Advanced Technical Test Analyst Preparation

In this post, I am going to give general information which is important to get started with Preparation for ISTQB - Technical Test Analyst exam.

Exam Structure:
The exam will consist of 45 scenario based multiple choice questions. Exam duration is 2 hours for native English speaker for non native English speaker you will get extra 30 min of duration.
The passing marks is set at 65%.

Technical Test Analyst course consists of 6 Chapters, I have given overview below of number of questions that would be asked in exam from each chapter and score distribution for the same.

Topics	Question	Score
Risk-Based Testing	2Q	K2 level - each carrying 1 marks
Structure Based testing	9Q	2 K2 – 1 , 4 K3 – 1, 1 K2 – 2, 1 K4 -2
Analytical Techniques	7Q	1 K3 – 3, 3 K3 – 1, 1 K2 - 1
Quality characteristics	12 Q	3 K3 – 1, 1 K4 – 2, 1 K2 – 1, 2 K3 – 2, 1 K2 – 2
Reviews	5Q	1 K2 – 1, 2 K4 - 2
Test Tool and Automation	10 Q	10 K2 - 1

Study material for CTAL - TTA Module

• Syllabus: CTAL- TTA 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 3: Guide to the Istqb Advanced Certification as an Advanced Test Analyst by Rex Black "

This book gives more examples on relevant topics. Gives indication about K levels of each chapter and at the end of the chapter it gives sample questions. You can buy this book from amazon if you want to have the latest edition.

I noticed there is online version of the book which you can download from link here. However i could not find edition of this book in the copy provided but it looks like its good one to refer too.

Sample Question Papers:

You can download/access sample question papers for free from below sites:

ISTQB official website

ISTQB Patashala

I noticed that there are few websites which hosts dumps which can be bought, not sure about further details as I did not try. If you want to give a try below are few sites:

Exam Labs 

I have few question papers which I collected from different sources, if you would like to have them reach out to me. :)