Quiz3 Key
Quiz3 Key
Quiz3 Key
1. Positioning consists of arranging for a market offering to occupy a clear, distinctive, and
desirable place relative to competing products in the minds of target consumers.
3. ________ segmentation divides buyers into different segments based on lifestyle and
personality characteristics.
A) Benefit
B) Occasion
C) Geographic
D) Demographic
E) Psychographic
5. A market-coverage strategy in which a firm decides to target several market segments and
designs separate offers for each is known as ________.
A) mass marketing
B) differentiated marketing
C) concentrated marketing
D) individual marketing
E) cross-marketing
6. Which of the following questions is most important for product designers to consider while
developing a product?
A) Which specific features of the product do customers like most?
B) How does the product appear to buyers?
C) What are the product's technical specifications?
D) How would customers use and benefit from the product?
E) How can the product be packaged to stimulate instant purchase?
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7. Product mix ________ refers to the number of different product lines the company carries.
A) length
B) height
C) width
D) consistency
E) depth
8. Product mix ________ refers to the number of versions offered for each product in the line.
A) length
B) depth
C) height
D) width
E) consistency
9. A brand has positive brand equity when consumers react more favorably to it than to a
generic or unbranded version of the same product.
10. A brand extension involves the use of a successful brand name for new or modified
products in a new category.
14. Which of the following is the practice of inviting broad communities of customers,
employees, independent researchers, and members of the public into the new product
innovation process?
A) brainstorming
B) idea screening
C) crowdsourcing
D) outsourcing
E) concept testing
15. Why do some firms skip the test marketing phase of new product development?
A) It can take too long and result in missed opportunities.
B) It provides limited information.
C) Consumers differ too much from region to region.
D) It is cheaper to introduce a lot of new products and wait for the winners to emerge.
E) Consumers are too fickle in today's digital world.
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16-20. The figure below is the course of a product’s sales and profits over its lifetime, the
Product Life-Cycle (PLC).
Objective: B E D C A