Thursday, December 9, 2010

MKT621 Mid Dec 2010 Paper

Mkt621- current paper midterm - 09 December, 2010

23 questions out of 5 were subjective and 18 were mcqs.

Pulsing of scheduling strategy with an example                            (Marks 3)
Noise in communication to target audience (internal and external)        (Marks 3)
Write factors of positioning strategy?                                                         (Marks 5)
Write problem solving barriers?                                                                  (Marks 5)
What are characteristics of a good copywriter?                                        (Marks 5)

For subjective Chapter no 14, 16, 17 and 18 and 20 are most important.
Totally Un-important are first 5 chapters.

AIDA model was developed by
       Bovea
       E.K Strong     
       Philip Kotler

Which one of the following included in the Innovation-adoption model?
       Awareness
       Evaluation
       Trial         
       Retention


Which one of the following explains the course of a product's sales and profits over its lifetime?

       Product Life Cycle
       Dynamic Growth Curve
       Adoption Cycle
       Sales Chart

Which one of the following is the best option available at the decline stage of business cycle?
       Change the sales force
       Launch same product in different market
       Increase the advertising budget
       Appoint new marketing manager

Which one of the following tools is used to decide 'Advertising Reach'?
       Net Rating Point
       Net Program Rating
       Targeting Point
       Gross Rating Point


Following are the product differentiations based on customers' perception EXCEPT:
       Perceptible
       Imperceptible
       Persuasion
       Induced

Keep in mind the creative process of advertising, which of the following means; taking the information, working with it and thinking about it in the mind.
Immersion
Incubation
Verification
Digestion

‘Above the line media’ and ‘Below the line media’ are two important terms used in advertising based on promotional techniques. Which of the following is the example of ‘Below the line media’ promotion?
       TV
       Radio
       Cinema
       Direct mail
    

OTHER MCQs coming in current papers


MIDTERM PAPER OF MKT 621 -2009
Question No: 1    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 Which one of the following tools is more influential for massive target audience to convey a message that is helpful in making a buying decision?
       Publicity
       Personal Selling
       Public relation
       Advertising
   
Question No: 2    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 Which of the following product differentiations based on customers' perception can be defined as: “No obvious difference but informs people about the difference”?
       Perceptible
       Imperceptible
       Induced
       Persuasive
   
Question No: 3    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 Following are the product differentiations based on customers' perception EXCEPT:
       Perceptible
       Imperceptible
       Persuasion
       Induced
   
Question No: 4    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 Which one of the following media is more effecitve to promote agriculture products?

       Radio
       Internet
       Newspaper
       TV
   
Question No: 5    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 Which one of the following is the best option available at the decline stage of business cycle?
       Change the sales force
       Launch same product in different market
       Increase the advertising budget
       Appoint new marketing manager
   
Question No: 6    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 Intermediaries typically perform all of the following functions EXCEPT:

       Breaking down the bulk quantity into small quantity
       Making goods locally available to customers
       Providing expert local market knowledge
       Creating direct communication from the customer to manufacturer
   
Question No: 7    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 For a given market, a demand curve is the relationship between _______.

       Price and quantity
       Price and supply
       Demand and supply
       Supply and quanity
   
Question No: 8    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 Which one of the following explains the course of a product's sales and profits over its lifetime?

       Product Life Cycle
       Dynamic Growth Curve
       Adoption Cycle
       Sales Chart
   
Question No: 9    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 Liana advertising agency (LAA) handles all aspects of the advertising process including planning, design, production, and placement services to its client “Xing Construction Company of China”. LLA is a ________________.

       Creative agency
       Full service agency
       Composite agency
       Media Independent agency
   
Question No: 10    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 Which one of the following sections of an ad copy provides the main text portion of advertising message?
       Illustration
       Body Copy
       Art design
       Standing Details
   
Question No: 11    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 ‘Above the line media’ and ‘Below the line media’ are two important terms used in advertising based on promotional techniques. Which of the following is the example of ‘Below the line media’ promotion?
       TV
       Radio
       Cinema
       Direct mail
   
Question No: 12    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 Which one of the following methods can be used to determine the advertising budget?
       Competitive parity method
       Rating method
       Gross percentage method
       Ratio method
   
Question No: 13    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 In which of the following advertising budget approaches, management decides how much to spend on advertising by ignoring the market reality?
       Market Share Approach
       Top Down approach
       Bottom Up Approach
       Risk Approach
   
Question No: 14    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 Which one of the following is the part of post-campaign evaluation in an advertising research?

       Media Schedule
       Assess Effectiveness
       Coincidental Surveys
       Brand Tracking
   
Question No: 15    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 Advertisement is communication between sponsor and audience meant for informing or reminding about the product. Which of the following is NOT serving the informing objective of advertisement?
       Make consumers aware of new product
       Announcing a new price of product
       Explaining how a product works
       Products are still available for sale
   
Question No: 16    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 After watching the 30-minute infomercial on surf excel, Sana was certain the cleaning product would remove the grape juice stain from her white shirt. In terms of the communication process, Sana had engaged in which of the following process?

       Evaluating
       Encoding
       Decoding
       Messaging
   
Question No: 17    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 Which one of the following is NOT a component of information process model?

       Yielding
       Retention
       Comprehension
       Preferences
   
Question No: 18    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 ROPE is a problem-solving strategy and it stands for:
       Research, Objective, Programming, Evaluation
       Research, Objective, Problem, Evaluation
       Research, Objective, Promotion, Evaluation
       Resource, Objective, Promotion, Evaluation
   
Question No: 19    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 Which one of the following defines the basic purpose of promotion?

       Information Dissemination
       Dissuading Customers
       Feedback Retrieval
       Convenience to Customer
   
Question No: 20    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 Which one of the following is NOT a synonym of Target Audience?

       Target customer
       Disbeliever customers
       Target market
       Focus group
   
Question No: 21    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 Which one of the following tools is NOT used to decide 'Advertising Reach'?

       Gross Rating Point (GRP)
       Program Rating (PR)
       Targeting Rating Point (TRP)
       Competitive Parity Rating (CPR)
   
Question No: 22    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 Which one of the following advertising objectives can be defined to increase company’s brand usage rate among existing consumers and encouraging non-users to have trial and / or purchase?
       Communication objective
       Sales objective
       Behavior related objective
       Media planning objective
   
Question No: 23    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 In creative process, which one of the following steps helps you to put the problem out of your conscious mind and put the information to do the creative work?

       Immersion
       Incubation
       Illumination
       Verification
   
Question No: 24    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 Keep in mind the creative process of advertising, which of the following means; taking the information, working with it and thinking about it in the mind.
       Immersion
       Incubation
       Verification
       Digestion
   
Question No: 25    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 Which of the following methods can be used to measure the radio audience?

       Coverage
       Number of listeners
       Timings of programs
       All of the given options
   
Question No: 26    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 A printing error in a newspaper advertisement is an example of:

       Feedback
       Noise
       Message loop
       Carelessness
   
Question No: 27    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 ABC Company manufactures processor and advertises its product for Del and HP computers. It is an example of which of the following.

       Interactive Advertising
       Retail or Local Advertising
       Institutional Advertising
       Business to Business Advertising
   
Question No: 28    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 Which of the following is the process of identifying groups of customers with basically similar wants, needs, preferences or buying behaviors?
       Profiling
       Positioning
       Segmentation
       Targeting
   
Question No: 29    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 "Technological advances, shifts in consumer tastes and increased competition can reduce the demand of a product". This threat can arise mostly in which of the stages of PLC (Product Life Cycle)?
       Introduction
       Growth
       Maturity
       Decline
   
Question No: 30    ( Marks: 1 )    - Please choose one
 At which of the following stages in the product life cycle, the sales growth starts to slow down?


       Introduction
       Growth
       Maturity
       Decline

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