The ISTQB CTAL-TA v4.0 exam has 45 questions, 120 minutes, and 51 of 78 points (65%) to pass. ExamCaliber has 136 free ISTQB CTAL-TA v4.0 practice questions in 3 full-length mock exams of 45 questions, 120 minutes and 65% to pass — every answer, right and wrong, carries a written rationale. No sign-up, no paywall.
The exam has 45 questions worth 78 points in total, and you need 51 points to pass, which is 65.4%. The pass mark is counted in points, not in questions, because the questions carry different weights.
No. A K2 question is worth 1 point, a K3 question 2 points and a K4 question 3 points. The paper contains 18 K2, 21 K3 and 6 K4 questions, which is how 45 questions add up to 78 points.
The exam lasts 120 minutes. Candidates sitting it in a language that is not their native language receive the standard ISTQB 25% extension, which gives 150 minutes.
Yes. The syllabus states that the ISTQB Foundation Level certificate shall be obtained before taking the Advanced Level Test Analyst exam. It also recommends a minimal practical background, such as six months as a system or user acceptance tester or as a software developer, but it sets no fixed number of years.
Chapter 3, Test Analysis and Test Design. It is 22 of the 45 questions and 42 of the 78 points, so a single chapter decides 49% of the questions and 54% of the marks.
No. The other four chapters are worth 36 points combined and the pass mark is 51, so even a perfect score everywhere else still leaves you needing at least 15 of the 42 points in Chapter 3.
There are no K1 learning objectives at Advanced Level, so the paper is built from K2, K3 and K4 questions. Keywords and syllabus content remain examinable at the K1 level inside those questions.
Six, worth 18 of the 78 points. They trace to the three K4 learning objectives in the syllabus: TA-2.2.1 on risk control, TA-3.5.1 on applying the most appropriate technique, and TA-5.3.1 on mitigating the recurrence of defects.
Chapter 1 has 8 questions for 9 points, Chapter 2 has 3 for 7 points, Chapter 3 has 22 for 42 points, Chapter 4 has 4 for 4 points and Chapter 5 has 8 for 16 points. Chapter 2 is the densest: only 3 questions, but two of them are K4.
Version 4.0, released on 2 May 2025. It runs to 77 pages and defines 36 learning objectives: 22 at K2, 11 at K3 and 3 at K4.
The accredited training minimum is 1,215 minutes, about 20.25 hours. Chapter 3 alone accounts for 615 of those minutes, which is roughly half the total.
ISTQB Foundation, Specialist and Advanced Level certificates do not expire. Only Expert Level certificates carry a validity period.
That is decided by your ISTQB member board or exam provider rather than centrally, so the answer depends on where you book. Check the provider's own rules on remote proctoring, identity checks and fees before you register.
They are not real exam questions: every question here is written from the v4.0 syllabus, because reproducing live exam items would be a copyright breach. All three mock exams are free, need no sign-up, and give you a written rationale on every option plus a result breakdown by chapter and by K-level.