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1. The ability to meet humanity's needs without harming future generations is now a top priority in most corporate agenda
- ethics
- rules
- sustainability
- righteousness
2. This is a historically popular technique through which managers create a quick overview of a company's strategic situation-it is based on achieving a sound fit between internal resources and the external situation.
- External analysis
- Value chain analysis
- Internal analysis
- SWOT analysis
3. New-to-the-world products are ________.
- new products that create an entirely new market
- existing products that are targeted to new geographical markets
- low-cost products designed to obtain an edge in highly competitive markets
- new product enhancements that supplement established products
4. Prestige LLC, a small company that manufactures specialty cereals and energy bars, wants to launch a "green marketing" program in response to heightened consumer awareness about environmental issues. What should the company do to maximize the program's chances of being successful?
- Demonstrate that the products will benefit both customers and the society in the long-term.
- Focus on the efforts and costs incurred by the company to bring these "green" products to consumers.
- Emphasize benefits to the consumer rather than environmental benefits.
- Explain the rules and regulations laid out by governmental agencies to protect the environment.
5. BMW's "The ultimate driving machine," American Express' "Don't leave home without it," New York Times' "All the news that's fit to print," and AT&T's "Reach out and touch someone" are all examples of ________.
- brand personality
- brand slogan
- brand vision
- brand mission
6. A company that attempts to lead its industry in price and convenience by pursuing a focus on lean and efficient operations is pursuing what strategy?
- Product leadership
- Operational excellence
- Customer intimacy
- Low-cost leadership
7. This is an important structural decision and resultant separate activities need to be coordinated and integrated back together as a whole so the business functions effectively.
- Preferencing
- Differentiation
- Diversification
- Broadening
8. Marketers need to identify the hierarchy of attributes that guide consumer decision making in order to understand different competitive forces and how these various sets get formed. This process of identifying the hierarchy is called ________.
- market valuation
- market partitioning
- brand association
- market estimation
9. When performing this analysis, it is good for strategic planners to consider similarities between the benefits the customers derive from the products and services that other firms offer.
- Company analysis
- Customer analysis
- Competitive analysis
- Business analysis
10. Leaders galvanize commitment to embrace change through clarifying strategic intent, building an organization, and
- shaping organizational culture
- developing a mission
- developing a vision
- planning strategy
11. Large-scale, future-oriented plans for interacting with the competitive environment to achieve the company objective refers to its
- goals
- strategy
- competitive analysis
- dynamic policies
12. Under which of the following conditions is the frequency the most important factor in media selection?
- When there is high consumer resistance to the product
- When going into undefined target markets
- When introducing flanker brands
- When launching infrequently purchased brands
13. Which component of a marketing audit includes major developments in income, prices, savings, and credit that affect the company?
- Economic
- Cultural
- Political
- Technological
14. This is designed to check systematically and continuously whether the premises on which the strategy is based are still valid
- Strategic surveillance
- Premise control
- Implementation control
- Special alert control
15. With ________ as a target market strategy, the firm concentrates on serving many needs of a particular customer group.
- product specialization
- selective specialization
- single-segment concentration
- market specialization
16. What is the perceived monetary value of the bundle of economic, functional, and psychological benefits customers expect from a given market offering because of the product, service, people, and image?
- Complete marketing benefit
- Ultimate service benefit
- Total customer benefit
- Total management benefit
17. These social responsibilities are those that are voluntarily assumed by a business or organization. They include public relations activities, good citizenship, and full corporate social responsibility.
- Economic responsibility
- Employee responsibility
- Legal responsibility
- Discretionary responsibility
18. When diversification involves additions of a business related to the firm in terms of technology, markets or products, it involves
- concentrated growth
- vertical diversification
- concentric diversification
- horizontal integration
19. One of the ways to change the course of a brand is to modify the product. Under product modification, ________ adds size, weight, materials, supplements, and accessories that expand the product's performance, versatility, safety, or convenience.
- feature improvement
- style improvement
- technological improvement
- quality improvement
20. Firms using this generic strategy attempt to build customer loyalty by stressing a specific product attribute above other product qualities.
- Differentiation
- Focus
- Cost leadership
- Concentrated growth
21. A set of ideas on organizational control based on the belief that the separation of the ownership from management creates the potential for the wishes of owners to be ignored refers to
- Adam's theory
- the moral hazard problem
- agency theory
- ethical responsibilities
22. A firm must know where to position its product based on price and
- Quality
- region
- communication
- promotional efforts
23. A valuable result of task environment analysis with respect to geographic, demographic, psychographic and buyer-behavior factors is called
- vendor profile
- financial position
- competitor profile
- customer profile
24. Which control should periodically reassess its approach to the marketplace with a good marketing audit?
- Ethical control
- Performance control
- Marketing control
- Strategic control
25. The strategic factor that involves the beliefs, values, attitudes, opinions, and lifestyles of persons in the firm's external environment, as developed from cultural, ecological, demographic, religious, educational, and ethnic conditioning.
- Social factor
- Stakeholder factor
- Political factor
- Economic factor
26. A company can learn a great deal by analyzing the degrees of brand loyalty. For example, ________ can show the firm which brands are most competitive with its own.
- switchers
- shifting loyals
- hard-core loyals
- split loyals
27. How do functional tactics compare to business strategies?
- Functional tactics are more focused on the general direction of the firm than business strategies.
- Functional tactics are more long-term than business strategies.
- Functional tactics are more focused on a commitment to corporate strategy than business strategies.
- Functional tactics are more specific than business strategies.
28. Company X's principal strength is its inbound and outbound logistics system; its relative weakness, however, is after-sales service. Its competitor, Company Y, however is often plagued with lagging shipments and an inflexible distribution setup. Company Y remains successful because it maintains a fully staffed service department and, as a result, the company is known for its dependable service. This type of analysis allows them to identify ways to build on relative strengths and avoid dependence on capabilities at which the other firm excels.
- Industry comparison
- Past performance comparison
- Benchmarking
- Disaggregating
29. The marketing manager needs to know the cost of the research project before approving it. During which stage of the marketing research process would such a consideration most likely take place?
- Step 1 - defining the problem
- Step 4 - analyzing the information
- Step 5 - drafting the report
- Step 2 - developing the research plan
30. What type of strategy consists of geographical pricing, price discounts and allowances, promotional pricing, and differentiated pricing?
- Fixed pricing
- Altered pricing
- Regular prices
- Price adaptation