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Preparation Tips - ISTQB Foundation Certification


Hi Folks,

ISTQB exam is most widely recognized exam in software testing domain. Many organizations are making it mandatory for their employee to take up the exam. The exam is not that tough but do not underestimate the trickiness of questions in exam. Many first timers will be aspiring for getting into testing or preferably clearing ISTQB foundation level exam. So, here are my Tips and Tricks.

Like minded people are a bliss
If you are not confident to study by yourself, it's very helpful to form a group of individual with common goals, exchange of thoughts, questions with a group can motivate in the process of preparation. It helps in rigorous preparation also.

Register yourself first
Before starting anything, register yourself for ISTQB. This is a mind trick to pressure yourself to prepare for exam, otherwise you will end postponing the exam. Select the exam date pay for it and then start preparing. I have seen people keep on pushing the date because of some unusual fear thinking they might not be ready to take this now.
Start preparing almost 3 months prior to exam date but first register yourself. 

Choose an Exam Centre
Choose a center of your choice near to your address, so as not to waste time travelling. Except for Sunday you can opt for any day, choose any time between 9 to 6 as per your convenience. Exam will be of sixty minutes’ duration and 40 questions to attempt. For those whose native language is not English will get 15 minute extra to attempt the exam. Reach there at least half an hour before the time. You'll be asked to lock all your belongings in a drawer and key will be provided to you with a paper and a pen/pencil to do you rough work. There will be camera installed on your desktop (it's an online exam) to authenticate the candidate. You would be asked to look at the camera in presence of supervisor before you settle in your seat.

Trainings
It is helpful to enroll for ISTQB trainings. If you are sponsored by your organization to take up the exam, you might find some trainings going on internally or you can search some online paid training specially designed for ISTQB. Trainings shall certainly prepare you to expect what type of exam and pattern you will face in the exam.

Study and Exam
The material present in the ISTQB syllabus is good, nothing is asked beyond it in the exam, but to summarize every chapter you can go follow this book “Foundation of Software Testing: ISTQB Certification” by Rex Black. However, the trainers of ISTQB exam will give you enough content to clear the exam. Personally I did not refer this book. Online reference will be helpful, Google it and you will find ample amount of content floating on the web.
Understand how the questions are distributed per chapter. Please refer ISTQB exam syllabus for it.
Once you are done reading the chapter evaluate at the end. You can focus your effort on more important chapters first, but do not ignore the chapter with less weightage. Best thing about the exam is there is no negative marking, so do mark all the answers before you leave. While going through the exam if you are doubtful about the question do flag it and proceed ahead do not waste time on one question, once you are done with all your questions check the flagged questions and re-attempt those questions.

Result
Once you submit your answers after completing the exam based on your responses you will get the result at the same moment. So, before you leave your seat, have your result.
Success level of ISTQB aspirants is around 72-74%, so don't worry, you will get through.

Exam name: ISTQB Foundation
Duration: 60 + 15 (if not in native language) minutes
No. of questions: 40
Passing score: 65%

All the best

"Testing is an infinite process of comparing the invisible to the ambiguous in order to avoid the unthinkable happening to anonymous." - James Bach

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