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Actual exam question from ISTQB's ATA
Question #: 3
Topic #: 1
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Tax system -
A tax system needs to be updated due to new legislation. For a person with a salary of less than 20.000 and who is married, the tax needs to be re-calculated. If the person also has more than two and less than five children, an additional 10% reduction is applicable.
Applying equivalence partitioning to the "Tax System" specification, which of the following set of equivalence classes is most effective in testing the processing the number of children?

  • A. 2, 4 and 6 children
  • B. 2, 4 and 5 children
  • C. 1, 3 and 6 children
  • D. 3, 4 and 6 children
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Suggested Answer: B 🗳️
by HLO at Feb. 9, 2021, 10:29 a.m.

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Atye
4 weeks, 1 day ago
there are 3 partitions 2 - 3&4 - 5 so the correct answer is B 2,4,5
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jjff55
2 years, 2 months ago
I see B and C as both correct, it is about EP-classes, not about (2-) boundary values.
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Jamlaugh
2 years, 3 months ago
I also think that Answer C is right. You need 2 invalid equivalence classes. Under 2 children you have to check one equivalence class
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SivSagar
3 years, 4 months ago
Not a single question came from this dump
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HLO
3 years, 9 months ago
why the answer is not C?
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