New Features of QC / ALM v11

Sr.	New Features	Details
1.	Project Planning & Tracking	# Track & measure project milestones and KPIs # Release Milestones & KPIs # Master Plan # Scorecard# Dashboard
2.	Requirements Management enhancements	# Business Process Model -INTEGRATION # New Rich Text Editor# Requirements Templates
3.	Test Management	# Test Configurations
4.	HP Sprinter (Manual Testing)	# Connects directly to HP Quality Center # Test Execution # Screen Annotation and Tools # Log defects in QC # Data Injection # Exploratory Testing# Mirror Testing
5.	Development Management	# Key Developer Integration and Collaboration
6.	Reporting enhancements	# Generate Reports# Embedded Web Scorecards & Graphs
7.	Administration and Integration and Performance	# Side by Side Clients: Allows running multiple clients connecting to different versions of ALM and QC Servers (ALM 11; QC 9.2, 10.0, 11.0) # Client Installation: User can install client on desktop without system administration rights # REST APIs: New web services technology for simple integration with ALM platform. The ALM Synchronizer now leverages the REST APIs. # QC Sense: Internal monitoring tool that collects data and reports on user actions performed in the user interface, and all client and server activity resulting from those actions# Smart Repository: Optimized repository system, that creates better performance for common actions, and reduces the size of the file system

Differences between HP QC 10.0 and HP ALM 11.0

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1)   After you define a releases tree in the Releases module, you continue the   application testing process by specifying ........      
A) Requirements    B) Releases    C) Plan Tests   D) Either B or A      

2)   Requirement topics are recorded in the Requirements module by creating a requirements ......      
A) graph   B) tree   C) Path   D) plan      

3)   The requirements ....... is a graphical representation of your requirements specification, displaying the hierarchical relationship between different requirements.      A) graph   B) plan   C) Path   D) tree      
4)   For each requirement topic, a QA tester creates a list of ....... in the requirements tree.      A) detailed requirements   B) detailed specifications   C) detailed plans   D) detailed sub-requirements      

5)   Each requirement in the tree is described in detail and cannot include any relevant attachments.      
A) True   B) False      

6)   After defining your requirements, you can add traceability between the requirements. When analyzing the impact of a change proposed in a specific requirement, ....... shows the other requirements that the change might affect.      

A) equality   B) link-ability   C) traceability   D) cross-links      

7)   QA managers assign the requirements to releases and cycles in the releases tree in the Releases module.      
A) True   B) False      

8)   The assigned requirements are then used as a basis for the test plan in the Test Plan module. The tests you create during the test plan phase are then linked to these requirements to create ......      

A) linkages   B) linked-requirements   C) requirements plan   D) coverage      

9)   QA managers review the requirements, they change a requirement from a Not Reviewed   status to a ..... status once it is approved.      
A) Passed   B) Reviewed   C) Partially reviewed   D) Both B & C      

10)   You can also import requirements to your Quality Center project from ........      
A) Microsoft Word   B) Excel   C) other third-party requirement management tools   D) All of above      
11)   In the Requirements Tree view, Indicator columns indicates that the specified requirement has   
A) attachments, linked defects, alerts, and follow up flags   B) attachments, linked defects, alerts   C) attachments, linked defects and follow up flags   D) linked defects, alerts, and follow up flags      

12)   To find a specific requirement by ReqID in the Requirements Tree view, choose ............., and enter the requirement ID.      
A) Requirements > Find Requirement   B) Requirements > Go to Requirement   C) Requirements > Get Requirement   D) Requirements > Display Requirement      

13)   The Requirements ...... view enables you to display requirements in a flat   non-hierarchical view. Each line in the .... displays a separate requirement.      
A) File, file   B) hierarchical, hierarchy   c) Grid, Grid   D) Both B & C      

14)   The ... Analysis view enables you to analyze the breakdown of child requirements according to test ..... status.      
A) Plan   B) Requirement   C) Coverage   D) Task      

15)   You can access the Requirements menu bar from the Requirements module by pressing the shortcut key ....      
A) F6   B) F7   C) F8   D) F9      

16)   The Requirement module field Direct Cover Status means       

A) The current status of the requirement   B) The previous status of the requirement   C) The coming status of the requirement   D) The fixed status of the requirement      

17)   You can add user-defined fields and change the label of any of the fields in the Requirements module.      
A) True   B) False      

18)   You start a requirements tree by adding requirements to the Requirements root folder.      
A) True   B) False      

19)   You can add, view, and edit Microsoft Word rich text from within Quality Center, without the need to edit the text in Word.      
A) True   B) False      

20)   You cannot update your requirements directly in the requirements tree or grid, or in the Requirement Details dialog box.      
A) True   B) False      

21)   You can search for a particular requirement in the requirements tree or in the requirements grid using the ....... command.      
A) Search   B) Find   C) Look   D) Get      

22)   You can send e-mail about a requirement to other users in your Quality Center project      
A) True   B) False      

23)   You cannot copy a requirement within the same project or between projects.      
A) True   B) False      

24)   Test coverage, defect linkage, and risk-based quality management data for the requirement are not copied.      
A) True   B) False      

25)   Methods you can use to create tests from requirements:      
A) Convert Requirements to Tests   B) Generate a Test from Requirements.   C) Get a test from a requirement   D) Both A & B   E) Both B & C      

26)   Using the Requirements Traceability tab in the Requirement Details view, you can add traceability links to and from a selected requirement. ....... links indicate requirements that affect a selected requirement. ....... links indicate requirements that are affected by a selected requirement.      

A) Trace from, Trace to    B) Trace to, Trace from   C) Trace from select, Trace to select    D) Trace to select, Trace from select      

27)   When a requirement changes, Quality Center alerts the affected requirements. The alerts can be seen by all users.      
A) True   B) False      

28)   You can display traceability relationships that exist between requirements in the ...... tab. This tab contains the Trace From and Trace To grids.      
A) traceability    B) Relationships   C) Req-traceability    D) traceability-Req      

29)   The ...... feature enables you to calculate at which level to test each requirement, based on the nature of the requirement and the resources you have available.      
A) Level-based quality management    B) Calculate-based quality management   C) risk-based quality management   D) None of above      

30)   You can assign or calculate the Risk Category of an assessment requirement. The Risk Category is composed of its  .....      
A) Business Criticality & Failure Probability   B) Business Probability & Failure Criticality   C) Priority & Severity   D) None of above      

31)   Quality Center defines four Testing Levels:       
A) First, second, third, and fourth   B) Full, Partial, Basic, and None   C) Full, Partial, Basic, and moderate   D) Partial,Basic, moderate and Advanced      

32)   The ...... link displays the requirements for which you did not determine a Risk Category or exclude explicitly from the analysis.      

A) missing risk assessment   B) miss assessment   C) missing assessment   D) exclude assessment       

1) A , 2) B , 3)  D, 4) A , 5) B , 6) C , 7) A , 8) D  , 9) B  , 10) D, 11) A , 12) B, 13) C, 14) C, 15) D, 16) A, 17 A, 18) A, 19 A), 20) B,21) B,22) A,23) B,24) A ,25) D ,26) A,27) A,28) B,29) C,  30) A, 31) B, 32) C

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1)   You begin the application testing process by defining a releases tree in the.......      
A) Requirements module   B) Releases module   C) Plan Tests module   D) Either B or C      

2)   Releases tree enables the modeling of upcoming releases within a hierarchical tree structure.      

A) True   B) False      

3)   A release represents a ..... in one or more applications that willbe available for distribution at the same time.      

A) group of releases   B) group of changes   C) group of defects   D) group of requests      

4)   After defining the release, a QA manager defines ...... A ..... is a set of Development and quality assurance efforts performed to achieve a common goal based on the release timeline.      

A) cycles, cycle   B) Tries, Try   C) Priorities, Priority   D) Files, File      

5)   After defining the releases tree, the QA manager defines and reviews the........ in the Requirements module and assigns them to releases andcycles.      

A) Plans   B) groups of plans   C) upcoming modules   D) requirements      

6)   After the QA manager assigns requirements, the QA team leader assigns each..... folder in the Test Lab module to a cycle.      

A) test sets   B) test set   C) tests set   D) testing set      

7)   A ...... is a group of testinstances in a Quality Center project designed to achieve specific test goals.      

A) test sets   B) test set   C) tests set   D) testing set      

8)   A defect can be submitted to a Quality Center project from any module atany stage of the testing process.      

A) True   B) False      

9)   While reviewing and deciding which new defects need to be fixed, the QAmanager assigns them to the appropriate ..........      

A) release and cycle   B) cycle and release   C) defect and cycle   D) cycle and defect      

10)   The QA manager cannot track the progress of the testing process in real time by analyzing the releases tree and ensuring that it matches the release goals.      

A) True   B) False      

11)   In the Progress tab, in the Coverage Progress graph, the Planned coverage curve below the Assigned requirements curve indicates the percentage of requirements that are ..... throughout the release.      

A) run   B) covered   C) passed   D) assigned      

12)   The ....... helps you draw conclusions quickly and see the number ofdefects submitted over the course of a release or cycle.      

A) Details tab    B) Attachments tab C) Progress tab   D) Quality tab      

13)   The defects are categorized by ...... in terms of how they impact system operation.      A) Priority   B) severity      

14)   You can move a release folder or a release to a different location in the releases tree.      A) True   B) False      

15)   The Releases root folder can also bemoved.      

A) True   B) False      

16)   You can create a duplicate of a cycle within the same release.      

A) True   B) False      

17)   Deleting a release folder, release, or cycle, does not un assigns the associated requirements, test set folders, and defects.      

A) True   B) False      

18)   You can also move a release folder or a release to a new location in the releases tree by dragging it.      

A) True   B) False      

1) B , 2) A , 3) B, 4) A , 5) D , 6) B , 7) B , 8) A , 9) A , 10) B, 11) B , 12) D, 13) B, 14) A, 15) B, 16) A, 17 B, 18) A

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1) You access Quality Center over the ......, via a Web browser.

A) Internet
B) a corporate intranet
C) Mobile Internet
D) Both A & B      

2) Quality Center also features a sophisticated system for tracking applicationdefects, enabling you to monitor defects closely from initial detection until resolution

A) True   
B) False      

3)   Test management with Quality Center involves five phases:      

A) Specify Releases, Specify Requirements, Plan Tests, Execute Tests, Run Tests.  
B) Specify Releases, Specify Requirements, Plan Tests, Execute Tests, Track Defects.  
C) Specify Releases, Specify Requirements, Plan Tests, Execute Tests, Analyze Tests.  
D) Specify Releases, Specify Requirements, Plan Tests, Analyze Tests, Track defects.      

4)   Each Quality Center project is supported by a ...... that stores project information.      

A) Root folder   
B) Database   
C) Flat File   
D) Both B & C      

5)   Quality Center enables you to manage user access to a project. The ..... determines the privileges that the user has within a project.      

A) QC group   
B) user_Account group   
C) Account group   
D) user group      

6)   You can import data from...... to a Quality Center project.      

A) Word or Notepad   
B) Word or Wordpad   
C) Word or Excel   
D) Word or Power Point      

7)   You launch Quality Center on your machine from your Web browser.     

A) True   
B) False      

8) Quality Center prompts you to install ...... if it is not already installed on your machine.      

A) Microsoft Java 2.0   

B) Microsoft Visio 13.0   

C) Microsoft Visual studio 2.0   

D) Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0      

9)   Quality Center has the following modules, which are accessible from the sidebar:      

A) Releases, Requirements, Test Plan, Test Lab, Defects, Analysis   

B) Releases, Requirements, Test Plan, Test Lab, Defects, Business Components   

C) Releases, Requirements, Test Plan, Test Lab, Defects, Analysis   

D) Releases, Requirements, Test Plan, Test Lab, Defects      

10)   When you customize your project, you can instruct Quality Center to preserve a log of values for the system and user fields in your Requirement, Test, Test Set, Test Instance, and Defect entities.      

A) True   B) False      

11)   The ..... can send messages to users connected to Quality Center projects informing them about important maintenance or other issues.      

A) site administer   B) site Controller   C) site Analyser   D) site administrator      

12)   Quality Center organizes and displays data in ......:      

A) grids   B) trees   C) Folders   D) Both A & B      

13)   You can no longer customize data by specifying the order in which columns appear,   and by changing column size.      

A) True   B) False      

14)   You can filter Quality Center data to display only those records that meet   the criteria that you define.      

A) True   B) False      

15)   When defining a filter, you can also include a cross filter. This is an advanced   ....... on an associated item such as requirements, tests, test sets, or   defects.      

A) Secondary filter   B) Primary filter   C) cross filter   D) Second filter      

16)   By default, records appear in Quality Center according to the ....      

A) Increasing order   B) Decreasing order   C) order in which they were added.   D) order in which they were deleted.      

17)   You cannot copy and paste the filter, sort, and group by settings to and from the   Clipboard.      

A) True   B) False      

18)   You can use text search to search for records in predefined fields of the ........      

A) Requirements, Test Plan, and Defects modules.   B) Releases, Test Plan, and Defects modules.   C) Requirements and Defects modules.   D) Requirements, Execute Tests, and Defects modules.      

19)   If you have defined filter conditions for a module, you can restrict the search to the filtered records, or you can search all records in the module      

A) True   B) False      

20)   Text search is only available if it has been enabled for the project.      

A) True   B) False      

21)   You can export the data in a grid as a ......      

A) text file, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, or HTML document.   B) text file, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word   C) text file, Microsoft Excel, or HTML document.   D) Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, or HTML document.      

22)   When a requirement, test, or defect changes, Quality Center alerts the associated entities and can notify those responsible for any associated entities.      

A) True   B) False      

23)   A ..... indicates that the alert is new. A gray flag indicates that the alert has already been read.      

A) Green flag   B) Pink flag   C) red flag   D) Blue flag      

24)   Quality Center enables you to add your own alerts, in addition to automatic traceability notifications. You can use ..... flags to remind yourself to follow up on something.      

A) Alert Me   B) follow up   C) follow Me   D) follow      

25)   Throughout the testing process, you can add attachments to help illustrate your work.      

A) True   B) False      

26)   You can use a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) to a Quality Center record as an attachment.      

A) True   B) False      

27)   A follow up flag is specific to your user login name. Anyone else viewing the record does not see your follow up alert.      

A) True   B) False      

28)   A ....... is a view of a Quality Center window with the settings you apply to it.      

A) Personal view   B) My view   C) favorite view   D) fav view      

29)   By default, Quality Center displays the four most recently used views on the Favorites menu. You can define the number of views displayed on the menu by setting the ....... parameter in the Site Configuration tab in Site Administration.      

A) FAVORITES_DEPTH   B) FAVORITES-DEPTH   C) FAVORITE_DEPTH   D) FAVORITE_DEPTHS      

30)   You save favorite views in either a .... folder or a ..... folder. Views in a   .... folder are accessible to all users. Views in a ..... folder are accessible only to the user who created them.      

A) public, private, public, private   B) Root, Base, Root, Base,   C) locked, unlocked, locked, unlocked  D) Both B & C      

1) D , 2) A , 3) B, 4) B , 5) D , 6) C , 7) A , 8) D , 9) B , 10) A, 11) D , 12) D, 13) B, 14) A, 15) C, 16) C, 17 B, 18) A, 19) A, 20) A, 21) A, 22) A, 23) C, 24) B, 25) A, 26) A, 27) A, 28) C, 29) A, 30) A