General questions: (Testing)

V. What types of documents would you need for QA, QC, and

Testing? QA : Documents for all types of process. ex: test plan contains one doc where as user req is different Testing : requirement specification . test plan, test case doc and bug report. VI. What did you include in a test plan? Test plan include Scope of project, Estimation,Testing Strategies VII. What is the purpose of the testing? To deliver a very good and quality s/w with bug free ... Testing involves operation of a system or application under controlled conditions and evaluating the results (eg, 'if the user is in interface A of the application while using hardware B, and does C, then D should happen'). The controlled conditions should include both normal and abnormal conditions. Testing should intentionally attempt to make things go wrong to determine if things happen when they shouldn't or things don't happen when they should. It is oriented to 'detection'. Organizations vary considerably in how they assign responsibility for QA and testing. Sometimes they're the combined responsibility of one group or individual. Also common are project teams that include a mix of testers and developers who work closely together, with overall QA processes monitored by project managers. It will depend on what best fits an organization's size and business structure. VIII. What do you like (not like) in this job? developer will come to know only a part of appliction. But tester has to fully about the application. dont like : being back of developers ... IX. What is quality assurance? Software QA involves the entire software development PROCESS monitoring and improving the process, making sure that any agreed-upon standards and procedures are followed, and ensuring that problems are found and dealt with. It is oriented to 'prevention'.

X. What is the role of QA in a development project? A good QA, test, or QA/Test(combined) manager should:

be familiar with the software development process. be able to maintain enthusiasm of their team and promote a positive atmosphere, despite what is a somewhat 'negative' process (e.g., looking for or preventing problems). be able to promote teamwork to increase productivity. be able to promote cooperation between software, test, and QA engineers. have the diplomatic skills needed to promote improvements in QA processes.

have the ability to withstand pressures and say 'no' to other managers when quality is insufficient or QA processes are not being adhered to. have people judgement skills for hiring and keeping skilled personnel. be able to communicate with technical and non-technical people, engineers, managers, and customers.. be able to run meetings and keep them focused.

XI. What is the role of QA in a company that produces software?

Each project has a Quality Representative (QR), who is an independent person and represents the Software Quality Assurance (SQA) organization of Satyam. This QR is responsible for: Providing quality related training to the project team Providing help and consultancy to the project team for following the quality system Monitoring the process compliance on an ongoing basis, via Project Process Monitoring Auditing the compliance level via Internal Quality Audits, every quarter. Define quality for me as you understand it ? Quality software is reasonably bug-free, delivered on time and within budget, meets requirements and/or expectations, and is maintainable. However, quality is obviously a subjective term. It will depend on who the 'customer' is and their overall influence in the scheme of things. A wideangle view of the 'customers' of a software development project might include end-users, customer acceptance testers, customer contract officers, customer management, the development organization's management/accountants/testers/salespeople, future software maintenance engineers, stockholders, magazine columnists, etc. Each type of 'customer' will have their own slant on 'quality' - the accounting department might define quality in terms of profits while an end-user might define quality as user-friendly and bug-free.

XII. Describe to me the difference between validation and

verification. Verification typically involves reviews and meetings to evaluate documents, plans, code, requirements, and specifications. This can be done with checklists, issues lists, walkthroughs, and inspection meetings. Validation typically involves actual testing and takes place after verifications are completed. The term 'IV & V' refers to Independent Verification and Validation. XIII.Describe to me the Software Development Life Cycle as you would define it. The life cycle begins when an application is first conceived and ends when it is no longer in use. It includes aspects such as initial concept, requirements analysis, functional design, internal design, documentation planning, test planning, coding, document preparation, integration, testing, maintenance, updates, retesting, phase-out, and

other aspects. XIV.What are the properties of a good requirement? solid requirements - clear, complete, detailed, cohesive, attainable, testable requirements that are agreed to by all players. Use prototypes to help nail down requirements. realistic schedules - allow adequate time for planning, design, testing, bug fixing, re-testing, changes, and documentation; personnel should be able to complete the project without burning out. adequate testing - start testing early on, re-test after fixes or changes, plan for adequate time for testing and bug-fixing. stick to initial requirements as much as possible - be prepared to defend against changes and additions once development has begun, and be prepared to explain consequences. If changes are necessary, they should be adequately reflected in related schedule changes. If possible, use rapid prototyping during the design phase so that customers can see what to expect. This will provide them a higher comfort level with their requirements decisions and minimize changes later on.

communication - require walkthroughs and inspections when appropriate; make extensive use of group communication tools - e-mail, groupware, networked bug-tracking tools and change management tools, intranet capabilities, etc.; insure that documentation is available and up-to-date preferably electronic, not paper; promote teamwork and cooperation; use protoypes early on so that customers' expectations are clarified XV. What kinds of testing have you done? I used to work it out with Unit, Intergreation and system testing 18 What's a 'test case'? A TestCases is consist of input,Expected Result and Actual result of an Object What did your base your test cases? Testplan, SRS, FRS XVI.How do you determine what to test? By referring test cases and by checking all the specifications send by client. 29. How do you test if you have minimal or no documentation about the product? Do Adhoc Testing 30. Describe me to the basic elements you put in a defect report? For defect report, We include no of column which is given below 31. How do you perform regression testing? Regression Testing is a set of activities that help to ensure that Changes donot introduces unintended behaviour whenever change request is made by Client 32. At what stage of the life cycle does testing begin in your opinion? Testing Phase after coding is completed. 33. How do you analyze your test results? What metrics do you try to

provide? Delivered Defect Density Phase-wise Defect Detection Rate Cumulative Defect Removal Efficiency Phase-wise Defect Removal efficiency 34. Realising you won't be able to test everything - how do you decide what to test first? If the particular products look & feel is not good first we have to check the look & feel .If it is good then we have to test the functionality. 35. Where do you get your expected results? In the docs which we follow for testing.i.e user req..specification. And in the application which is bug free. 45. Difference between Black & White box testing Black box testing - not based on any knowledge of internal design or code. Tests are based on requirements and functionality. White box testing - based on knowledge of the internal logic of an application's code. Tests are based on coverage of code statements, branches, paths, conditions. 46. What is Configuration management? Tools used?

The best bet in this situation is for the testers to go through the process of reporting whatever bugs or blocking-type problems initially show up, with the focus being on critical bugs. Since this type of problem can severely affect schedules, and indicates 49. Give me 5 strong & weak points of yours Strong :Good communication. Ability to maintain good realations will other collegues , team members. a strong desire for quality hard wor king. patience and diplomacy 51. When should testing be stopped? This can be difficult to determine. Many modern software applications are so complex, and run in such an interdependent environment, that complete testing can never be done. Common factors in deciding when to stop are: Deadlines (release deadlines, testing deadlines, etc.) Test cases completed with certain percentage passed Test budget depleted Coverage of code/functionality/requirements reaches a specified point Bug rate falls below a certain level Beta or alpha testing period ends 52. What sort of things would you put down in a bug report?

Configuration management is maintaning diff versions of docs. Like MKS in Apollo Configuration management covers the processes used to control, coordinate, and track: code, requirements, documentation, problems, change requests, designs, tools/compilers/libraries/patches, changes made to them, and who makes the changes. What if the software is so buggy it can't really be tested at all?

The bug needs to be communicated and assigned to developers that can fix it. After the problem is resolved, fixes should be re-tested, and determinations made regarding requirements for regression testing to check that fixes didn't create problems elsewhere. If a problem-tracking system is in place, it should encapsulate these processes. A variety of commercial problem-tracking/management software tools are available (see the 'Tools' section for web resources with listings of such tools). The following are items to consider in the tracking process: Complete information such that developers can understand the bug, get an idea of it's severity, and reproduce it if necessary. Bug identifier (number, ID, etc.) Current bug status (e.g., 'Released for Retest', 'New', etc.) The application name or identifier and version The function, module, feature, object, screen, etc. where the bug occurred Environment specifics, system, platform, relevant hardware specifics Test case name/number/identifier One-line bug description Full bug description Description of steps needed to reproduce the bug if not covered by a test case or if the developer doesn't have easy access to the test case/test script/test tool Names and/or descriptions of file/data/messages/etc. used in test File excerpts/error messages/log file excerpts/screen shots/test tool logs that would be helpful in finding the cause of the problem Severity estimate (a 5-level range such as 1-5 or 'critical'-to-'low' is common) Was the bug reproducible? Tester name Test date Bug reporting date Name of developer/group/organization the problem is assigned to Description of problem cause Description of fix Code section/file/module/class/method that was fixed Date of fix Application version that contains the fix Tester responsible for retest Retest date Retest results Regression testing requirements Tester responsible for regression tests A reporting or tracking process should enable notification of appropriate personnel at various stages. For instance, testers need to know when retesting is needed, developers need to know when bugs are found and how to get the needed information, and reporting/summary capabilities are needed for managers. 65. How would you define a "bug?"

A syntax error or a program error. 97. What is good code? 'Good code' is code that works, is bug free, and is readable and maintainable. 105. What is CMM and CMMI? What is the difference? SEI = 'Software Engineering Institute' at Carnegie-Mellon University; initiated by the U.S. Defense Department to help improve software development processes. CMM = 'Capability Maturity Model', developed by the SEI. It's a model of 5 levels of organizational 'maturity' that determine effectiveness in delivering quality software. Level 1 - characterized by chaos, periodic panics, and heroic efforts required by individuals to successfully complete projects. successes may not be repeatable. Level 2 - software project tracking, requirements management, realistic planning, and configuration management processes are in place; successful practices can be repeated. Level 3 - standard software development and maintenance processes are integrated throughout an organization; a Software Engineering Process Group is is in place to oversee software processes, and training programs are used to ensure understanding and compliance Level 4 - metrics are used to track productivity, processes, and products. Project performance is predictable, and quality is consistently high. Level 5 - the focus is on continouous process improvement. The impact of new processes and technologies can be predicted and effectively implemented when required XVII.What do u mean by load testing? Load test study the programs behaviour at its work. Load test consider volume, stress and storage testing. Volume testing: Study the maximum number of tasks the program can deal with. Stress Test: study the programs response at peak bursts of activities. Storage testing: Study how the memory is stored either in the resident memory area or on the disk. XVIII.Do u have any idea about Usability testing? Usability testing study how user friendly the system is and how the error message are displaying, whether the system is having proper help files or not, when a cursor moved to particular object whether it is displaying the purpose/contents of that object or not etc. XIX.What all things need to considered while testing a web application? Browswer compatibility, Navigation, links(whether they are working fine or any broken links are there), if the system is developed for a larger no. of users, how the performance is, how secure the data while sending any information in that website etc. XX.What all type of testing have u done with the application? Starting with sanity/smoke testing, adhoc testing, explaratory testing,

usability testing, gui testing, functionality testing, security testing, performance, load and stress testing, Regression testing, localization testing, negative testing etc. XXI.Explain Cross join? Simply the Cartesian product of the two tables. Syntax : Select * from a Cross join b Or simply select * from a,b XXII.What are stored procedures ? A stored procedure is a set of T-SQL statements which is precompiled and stored in the SQL Cache, the SP is a precompiled one, so it wont take any more time to execute the SP and performance will be increased and reusability and modularity. XXIII.Do you know anything about Views? A view is simply a mirror to the base table. A view is a logical object which will be derived from one or more tables. Views work as filters for the base tables. XXIV.How do you test a stored procedure? Syntax checking, parameter passing, comments checking and functionality checking by executin the application. XXV.What are stored procedures? Stored procedures are procedures which while being created are compiled along with the execution plan prepared and kept in the cache, and stored in the database. Hence, the reusability increases as well the performance, because the time taken to recompile everytime its executed is avoided. XXVI.Even views are precompiled like stored procedures, then how is the latter better? Even though views are precompiled like sps, views cannot be used to make alterations to the table as flexibly as sps can do, views are used for read only purpose, because the dml statements on table can be afftected by views only under certain conditions ie. Taking all the integrity constraints into consideration. XXVII.Give the syntax for creating stored procedure. Create procedure <procedure name> @param 1 data type @ param 2 data type . @param 3 data type output as XXVIII.Give an idea on webtesting? Web testing involves considerations at two levels; Firstly, you check for the navigation, missing links, indentation, etc with respect to the linked web Pages. Secondly, you check for whether, the requests being made for a page are reaching the application Server or not, and how is the communication between the web server and the application server, also we need to check for the performance of the network with respect to load provided by users. XXIX.write test cases on login screen a. login text : some data entered password text: no data entered

press ok -> some action b. login text : some data entered password text: no data entered press cancel -> appropriate action c. login text : some data entered password text: invalid password press ok -> message d. login text : no data entered password text: valid data press ok-> message e. login text : valid date entered password text: valid data entered press ok -> required page should be displayed XXX.what are triggers triggers are specific stored procedures which are event driven, the events which fire triggers are insert, update and delete operations on the table, XXXI.what have you tested in vds and patp application written test cases for telecom accesses of the vds application of satyam & developed the patp application on ms access with vb coding as well as tested the same XXXII.what are joins and different types of joins. The different kinds of joins are inner joins and outer joins Inner joins : self join, equi join, natural join Outer joins : left join , right join, full outer join Q1: What are level5 KPAS? Technology change management, Process change management and Defect Prevention Q2: Why do you go for automation? Regression, Reusability and Accuracy.Here explain a practical scenario of project. Q3: How do you assess the requirements for testing? Well defined, Clarity, Test Conditions, test data and expected results Q5: Who is the decision-maker for testing related issues? SQA Manager in cordination with Project Manager Q6: Who should say whether a tool is correct or not? Test Manager in cordination with Tool Specialist Q7: Defect Tracking Tool? ClearQuest Q8: Importance of Peer Reviews? Early defect prevention. Explain a practical scenario. Q10: What is the importance of White of Testing? To uncover logical errors. Mention the different scenarios faced in the project. Q15: Test Case for User Name and Password? Mention the positive (correct format, boundary conditions) and negative test case (blank characters, alphanumeric, special characters) for each Q16: How do you go for stress testing? Using WAS Tool Explain its implementation in your project. Q17: How many KPAs are there in CMM? 18 Q6:Constitunets of Test Plan? Purpose Scope

Background Test Strategy Schedules and Milestones Risks and Contingencies Metrics Training S/W and H/W configurations Q7: How many types of metrics are followed in a test plan? Defect Density, Effort and regression matrix, Traceability matrix, Test Efficiency, Review efficientcy and test effort. Q8: What types of metrics would you like to refer it the team size is about 5-10 members? Size and Effort Q9: What r the different types of the testing u perform: Functional GUI Performance Load and Stress Installation Configuration Q10: How do you do integration testing? Identify the approaches Top Down & Bottom Up Approach Identify logical modules for top down and Functional Modules in the Bottom up . Write Drivers in Top Down and stubs in Bottom up. Q22:If the application supports 505 users then how would you react,whether it is a bug ,error,detect or added functionality. A: Added functionality Q23: If the setup is located at the central server A) Install it from that location B) Copy it and run Q24: Prime Factors in GUI Testing? Navigations, Field Validations, Controls in a form and Menus, spell checks and alignments Q25: Importance of ESC key in GUI Testing? A25:equivaent to Cancel XXXIII.Testing life cycle Test Plan Test case Implementation Execution Evaluation Reporting XXXIV.How defeat tracking is use Used for assign bugs to the development team and it pops the developer to check the error XXXV.when peer review and fagan is done Before testing Peer is done within development team,Fagan is done out side person XXXVI.If u have give entire module for test

First prepare TestPlan,Test Cases for the each module of the product Test the application based on functional requirement and Specification requirement XXXVII.Automated tools when it used Based on product it required if we are going for load or performance test when it is required. If there are more no. of cycles that we need to test, that if we need to do more regression testing, then we need to use automated tools. XXXVIII.Manual testing Gui testing of app Object level test Field level test Look and feel of the application XXXIX.how wap app was tested with nokia browser which is similar to nokia mobile phone of 3310 XL.verification and validation Verification : Demo,Meeting,or walk thr Validation : Actual testing takes places XLI.Previous project Roles and Responsibilities? N.B Here the emphasis should be on roles and responsibilities in the last project assignment and not about the project. Actively involved in setting up the processes & initial setup for the project. Was responsible for certifying outgoing incremental database for data integrity & performance (when integrated in the entire solution).Finding the root cause of issue along with developer. Coordination & updating PM in US related to the progress, issues found & any critical slippage. XLII.What's testing life cycle?

XLIII.Test Planning Test strategy

stages of testing like unit testing, integration testing, system testing and acceptance testing . types of testing i.e GUI, Functional and performance testing. XLIV.Designing (Test Case Designing) XLV.Implementation (if automation is done we write test scripts under this section) XLVI.Execution ( It basically is the execution of the test cases in case of manual testing and testscripts in case of automated testing) XLVII.Evaluation ( Evaluating the defects from the executed test cases) XLVIII.Reporting ( logging or consolidation of the defects) XLIX.What's regression Testing? L. Testing after changes have been made to ensure that no unwanted changes were introduced. LI. Regression testing is the re-execution of some subset of tests that have already been conducted to ensure that changes have not propagated unintended side effects..

LII. In a web page, if two text boxes are there (one for Name Field
another for Telephone no.), supported by "Save" & "Cancel" button. Then derive some test cases.

What more information you need? Here is a sample list of questions that u can ask LIII.Field Validation i.e alphanumeric for Name and Numeric for telephone Number LIV.enable/disabled LV.focus LVI.Boundary conditions ( i.e what is the max length for name and telephone no.) LVII.field size LVIII.GUI standards for the controls Some Test cases can be as follows: (it should be in a managed way) LIX.Whether it is taking a valid name entry. LX.Whether it is taking a valid telephone no. entry. LXI.Whether it is taking a long telephone no. etc. LXII.Difference between Load Testing & Stress Testing? Load Testing : the application is tested within the normal limits to identify the load that a system can with stand. In Load testing the no. of users varies. Stress Testing: Stress tests are designed to confront programs with abnormal situations. Stress testing executes a system in a manner that demand rescues in abnormal quantity, frequency or volume. LXIII.In a Calculator, what is the major functionality, you are going to Test, which has been built specifically for a accountant? Assume that all basic functions like addition, subtraction etc are supported. LXIV.Check the maximum numbers of digits it supports? LXV.Check for the memory? LXVI.Check for the accuracy due to truncation? LXVII.Write Test Cases for testing ATM machine, Coffee Blending Machine, Telephone Handset? Here the test cases should be in a organized way. LXVIII. Have you ever done Memory leakage Testing? If yes, then how? Tools Rational Purifier, Bound Checker (Here u can test for the memory leaks, uninitialized variables, out of scope of a variable). LXIX.Is it possible to perform memory leakage testing without using any tool? If yes how? Yes. U have to go through the code and check whether the heap memory allocated is deleted properly or not. SQL LXX.What are joins? Give some examples Joins makes it possible to select data from more than one table by means of a single statement.. LXXI.Types of Joins? Inner Join Self Join : If the join is performed within the same table then it is

called self join. Equi Join : This join is based on the equality of column values in two tables and is therefore called an equijoin. Example: SELECT REGION.*, CITY.* FROM REGION, CITY WHERE REGION.REGION_CD = CITY.REGION_CD Natural Join : This is the equijoin on common columns, with the duplicate columns removed . Example: SELECT REGION.REGION_CD, REGION_NM FROM REGION, CITY WHERE REGION.REGION_CD = CITY.REGION_CD Outer Join Left Outer Join: The result set of a left outer join includes all the rows from the left table specified in the LEFT OUTER CLAUSE, not just the ones in which the joined columns match. Right Outer Join: A right outer join is reverse of a left outer join. Full Outer Join: A Full outer join return all rows in both the left and right tables. Cross Join It returns all the rows from the left table, each row from the left table is combined with all rows from the right table. Cross joins are also called cartesian product. N.B Apart from this it is advisable to go through some SQL statements. LXXII.What is SMTP & POP3 and difference between them? SMTP : A member of TCP/IP suite of protocols that governs the exchange of electronic mails between message transfer agents. POP3 denotes PostOfficeProtcol. : It is basically used for diverting the mails from one mail server to other mail servers. LXXIII.What's NT authentication? Validation of a users logon information. When a user logs on to an account on a computer running Windows NT Workstation, the authentication is performed by that workstation. When a user logs on to an account on a Windows NT Server domain, authentication may be performed by any server of that domain. See also server, trust relationships. LXXIV.What's the difference between NT Domain & NT Workgroup? domain In Windows NT, a collection of computers defined by the administrator of a Windows NT Server network that share a common directory database. A domain provides access to the centralized user accounts and group

accounts maintained by the domain administrator. Each domain has a unique name. See also workgroup. workgroup For Windows NT, a workgroup is a collection of computers that are grouped for viewing purposes. Each workgroup is identified by a unique name. See also domain. 21. What is difference between MAC Address and IP Address? IP Address: Each machine that is resident on an IP network is uniquely identified by a value known as IP Address. MAC Address: It is the local machine address. 22.What is TCP/IP AND IPX , NIC? IPX: A network protocol native to netware that controls addressing and routing of packets within and between LANs. TCP/IP: ( Transmission control protocol / Internet Protocol) It is used to create a point to point communication channel and ensures that the information delivered error-free and in the same order in which it was originally transmitted. NIC: (Network Interface Card) Through this interface card one can connect the workstation 2. Suppose you have an application to test which has no documentation. How do u go about testing that. That is a toatlly new application to u. A. I can do Ad-hoc testing. If through testing to be done, then I approach the development manager and ask him to give some information transfer about that application by their developers to our testing team. What if he says, no I dont do that? Then I go to my manager and tell him how do I go about testing this application which has no documentation. 3. Can u estimate the number of testcases in GUI where 4 screens are there, each screen has got 7 controls? LXXV.Based on the complexity of the application LXXVI.How do u go about automating some application? A. I identify all the testcases which can be automated using the tool say Rational Robot and automate that application. LXXVII.Tell 5 important testcases of a bicycle? LXXVIII.1. Check whether all the parts of the cycle are in place like seat, tyres, chain, stand etc. LXXIX.Check whether cycle is moving in forward direction on riding LXXX.Check whether cycle is able to take left turn on riding LXXXI.Check whether cycle is able to take right turn on riding LXXXII.Check whether breaks are working fine are not SQL Server 2000: LXXXIII.What is the difference between delete, truncate and drop tables? LXXXIV.Delete and truncate are same both are used for deleting the records from the table, in delete we can use where clause truncate is faster than delete drop is for deleting the entire table itself LXXXV.Joins questions---one example was asked to join. Provide the join

statement without using the where clause (using the keywords SELF JOIN, OUTER JOIN etc) 6. Can explain about cursors? I would use cursors for manipulating rows inside recordset. If I need to do operations over each row in a recordset, then I would use cursors 7. How do you use cursors? declare cursor <cursor name> for <select clause> ... open <cursor name> ... fetch next from <cursor name> into @param1,@param2... ... <SQL statements on fetched values> ... close <cursor name> 8. How do you check whether there are any more rows? I will check for @@fetch_status=0 9. Types of cursors? Yet present I have not learnt, if given time will let you know. 10. Fetch next is used for getting next rows, is their any way to go backwards? I have not used it before 12. How do you output values in stored procedures? By using OUTPUT clause with the parameters. ... @param1 <datatype> OUTPUT,.. 13. How comfortable are you with group by clause and where would you use it? I will use it in select queries to apply aggregate functions, like if I have two tables employee and dept, to find no of employees working under departments. 14. How many subqueries can you have in nested queries? I don't know, I might have tried a max of 3 nested subqueries. 15. What is the primary objective of web testing? To find bugs, like grammatic mistakes (astetics), check for links, functionality, performance. 16. Have you done any GUI testing, like on VDS? Yes, and some samples applications using testing tools 11. what is Transaction Concurrency? Two or more users simultaneously accessing the DB, there is a chance one may not be getting date. 14.What is Data integrity? Imposing the data constraints, Unique Data 15. What is Referential Integrity constraint? Parent child relationship. 16.How will you test a SP? By using execute option in SQL and then inputting different paramenters. 17.What are low level steps in Testing SP? syntack checking , execute SP, verify input/output parameters

19.Do you know Triggers? Types? Yes 1.Database Triggers 2.User Defined Triggers 20.if SP name is not correct but output is proper will u report it as bug if it is interconnected with other sp? if all interconnected SP's are fine then will say bug in new script. 21.how will u create a userdefined data types ? No idea on DB operations. 22. have u done any web testing?? how do u start web testing? 1. unique appearance throughout website 2. howmany users supported broken links, security, navigation etc. 23.Anything missed in web testing ? checking of protocols. 10. What is Referential Integrity? RI is the primary - foriegn key relationship, 11.What is Select INTO Query? Select into query is used for transfer data into a table or variable in SP. 7.How will you make procedure executed automatically ? 3 ways 1.using job Scheduler 2.By calling in trigger 3.Making it run in startup by placing the sp in master table 8.How many type of locks are there? Shared, update, Xclusive 9.What is Exclusive lock? If an Exclusive lock is placed on a table, then if one process is using the table then, no other process can use this table until the first process completes the transaction. LXXXVI.What is Win NT Registry? It is a database repository for information about a computer configuration. It stores the following information LXXXVII.Profiles of each user. LXXXVIII.The programs installed and types of document each can create. LXXXIX.Property settings for folders and program icons. XC.What hardware exists on the system. XCI.Which ports are being used etc.