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1. A service is the tangible component of an offering

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True
False

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2. Line depth refers to whether the product line is broad or narrow

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True
False

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3. The entire assortment of products that a firm offers is called the product line.

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True
False

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4. Price entails how much money a customer gives up to obtain an offering

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True
False

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5. The total amount someone pays to own, use, and eventually dispose of a product is the TCO

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True
False

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6. Most offerings are either a product or a service.

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True
False

Question 7

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1. Offerings are _____.

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a. products and services designed to deliver value to customers
b. services designed to satisfy customer needs
c. products designed to satisfy customer wants
d. products and services designed to deliver value to a firm
e. products and services designed to add value to the firms marketing mix

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2. A(n) _____ is a characteristic of an offering.

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a. tangible good
b. feature
c. intangible value
d. price point
e. need

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3. When a feature satisfies a need or want, then there is a(n) _____.

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a. added value
b. high quality level
c. benefit
e. value

Question 10

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4. A product-dominant approach to marketing is based on the belief that

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a. enjoyment of a product and its disposal are important in understand consumer needs
b. marketers should consider what services it takes for the customer to acquire their offerings
c. sales personnel and marketing can drive consumerism
d. the best way to capture market share is to create and manufacture better products at lower prices.
e. marketers should assess the value customers place on products in their daily lives.

Question 11

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5. A group of related offerings is known as a _____.

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a. technology platform
b. product mix
c. service mix
d. product category
e. product line

Question 12

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6. The four offering levels include all of the following EXCEPT

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a. the product mix.
b. the product category.
c. the product line
d. the basic offering
e. the offering’s technology platform

Question 13

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7. A group of offerings that are sold under the same name is known as a _____.

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a. technology platform
b. product mix
c. service mix
d. product category
e. product line

Question 14

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8. A number of variations in a single product line is known as _____.

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a. line depth
b. a product mix
c. line breadth
d. a product category
e. a product line

Question 15

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9. The number of different or distinct product lines offered by a company is known as _____.

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a. line depth
b. a product mix
c. line breadth
d. a product category
e. a product line

Question 16

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1. Offerings are products and services designed to deliver _____ to customers

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: tangible
: features
line breadth
: value

Question 17

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2. A product is a(n) _____ that can be bought, sold, and owned.

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: features
: value
: tangible
line breadth

Question 18

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3. The characteristics of an offering are known as the _____.

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: features
: value
breadth

Question 19

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5. A product-orientation is an approach to business that focuses on capturing business by focusing on _____ and _____ better products at lower prices.

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: creating; manufacturing
product; mixing

Question 20

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1. A frequently purchased product that requires little shopping effort is known as an impulse offering.

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True
False

Question 21

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2. A consumer opts not to buy Brand B of potato chips when the grocery store is out of Brand A because it is a shopping offering in the eyes of the consumer.

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True
False

Question 22

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3. Milk, fuel, bread, and other examples of life’s necessities are specialty offerings

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True
False

Question 23

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4. The fact that many consumers would not consider shopping for a taillight until it is in need of repair is an example of an unsought offering.

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True
False

Question 24

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5. Marketers use intensive distribution strategies to ensure consumers see convenience offerings at the right time.

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True
False

Question 25

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6. The categories in which consumer offerings are placed are based on the characteristic of the offerings themselves.

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True
False

Question 26

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1. Marketing of _____ items is often limited to simply trying to get the product in as many places as possible where a purchase could occur.

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a. convenience offerings
b. shopping offerings
c. specialty offerings
d. unsought offerings

Question 27

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2. Consumers often care about brand names when they’re deciding on _____.

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a. convenience offerings
b. shopping offerings
c. specialty offerings
e. product offerings

Question 28

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3. _____ are specialty items that are available only through limited channels.

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a. Convenience offerings
d. Unsought offerings
c. Specialty offerings
b. Shopping offerings

Question 29

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4. Marketing _____ requires building brand name recognition in the minds of consumers and educating them about your product’s key differences.

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a. convenience offerings
b. shopping offerings
c. specialty offerings
d. unsought offerings
e. product offerings

Question 30

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5. _____ are those that buyers do not generally want to have to shop for until they need them.

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a. Convenience offerings
b. Shopping offerings
c. Specialty offerings
d. Unsought offerings
e. Product offerings

Question 31

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1. A convenience offering is a(n) _____-priced product or service.

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low
moderate
high

Question 32

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2. A(n) _____ offering is purchased without prior planning.

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impulse
unsought
specialty

Question 33

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3. An unsought offering is one that a customer typically does not shop for until _____.

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a need arises
extra income is available
it is on sale

Question 34

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4. A crown on a tooth can be considered a(n) _____ offering

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unsought
specialty
impulse

Question 35

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5. _____ are products and services consumers generally don’t want to put much effort into shopping for because they see little difference between competing brands.

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convenience offerings
specialty offerings
unsought offerings

Question 36

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1. A company that assembles and manufactures a product into its final form is known as an OFM.

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True
False

Question 37

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1. A company that assembles and manufactures a product into its final form is known as an OEM.

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True
False

Question 38

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2. Manufacturing, repair, and operations offerings are those that keep a company’s depreciable assets in working order.

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True
False

Question 39

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3. Facilitating offerings are products and services a company purchases to support its operations but are not part of the firm’s final product.

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True
False

Question 40

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4. A manufactured material has been processed into a finished good and is a stand-alone product

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True
False

Question 41

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5. Because most businesses buy MRO items in large quantities and because these firms also need products not available to the general public, they will generally buy these products from a distributor.

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True
False

Question 42

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1. Banking and transportation services are types of _____.

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a. original equipment manufacturing offerings
b. capital equipment offerings
c. facilitating offerings
d. raw materials offerings
e. maintenance, repair, operations offerings

Question 43

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2. Marketing _____ can be very challenging because many people within a firm are involved in the buying decision for these types of products.

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a. original equipment manufacturing offerings
b. capital equipment offerings
c. facilitating offerings
d. raw materials offerings
e. maintenance, repair, operations offerings

Question 44

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3. _____ are typically thought of as commodities, so price and availability are very important in relation to the competition.

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a. Original equipment manufacturing offerings
b. Capital equipment offerings
c. Facilitating offerings
d. Raw materials offerings
e. Maintenance, repair, operations offerings

Question 45

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4. _____ consist of final products that have been put together from raw materials, manufactured materials, and/or component parts.

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a. Original equipment manufacturing offerings
b. Capital equipment offerings
c. Facilitating offerings
d. Raw materials offerings
e. Maintenance, repair, operations offerings

Question 46

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5. _____ are often sold by distributors but a consumer can also buy many of the same products at a retail store.

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a. Original equipment manufacturing offerings
b. Capital equipment offerings
c. Facilitating offerings
d. Raw materials offerings
e. Maintenance, repair, operations offerings

Question 47

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6. _____ might not be central to the buyer’s business, but the offerings are very important to a person making the buying decision.

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a. Original equipment manufacturing offerings
b. Capital equipment offerings
c. Facilitating offerings
d. Raw materials offerings

Question 48

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7. A _____ is a finished good that still has to be incorporated into something else to be usable

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a. manufactured material
b. finalized material
c. component piece
d. dynamic product

Question 49

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1. Capital equipment offerings include tangible equipment business purchases that are _____.

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specialized
depreciated
facilitated

Question 50

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2. A(n) _____ has been processed into a finished good but is not a stand-alone product

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raw product
manufactured material

Question 51

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3. _____ support an organization’s ability to do business but do not go into the final product

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Facilitating offerings
manufacturing offerings
OEM offerings

Question 52

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4. _____ are processed only to the point required for economic handling and distribution.

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raw materials
manufactured material
OEM components

Question 53

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5. OEM offerings include products, or parts, sold by one manufacturer to another that get built into a final product without _____.

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further modification
maintenance

Question 54

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1. A brand extension involves the creation of a brand and then positioning it in the mind of the consumer.

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True
False

Question 55

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2. An example of a brand mark is Coca-Cola

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True
False

Question 56

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3. A brand is used by a seller to differentiate its offerings from that of the competitors.

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True
False

Question 57

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4. Ideally when you sell a new product, you hope that all of its sales come from your competitor’s customer base or customers new to the market.

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True
False

Question 58

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5. Both a completely new offering and a line extension will likely result in cannibalization

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True
False

Question 59

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6. Packaging can be part of the brand

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True
False

Question 60

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7. Secondary packaging holds a single retail unit of a product

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True
False

Question 61

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8. Packaging can add value to your product

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True
False

Question 62

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1. A symbol or logo used to identify a brand is known as a _____.

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a. brand mark
b. brand
c. brand name
d. brand extension
e. brand package

Question 63

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2. A brand is _____.

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a. simply a label
b. a name, picture, design, or symbol used by a seller to differentiate their offerings
c. a picture that is similar to another company’s design
d. a slogan that conveys the firm’s image
e. an advertising campaign

Question 64

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3. A successful branding strategy

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a. creates revenue for the company
b. invokes negative advertising campaigns from competitors
c. creates consumer recognition of what the brand means
d. results in a company being considered “cool.”
e. segments customers based on their needs.

Question 65

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4. Pepsi is an example of a(n) _____.

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a. brand strategy
b. brand mark
c. brand statement
d. brand name

Question 66

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5. _____ occurs when a firm’s new offering eats into the sales of one of its older offerings.

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a. Brand extension
b. Brand strategy
c. Saturation
d. Product failure
e. Cannibalization

Question 67

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1. A brand is used by a seller to _____ its offerings from competitors’ offerings.

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compare
communicate
differentiate

Question 68

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2. A brand name is the _____ part of an identity used to describe the brand.

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spoken
recognized
written

Question 69

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3. A brand mark is a(n) _____ or _____ used to identify a brand.

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symbol; logo
word; phrase

Question 70

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4. _____ packaging is designed to hold a single wholesale unit of a product

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secondary
primary
tertiary

Question 71

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5. Primary packaging is designed to hold a single _____ unit of a product

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retail
wholesale

Question 72

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6. A brand extension entails the process of utilizing an existing brand name or brand mark for a(n)

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new product category
new retail outlet

Question 73

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7. _____ is designed for the shipping and handling of large quantities of product.

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tertiary
primary
secondary

Question 74

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1. Vertical market managers are found only in B2B markets.

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True
False

Question 75

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2. Market managers have the most flexibility in terms of pricing and product decisions.

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True
False

Question 76

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3. Market managers are likely to be tasked with implementing a product or brand manager’s strategy.

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True
False

Question 77

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4. At the retail level, a category manager at each store is responsible for one manufacturer’s products.

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True
False

Question 78

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5. Product managers are found at companies like Procter & Gamble, SC Johnson, and Kraft.

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True
False

Question 79

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1. Which type of manager has the most marketing responsibility?

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a. category manager
b. market manager
c. value manager
d. brand manager
e. vertical market manager

Question 80

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2. Market managers can be found in which types of markets?

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a. consumer and B2B
b. consumer and regional
c. B2B and industrial
d. regional and B2B
e. industrial and consumer

Question 81

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3. _____ are found at Xerox, IBM, and Rockwell International; while _____ are found at Microsoft, General Mills, and Target.

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a. Brand managers; market managers
b. Brand managers; product managers
c. Product managers; brand managers
d. Product managers; market managers

Question 82

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4. A _____ is responsible for a broad group of offerings, such as home cleaning products, which have various brands within each group.

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a. product manager
b. brand manager
c. market manager
d. category manager
e. vertical integration manager

Question 83

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5. A _____ is the person responsible for all business decisions regarding offerings within one brand

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a. product manager
b. brand manager
c. market manager
d. category manager

Question 84

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1. A(n) ______ is a person responsible for all business decisions regarding offerings within one brand.

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brand manager
category manager
product manager

Question 85

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2. A product manager is responsible for a(n) _____ or _____.

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product; product line
brand; brand name

Question 86

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3. Vertical marketing managers oversee _____ products sold to a particular industry

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Question 87

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4. Market managers have _____ over the communication content of marketing campaigns or market strategies.

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no control
complete control
some control

Question 88

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5. A(n) _____ has responsibility for business decisions within a broad grouping of offerings

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category manager
brand manager
product manager

Question 89

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A market can be defined as

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geographic market or region
a market segment
a type of business
channel of distribution
All of the above

Question 90

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_________ Decide what products are to be marketed and how

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market managers
brand managers

Question 91

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1. The size of a company will affect how the different stages of their new product development process are conducted.

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True
False

Question 92

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2. In B2B markets, customers are typically a large source of new product ideas

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True
False

Question 93

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3. New product ideas typically move down the supply chain

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True
False

Question 94

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4. Idea generation is typically the most expensive step in the process of developing new offerings

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True
False

Question 95

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6. Focus groups are conducted during the testing stage of the new offerings development process.

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True
False

Question 96

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7. Depth interviews involve gathering eight to twelve consumers and gauging their reaction to a product/service concept.

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True
False

Question 97

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8. The purpose of concept testing is to get early consumer feedback before investing too much money in an offering that won’t work.

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True
False

Question 98

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9. Financial feasibility is the degree to which the company can actually make and service the product.

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True
False

Question 99

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10. The risk that there is a better idea that gets ignored because the firm has invested in the idea at hand is known as opportunity risk.

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True
False

Question 100

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11. Quality function deployment is the process whereby a company starts with the innovation and then designs an offering.

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True
False

Question 101

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12. Testing is a relatively inexpensive step in the product development process.

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True
False

Question 102

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13. A company that makes an offering available to certain markets first and then other markets later is employing a rolling launch strategy.

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True
False

Question 103

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14. Milestones utilized by companies to evaluate product performance are typically the same within an industry.

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True
False

Question 104

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15. Most companies put new offering ideas through a seven-step process.

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True
False

Question 105

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1. Customers who are good at generating new product ideas or applications of products are called _____.

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lead users
alpha users
innovators
trend setters

Question 106

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2. A line extension occurs when a company comes out with another model based on the same _____ and _____ as one of its other products.

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a. platform; advertising
b. platform; brand
c. brand; advertising
d. marketing mix; offering
e. offering; consumers

Question 107

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3. In the idea screening stage, companies evaluate new offerings by determining

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a. if the product cost more during idea generation than expected
b. the product’s features.
c. if the product fits with the image and corporate strategy

Question 108

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4. In what stage of the new product development process does concept testing occur?

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a. launch
b. idea generation
c. development
d. idea screening

Question 109

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5. To understand if a product offering is financially feasible, companies often consider the customer’s

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a. potential interest in the product.
b. demographics, including income
c. value segmentation
d. price point
e. personal value equation

Question 110

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6. _____ refers to the possibility that the company will fail to earn the appropriate return on the money and effort it puts into the new product.

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a. Investment risk
b. Financial risk
c. Opportunity risk
d. Innovation risk

Question 111

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7. Quality function deployment is a process utilized in which step of the product development process?

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a. launch
b. feature specification
c. development

Question 112

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8. The feature specifications process begins with a strong understanding of

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a. what risks are involved
b. what opportunity costs are entailed
c. what consumers want and need

Question 113

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9. A firm considers the product’s manufacturing process during which stage of the product development process?

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a. launch
b. feature specification
c. development

Question 114

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10. In terms of a manufactured offering, using the same technology platform as another product can be

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a. costly and cumbersome
b. seen as having a lack of innovative spirit
c. a subpar strategy
d. effective and less expensive

Question 115

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11. _____ ensures that a product meets its specifications in a variety of environments determined by the company.

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a. Concept testing
b. Product testing
c. Alpha testing

Question 116

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12. _____ not only tests whether the offering works as advertised, but it also tests the offering’s delivery mechanisms, service processes, and other aspects of marketing the product.

Answer

Concept testing
Alpha testing
Beta testing

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