I passed the ISTQB CT-MAT exam — here are two practice tests to help you prepare
Two free practice exams for the ISTQB Mobile Application Testing (CT-MAT) certification, built from the public syllabus and checked question-by-question for accuracy.
I passed the ISTQB Certified Tester Mobile Application Testing (CT-MAT) exam. It’s a specialist certification for testers who want to go deeper on mobile-specific testing — think device fragmentation, sensors, interrupts, connectivity — all the stuff that doesn’t come up when you’re testing a web app.
While prepping, I kept wishing there was a proper interactive practice exam I could just run through at home, so I asked Claude to build me a couple, based entirely on the syllabus and sample exam ISTQB publishes publicly. They turned out well enough that I figured other people studying for the same exam might get some use out of them too.
What’s actually in them
Two 20-question practice exams, same format as the real thing: multiple choice, some scenario-based, instant feedback per question with an explanation, and a final score against the 65% pass mark.
- Set A — general coverage across the whole syllabus.
- Set B (Advanced) — leans harder into scenario-based, apply-the-concept questions.
Before publishing either, I had Claude cross-check all 40 questions against the syllabus, section by section, rather than just eyeballing them for plausibility. Almost all of them mapped cleanly. A couple of questions required a bit more inference than a direct quote, and I stripped out a couple of explanation lines that referenced the official sample exam without being able to verify that comparison.
Worth treating these as solid practice, not gospel.
Always cross-reference against the actual syllabus for anything you’re unsure of.
Where this content comes from
These are original, independently written questions — not reproductions of the real exam (which I’m bound by the same confidentiality terms as every other candidate, and don’t remember well enough to reproduce anyway). They’re built from ISTQB’s publicly published syllabus, which explicitly permits this kind of use for articles and derivative writings, provided the source is credited. So: syllabus © International Software Testing Qualifications Board (ISTQB®), authored by the ISTQB Mobile Application Testing Working Group. Full acknowledgement and the standard “not an official ISTQB® product” disclaimer are on both exam pages.
If you’re studying for CT-MAT, hope these help. If you spot something that looks off against the syllabus, let me know.
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