ 

15. What is Baseline Test?

16. What is Benchmark Test?

17. The workload includes the total number of users, concurrent active users, data volumes, and transaction volumes, along with the transaction mix

            a. True

            b. False

18. What is Smoke Test in terms of Performance Testing?

19. List down the other Non Functional Testing Types which haven’t been discussed in the Class today.