Business Administration Practice Exam
Course Introduction
Business Administration is an interdisciplinary field that covers the principles and practices necessary for managing and operating organizations effectively. The course explores foundational concepts such as organizational behavior, marketing, finance, human resources, operations management, and strategic planning. Students learn to apply analytical and decision-making skills to real-world business challenges, develop leadership and communication abilities, and gain an understanding of the ethical and global considerations in contemporary business environments. This course equips students with the knowledge and competencies needed to pursue careers in management, entrepreneurship, consulting, and other business-related professions.
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Foundations of Strategy 1st Canadian Edition by Robert M. Grant
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Chapter 1: The Concept of Stategy
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Q1) Strategy is fundamentally about
A)being better than rivals.
B)success in achieving long-term goals.
C)satisfying all stakeholders.
D)being an excellent "corporate citizen".
Answer: B
Q2) Select the best answer. Success is fundamentally linked to
A)a soundly formulated strategy and luck.
B)an effectively formulated strategy and a strong awareness of the rivals' strengths.
C)a clear understanding of the environment and strong political skills.
D)a soundly formulated and effectively implemented strategy.
Answer: D
Q3) A contemporary phenomenon is known as "winner-take-all markets". This concept is exemplified by
A)Enron and WorldCom.
B)E-Trade and WebVan.
C)Microsoft (PC software)and Intel (PC core processors).
D)Peapod in grocery retailing.
Answer: C
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Chapter 2: Industry Analysis
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Q1) Once value is created, it is, in general,
A)equally shared between customers and producers.
B)not equally shared between customers and producers.
C)distributed to the firm's shareholders.
D)reinvested into the firm or put aside as a reserve.
Answer: B
Q2) Retaliation against a new entrant may take the form of aggressive price-cutting, increased advertising, sales promotion, or vexatious litigation.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q3) Formally scanning and analyzing the whole range of external influences continuously is the best approach.
A)True
B)False
Answer: False
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Chapter 3: Resources and Capabilities
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Q1) It is vital for a business strategist to distinguish between a firm's resources and its capabilities.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) A capability that is "needed to play" is
A)a threshold resource.
B)a unique resource.
C)a threshold competence.
D)a core competence.
Answer: C
Q3) Firms try to develop resources and capabilities to
A)maximize attractiveness to our customers.
B)create sustainable competitive advantage.
C)maximize current profit rates.
D)attract the best employees.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: The Nature and Sources of Competitive
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Q1) "Causal ambiguity" is the failure to clearly understand the source of a rival's competitive advantages - in particular which of the rival's distinctive features are causes and which are effects of another feature.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The Boston Consulting Group developed the concept of time-based competition.
A)True
B)False
Q3) If an industry has a stable environment and firms pursue similar strategies,
A)firms with similar resources and capabilities should have similar profit rates.
B)firms with similar resources and capabilities should have similar structures.
C)firms without similar resources and capabilities will have left the industry.
D)strategists may as well shoot themselves, this industry is so boring.
Q4) "Strategic innovation" means introducing
A)new products.
B)new markets.
C)new technologies.
D)all of the above, or introducing new ways of doing business.
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Chapter 5: Industry Evolution and Strategic Change
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Q1) It's a good idea to reduce product innovation as soon as possible so as to precipitate a shift to the growth phase.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The key success factor for firms surviving in the Maturity phase is
A)buying as many competitors as you can.
B)maintaining cost efficiency as good as competitors.
C)"two for one" deals and other special offers.
D)all of the above.
Q3) The industry life cycle comprises 4 stages: introduction, growth, maturity, declineso is indistinguishable from the product life cycle.
A)True
B)False
Q4) A new industry life cycle begins when
A)a very large gap in the market emerges.
B)another industry dies.
C)new knowledge manifests itself in the guise of a sufficiently radical product innovation.
D)there are sufficient entrepreneurs.
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Chapter 6: Technology-Based Industries and the Management of Innovation
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Q1) A patent is usually the best protection for an innovation.
A)This statement is correct.
B)No one can confirm or disprove this statement.
C)It depends.
D)This statement is incorrect.
Q2) The effectiveness of the different laws used to protect property rights depends on A)the country in which a firm wants to protect its property rights.
B)the role of specialized state agencies in that protection.
C)the state of the economy.
D)the type of innovation that is being protected.
Q3) The risk of failure of an innovation is a combination of technological risk and market risk.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Competitive advantage and technology are linked by A)innovation.
B)corporate culture.
C)invention.
D)organizational culture.
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Chapter 7: Corporate Stategy
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Q1) The most sensible corporate strategy is to expand the scope of activities the company is involved in over time.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Michael Porter suggests that one test of whether a diversification makes sense is whether the managers will be better off as a result.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Of Michael Porter's three tests of whether a proposed diversification will create value, the most important one is usually A)none. They are all equally important.
B)the "attractiveness" test.
C)the "cost of entry" test.
D)The "better-off" test.
Q4) If the transaction costs associated with buying in a product or service from the market costs more than the firm providing this internally, then the firm will outsource. A)True
B)False
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Chapter 8: Realizing Stategy
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Q1) In a weak culture
A)people interpret a senior manager's statement or signal differently.
B)people hold contrary views on how they should behave at work.
C)a, b or both.
D)non-aggression and meekness are espoused and practiced by all staff.
Q2) In this chapter we examine how three key factors shape and are shaped by strategy:
A)purpose, structure, and culture.
B)values, structure and culture.
C)systems, structure and culture.
D)structure, structure and structure - it's all about structure!
Q3) Reconciling the need to divide labour into specialized tasks and to coordinate it to achieve the task is the central problem of external stakeholders in any organization.
A)True
B)False
Q4) An organization's structure, systems, and culture can influence the way a strategy is realized in practice.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 9: Global Strategies and the Multinational Corporation
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Q1) For the theory of comparative advantage, a country's innate national endowments include its
A)climate, labour, and exports.
B)climate, labour, and its steel industry.
C)climate, minerals, history, and culture.
D)climate, labour, and its financial wealth.
Q2) The two main mechanisms for expanding internationalization are cultural collaboration and military rivalry.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Firms can use a value chain analysis of their industry
A)as the basis of their customer segmentation.
B)to divide and locate production between countries with different natural resources that suit each stage of production.
C)to identify the profitability of production at each stage of the firm value chain.
D)to definitively categorize their suppliers.
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Chapter 10: Corporate Responsibility
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Q1) The 'Great Recession' occurred in the first half of the twentieth century.
A)True
B)False
Q2) A Ponzi scheme
A)is guaranteed a minimum income.
B)pays "returns" to savers out of capital paid in from new investments or new investors.
C)is guaranteed to fail eventually.
D)b and c.
Q3) Chevron's Partnering for a Better Future program involves investing in strengthening the communities in which it operates because it believes business succeeds when people prosper.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Most companies in the past decade have taken a status quo approach to corporate responsibility.
A)True
B)False
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