ISTQB - Certified Tester Advanced Performance Testing (CT-PT)

Duration

Duration:

Only 2 Days

Method

Method:

Classroom / Online / Hybrid

Next date

Next date:

24/6/2024 (Monday)

Overview

This accelerated ISTQB®: Certified Tester Advanced Performance Testing (CT-PT) course provides knowledge of the principal aspects of performance testing, including technical aspects, method-based aspects, and organizational aspects. Specifically pertaining to performance testing, it covers areas such as basic concepts, measurements, activities, tasks, and tools.

In just 2 days, you’ll learn to define performance risks, goals, and requirements to meet stakeholder needs and expectations. You’ll also learn how to:

  • Understand performance metrics and how to collect them;
  • Develop a performance test plan for achieving stated goals and requirements;
  • Conceptually design, implement, and execute basic performance tests;
  • Analyse the results of a performance test and state implications to various stakeholders;
  • Explain the process, rationale, results, and implications of performance testing to various stakeholders;
  • Understand categories and uses for performance tools and criteria for their selection;
  • Determine how performance testing activities align with the software lifecycle.

At the end of this course, you’ll sit the ISTQB exam, and achieve your ISTQB: Certified Tester Advanced Performance Testing (CT-PT) certification.

Through Firebrand’s Lecture | Lab | Review methodology, you’ll get certified at twice the speed of the traditional training and get access to courseware, learn from certified instructors, and train in a distraction-free environment.

Audience

This course is ideal for:

  • Software testers including test analysts and technical test analysts
  • Performance testers
  • Performance engineers

Benefits

Other accelerated training providers rely heavily on lecture and independent self-testing and study.

Effective technical instruction must be highly varied and interactive to keep attention levels high, promote camaraderie and teamwork between the students and instructor, and solidify knowledge through hands-on learning.

Firebrand Training provides instruction to meet every learning need:

  • Intensive group instruction
  • One-on-one instruction attention
  • Hands-on labs
  • Lab partner and group exercises
  • Question and answer drills
  • Independent study

Curriculum

  • Module 1: Principles of Performance Testing
  • Module 2: Types of Performance Testing
  • Module 3: Testing Types in Performance Testing
  • Module 4: The Concept of Load Generation
  • Module 5: Common Performance Efficiency Failure Modes and Their Causes
  • Module 6: Performance Measurement Fundamentals
  • Module 7: Typical Metrics Collected in Performance Testing
  • Module 8: Aggregating Results from Performance Testing
  • Module 9: Key Sources of Performance Metrics
  • Module 10: Typical Results of a Performance Test
  • Module 11: Performance Testing in the Software Lifecycle
  • Module 12: Principal Performance Testing Activities
  • Module 13: Categories of Performance Risk for Different Architectures
  • Module 14: Performance Risks Across the Software Development Lifecycle
  • Module 15: Performance Testing Activities
  • Module 16: Performance Testing Tasks
  • Module 17: Planning
  • Module 18: Analysis, Design and Implementation
  • Module 19: Execution
  • Module 20: Analysing Results and Reporting
  • Module 21: Tools
  • Module 22: Tool Support Tool Suitability

Exam Track

At the end of this accelerated course, you’ll sit the following exam at the Firebrand Training centre, covered by your Certification Guarantee:

ISTQB: Certified Tester Advanced Performance Testing (CT-PT) exam

  • Duration: 90 mins (+25% Non-Native Language)
  • Format: 40 Questions
  • Number of questions: 40
  • Passing score: 26/65 %

What's Included

Your accelerated course includes:

  • Accommodation *
  • Meals, unlimited snacks, beverages, tea and coffee *
  • On-site exams **
  • Exam vouchers **
  • Practice tests **
  • Certification Guarantee ***
  • Courseware
  • Up-to 12 hours of instructor-led training each day
  • 24-hour lab access
  • Digital courseware **
  • * For residential training only. Accommodation is included from the night before the course starts. This doesn't apply for online courses.
  • ** Some exceptions apply. Please refer to the Exam Track or speak with our experts
  • *** Pass first time or train again free as many times as it takes, unlimited for 1 year. Just pay for accommodation, exams, and incidental costs.

Prerequisites

Before attending this accelerated course, you must hold:

  • The Certified Tester Foundation Level certificate.

Unsure whether you meet the prerequisites? Don’t worry. Your training consultant will discuss your background with you to understand if this course is right for you.

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