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Chapter 5
Chapter 5
Company-level strategy
Question Is unrelated diversification a strategy?
a. Directing growth by targeting new markets with new products but not related to technology
with the products in production
b. Direction of growth by targeting the current market with new products and services but no
technological connection with ongoing products and services
c. Seek ownership or increased control over suppliers
d. Direction of growth by targeting new markets with new products and services but technology-
related to products and services in progress
Question The fact that a company produces paper, investment lines to plant trees for
wood, plant sugarcane shows the strategy they are pursuing is:
a. Integration behind
b. Integration ahead
c. Diversification is involved.
d. Horizontal link
Question What questions does the company's strategy answer the following?
a. How do we compete?
b. Where are we in the industry?
c. How do we support our business strategy?
d. How do we get up?
Question The rapid penetration strategy in the enterprise-level strategy has the objectives
of:
a. High profits in a less competitive environment
b. Low profitability in a less competitive, small-scale environment
c. Increase revenue in large, competitive markets
d. Low turnover in small scale, less competition
Question What stage of the industry cycle does the rivalry become intense?
a. Recession
b. Fully grown
c. Reorganize
d. Saturated
Question In differentiation strategies, the following factors are ranked in the lowest order
of priorities:
a. Cost performance
b. Customer responsiveness
c. Renovate
d. Distribution performance
e. Quality
Question In response to the five factors that impact the industry environment, Chan Kim
and Renee Mauborgne's view (in the blue ocean strategy) is to focus on business strategy:
a. The product is of much higher quality than other products of the same type.
b. Focus on creating and winning new needs.
c. Focus on the narrow market segment.
d. The lowest price compared to other competitors
Question Fill in the blanks" ... summing up the relevant activities of the business creates
and adds value to customers."
a. Sales Administration
b. Quality check
c. Value chain
d. Strategic planning
Question To deal with five factors impacting the industry environment, Michal E. Porter's
view is to focus on business strategy:
a. All the strategies stated.
b. The lowest price compared to other competitors
c. The product is of much higher quality than other products of the same type.
d. Focus on the narrow market segment.
Question Kinh Do , a company operating in the field of food processing, buying Wall ice
cream factory is the strategy:
a. Focused growth strategy
b. Related diversification strategy
c. Integrated growth strategy
d. Mixed diversification strategy
Question Measures of acquisition, merger, alliance, joint venture belong to the following
strategic groups:
a. Market development strategy
b. Integration strategy ahead
c. Horizontal linking strategy
d. The integration strategy behind
Question Which of the following factors is NOT a strategic issue of a typical non-profit
organization?
a. Develop a wide range of products and services portfolios
b. Maintaining the values of the organization.
c. Managing interested parties
d. Maintain an influx of donations
Question A product that falls into a downturn in one market but is still accepted in
another. To take advantage of this, what strategy the company often adopts:
a. Shrinking market share
b. Repeat the life cycle of the product.
c. Developing market share in new markets
d. Expanding the market
Question What strategy was Facebook's acquisition of Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in
2014?
a. Diversification growth
b. Integration forward
c. Product development
d. Integration to the back
e. Joint venture
Question To protect the quality of its products in its Stores in Moscow, McDonalds set up
dairy farms, livestock farms, vegetable gardens as well as food processing plants in Russia.
McDonald's has implemented a strategy:
a. Diversification is involved.
b. Integration forward
c. Joint venture
d. Integration to the back
Question What strategy is the development of new product features?
a. Market penetration strategy
b. Product development strategy
c. Market development strategy
d. Product improvement strategy
Question Businesses seeking to own or increase control over their supply systems are
strategic:
a. Integration development strategy ahead
b. Focused development strategy
c. The strategy for integrating the back
d. Horizontal linking strategy
Question "The strategy of increasing sales and profits by engaging in other industries that
are relevant or unrelated to the business of the business" is:
a. Product development strategy
b. Diversification growth strategy
c. Horizontal integration strategy
d. Focused growth strategy
Question What is most important to managers at all strategic levels of the business?
a. Attend and effectively implement the company's plan to avoid inconsistencies, inefficience and
miscommunication
b. Attend and understand all of the company's plans to help with collaboration, facilitate and
commit to the implementation of the strategy
c. Attend, understand and effectively implement the company's plan to avoid inconsistencies,
inefficiency and miscommunication
d. Attend and understand the company's strategic plan to help with collaboration, facilitate and
commit to the implementation of the strategy
Question Barriers to entry into an industry are more likely if:
a. Low conversion cost
b. Access to high distribution channels
c. Low differentiation
d. High demands for large-scale economic efficiency
Question The reasons for the implementation of the diversification growth strategy are:
a. The market is storming.
b. Product life enters a period of decline.
c. You may be disadvantaged in taxes.
d. Financial surplus
Question In a horizontal linking strategy, the business seeks to own or increase its control
over the audience:
a. Customer
b. Distributor
c. Supplier
d. Competitors
Question What is the company-level strategy designed to solve the following problems?
a. Identify the relationship between business and society.
b. Manage a portfolio of business sectors to enhance the overall position of the business
c. Identifying sectors and products as well as markets in which the business competes
d. All ideas are right.
a. Direction of growth by targeting the current market with new products and services but no
technological connection with ongoing products and services
b. Direction of growth by targeting new markets with new products and services but technology-
related to products and services in progress
c. Seek ownership or increased control over suppliers
d. Directing growth by targeting new markets with new products but not related to technology
with the products in production
a. Cost-cutting
b. Harvest
c. Retreat
d. Return on investment capital
Question Which of the following industries is less likely to adhere to the traditional life
cycle model?
a. Insurance brokering
b. Hairdressing
c. Software development
d. Mining
Question The company-level strategy does not have the following characteristics?
Question At what stage of the industry lifecycle is the potentially lowest buyer's power?
a. Form
b. Saturation
c. Recession
d. Fierce competition
e. Fully grown
Question 2: What role in research and development functions helps to create superior
quality?
a) Easy-to-fabricate product design
b) Monitoring disability to the root
c) Streamline suppliers
d) It's all right.
IBM advertises the quality of its service provided by a well-trained sales force, what strategy
is the company implementing?
a) Competitor-based strategy
b) Cost-leading strategy
c) Strategies make a difference.
d) Customer-based strategy
Question 8: Businesses looking for a foothold in the market with market share are:
a) 30%
b) 10%
c) 20%
d) 40%
Question 11: What are the components of BMC (Business Model Canvas)?
a) 6
b) 5
c) 9
d) 8
e) 7
Question 12: The factors that govern the business-level strategy are:
a) Customer demand
b) The above ideas are all true.
c) Customer group
d) Distinguishing capacity
Question 13: What is known as the strategic gridlock of the business is:
a) There is no plan necessary for success in the chosen strategy.
b) All ideas are right.
c) There is no consistent choice of product/market/differentiation ability to create a competitive
advantage
d) Failing to secure or maintain a competitive advantage
Question 14: The biggest downsides of a strategy that combines cost-guided with
differentiation are:
a) High cost, little profit due to small customer size
b) Failing to meet the change in customer tastes
c) Complex production operations
d) Opponents have the ability to imitate styles, patterns
Question 18: The overall competitive strategy at the business level is implemented on the
basis of:
a) Competitive advantage and competitive range
b) Low cost and competitive advantage
c) Uniqueness of products, services and scope of competition
d) Competitive advantage and narrow range of competition
Question 19: With a business unit-level strategy that focuses on differentiation, what is the
task of marketing strategy?
a) Research the need to design products
b) Take the lead in creating unique, unique products
c) Highly standardized products
d) Creating activities that increase product value
Question 20: Based on the scope of the strategy, what two types of business strategies are
divided into two?
a) Focus strategy and general strategy
b) General strategy and department strategy
c) Focused strategy and strategy based on relative advantage
d) Department strategy and focus strategy
Question 22: The strategy of the business looking for a foothold in the market is:
a) Service improvement strategy
b) Product characteristics specialization strategy
c) Low price maintenance strategy
d) Strategies for building a better distribution system
Question 27: Which of the following strategies is the business unit-level strategy?
a) Product development strategy
b) The strategy is based on low cost.
c) Market development strategy
d) Market penetration strategy
Question 29: To develop a business unit-level strategy, what factors is the decision-making
process based on?
a) Customer demand
b) All ideas are right.
c) The possibilities of differentiation
d) Customer group
Question 30: With the business unit-level strategy of leading in terms of costs, what is the
task of operating strategy?
a) Make optimal inventory
b) Focus on the production process, saving costs
c) Highly standardized products
d) It's all right.
Question 31: With a business unit-level strategy that focuses on differentiation, what is the
task of financial strategy?
a) Highly standardized products
b) Cost reduction solutions in business processes
c) Priority is given to product solutions.
d) Priority is given to lowering costs.
Question 33: What are the advantages of a strategy that combines cost-guided with
differentiation?
a) Create barriers from competitive forces
b) Capture the needs, meet customer tastes better
c) Achieving equality and profitability may be higher than companies that are pursuing a common
strategy
d) Withstanding the price increases of suppliers
Question 34: What is the strategy of the business that challenges the market?
a) Strategies for building a better distribution system
b) All of the strategies above
c) Product innovation strategy
d) Service improvement strategy
e) Low price maintenance strategy
Question 35: With a business unit-level strategy that focuses on differentiation, what is the
task of information system management strategy?
a) Priority is given to solutions that make a difference in products and services
b) Reduce the difference in your competitors' products.
c) It's all right.
d) Create attention for products and services in appropriately selected highlights in the market
Question 36: What is the purpose of the business unit level strategy?
a) Improve the competitive position of the product
b) General direction of the business
c) It's all right.
d) Effective management and use of the resources of the business
Question 39: Characteristics of the strategy that combines cost-guided and differentiated is:
a) Create different, unique products and services that competitors can't have
b) Flexible manufacturing allows you to pursue differentiation to create low-cost products/services
c) Pursue or advantage costs or differentiation but only in the customer group or a market
segment
d) Create products and services at the lowest cost in the business
Question 50: Which of the following authors' five competitive pressures is the view?
a) William J. Glueck
b) Garry D. Smith
c) Michael E. Porter
d) Fred R. David
Question 51: The strategy towards the market segment of the business is:
Question 52: Based on market share, the market leader has a market share of:
a) 30%
b) 20%
c) 40%
d) 10%
a) The ability to use resources that have been purposefully combined to achieve a desired target
state
b) The methods and skills that the organization uses to combine resources to create products and
services
c) The way businesses use to satisfy customer needs to gain a competitive advantage
d) An internal operation that a company performs better than the other internal activities it
performs
Question 54: What questions is the business-level strategy NOT intended to answer?
Question 57: Samsung considers possibly shifting a large part of its smartphone factory
from Vietnam and many other countries to India to set up a manufacturing center in the
country. Is this decision likely to be made at the level?
a) Function
b) Business
c) International
d) Business
a) Pursue or advantage costs or differentiation but only in the customer group or a market
segment
b) Create products and services at the lowest cost in the business
c) Flexible manufacturing allows you to pursue differentiation to create low-cost products/services
d) Create different, unique products and services that competitors can't have
a) Don't try to exploit the alliance in an opportunistic way for its own purposes.
b) We must share views on the purpose of the company and on the purpose of the alliance.
c) All the ideas stated
d) It has the potential to help the company achieve its strategic objectives, be able to access
markets, share costs and risks,...
Question When joining the global value chain, the biggest pressure on international
businesses is:
a) If members of a company die, the corporation will survive as long as the capital remains.
b) A company cannot be held accountable for the illegal behavior of its employees.
c) If members of a company die, the company ceases to exist.
d) A company cannot own property.
Question Collins studied several companies to distinguish "great" companies from good
companies. Great companies understand three things: "What you can do best in the world";
"What drives your economic motivation"; and:
a) What are you deeply passionate about?
b) You can shake up the industry.
c) You can be hard to predict.
d) You know how your opponents are.
Question 5: The method of entering the global business market through export has
characteristics:
Question 7: When the pressure to localize is LOW, what strategy should businesses choose?
a) Modern corporation
b) Business
c) Company
d) Modern Corporation
Question 9: Stemming from the level of cost-reducing pressure and local adaptation
pressure, how many basic strategies can businesses choose?
a) 3
b) 4
c) 5
d) 2
Question 11: The qualities of a global economic competitive environmental leader are:
Question 12: Large scale of market penetration and long-term strategic commitment to bring
advantages:
a) Limiting the market entry of potential competitors
b) Attract customers and distributors
c) All the ideas stated are correct.
d) Higher lead advantage
Question 13: The best marketing strategy in a global economic competitive environment is:
a) A competitive strategy to increase profits by transferring and exploiting the superior products
and skills of enterprises in foreign markets
b) It is a competitive strategy that aims to increase profitability through cutting costs on a global
scale, while increasing value by adapting products to each market.
c) It is a competitive strategy to increase profits on a global scale of cost-cutting.
d) It is a competitive strategy to increase the value of a business's products by adapting the
product to each foreign market.
Question 15: When joining the global value chain, what factors must international
businesses adjust their operations to?
a) Politics - law
b) Technology
c) Environment
d) Economic
e) Socio-cultural
Question 16: The method of entering the global business market through franchising has
characteristics:
Question 17: In order for the alliance to defend itself against the opportunism of its partners,
which of the following methods can be chosen?
Question 18: When the pressure is on high localization, what strategy should businesses
choose?
Question 19: Modern businesses have four characteristics. It's a limited liability; legal status;
general focus administration; and:
a) Interested parties
b) Shareholder
c) Transferable
d) Fiduciary tasks
Question A strategy that can exploit local differences and achieve global performance is
called:
a) Transnational
b) Global
c) International
d) Multi-market domestic
Question 21: The decision to enter the market is judged based on the long-term potential
through... element.
a) 5
b) 2
c) 4
d) 3
Question 22: When linking pressures and low cost reductions, what strategy should
businesses choose?
a) Help enterprises exploit the location economy, scale economy, implement global strategic
cooperation, share and transfer core skills
b) Cost savings due to standardized products and the use of the same marketing strategy
c) Suitable for businesses that trade products that are in common demand but do not have, or
have very few competitors
d) Allow businesses to carefully study consumer preferences in different countries, thereby
responding quickly and effectively to changing consumer preferences
Question 25: When joining the global value chain, the buyer's pressure on international
businesses is:
a) Suitable for businesses that trade products that are in common demand but do not have, or
have very few competitors
b) Allow businesses to carefully study consumer preferences in different countries, thereby
responding quickly and effectively to changing consumer preferences
c) Cost savings due to standardized products and the use of the same marketing strategy
d) Cost savings due to standardized products and the use of the same marketing strategy
Question 27: The method of entering the global business market through turnkey projects
has the characteristics:
a) The contractor agrees to handle all details of the project for a foreign partner, including training
of operational personnel
b) Empowering an intangible asset to a franchisee for a specific period
c) Manufacturing enterprises are not involved in the process of selling products abroad and cannot
invest when the product has been exported
d) Businesses that hold a majority stake will have strict control over the business.
a) The phenomenon of increasing the number and intensity of activities increases interdependence
between countries economically, socially, culturally, politically and legally.
b) The spread of products, technologies, information, cross-border employment and national
culture
c) All ideas are right.
d) The process of socializing production on a global scale
Question 30: What kind of organizational structure describes the most closely the typical
company in a flat world?
a) Environment
b) Politics - law
c) Culture - Society
d) Economic
a) Cultural imperialism
b) Regionalization
c) Multi-localization
d) Globalization (Glocalization)
Question 38: How many basic criteria allow for clarification of cultural differences in
coalition management?
a) 3
b) 4
c) 5
d) 6
Question 39: How can the alliance protect itself from partner opportunism?
a) 2
b) 5
c) 3
d) 4
Question 40: After 5 years of negotiations between the two sides, in mid-June 2020,
Vietnamese lychee has officially hit the supermarket shelves at the Embassy of the Rising Sun.
This event marks Vietnamese businesses that have expanded their markets outwards to:
a) Culture
b) Communication skills
c) Management model
d) Management level
a) Cost savings due to standardized products and the use of the same marketing strategy
b) Help enterprises exploit the location economy, scale economy, implement global strategic
cooperation, share and transfer core skills
c) Allow businesses to carefully study consumer preferences in different countries, thereby
responding quickly and effectively to changing consumer preferences
d) Suitable for businesses that trade products that are in common demand but do not have, or
have very few competitors
Question 43: Large scale of market penetration and long-term strategic commitment bring
disadvantages:
Question 45: When joining the global value chain, international businesses must adjust their
operations due to:
Question 45: The method of entering the global business market through a joint venture has
characteristics:
a) The contractor agrees to handle all details of the project for a foreign partner, including training
of operational personnel
b) Manufacturing enterprises are not involved in the process of selling products abroad and cannot
invest when the product has been exported
c) Empowering an intangible asset to a franchisee for a specific period
d) Businesses that hold a majority stake will have strict control over the business.
Question 48: The U.S. high tariffs on goods of Chinese origin have caused many businesses to
move production from the world's second-largest economy to Vietnam and other countries in
Asia. This shift is aimed at:
Question 49: The decision to enter the market is judged on the long-term potential through
the following factors:
Question 50: There are three tools to gain a global competitive advantage. These are
national differences; large-scale economic efficiency; and:
a) Differential advantage
b) Efficiency
c) Learning
d) Scope economic efficiency
a) Cost savings due to standardized products and the use of the same marketing strategy.
b) Suitable for businesses that trade products that are in common demand but do not have, or
have very few competitors
c) Help enterprises exploit the location economy, scale economy, implement global strategic
cooperation, share and transfer core skills
d) Allow businesses to carefully study consumer preferences in different countries, thereby
responding quickly and effectively to changing consumer preferences
Question 52: When linking pressures and cost reductions are HIGH, what strategy should
businesses choose?
Question 54: When joining the global value chain, businesses often face obstacles due to:
a) Learn and transfer new knowledge within the company in different markets
b) All ideas are right.
c) Allowing companies to enter new markets outside the country with ambitions to expand their
business globally
d) A powerful measure to help recover the cost of investment in new products and technologies
a) Toothpaste
b) Packaged foods
c) Luxury watches
d) Cars
a) 4
b) 6
c) 7
d) 5
a) External and Internal Factors Evaluation Matrix (EFE) and Internal Factors (IFE)
b) Strategic planning matrix on the basis of QSPM quant-quant
c) SWOT Matrix
d) Main Strategic Matrix (GS)
Question 3: In the EFE matrix, the score of the enterprise is greater than 1.0 but less than 2.5
is classified as?
a) 10,0 – 5,0 - 1,0
b) 4,0 - 2,5 – 1,0
c) 5,0 - 2,5 – 1,0
d) 4,0 – 2,0 – 1,0
Question 6: What steps is the Strategic Position and Operational Assessment (SPACE) matrix
established through?
a) 7
b) 3
c) 5
d) 6
e) 4
Question 7: Identify the alternative strategy that the company should consider
implementing. Set the strategies into separate groups if possible." Here's a development of:
a) SWOT Matrix
b) EFE Matrix
c) IFE Matrix
d) QSPM Matrix
e) SPACE Matrix
a) Dogs
b) Cash Cows
c) Stars
d) Questions Mark
Question 9: The fifth step in the process of establishing the strategic position matrix and
operational assessment (SPACE) is:
Question According to the BCG matrix, an SBU that has products in an attractive industry
but has a low market share is called:
a) Dogs
b) Cash Cows
c) Questions Mark
d) Stars
Question 13: The CPM matrix (competitive image matrix) is set up to:
Question 14: Based on the BCG matrix tool, enterprises implement a harvest strategy when:
Question 17: Which of the following factors is NOT important to consider when choosing a
coalition partner?
Question 18: An organization that has both human and capital to develop products but
whose distributors are unreliable or incapable of satisfying the company's needs, the
effective strategy that can be applied is:
a) ST Coordination Strategy
b) WO Coordination Strategy
c) SO Coordination Strategy
d) WT Coordination Strategy
Question No matter how many opportunities and threats the EFE matrix has, the highest
total critical point a company can have is..., on average, the most important score a company
can have is...., the average is.... And the lowest is...
a) 5,0 - 2,5 – 1,0
b) 4,0 – 2,0 – 1,0
c) 4,0 - 2,5 – 1,0
d) 10,0 – 5,0 - 1,0
Question Identifying and analyzing the key factors that influence strategy is the work of the
step. in the process of developing a strategy
a) Decision stage
b) Input stage
c) Combined stage
d) Evaluation review phase
a) 3
b) 2
c) 5
d) 4
Question 25: How many steps does the mc kisey matrix build?
a) 5
b) 4
c) 6
d) 3
Question According to Fred R. David, the EFE matrix is set up in several steps:
a) 4
b) 3
c) 5
d) 6
Question 27: The formation and implementation of the strategy is concretized through three
stages, respectively:
a) Stage of strategic development and analysis; strategic implementation phase; strategic search
phase
b) Stage of strategic development and analysis; strategic implementation phase; phase of strategic
measurement, evaluation and adaptation
c) Construction phase; strategic implementation phase; strategic testing phase
d) Strategic analysis phase; strategic implementation phase; strategic adaptation phase
a) Used to analyze the scale of changes in a business's product strategy and market strategy
b) Allow managers to quickly summarize potential growth strategies in each of the existing
market's problem groups and compare them to the risks involved.
c) As a way to test the company's existing products and markets, shows that products can start to
create and the market can enter.
d) All ideas are right.
a) 5
b) 4
c) 3
d) 6
Question 32: In the EFE matrix, what does the total important score of 1.0 show us?
a) The company's strategy took advantage of the opportunity but failed to avoid external threats.
b) The company's strategy has taken advantage of opportunities and avoided external threats.
c) The company's strategy does not take advantage of opportunities and avoids external threats.
d) The company's strategy does not take advantage of opportunities but can avoid external
threats.
Question 33: What is the step "Determining the number of attractive points of each strategy
(TAS)" in the QSPM matrix?
a) 2
b) 6
c) 3
d) 5
e) 4
Question 34: Is the data from the government's report on the production and export
situation of enterprises in the industry used in their market analysis a source of data?
a) Primary
b) Scientific literature
c) Media documents
d) Secondary
Question 35: Choosing the right strategy and making decisions is the job of the step... in the
process of developing a strategy
a) Combined stage
b) Input stage
c) Decision stage
d) Evaluation review phase
Question 36: In the EFE matrix, what is the highest total of important points that a company
can achieve?
a) 4.0
b) 2,5
c) 3,0
d) 5,0
Question According to the BCG matrix, in a company's portfolio, the SBU led by the ....
a) Stars
b) Cash Cows
c) Dogs
d) Questions Mark
Question 38: What steps does the process of developing a strategy take?
a) 5
b) 6
c) 7
d) 8
Question 40: Based on bcg matrix tools, enterprises will invest in expanding production
when:
a) BCG
b) GIVE
c) SWOT
d) IFE
Question 42: The highest total critical score a company can have is 4.0; an average of 2.5 and
as low as 1.0 used for the matrix:
a) 8
b) 4
c) 5
d) 7
e) 6
Question 44: The tools for forming a strategic plan that can be selected are:
a) Merger strategy
b) Focused growth strategy
c) Diversification growth strategy
d) Growth and integration strategy
Question 46: The role of the use of information in strategic setting is:
Question 49: How many steps did the construction of the Ansoff matrix go through?
a) 4
b) 6
c) 5
d) 3
Question 50: Which of the following data is most likely in terms of future forecasting:
Question 51: How many steps does the information collection and processing
model take?
a) 5
b) 4
c) 3
d) 6
Question 52: How many stages does the strategy process consist of?
a) 5
b) 4
c) 2
d) 3
Question 53: The MC Kinsey matrix is used to:
a) 5
b) 3
c) 4
d) 6
Question 55: In the BCG matrix cash cow is the cell with market share and
growth:
a) Low – Low
b) Low – High
c) High – Low
d) High – High
Question 56: According to Fred R. David, the second step in the ife matrix is:
Question 57: How many cells does the matrix of internal and external
elements (IE) have?
a) 8
b) 6
c) 12
d) 9
Question According to Fred R. David, the first step in the efe matrix is:
a) Decision stage
b) Combined stage
c) Evaluation review phase
d) Input stage
Question 60: The role of the main strategic matrix (GS) is: