Tuesday, March 2, 2010

MGT301- Principles of Marketing (Session - 3) FINALTERM EXAMINATION Fall 2009 (24 feb 2010)

FINALTERM EXAMINATION

Fall 2009

MGT301- Principles of Marketing (Session - 3)

Time: 120 min

Marks: 92

Question No: 1 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

A business can have excellent products and services due to excellent marketing skills and techniques that are essential for a company's success. So what are the requirements needed for today’s marketer to achieve the organization‘s goals?

Neither creativity nor critical thinking skills

Both creativity and critical thinking skills

Critical thinking skills but not creativity

Creativity but not critical thinking

Question No: 2 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Which one of the following options represents this statement “What place do you want your product to hold in the consumer’s mind”?

Product

Positioning

Promotion

Place

Question No: 3 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

When Olympia Carpets develops new carpets that are highly stain resistant and durable, it must educate consumers about the product's benefits. This activity calls for which one of the following marketing mix variables?

Price

Promotion

Distribution

Product

Question No: 4 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Which one of the following is a key to build lasting relationships with consumers?

Price of the product

Need recognition

Customer satisfaction

Quality of product

Question No: 5 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Which one of the following is NOT a part of the macro-environment?

Demographic forces

Natural forces

Competitors' forces

Political forces

Question No: 6 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Which one of the following represents large growing kid and teen market?

Baby boomers

Generation-X

Generation-Y

Echo boomers

Question No: 7 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

The objective of which of the following research is to gather preliminary information that will help define the problem and suggest hypotheses?

Descriptive

Exploratory

Causal

Corrective

Question No: 8 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Which one of the following statements BEST characterizes marketing research?

Research is a continuous process, providing a constant flow of information

Research is conducted on a special-project basis

Research is performed when routine information is required

Research is the basis for making recurring marketing decisions

Question No: 9 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

How do consumers respond to various marketing efforts the company might use? What is a starting point of a buyer’s behavior?

Belief

Subculture

Post purchase feeling

Stimulus-response Model

Question No: 10 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Which one of the following stage is NOT a part of buyer’s black box?

Brand choice

Product choice

Need recognition

Dealer choice

Question No: 11 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Society’s relatively permanent and ordered divisions whose members share similar values, interests and behaviors reflect which one of the following option?

Social classes

Habitual buyers

Charismatic leaders

Opinion leaders

Question No: 12 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Which one of the following factor is NOT used for measuring the social class?

Income

Number of children in family

Occupation

Education

Question No: 13 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

What is the stage of the buyer decision process in which the consumer uses information to evaluate brands in the choice set?

The alternative evaluation stage

The situational stage

The experimental stage

The informative stage

Question No: 14 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

You purchase cleaning supplies for your custodial help regularly. It is showing which buying situation?

Modified rebuy

Straight rebuy

Modified straight rebuy

Consumer buy

Question No: 15 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Mr. Salman works for an organization in which his purchases must be accountable to the public. His buying procedures are extremely complex. Based on this description, he works for an organization in which market type?

Reseller

Producer

Supplier

Government

Question No: 16 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Inelastic demand in industrial markets refers to which of the following situation?

Demand for a given product fluctuates very little over time.

Price increases or decreases will not significantly alter demand for a given product.

The demand for one product depends heavily on the demand for another product.

Supply for a given product cannot keep up with the demand for it.

Question No: 17 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Marketers need to position their brands clearly in target customers’ minds. They can position brands at any of three levels. At the lowest level, they can position the brand on which of the following basis?

Interactive marketing

Internal marketing

Product attributes

Added service

Question No: 18 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Price is a key element in the marketing mix because it relates directly to:

The size of the sales force

The speed of an exchange

The control of quality

The generation of total revenue

Question No: 19 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Which of the following is NOT a major factor for making firms price decisions?

Environmental factors

Marketing objectives

Past sales

Marketing mix strategy

Question No: 20 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

When establishing prices, a marketer's first step is to:

Develop pricing objectives

Select a pricing policies

Evaluate competitors' prices

Determine a pricing methods

Question No: 21 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Sellers that emphasize distinctive product features to encourage brand preferences among customers are practicing:

Product competition

Non-price competition

Brand differentiation

Product differentiation

Question No: 22 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

When Kodak sets the general price range, low for its cameras and set high for its related film , it is practicing which one of the following pricing?

Market-penetration pricing

Market-skimming pricing

Product line pricing

Captive-product pricing

Question No: 23 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

In which of the following pricing the seller selects a given city as a "basing point" and charges all customers the freight cost from that city to the customer location, regardless of the city from which the goods are actually shipped?

Base-point pricing

Freight absorption pricing

Transfer pricing

Zone pricing

Question No: 24 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Which might be the effect of a successful price increase on profits?

Profit can decrease

No change observed in profits

Infinite change in profits

Profit can increase

Question No: 25 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Which one of the following is considered as an independent business that sells complementary products of several producers in assigned territories and is compensated through commissions?

Industrial distributor

Production agent

Wholesaler

Manufacturers' agent

Question No: 26 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

From a retailer's point of view, the MOST basic advantage of using a wholesaler is that the wholesaler:

Extends credit to the retailer

Provides storage facilities to the retailer

Perform channel functions more efficiently than the retailer

Takes ownership of goods for the retailer

Question No: 27 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Which one of the following is the primary purpose of a broker?

Take title to a producer's goods

Sell directly to the final consumer

Sell directly to producers

Bring buyers and sellers together

Question No: 28 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

An organization is issuing a circular regarding the new credit term to all the employees. In this statement, organization is representing what?

Media

Source

Decoder

Sender

Question No: 29 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Pull promotion is one of the promotion mix strategies. Which of the following are heavy expenditures in pull promotion?

Advertising and sales promotion

Public relations and distribution

Personal selling and public relations

Distribution and advertising

Question No: 30 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Marketing managers at General Motors are determining what proportion of the budget would be spent on magazine, television and radio advertisements based on the cost and effectiveness of each.What is the name of the plan prepared by the marketers at GM?

An advertising-allocation plan

A media plan

An arbitrary allocation plan

An objective-task plan

Question No: 31 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Which one of the following advertising decisions can be classified by primary purpose, whether the aim is to inform, persuade or remind?

Advertising objectives

Advertising budgets

Advertising strategies

Advertising campaigns

Question No: 32 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Which of the following advertising becomes more important to build selective demand as competition increases?

Persuasive advertising

Informative advertising

Patronage advertising

Reminder-oriented advertising

Question No: 33 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

In which of the following advertising a company directly or indirectly compares its brand with one or more other brands?

Informative advertising

Institutional advertising

Reminder advertising

Comparative advertising

Question No: 34 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Expensive Coca-Cola television ads primarily are a type of which of the following advertising?

Informative advertising

Comparative advertising

Persuasive advertising

Reminder advertising

Question No: 35 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Advertisers are increasingly shifting larger portions of their budgets to media that cost less and target more effectively. All of the following are benefits greatly from this shift EXCEPT:

Outdoor advertising

Cable television

Network television

Shopping carts

Question No: 36 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

In which one of the following plans management takes decisions about potential customers, sales activities and future prospects during the next 12 months?

Profit-sharing plan

Trade promotion plan

Annual call plan

Sales quota plan

Question No: 37 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

A departmental store firm wants to increase sales and reach new markets with direct marketing. To accomplish this, the sales or marketing manager would choose which of the following tool?

Sales promotions

Advertising

Kiosk marketing

Public relations

Question No: 38 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Which one of the following authorities might use several tools like news, speeches and special events for the marketing purpose?

Advertising agencies

Advertising specialists

Public relation professionals

Computer programmers

Question No: 39 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Which one of the following are low-growth, low-share businesses and products (they may generate enough cash to maintain them, but do not have much future)?

Dogs

Cash Cows

Stars

Question Marks

Question No: 40 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Which one of the following wholesaler provides a convenient and effective method of selling small items to customers in remote areas that other wholesalers might find unprofitable to serve?

Mail-order wholesalers

Specialty-line wholesalers

Cash-and-carry wholesalers

Truck wholesalers

Question No: 41 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Which one of the following option is NOT related with E-Commerce?

E-Mailing

E-Business

E-Commerce

E-Marketing

Question No: 42 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

If the competitor’s price cut harm the company’s sales and profit then what should your company do:

Hold the current price

Increase the price

Decrease the price

Either increase or decrease the price

Question No: 43 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

What does this statement show “Trade of value between two parties”?

Competition

Transaction

Exchange

Need

Question No: 44 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

In Boston Consulting Group approach, which one of the following is a measure of company's strength in the market?

Relative market share

Market share

Business portfolio

Market growth rate

Question No: 45 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Which of the following is NOT a disadvantage of the Internet?

High selectivity

Relatively low impact

Audience controls the exposure

Demographically skewed audience

Question No: 46 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Nestle Foods, ran an ad promoting its new Nestle fruit juice in Ladies' Home Journal magazine. The ad contained a coupon for $1.00 off the purchase price of two half-gallon containers of the drink. The advertising agency that created the Nestlé’s ad for the magazine:

Was engaged in feedback barrier removal

Was engaged in encoding the ad

Was responsible for decoding the ad

Acted as the communication channel

Question No: 47 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

All of the following are examples of items with elastic demand EXCEPT:

Wheat

Car

Computer

Gold jewelry

Question No: 48 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Which of the following is TRUE if you change the price in B.E analysis?

It will not change the B.E point

It will not change the sales

It will shift the B.E point

It will change the total fixed cost

Question No: 49 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Identify the main advantage of telemarketing as a direct-response approach?

Personal

Flexibility

Visualization

Cost

Question No: 50 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Which one of the following is consider more powerful promotion process that allows the firm to reach the right customers with the right messages at the right time and in the right place?

Advertising

A promotional campaign

Integrated marketing communications

Relationship marketing

Question No: 51 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Which of the following is the basic purpose of personal selling?

Indirect written communication between buyers and sellers

It is an inexpensive mode to convey message to buyers

Not usually combined with other aspects of promotion in the total marketing mix

Gets immediate feedback from consumers

Question No: 52 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Which one of the following marketing activity stimulate consumer purchasing such as coupons, contests, free sample and trade shows?

Sales promotion

Publicity

Personal selling

Public relation

Question No: 53 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Sales promotion is best defined as a(n):

Activity and/or material used as a direct inducement to resellers, salespersons or consumers

Advertising and publicity campaign

Give some incentive to consumer

Activity and/or material used in personal selling

Question No: 54 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Which of the following is one of the challenges faced by market leader?

Indirect attack

Expanding market share

Dividing the total market

Increasing sales force

Question No: 55 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Which of the basic competitive strategy creates competitive advantage by offering products with unique customer benefits or features not available from competitive offerings?

Cost-leadership

Differentiation

Focus

Product intimacy

Question No: 56 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Which of the following is an international trade agreement that has helped to reduce worldwide tariffs?

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)

World Trade Organization (WTO)

North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)

Question No: 57 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Which of the following is true?

GATT succeeds WTO

WTO succeeds NAFTA

WTO succeeds GATT

NAFTA succeeds GATT

Question No: 58 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Which of the following is true about North American Free-Trade Agreement (NAFTA)?

An accord to remove trade barriers among Canada, Mexico and the United States

An accord to remove transport barriers among Canada, Mexico and the United States

An accord to remove transport barriers among Canada, Morocco, Chile and the United States

An accord to remove trade barriers among Canada, Mexico, Brazil and the United States

Question No: 59 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Which of the following has a greater amount of risk, control and profit potential?

Importing

Joint Venturing

Direct Investment

Exporting

Question No: 60 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Internet was used for the first time in which of the following year?

1982

1984

1988

1987

Question No: 61 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Which of the following is a philosophy of customer satisfaction and mutual gain?

The marketing concept

The production concept

The selling concept

Societal marketing concept

Question No: 62 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Which one of the following is NOT the primary criticism leveled at the marketing function by consumers, consumer advocates, and government agencies?

Deceptive practices

High-pressure selling

Shoddy or unsafe products

Too much political power

Question No: 63 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

In consumerism Traditional buyers’ rights include all of the following EXCEPT:

Right to spend any amount to promote the product

Right not to buy a product that is offered for sale

Right to expect the product to be safe

Right to expect the product to perform as claimed

Question No: 64 ( Marks: 1 ) - Please choose one

Which of the following is NOT a method of compensation plan?

Straight salary

Straight commission

Salary plus bonus

Grants by government

Question No: 65 ( Marks: 3 )

What do you know about pricing objectives while setting the price of the product?

Question No: 66 ( Marks: 5 )

SONY suddenly cuts its Television prices in half; how would your customer view this price cut?

Question No: 67 ( Marks: 10 )

What are the major marketing logistic functions that have a major impact on both customer satisfaction and company cost?

Question No: 68 ( Marks: 10 )

Sales promotion is one of the methods of promoting the product in the market. How would you describe it and how many types of Sales Promotion?

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