Exam Code: CCTFL-001

What is Cloud Testing?

Cloud Testing uses cloud infrastructure for software testing. Organizations pursuing testing in general and load, performance testing and production service monitoring in particular are challenged by several problems like limited test budget, meeting deadlines, high costs per test, large number of test cases, and little or no reuse of tests and geographical distribution of users add to the challenges. Moreover ensuring high quality service delivery and avoiding outages requires testing in one’s datacenter, outside the data-center, or both. Cloud Testing is the solution to all these problems. Effective unlimited storage, quick availability of the infrastructure with scalability, flexibility and availability of distributed testing environment reduce the execution time of testing of large applications and lead to cost-effective solutions.

Cloud computing raises important questions for testers, such as:

What can reasonably be tested?

• Where should we focus testing efforts?
• Which testing techniques and tools are most effective?
• Which risks can testing help reduce?

Module 1 – Foundation

• What is Cloud Computing?
• Characteristics of Cloud Computing
• Not a Unified View
• Your View of Cloud Computing
• The Key Players
• Interactions Between Cloud Computing Actors
• What Cloud Brokers Do
• Five Main Principles of Cloud Computing
• Benefits
• Risks
• Types of Clouds
• Cloud Reference Model
• Major Service Patterns
• An Example
• Example Services Available to a Cloud Consumer
• Major Activities of Cloud Providers
• Other Service Patterns
• Scope of Controls Between Provider and Consumer
• The Role of Virtualization
• Extending SOA
• Cloud Service Management
• The Importance of Testing
• What This Means to Testers

Module 2 – Defining Your Cloud Test Strategy

• Why a Test Strategy?
• Key Test Planning Components
• What to Include
• Cloud Provider
• Knowing How Much to Test – The Extent of Testing
• How to Define a Cloud Test Strategy

Module 3 – Test Environments

• Requirements for Test Environments
• Extending Virtual Environments
• Characteristics of Cloud Test Environments
• The Role of Virtual Test Environments
• OpenStack Initiative
• Three Major Platforms
• Major Virtual Environment Vendors and Platforms
• Example – Cross-Platform Browser Testing
• Designing Test Environments
• Managing and Controlling Test Environments
• Variations

Exam Pattern

The Exam contains 40 Multiple Choice Questions and you must correctly answer 28 (28 out of 40 correct) to pass the exam.

Mode of Exam

Exams are online and proctored based, using a webcam and a reliable internet connection exams can be taken anywhere and anytime.

Duration of exam

The total duration of the exam is 1 hour (60 Minutes)

Closed book

No external sources of information may be accessed during the exam held via ProctorU. Further details of the materials permitted are provided:

• Identification Proof

Retaking of exam

If a Candidate does not pass the exam in the first (1st) attempt, the candidate must wait for a period of at least seven (7) calendar days from the date of their attempt to retake the exam for second (2nd) time or any subsequent time. The exam can be taken any number of times.

Certification Validity

The Certified Cloud Tester (CCT) – Foundation Level Certificate is valid for life

Note: The Certified Cloud Tester (CCT) – Foundation Level Certification has no pre-requisites (Completion of an E-Course is not mandatory from GAQMBok portal), but we highly recommend doing the E-Course as maximum number of questions are drawn from the E-Course in the actual exam.