Marketing Fundamentals Exam Review
Course Introduction
Marketing Fundamentals introduces students to the core principles and practices that guide the marketing process in modern organizations. The course explores essential topics such as market research, consumer behavior, segmentation, targeting, positioning, and the development of effective marketing strategies. Students will gain an understanding of the 4Ps product, price, place, and promotion and examine how these factors interact to create value for both customers and businesses. Through real-world examples and case studies, the course provides a foundation for identifying market opportunities, crafting marketing plans, and utilizing both traditional and digital marketing channels to achieve organizational goals.
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Foundations of Marketing 8th Edition by William M. Pride
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Chapter 1: Customer-Driven Strategic Marketing
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Q1) From the 1920s to the 1950s, demand for manufactured goods decreased, leading to the ____ orientation.
A)production
B)market
C)revolutionary
D)sales
E)reduction
Answer: D
Q2) Marketing knowledge and skills
A)are not necessary for a nonprofit organization.
B)are valuable personal and professional assets.
C)constitute the marketing mix.
D)were most important during the production era.
E)are most valuable for advertising executives but less important for wholesalers and distributors.
Answer: B
Q3) Marketing activities can occur even when an exchange doesn't take place.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
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Chapter 2: Planning, Implementing, and Evaluating Marketing Strategies
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Q1) It is time to develop a budget for marketing department activities for the next year. Your team is looking over the following costs.: Office rent
Sales commissions
Promotional budget
Product development costs
Office supplies
The finance department has recently told you that you have $3,000 to spend on office supplies. You cannot go beyond this no matter what changes happen in the marketing department. Your salespeople get a flat 15% sales commission on anything they sell. With this in mind, which of these costs are variable costs?
A)Office rent, sales commissions, promotional budget, product development costs, office supplies
B)Office rent, promotional budget, and office supplies
C)Sales commissions, promotional budget, and product development costs
D)Sales commissions, product development costs, office supplies
E)Promotional budget and office supplies
Answer: C
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Chapter 3: The Marketing Environment, Social Responsibility, and Ethics
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Q1) Technology affects the types of products offered to consumers.
A)True
B)False
Answer: True
Q2) Companies that are considered to be good corporate citizens and consider the diverse perspectives of different groups affected by their operations are said to have a ____ orientation.
A)marketing
B)sales
C)production
D)stakeholder
E)citizen
Answer: D
Q3) How would marketers most likely benefit from the consumer's right to be heard?
A)Consumers will tell others about their bad experience with the company.
B)The company can use the information to make its products better.
C)They gain valuable information about their competitors.
D)Consumers will drop their complaints if companies hear them out.
E)More information about the products can be posted online.
Answer: B
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Chapter 4: Marketing Research and Information Systems
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Q1) Mina Patel is running for Congress from the Fifth District in her state. She is interested in knowing the intended choices of the voters. All the registered voters in her district would constitute the study's A)experiment.
B)dependent variable.
C)population.
D)independent variable.
E)sample.
Q2) While shopping at the mall over the weekend, you noticed a group of young women asking shoppers if they could spare five minutes to answer some questions about their shopping experience at the mall. Given your marketing experience, you immediately recognize that these young women were conducting a marketing research project. Which step in the five-step marketing research process were they in?
A)Step 1 - Locating and defining the problem
B)Step 2 - Designing the research project
C)Step 3 - Collecting data
D)Step 4 - Interpreting research findings
E)Step 5 - Reporting research findings
Q3) Why would a personal interview be favored over a mail or telephone survey?
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Chapter 5: Target Market Segmentation and Evaluation
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Q1) One condition for effective segmentation is that at least one segment must have substantial profit potential.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Walmart sells numerous products, including packaged food, produce, automotive maintenance services, eyeglasses, clothing, and toys. Walmart advertises itself as a store where "we save people money so they can live better," focusing on its low prices as the customer's most important need. Walmart's advertising appears to use a(n) _____ strategy to a market that is _____.
A)undifferentiated; homogeneous
B)undifferentiated; heterogeneous
C)differentiated; homogeneous
D)homogeneous; differentiated
E)heterogeneous; undifferentiated
Q3) One way marketers can segment business markets is according to their geographic location.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How do business markets differ from consumer markets?
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Chapter 6: Consumer Buying Behavior
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Q1) Digital influences have largely replaced
A)word-of-mouth referrals from neighbors, coworkers, and friends.
B)advertising.
C)brick-and-mortar store sales.
D)personal selling.
E)learning.
Q2) In the consumer buying decision process, a buyer will search his or her memory for information about products that might solve the problem they have identified in the A)internal search.
B)external search.
C)evoked search.
D)purchase phase.
E)postpurchase phase.
Q3) Consumers' purchasing decisions and brand decisions may be influenced strongly by reference groups.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Discuss how perceptual processes may influence the consumer buying decision process.
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Chapter 7: Business Markets and Buying Behavior
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Q1) Reciprocal arrangements are legal as long as they do not threaten competition.
A)True
B)False
Q2) The three purposes for which individuals or groups can use products in order for it to be considered a business market are
A)use in daily operations, end consumption, and resale.
B)direct use in producing other products, company travel, and end consumption.
C)resale, use in daily operations, and direct use in producing other products.
D)governmental, institutional, and reseller purposes.
E)making other products, selling to other businesses, making component parts.
Q3) Which type of business market tends to have the most complex buying procedures?
A)Reseller
B)Institutional
C)Retailer
D)Government
E)Producer
Q4) Raw materials are especially affected by joint demand.
A)True
B)False
Q5) How has the Internet facilitated the organizational buying process?
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Chapter 8: Reaching Global Markets
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Q1) Nuhitzu believes it has the technological expertise to produce communication systems that will be leaders around the globe. Boston Electronics is widely regarded as having excellent management systems and superior marketing programs. To utilize these strengths, the two firms might form a(n) ____ to work together on a worldwide basis.
A)licensing agreement
B)export trading company
C)joint agreement
D)strategic alliance
E)multinational enterprise
Q2) Italy currently limits the number of Michael Kors bags that can be imported during a one-year period, since Michael Kors bags are made in New York, USA. This is an example of a(n)
A)exchange control limit.
B)embargo.
C)quota.
D)import tariff.
E)supply limit.
Q3) Describe the sociocultural forces that affect international marketing strategy.
Q4) In what ways can a nation restrict the flow of imported goods?
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Chapter 9: Digital Marketing and Social Networking
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Q1) A problem of digital marketing evaluations is that there are no methods to capture the metrics that indicate the outcomes of strategies.
A)True
B)False
Q2) General Electric engages with its customers by answering their questions and posting updates. This is an example of accessibility.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Barnes and Noble sells online through its website, while also selling through physical store locations. This type of retailing is referred to as
A)brick-and-clicks.
B)side-by-side.
C)bricks-and-mortar.
D)online-specialty.
E)web-only.
Q4) Explain how consumer-generated content on digital media can be useful to marketers.
Q5) How can marketers measure the success of their digital strategies?
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Chapter 10: Product, Branding, and Packaging Concepts
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Q1) The width of a product mix is measured by the number of product
A)dimensions in the product line.
B)features in each brand.
C)items in the product line.
D)lines a company offers.
E)specialties a company offers.
Q2) The four major stages of a product life cycle include
A)prosperity, recession, depression, and recovery.
B)specialty, convenience, shopping, and unsought goods.
C)decline, stabilization, exposure, and growth.
D)introduction, growth, maturity, and decline.
E)awareness, interest, trial, and adoption.
Q3) Marvel Comics allowed various organizations to use its Spiderman and Incredible Hulk characters to market a wide variety of toys and clothing items. Marvel Comics received a percentage of the gross revenues. This is
A)brand licensing.
B)character exploiting.
C)co-branding.
D)family branding.
E)trademark leasing.
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Chapter 11: Developing and Managing Goods and Services
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Q1) Personal trainers cannot complete their work without their clients present because of the ____ feature of services.
A)perishability
B)intangibility
C)inseparability
D)heterogeneity
E)tangibility
Q2) A run-out policy of product deletion
A)lets the product decline without changing the product strategy.
B)is an immediate-drop decision.
C)exploits any strengths left in the product.
D)raises the price of the product continually to secure as much profit as possible before the product is priced out of the market.
E)occurs when production cannot keep pace with demand because of material shortages.
Q3) Styling involves the specific design characteristics that allow a product to perform certain tasks.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 12: Pricing Concepts and Management
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Q1) Cost-plus pricing is popular in periods of rapid inflation.
A)True
B)False
Q2) Most pricing objectives based on ____ are achieved by trial and error because not all cost and revenue data are available when prices are set.
A)market share
B)cash flow
C)return on investment
D)survival
E)profit
Q3) In some cases, prices are assigned to goods on the basis of nothing more than custom.
A)True
B)False
Q4) How can a marketer use product quality as a pricing objective to influence purchasing decisions?
Q5) Grocery stores use negotiated pricing strategies.
A)True
B)False
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Chapter 13: Marketing Channels and Supply-Chain Management
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Q1) Stream City, Inc. is an independent business that takes title to products and carries inventories. Stream City, Inc. is most likely a(n)
A)industrial distributor.
B)intermediary.
C)agency.
D)wholesaler.
E)producer.
Q2) What advantages do industrial distributors offer? What are some of the disadvantages of using industrial distributors?
Q3) Refusal-to-deal arrangements involve a manufacturer that forbids an intermediary to carry products of competing manufacturers.
A)True
B)False
Q4) Using a freight forwarder usually
A)is not economical for a small firm.
B)increases transit time and shipping costs.
C)increases transit time and sometimes lowers shipping costs.
D)lowers shipping costs for a large firm.
E)reduces transit time.
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Chapter 14: Retailing, Direct Marketing, and Wholesaling
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Q1) New store formats and advances in _______________ are making the retail environment highly dynamic and competitive.
A)architecture
B)inventory management
C)product styles and quality
D)shopping mall configurations
E)information technology
Q2) Which type of retailer generally accepts lower margins than traditional retailers in exchange for higher sales volume?
A)Department stores
B)Traditional specialty retailers
C)Warehouse showrooms
D)Direct marketers
E)Discount stores
Q3) Retailers form an important link in the marketing channel because they are both marketers and customers.
A)True
B)False
Q4) What is a store's image, and how does it affect retailing strategy decisions?
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Chapter 15: Integrated Marketing Communications
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Q1) Explain the communication process.
Q2) For many consumers, the pages near the back of magazines with dozens of very small black and white advertisements exceed their
A)channel capacity.
B)threshold of awareness.
C)decoding abilities.
D)transmission limitations.
E)noise limit.
Q3) If a product's target market consists of millions of people, marketers are most likely to focus promotional efforts on
A)personal selling and advertising.
B)advertising and public relations.
C)advertising and sales promotion.
D)personal selling and sales promotion.
E)public relations and sales promotion.
Q4) New introductory promotion neither emphasizes brand names nor compares brands.
A)True
B)False
Q5) Discuss the major factors that affect the selection of promotion mix elements.
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Chapter 16: Advertising and Public Relations
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Q1) When sales go up, advertising should be increased; when sales decline, advertising should be decreased.
A)True
B)False
Q2) One way an advertising agency assists a firm is that it takes care of all the grunt work in order to give its clients time to do the creative work on the campaign.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Your company CEO is a very socially conscious individual who believes in prudently utilizing the resources of the company to promote causes that are good for the environment and society-at-large. She recently asked you to work with the firm's outside ad agency to develop an advertising campaign that articulates the company's concern about climate change.??Which of the following types of advertising will you pursue to meet her expectations?
A)Competitive advertising
B)Comparative advertising
C)Pioneer advertising
D)Reminder advertising
E)Advocacy advertising
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Chapter 17: Personal Selling and Sales Promotion
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Q1) Maryana works at Hershey in the marketing department. Recently, Hershey developed a new chocolate bar that the company is excited about. Maryana's job is to try to increase awareness of the product, get people to try it, and obtain desirable distribution at retail stores. Which consumer sales promotion method should Maryana select based on these criteria?
A)Money refunds
B)Point-of-purchase displays
C)Demonstrations
D)Frequent-user incentives
E)Free samples
Q2) Salespeople should know the sales objectives of the firm in order to know what they are expected to accomplish.
A)True
B)False
Q3) Identify four consumer and four trade sales promotion techniques, and describe each one.
Q4) Identify and describe several ways to motivate sales personnel.
Q5) Relationship selling is used especially in consumer marketing.
A)True
B)False
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