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MBA Advertising and Sales Promotion Mcq Set 5
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1. Advertisements intended to promote sale of the products by appealing directly to the consumers/buyers is called, _______
Consumer Advertising
Consumption Advertising
Retail Advertising
Trade Advertising
2. The first step in the advertising decision process is
Set the budget
Specify the objectives of the advertising program
Identify the target audience
Select the appeal
3. Which of the following is usually NOT an area of responsibility for people who work in an advertising agency?
Research
Creativity
Printing
Buying
4. DAVP stands for:
Dictionary of Advertising and Visual Publicity
Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity
Directory of Advertising and Visual Publicity
Directory of Advanced and Vital Publicity
5. ______ consists of short-term incentives to encourage the purchase or sale of a product or service.
A segmented promotion
Sales promotion
Advertising
A patronage reward
6. ________ is direct communications with carefully targeted individual consumers to obtain an immediate response.
Personal selling
Public relations
Direct marketing
Sales promotion
7. U. S. P.(Unique Selling Proposition) means:
A product that can sell
A feature similar to that of the competitor´s product/band
A feature present only in one product/brand
A feature that can not be altered
8. Advertising that is usually restricted in size and format and arranged in a group based on the mature of product or service advertised is generally referred to as
Display advertising
Corporate advertising
Classified advertising
Corporative advertising
9. Single colour used in an advertisement is called, ____
Mono colour
Single Print
Spot Colour
Mono Media
10. _________ research is used after the advertising has run and seeks to determine how well consumers remember the advertising message and how persuasive it was.
Market
Strategic
Consumer
Evaluative
11. The advertising messages are ______________ and _____
Precise and witty
Responsive and Informative
Persuasive and Productive
Persuasive and Informative
12. Advertisements try to discourage young people from using drugs or tobacco or encourage people to adopt safer, healthier lifestyles, are examples of ______________ Ads
Institutional Ads
Informational Ads
Consumer Ads
Impressive Ads
13. Advertising has its shortcomings illustrated by which of the following?
Advertising cannot be as persuasive as a company sales person
Advertising is impersonal
Advertising can be extremely expensive when using a multimedia approach
Advertising can only conduct a one-way communication with the audience
14. Rational appeals are those that use factual presentations to appeal to which part of the audience's attitudes?
Affective attitudes
Cognitive attitudes
Cultural attitude
All of the above
15. The form of advertising in which the purchaser pays only when there are measurable results, is;
Performance-based advertising
Reality marketing
Consumer side advertising
Quick response ads
16. ______ is a form of contextual advertising where specific keywords within the text of a web-page are matched with advertising and/or related information units.
Matching ad
In-text ad
Match key ad
Key text ad
17. Cool hunters are the marketing professionals who make observations and predictions in changes of,
The market
The Consumers
Advertising trends
New or existing cultural trends
18. _____ is a specific coordinated advertising effort on behalf of a particular product or service that extends for a specified period of time.
Marketing
Campaign
Public Relation
Product placement
19. Which is the following statement is false?
In choosing media, the advertiser faces both a macro-scheduling and micro-scheduling problem
Pulsing calls for advertising for a period, followed by a period with no advertising, followed by a second period of advertising activity
Continuity means exposures appear evenly throughout a given period
Buyer turnover expresses the rate at which new buyers enter the market
20. In the relationship marketing firms focus on ______________ relationships with ______
Short term; customers and suppliers
Long term; customers and suppliers
Short term; customers
Long term; customers
21. Newsletters, catalogues, and invitations to organisation-sponsored events are most closely associated with the marketing mix activity of:
Pricing
Distribution
Product development
Promotion
22. ____ is an Internet advertisement that consists of a video played like a TV commercial, usually in a pop-up or pop-under advertisement.
Video ad
Unicast ad
Pop-Up Ad
Superstitial ad
23. What defines PPC (in online arena)?
Pay Per Count
Per Print Cost
Pay Per Click
Play Per Click
24. The individuals in the print media audience who purchase or subscribe to the publication are called;
Primary audience
Direct consumers
Local audience
Visible Audience
25. An individual outlet of an advertising medium, such as a certain magazine or a specific broadcast station or program is called,
Ad vehicle
Ad spot
Ad slot
Ad outlet
26. Define jargon;
The deadline given to ad item to publish or broadcast
Special words and expressions related to social groups, professions, events etc
The reference library of a media organization
Special advertising terms
27. Introducing new products to existing markets is an example of:
Horizontal diversification
Concentric diversification
Conglomerate diversification
Vertical diversification
28. Cognitive dissonance occurs in which stage of the buyer decision process model?
Need recognition
Information search
Evaluation of alternatives
Post-purchase behavior
29. ______ are ads that appear while subscribers are surfing online services or Web sites, including banners, pop-up windows, "tickers," and "roadblocks."
Online infomercials
Online ads
Online broadcasts
Online bullets
30. A ______________ is a promotion strategy that calls for using the sales force and trade promotion to move the product through channels.
Blocking strategy
Push strategy
Pull strategy
Integrated strategy
31. A company is practicing ______________ if it focuses on sub segments with distinctive traits that may seek a special combination of benefits.
Micromarketing
Niche marketing
Mass marketing
Segment marketing
32. The total delivery of a media schedule during a specified time period is called,
Time Rating
Gross Rating Point
Average Rating Point
Frequency
33. The study of human populations in terms of size, density, location, age, gender, race, occupation, and other statistics is called:
Geothermy
Demography
Ethnography
Hemos-popography
34. When a seller of a product requires that its dealers not handle competitors´ products, the seller´s strategy is called:
Multilevel distribution
Prohibitive retailing
Exclusive dealing
Bonded partnering
35. The songs or tunes about a product or service that usually carry the ad theme and a message are,
Slogans
Jingles
Beats
Themes
36. POP is an abbreviation of;
Purchase of Product
Property of Product
Point of Purchase
Priority of Purchase
37. _____ define(s) the job that advertising must do in the total market program.
Advertising objectives
Advertising budget
Advertising strategy
Advertising campaigns
38. The following is the functions of advertising, Except;
Persuasion
Perception
Reminder
Selling
39. In evaluating messages for advertising, telling how the product is better than the competing brands aims at making the ad:
Meaningful
Distinctive
Believable
Remembered
40. Important people who influence the opinions of others are known as ______
Trend setters
Opinion leaders
Opinion influencers
Opinion setters
41. A specific coordinated advertising effort on behalf of a particular product or service that extends for a specified period of time
Campaign
Trial
Marketing
Commercial
42. In planning and obtaining publicity, a frequently used tool is the ______________, which is an announcement regarding changes in the company or the product line.
Trade show
News release
Infomercial
Double-page spread
43. The most common form of outdoor advertising is
Stadium advertising
Advertising on taxis
Advertising on bus backs
Billboard advertising
44. Which of the following statements about magazines as an advertising medium is true?
Magazines have distinct profiles for well-defined target audiences
Some nationally distributed magazines publish regional or metro editions to reduce the'cost of ads and wasted coverage
Magazine ads can convey complex information
All of these
45. _______ are direct response television commercials which generally include a phone number or'website
Infomercials
Phone-in programmes
Advocacy ads
Quick response ads
46. AdSense is,
An advertising agency
Set of regulations and standards in advertising
Google´s advertising programme to display ads in web pages
Awareness programme introduced to give advices about the advertising tendencies to the consumers
47. _____ is defined as the percentage of households in a market that are tuned to a particular television show or radio station.
Gross rating points
Reception rate
Target audience reach
Rating
48. Three common advertising appeals include
Objectivity, timeliness and frequency
Fear, sex, and humour
Guilt, ego and enrichment
Possessiveness, pride and social status
49. The primary purpose of a pioneering advertisement is to
Promote a specific brand's features and benefits
Inform the target market
Show one brand's strengths relative to those of competitors
Reinforce previous knowledge of a product
50. Billboard advertising is most effective for ______________ advertising.
Pioneering
Advocacy
Reminder
Comparative
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