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Eim Quizz
Eim Quizz
1. If innovation is only seen as a strong R&D capability, it will result in: technology which fails to
meet user needs and may not be accepted
2. Creating commercial value and social value are stages in a lifecycle of an organisation
5. Rethinking of services and meeting social needs are aspects of: innovation
6. Creative replication of a concept, an existing service or a product are principles for the
Duplication type of: Incremental innovation
7. Innovation does not happen in a vacuum, the context of innovation is shaped by: proactive
links
8. Entrepreneurs wanting to create value through radical innovations can take the: Extreme
makeover
9. Public health care services, such as hospitals, have experienced major improvements in
efficiencies around key targets such as waiting: innovation in meeting social needs
12. A rule of thumb is that new technology should have at least _________ feature/s that
promise/s to be ten times better that its rivals.
one
13. The creative process of mind map starts with the basic problem as the centre and generates
___________ in order to generate at a large number of different approaches.
b. associations
15. Chinese thinker Lao Tzu philosophy maxims often expressed all behaviour consists of
opposites
16. How many opportunities do not pass the product feasibility test because the innovation is
not genuinely novel, it can the entrepreneur does own the technology or somebody else,
somewhere else has already disclosed and/or patented it
b. about 50%
17. Ensuring all the possible elements of a problem are examined is
a. attribute listing
19. Which of the following is not considered a factor that influences creativity?
a. Resources
b. Autonomy
c. None of the listed options
d. Pressures
e. Encouragement of creativity
20. Which of the following is not considered part of a feasibility analysis to screen opportunities?
Process feasibility
22. As part of their regular SWOT analysis, Dell computers reviews their strengths; the attributes
of Dell computers that: are internal factors that are able to be controlled
24. You purchase a can of drink for a friend. This makes you a customer
25. Political, economic, sociocultural, technological and legal factors are all a part of an
organisation's ___________ environment
b. Macro
27. The external environment encompasses: people and processes that the organisation cannot
directly control
28. Which of the following should influence an organisation's marketing planning?
Organisational objectives
29. A customer's overall assessment of the utility of an offering based on perceptions of what is
received and what is given is known as: value
30. At Coca Cola, the marketing department regularly conducts analysis that involves breaking
the marketing environment down into smaller parts in order to better understand it. This is an
example of
d. environmental analysis
5. A source of innovation within a company may emerge from an area of opportunty such as
a. Demographic changes
b. Shareholders interests
c. Customers feedback
d. Process needs Good work
e. Financial assistance
The correct answer is: Process needs
6. Creating commercial value and social value are
a. factors within inovation environment
b. examples of paradigm development That's not correct
c. elements of strategic analysis
d. incremental strategies
e. stages in a lifecycle of an organisation
The correct answer is: stages in a lifecycle of an organisation
9. The 'bottleneck buster' approach works best in which of the following circumstances?
a. All of the listed options.
b. When customers are frustrated by their inability to get a job done, and competitors are either
fragmented or have a disability that prevents them from responding.
c. None of the listed options.
d. When customers are locked out of a market because they lack skills, access or wealth.
Competitors ignore initial developments because they take place in seemingly unpromising
markets.
e. When target customers don't need and don't value all the performance that can be packed into
products, and when existing competitors don't focus on low-end customs.
10. Innovation can take many forms, all involving a change of some kind. Which of the following
is NOT a form of innovation?
a. Product (or service) innovation - changes in what is offered to the world
b. None of the listed options
c. Price innovation - offering deals, price discounts and price competition Good work
d. Position innovation - changes in the context in which innovations are launched
e. Process innovation - changes in the way offerings are created and delivered
The correct answer is: Price innovation - offering deals, price discounts and price competition
11. The action of making an association between two unlike things in order to obtain new
insights is called
a. problem reversal.
b. scenario thinking.
c. forced analogy.
d. attribute listing.
e. brainstorming.
The correct answer is: forced analogy.
12. A business plan involves planning resources and developing a budget which is then
compared with sales projections to ascertain the true
a. market size that can be captured Good work
b. competitive situation in the market place
c. level of positioning
d. number of product attributes
e. all of the options listed
The correct answer is: market size that can be captured
13. When people are intrinsically motivated at their workplace they work towards achieving:
a. all of the options listed
b. higher pay
c. a promotion
d. none of the options listed
e. personal challenge
The correct answer is: personal challenge
14. Which of the following is not considered part of a feasibility analysis to screen opportunities?
a. Economic feasibility
b. Process feasibility Good work
c. Market feasibility
d. Product feasibility
e. all of the options listed
The correct answer is: Process feasibility
21. As part of your marketing PhD you decide to investigate factors affecting people's attitudes,
beliefs, behaviours, preferences, customs and lifestyles. These macro environmental forces
which you investigate are collectively known as
a. environmental forces
b. political forces
c. sociocultural forces
d. economic forces
e. technological forces
22. Which of the following would not be considered a partner in the formal definition of
marketing?
a. Retailers who sell an organisation's products That's not correct
b. An advertising agency who writes the copy for an organisation's television commercial
c. Customers
d. All of the options listed
e. An organisation's supplier of raw materials
23. The Heart Foundation publicising the health risks associated with a poor diet is an example
of how the organisation can ______________ customers, clients, partners, competitors and other
parties that make up its industry
a. compel people to eat healthily, including
b. exert some influence on the
c. control the decisions of the
d. force food businesses to provide only healthy menu items to
e. none of the options listed
24. Cultural factors influencing people's attitudes, beliefs, behaviours, preferences, customs and
lifestyles are known as
a. environmental forces
b. sociocultural forces
c. political forces
d. technological forces
e. economic forces
25. Working for the Aldi supermarket chain, you are very aware of the activities of your
company's competitors - Coles and Woolworths - and find that you frequently make changes to
your business in response to actions they have taken. You also notice that they react when you
make changes to your business offering. This competition is occurring within the
a. the competitive-environment
b. the macro-environment
c. micro-environment
d. internal environment
e. none of the listed options
26. An organisation that outsources functions that can be done more efficiently by specialist
external providers is shifting those functions from
a. its macro environment to its micro environment
b. its internal environment to its micro environment
c. its micro environment to its macro environment
d. none of the options listed.
e. its internal environment to its macro environment That's not correct
The correct answer is: its internal environment to its micro environment
27. Choose the best answer from the options below to complete the following sentence. An
organisation chart can be a useful tool to help analyse an organisation's
a. sales force
b. market perception
c. external environment
d. marketing mix
e. internal environment
28. The external environment encompasses
a. goods and services controlled by other organisations
b. people and processes the organisation can control
c. people and processes that the organisation cannot directly control Good work
d. goods and services controlled by the organisation
e. none of the options listed
The correct answer is: people and processes that the organisation cannot directly control
30. Successful businesses in the late 1900's were those that adopted a
a. market penetration strategy
b. market orientation startegy
c. market dominance strategy
d. pure competition strategy
e. diffrentiation strategy
The correct answer is: market orientation startegy
Question 1
Examples of changes in mental models are
Shifts to low-cost airlines, online insurance.
Question 2
Which of the following combinations best describes incremental innovation?
can be rapidly implemented; based on sustained technologies; immediate gains
Question 3
The multipurpose smartphone is an example for which type of innovation?
synthesis
Question 4
Regardless of the type of innovation be it disruptive or incremental, it remains fundamentally an
application of Knowledge
Question 5
Plenty of evidence suggests that firms can and do learn to manage the process for success, by
building and developing their Innovation capability
Question 6
Rethinking of services and meeting social needs are aspects of innovation
Question 7
Which of the following is NOT an example of product innovation?
A new car design
A new version of the iPod
A new toothpaste
None of the listed options
Computer-control of manufacturing operations
Question 8
Which of the following is not considered a type of incremental innovation?
extension
synthesis
duplication
reduction
all of the listed options
Question 9
Innovation does not happen in a vacuum, the context of innovation is shaped by
proactive links
Question 10
Creating effective networks, outsourcing and coordination of a virtual organisation is an example
of Strategic advantage
Question 11
Creativity is the point of origination for innovation and entrepreneurship. It can produce of new
and _____________ works
useful
Question 12
Diversity in network ties is essential for would-be entrepreneurs as it widens the scope of
information about
potential innovation
business locations
assistance schemes
all of the options listed
sources of capital
Question 13
Bright ideas are the fuel for ______________ so understanding how we come up with them is worth
exploring.
Innovation
Question 14
A common element between creativity, innovation and entrepreneurships is
knowledge
Question 15
The successive stages of ideas generation, ideas evaluation and ideas implantation
all the listed options
can be rearranged
can overlap
can be non-linear
none of the listed options
Question 16
Which of the following is not a part of the creative process?
Software development
Question 17
Political behaviour and groupthink are social pressures that can
Damper an individual's creativity
Question 18
Which of the following is not considered a factor that influences creativity?
Pressures
None of the listed options
Autonomy
Encouragement of creativity
Resources
Question 19
Encouraging people to build on the ideas of others is an element of
brainstorming
Question 20
__________________ is about making associations, often exploring round the edges of a problem
Divergent thinking
Question 21
Marketing is viewed by many organisations largely as
a cost rather than as an investment
Question 22
Choose the best answer from the options below to complete the following sentence. An
organisation chart can be a useful tool to help analyse an organisation's
internal environment
Question 23
Value refers to total offering
Question 24
Marketing is considered to be
a science
all of the listed options
a learning process
none of the listed options
Question 25
A degree in Marketing will qualify you for a job in which of the following organisations?
Question 26
Cultural factors influencing people's attitudes, beliefs, behaviours, preferences, customs and
lifestyles are known as sociocultural forces
Question 27
When using the PESTEL framework, marketers are investigating
macro-environmental forces
Question 28
Which of the following would not be considered a partner in the formal definition of marketing?
Question 29
Factors that are beyond the organisation's direct control, though the organisation may be able to
have some influence over them, are
opportunities and threats
Question 30
As part of your marketing PhD you decide to investigate factors affecting people's attitudes,
beliefs, behaviours, preferences, customs and lifestyles. These macro environmental forces
which you investigate are collectively known as
sociocultural forces
The 'back-scratcher' approach works best in which of the following circumstances?
a. When customers are locked out of a market because they lack skills, access or wealth. Competitors
ignore initial developments because they take place in seemingly unpromising markets.
c. When target customers don't need and don't value all the performance that can be packed into
products, and when existing competitors don't focus on low-end customs.
e. When customers are frustrated by their inability to get a job done, and competitors are either
fragmented or have a disability that prevents them from responding.
1. Innovation mangers and practising entrepreneurs in large businesses have learned from the
world of experience that successful innovators
b. Innovation
c. Strategy
e. Resources
4. Which of the following would not normally be considered a radical innovation?
a. None of the listed options
ca
b. Antibiotic drugs
c. technology which fails to meet user needs and may not be accepted
b. duplication
c. synthesis
d. reduction
a. NPD
b. XCC
c. PLC
d. FSP
e. APC
a. Marketing analysis
b. Perceptual changes
c. Disruptive innovation
d. Cost innovation
9. Entrepreneurs wanting to create value through radical innovations can take the
_________________ approach.
b. Innovator s dilemma
c. Extreme makeover
d. Process needs
e. Strategic implementation
10. A source of innovation within a company may emerge from an area of opportunty such as
a. Customers feedback
b. Process needs
c. Shareholders interests
d. Financial assistance
e. Demographic changes
c. Knowledge
d. Motivation
e. Imagination
12. Multiple resources around the problem and volume of ideas can
a. reduce a group s innovation
d. reduce conflicts
e. enhance group creativity
b. Emotional attachment
c. Positioning
d. Problem reversal
e. Validation
b. value
c. effort
e. knowledge
d. changing perspectives
16. A business plan involves planning resources and developing a budget which is then compared
with sales projections to ascertain the true
a. level of positioning
b. Resources
c. Pressures
d. Encouragement of creativity
b. market feasibility
d. product feasibility
e. Brainstorming
19. Occasional flashes of insperation and long periods of incremental improvements are patterns for
a. building capabilities
c. strategic analysis
e. innovation
b. Situational analysis
e. Implementing innovation
21. When buying your first car, you choose to buy a used Mazda 3 from a dealer rather than a slightly
cheaper Mazda 3 advertised privately. Your mum thinks you made a good choice, but your dad thinks
the privately advertised car would have been a better deal. Why is there a difference in opinion?
a. Value can include product quality and after sales service
d. Value can be a comparison of the benefits a customer receives from a product in relation to its
price
22. Working for the Aldi supermarket chain, you are very aware of the activities of your company's
competitors - Coles and Woolworths - and find that you frequently make changes to your business in
response to actions they have taken. You also notice that they react when you make changes to your
business offering. This competition is occurring within the
a. none of the listed options
b. micro-environment
c. internal environment
d. the macro-environment
e. the competitive-environment
b. Partners
c. The micro-environment
e. Competitors
24. A customer's overall assessment of the utility of an offering based on perceptions of what is
received and what is given is known as
a. exchange
b. benefit
c. advantage
d. all of the listed options
e. Value
25. Situational analysis, together with the organisations objectives form the basis for developing the
marketing plan. Marketing plans are detailed documents; however, commonly, decision makers only
read which section?
a. The introduction
26. If in doing a SWOT analysis an organisation identified that its retail store site was poorly located,
this would be an example of
c. a weakness
d. a threat
e. a strength
a. competitive advantage
b. total offering
d. economic benefit
e. bargain pricing
28. In a SWOT analysis, an organisation's core competencies and competitive advantages would be
classified as
c. opportunities
d. strengths
e. Weaknesses
29. Cultural factors influencing people's attitudes, beliefs, behaviours, preferences, customs and
lifestyles are known as
a. environmental forces
b. economic forces
c. sociocultural forces
d. technological forces
e. political forces
30. An organisation recognising the ageing population and offering a seniors' discount for older
customers is most likely to be responding to
a. sociocultural forces
b. technological forces
c. environmental forces
d. political forces
e. legal forces
1. Plenty of evidence suggests that firms can and do learn to manage the process for success, by
building and
d. Innovation capability
3. The 'bottleneck buster' approach works best in which of the following circumstances?
c. When customers are locked out of a market because they lack skills, access or wealth. Competitors
ignore initial developments because they take place in seemingly unpromising markets.
7. Innovation can take many forms. Running a hospital booking system which reduces patient waiting
time is an example of which kind of innovation?
a. Process
9. Entrepreneurs wanting to create value through radical innovations can take the _____________
approach
e. Extreme makeover
11. Knowledge constitutes the essence of _______ and is intrinsically related to the creativity-
innovation- entrepreneurship process.
all of the listed options
12. Occasional flashes of insperation and long periods of incremental improvements are patterns for
innovation
13. The term _________ refers to somewhere between having too few and too many constraints.
d. sweet spot
16. Political behaviour and groupthink are social pressures that can
Damper an individual's creativity
17. Mutual openness to ideas, shared commitment to a project and diversity in team members can
d. encourage creativity
20. Chinese thinker Lao Tzu philosophy maxims often expressed all behaviour consists of
opposites
21. Situational analysis, together with the organisations objectives form the basis for developing the
marketing plan. Marketing plans are detailed documents; however, commonly, decision makers only
read which section?
e. The executive summary
22. Marketing is an approach to business that puts the _____ at the heart of business decisions.
customer, client, partner and society
23. Choose the best answer from the options below to complete the following sentence. An
organisation chart can be a useful tool to help analyse an organisation's
c. internal environment
27. The global financial crisis was an example of what type of macro-environmental force?
e. Economic.
28. In an attempt to overcome legal regulations, an industry body may attempt to influence which
aspect of its marketing environment?
Political
30. An organisation that outsources functions that can be done more efficiently by specialist external
providers is shifting those functions from
a. its internal environment to its micro environment
QUIZZ 2
1. inWhich of the following is not a behavioural segmentation variable?
2. The three main stages of the targeting process, in chronological order, are:
4. The total volume of sales of a product category that all organisations in an industry are
expected to sell in a specified period of time, assuming a specific level of marketing activity
is known as:
a. return on investment.
b. sales revenue.
c. market potential.
d. market share.
a. Market share refers to at least 33.3% of the total segmented market held by an
organisation when compared with last year marketing plans.
b. The level of industry marketing activity will generally influence the market
potential of a product category.
d. Market potential refers to the minimum possible sales in the total market for a product
category, by all organisations.
a. behavioural segmentation.
b. demographic segmentation.
c. psychographic segmentation.
d. geographic segmentation.
7. Subaru built its early reputation in Australia by targeting visitors to, and residents of the
snow country. This method of market segmentation could best be described as:
a. demographic.
b. geographic.
c. psychographic.
d. behavioural.
e. Geo-psychographic.
8/ A credit union that provides a wide range of financial services to members who are
employed in particular industries would be best described as having:
a. a market specialisation.
b. a product-market specialisation.
c. a service specialisation.
d. a product specialisation.
9. When the marketer seeks to _________and ___________those parts of the total market
that it can offer the most__________, the approach is known as the ___________ marketing
concept.
10. Toyota uses a target marketing approach to selling cars. Toyota offers a range of cars to
the market. Considering this, which of the following statements is incorrect?
a. staple products.
b. impulse products.
d. emergency products.
12. Qantas is a service provider, transporting customers from one destination point to
another. During their flights they also sell Qantas merchandise such as miniature
aeroplanes. Thinking about goods and services, which of the following statements is
incorrect?
a. A service is a product.
13. A dairy company manufactures a range of flavoured skim milks. This range is known as
the company's:
a. product item.
b. product capacity.
c. product line.
d. product mix.
14. Coca Cola rarely uses personal selling as one of its promotional strategies, instead
opting for various mass-marketing approaches. Coca Cola understands that a disadvantage
of personal selling is that:
16. Apple MacBooks are available from licensed retailers and distributors in Australia.
Retailers are licensed based on reputation and service, adding value to the strong Apple
brand. This approach to market coverage is known as:
a. indirect distribution.
b. selective distribution.
c. direct distribution.
d. exclusive distribution.
e. intensive distribution.
17. Coca Cola is available in vending machines, bars and clubs, supermarkets, petrol
stations, corner stores and at sporting events. This approach to market coverage is known
as:
a. direct distribution.
b. exclusive distribution.
c. intensive distribution.
d. selective distribution.
e. indirect distribution.
c. place.
d. people.
e. Product.
19. The association between Qantas and the Australian Rugby Union's Wallabies team is an
example of:
a. cause-related marketing
b. product placement
c. sponsorship
d. ambush marketing
20. The total product concept broadly describes a product as a bundle of attributes, creating
value for the customer. Specifically, a product can be defined as the core product, expected
product, ____________ product and ____________ product.
a. associated, finished
b. augmented, serviced
c. augmented, potential
d. associated, final
23. If even the smallest increase in the price of a product results in the quantity demand to
fall to zero, the demand for this product:
b. is price elastic.
d. is price inelastic.
b. macroeconomics.
c. microeconomics.
a. a movement along the supply curve such that quantity supplied increases.
b. a movement along the supply curve such that quantity supplied declines.
c. the supply curve to shift to the right.
26. By the term 'demand curve', economists mean the curve describing the relationship
between price and quantity demanded. The focus on price means that:
c. economists believe price is the only factor that influences quantity demanded.
d. a movement along the demand curve such that quantity demanded declines.
e. a movement along the demand curve such that quantity demanded increases.
28. Along an individual firm's supply curve, a reduction in quantity supplied occurs when:
b. the effects on one's job prospects of returning to school to study for a degree.
a. a movement along the supply curve such that quantity supplied increases.
d. a movement along the supply curve such that quantity supplied declines.
6. Which of the following is not a variable an organisation could use to segment business
markets?
a. Type of industry.
b. Product use.
c. All of the options listed are potential business market segmentation variables.
d. Organisational size.
e. Geographic.
7. You open a liquor store, selling only boutique wines (produced in smaller quantities and as
such not sold through major retailers) from the Hunter Valley in NSW. Your specialised
approach to the target market is: d. product-market specialisation.
8. Emma decides that after establishing a successful business using a mass marketing
approach, she wants to expand by differentiating her product range. Emma decides she will use
a target marketing approach, which can best be described as: identifying smaller, more
targetable market segments, then tailoring the marketing mix to best appeal to those segments.
10. Elders provides a comprehensive range of goods and services to farmers. This specialised
approach to target marketing is an example of: market specialisation.
11. Which of the following statements is correct?
a. An organisation can implement sales promotion strategies to offer extra value to retailers and
salespeople in a bid to increase sales.
b. An organisation can implement sales promotion strategies to offer extra value to consumers
in a
bid to increase sales.
c. An organisation can implement sales promotion strategies to smooth demand.
d. All of the options listed.
12. The marketing activities that make potential customers, partners and society aware of and
attracted to the business's offerings is known as: promotion.
16. A car salesperson shows buyers cars that are outside their price range before showing them
more suitable vehicles. This could best be described as an example of: reference pricing.
17. The characteristics that formally distinguish services from goods are intangibility,
inseparability, _____________ and perishability.
a. heterogeneity
18. A haircut, travel advice and financial advice are all examples of: services.
19. Which of the following would be classed as physical evidence in terms of the tangible cues
that customers may use to evaluate a service?
a. All of the options listed.
b. Delivery vehicles.
O c. Brochures.
d. Staff uniforms.
e. Shop fittings.
20. If a consumer is prepared to spend time comparing competing offerings before making a
purchase decision, the product is most likely to be a(n): shopping product.
23. The quantity demanded is influenced by both changes in the price and changes in variables
other than price. Changes in _______ result in the demand curve.
d. variables other than price; shifts in
25. If a firm raises the price of its product and finds that total revenue has fallen, this indicates
that: demand for the product is price elastic.
26. An individual is typically willing to purchase more of a good at lower prices, which implies
that the individual demand curve will be: downward sloping.
27. The demand curve is downward sloping, which means that the quantity demanded for a good
___________ when its price _________
a. falls; rises
28. The market demand curve is: derived by horizontally summing the individual demand curves
at each price.
29. Whenever two events occur simultaneously: there is correlation but not necessarily
causation.
30. The market supply curve is: derived by horizontally summing the individual firms supply
curves at each price.
Knowledge constitutes the essence of _____________ and is intrinsically related to the creativity-
innovation- entrepreneurship process.
e. all of the listed options
a. abilities
b. skills
d. capabilities
Question 1
As a marketing manager, you undertake research to understand how potential buyers see
your brand. Your research is aiming to identify your brand's:
position.
Question 2
Emma has decided to switch from a mass marketing approach, to a target marketing
approach. She understands that target marketing is a process and forms the basis of the
process.
market segmentation
Question 3
As an importer of surfing accessories, your company focuses its marketing operations in the
warmer coastal regions of Australia. This action is an example of:
geographic segmentation.
Question 4
Organisations that pursue a specialisation strategy seek to establish a dominant position in
their chosen ________ market.
niche.
Question 5
The total volume of sales of a product category that all organisations in an industry are
expected to sellin a specified period of time, assuming a specific level of marketing activity is
known as:
market potential.
Question 6
Which of the following would be a consideration for an organisation in evaluating market
segments and deciding which to target?
a. An understanding and/or analysis of competitors and how their offerings are seen by
potential target market segments.
b. The ability of the organisation to satisfy the needs and expectations of different market
segments.
¢. The potential sales volume and revenues of different market segments.
d. The cost to the organisation of targeting that market segment.
e. All of the options listed would be considerations. v Correct
Question 7
As a marketer for a major wine company, you implement a marketing program based on
occasion-based segmentation. You market some products as 'gifts', others as ‘celebratory’
and others for 'cellaring'. You action is an example of:
behavioural segmentation.
Question 8
Which of these of these underlies the concept of target marketing?
Question 9
Which of the following statements is correct?
Question 10
The three main stages of the targeting process, in chronological order, are:
segmentation, targeting, positioning.
Question 11
Milk could best be described as a product that is_______distributed.
intensively
Question 12
By definition, a product is:
a good, service or idea.
Question 13
Which of the following statements is incorrect?
Question 14
In terms of the total product concept, product differentiation occurs mainly at the _____ level.
augmented
Question 15
The total product concept broadly describes a product as a bundle of attributes, creating
value for the customer. Specifically, a product can be defined as the core product, expected
product, _______product and _________product.
augmented, potential
Question 16
An approach in which a product is promoted to consumers to create demand upward
through the marketing distribution channel is known as a:
pull policy.
Question 17
In the 7Ps framework, distribution is also known as:
place.
Question 18
The marketing activities that make potential customers, partners and society aware of and
attracted to the business's offerings is known as:
promotion.
Question 19
Which of the following statements is incorrect?
Question 20
Which of the following distribution channels is/are logical?
a. Producer, agent/broker, consumer.
b. Producer, wholesaler, retailer, consumer.
c. All of the options listed.
d. Producer, consumer.
Question 21
Diamonds command a higher price than water because they have a:
higher value in use.
Question 22
Total revenue will decline if the price_________ when the demand curve _______
rises; is price elastic.
Question 23
Microeconomics is that branch of economics that focuses primarily on:
the behaviour of individual units.
Question 24
When a market is in equilibrium;
there is neither excess supply nor excess demand.
Question 25
In the product market, firms:
are sometimes buyers, sometimes sellers, of goods.
The quantity demanded is influenced by both changes in the price and changes in variables
other than price. Changes in ________ result in ______ the demand curve.
variables other than price; shifts in
Question 27
Which of the following factors are most likely to lead to a shift in the demand curve for movie
tickets?
A change in the price of video rentals
Question 28
By the term ‘demand curve’, economists mean the curve describing the relationship between
price and quantity demanded. The focus on price means that:
economists are assuming that other influences on quantity demanded are constant so that
the effect of price can be isolated.
Question 29
Assume that the forces of supply and demand operate freely. All of the following statements,
except one, are true in this situation. Which is not?
e. When the price of a good rises, producers are encouraged to produce less of the good
and consumers are encouraged to purchase more of the good.
Question 1
Which of the following is not a behavioural segmentation variable?
Question 2
Which of the following would be useful for an organisation in forecasting the sales potential
for a market
segment?
a. All of the options listed. «Correct
b. Aknowledge of the conditions in its marketing environment.
¢. Aknowledge of the activities of competitors.
d. Aknowledge of its current market share in that segment.
Question 3
A market segment profile describes:
common features shared by members of market segments and how they differ from other
market segments.
Question 4
Which of the following is not a variable an organisation could use to segment business
markets?
a. Organisational size.
b. Geographic.
¢. Product use.
d. All of the options listed are potential business market segmentation variables. v Correct
e. Type of industry.
Question 5
Which of the following can influence the market position of an organisation, its products, or
its brands in the minds of target consumers?
a. The price of the organisation's product.
b. The features of the organisation's product.
¢. The customer's experience of the organisation, product, or brand.
d. Advertising and other promotional efforts.
e. All of the options listed. v Correct
Question 6
Emma decides that after establishing a successful business using a mass marketing
approach, she wants to expand by differentiating her product range. Emma conducts market
research investigating the psychographic characteristics of her market. Emma understands
that:
Question 7
The first step in determining the current positioning of a brand is:
to identify product attributes that consumers use to distinguish between competing products
or brands.
Question 8
As a marketer for a major wine company, you implement a marketing program based on
occasion-based segmentation. You market some products as 'gifts', others as 'celebratory'
and others for 'cellaring'. YouR action is an example of:
behavioural segmentation.
Question 9
The Australian car market can potentially be segmented in a number of different ways. When
segmenting any market, the market segmentation variables should always:
be linked closely to the purchase of the product in question.
Question 10
When the marketer seeks to ____ and_____ those parts of the total market that it can offer
the most ____, the approach is known as the ____ marketing concept.
identify, understand, value, target
Question 11
Big Australian retail outlets such as Kmart, Big W and Target stock a wide range of
consumer products. The consumer products stocked by these retailers can be best
categorised as:
shopping, convenience, specialty and unsought products.
Question 12
Apple and Virgin are two companies who frequently use public relations campaigns to
generate awareness of and interest in the products and services they offer to the market.
Public relations campaigns such as those run by Apple and Virgin have a number of
characteristics, but these characteristics do not include which of the following statements?
Public relations campaigns are generally high cost.
Question 13
Milk could best be described as a product that is _______distributed.
intensively
Question 14
During a meeting to discuss improving the ‘weakest’ parts of your business, your boss asks
you to contact all the members of your supply chain; he has identified this as an area where
improvements need to be made. Subsequently you need to contact:
Question 15
An approach in which a product is promoted to consumers to create demand upward
through the marketing distribution channel is known as a:
pull policy.
Question 16
A target market can best be described as:
a group of customers with similar needs and wants.
Which of the following would be classed as physical evidence in terms of the tangible cues
that customers may use to evaluate a service?
a. All of the options listed. «Correct
b. Shop fittings.
¢. Staff uniforms.
d. Brochures.
e. Delivery vehicles.
Question 18
A brand is a collection of ______ , such as a name, logo, slogan and design, intended to
create an image in the customer's mind that ______a product______ competitors' products.
symbols, differentiates, from
Question 19
Tickets to a concert that never get sold are an example of a service's:
perishability.
Question 20
In terms of the total product concept, product differentiation occurs mainly at the ____ level
augmented
Question 21
The demand curve is downward sloping, which means that the quantity demanded for a
good ______ when its price______
falls; rises
Question 22
A technological improvement will normally cause: the supply curve to shift to the right.
Question 23
The individual consumer's demand curve for a good describes the:
quantity of the good demanded by the consumer at each price.
Question 24
All of the following, except one, are sources of a shift in a market demand curve for a good.
Which is not?
Question 25
An increase in consumers' income will normally cause:
the demand curve to shift to the right.
Question 26
A reduction in the price of a complement will normally cause:
the demand curve to shift to the right.
Question 27
An increase in the price of an input will normally cause:
the supply curve to shift to the left.
Question 28
The theories that are developed in economics:
are conclusions derived from sets of assumptions.
Question 29
All of the following, except one, are sources of a rightward shift in the market demand curve
for butter. Which is not?
a. Reduced concern about the health risks associated with eating butter
b. An increase in the price of margarine X Incorrect
¢. An increase in consumers’ incomes
d. An increase in the price of bread
e. A large increase in the size of the population
Question 30
If the market price of a good is such that consumers wish to buy less of the good than firms
are offering for sale, the excess ______ will cause price to ________
supply; fall
Question 1
A target marketing strategy in which all marketing efforts are focused on meeting a wide
range of needs within a particular market segment is called:
market specialisation.
Question 2
_________produces two-dimensional maps showing how competing brands relate to each
other in terms of a range of product attributes. This, of course, assumes that consumers in
the target segment are with the brand and its competitors and are able to subjectively or
objectively compare them on attributes that they believe to be important.
Perceptual mapping, already familiar
Question 3
Behavioural segmentation differs from geographic, demographic and psychographic
segmentation because it:
is based on actual purchase and/or consumption behaviours.
Question 4
Woolworths understands that their market is made up of buyers with diverse needs; their
customers have unique wants, needs and demands. The market that Woolworths sells to is
said to be:
heterogeneous.
Question 5
Market segmentation variables should always:
be linked closely to the purchase of the product in question.
Question 6
Which of the following processes is most likely to assist with identifying target markets?
Situational analysis
Creating, communicating and delivering an offering of value.
SWOT analysis
The marketing mix.
Market research.
Question 7
An organisation that segments its market by offering rewards based on the amount of points
accumulated on its loyalty card would be best described as utilising:
behavioural segmentation.
Question 8
Which of the following would be an advantage of a one-to-one marketing strategy?
Question 9
As a marketer for a major wine company, you implement a marketing program based on
occasion-based segmentation. You market some products as 'gifts’, others as 'celebratory'
and others for 'cellaring'. Your action is an example of:
behavioural segmentation.
Question 10
Which of the following would be a consideration for an organisation in evaluating market
segments and deciding which to target?
a. All of the options listed would be considerations. v Correct
b. The potential sales volume and revenues of different market segments.
¢. An understanding and/or analysis of competitors and how their offerings are seen by
potential target market segments.
d. The ability of the organisation to satisfy the needs and expectations of different market
segments.
e. The cost to the organisation of targeting that market segment.
Question 11
Coca Cola is available in vending machines, bars and clubs, supermarkets, petrol stations,
corner stores and at sporting events. This approach to market coverage is known as:
intensive distribution.
Question 12
The association between Qantas and the Australian Rugby Union's Wallabies team is an
example of:
sponsorship
Question 13
In terms of the product, most of the differentiating features are part of the ________product
layer of the total product concept.
augmented
Question 14
Tickets to a concert that never get sold are an example of a service's:
perishability.
Question 15
A brand is a collection of ______, such as a name, logo, slogan and design, intended to
create an image in the customer's mind that ______ a product _____ competitors’ products.
symbols, differentiates, from
Question 16
Big Australian retail outlets such as Kmart, Big W and Target stock a wide range of
consumer products. The consumer products stocked by these retailers can be best
categorised as:
shopping, convenience, specialty and unsought products.
Question 17
A group of customers with similar needs and wants is known as:
a target market.
Question 18
Which of the following best describes the concept of product differentiation?
The creation of products and product attributes that distinguish one product from another.
Question 19
David has decided to buy a new pair of work shoes, so he spends his afternoon shopping for
a new pair. When classifying products, the category of ‘shopping products’, which includes
shoes, also includes:
a. impulse products.
b. none of the options listed. v Correct
¢. emergency products.
d. staple products.
Question 20
Marketers exercise control over a set of variables which includes price, promotion, and the
product. Together, these controllable variables are known as:
the marketing mix
Question 21
Excess demand will exist whenever: the actual price is below the equilibrium price.
Question 22
Along an individual firm's supply curve, a reduction in quantity supplied occurs when:
price has declined.
Question 23
All of the following, except one, would be an appropriate focus of study for microeconomics.
Which is not?
Question 24
A technological improvement will normally cause: the supply curve to shift to the right.
Question 25
The plans of buyers and sellers are mutually compatible when: the equilibrium price is
established.
Question 26
Microeconomics is that branch of economics that focuses primarily on: the behaviour of
individual units.
Question 27
Economic theory would not be useful in studying: why some people find it easier to give up
smoking than others.
Question 28
If the price of a product increases, but the quantity demanded does not decline at all, the
demand for this product in this price range: is perfectly price inelastic.
Question 29
The market supply curve is:
derived by horizontally summing the individual firms supply curves at each price.
Question 30
Total revenue will decline if the price ___ when the demand curve ___.
rises; is price elastic.