Guidelines for clearing ISTQB Certification Exam

I firstly want to congratulate you on your  ISTQB Foundation certification  :) As you are already aware in Advanced level you have 3 modules (within core part), only criteria to take up these exams is to have " Foundation certification with 3 year of work experience ". There is no order that should be followed to take these exams. You can randomly chose an exam module you would like to take. Of course which is interesting for you! Test Manager (CTAL - TM) Test Analyst (CTAL - TA) Technical Test Analyst ( CTAL - TTA) I started with  Test Analyst  module. So, I am going to talk about the same in this post.  Study material for CTAL - TA Module Syllabus: CTAL- TA exam syllabus can be  downloaded  from here. As I already mentioned in my previous posts reading just this is not enough to take up exam.  The perfect book   is "  Advanced Software Testing Volume 1: Guide to the Istqb Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Analyst by Rex Black  " 

I think, I have spoken enough about how to prepare for exam and solved few sample questions. So, in this post I would like to talk about final exam preparation tips. So, after you finish reading all the chapter and after solving sample questions at the end of the chapter you want to solve some sample question papers to understand your level of preparation. you can find few online site that gives mock exams, here are few( I recommend first two websites from the list below ): istqbexamcertifictaion   testpot  testingexcellence  softwaretestinggenius  There is also a very good mobile app called " ISTQB Test Mentor " which gives chapter wise sample questions for each chapter. Good app to use few days before exam!! Exam Structure The Foundation Level exam is characterized by: 40 multiple-choice questions a scoring of 1 point for each correct answer a pass mark of 65% (26 or more points) a duration of 60 minutes (or 75 minutes for candidates taking exams t