Thursday 28 June 2012

MKT501








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2 2011826384 AHMAD BASIRUN BIN ABDUL RASHID       Error       Error #VALUE!
3 2011894196 AHMAD RAZMI BIN ABDUL MANAN         Error       Error #VALUE!
4 2010415548 AINIL IDZATY BINTI MOHAMED ANWAR       Error       Error #VALUE!
5 2011235702 AIZUDDIN ARIF BIN ABDUL GHANI         Error       Error #VALUE!
6 2010874258 ASYRAF IKHMAL BIN ZULKIFLI         Error       Error #VALUE!
7 2011432856 CHE ZULKHAIRI ISWANDI B CHE HAMID       Error       Error #VALUE!
8 2010242472 FAZLINARULZAIHA BINTI HAROON @ HARUN       Error       Error #VALUE!
9 2010601368 HALIMATULSAADIAH BINTI HALIM         Error       Error #VALUE!
10 2011820356 HAMZAH BIN MOHAMED         Error       Error #VALUE!
11 2011860408 LOKMAN BIN MOHAMAD         Error       Error #VALUE!
12 2011655334 MD AZHARULZAMAN BIN MOHAMED SAID       Error       Error #VALUE!
13 2011802594 MIMI SUZAINI BINTI MOHAMED         Error       Error #VALUE!
14 2010205124 MOHD HAFIZ BIN CHEK ROMLI         Error       Error #VALUE!
15 2011837216 MOHD HANIFF BIN RAMLI         Error       Error #VALUE!
16 2011271554 MOHD KHAIDIR B MOHD NOR         Error       Error #VALUE!
17 2011888978 MOHD SHAH FITRI BIN ZOLKAPLI         Error       Error #VALUE!
18 2011821106 MOHD SUFIAN BIN SARIF         Error       Error #VALUE!
19 2011891492 MUHAMAD NASRULRAHMAN B CHE KAR       Error       Error #VALUE!
20 2011557495 MUHAMMAD NABIL NAUFAL B MOHAMED NASIM     Error       Error #VALUE!
21 2010842508 NUR AMALINA BINTI RAZALI         Error       Error #VALUE!
22 2010890796 NUR ATIQAH BINTI NAJIB         Error       Error #VALUE!
23 2010254584 NUR ATIQAH NABILAH BINTI JOHARI       Error       Error #VALUE!
24 2010285352 NUR AZA FARAHIN BINTI AMIRRUDDIN       Error       Error #VALUE!
25 2010452398 NUR FARHANA BINTI MOHD ZAILANI       Error       Error #VALUE!
26 2010647934 NUR LIYANA AIFA BINTI MAHAMMAD ASRI       Error       Error #VALUE!
27 2010648226 NURUL HALIMAH BINTI GHAZALI         Error       Error #VALUE!
28 2010226988 SITI HAZIMAH BINTI  AWAL UD-DIN         Error       Error #VALUE!
29 2011874432 SYAIEDEEN BIN AWANG RANI         Error       Error #VALUE!
30 2011687892 UMAR KHATTAB BIN JAMAL         Error       Error #VALUE!
31 2011826516 WAN MOHAMAD FARID B WAN ABDUL MANAF       Error       Error #VALUE!

Macam mana TEST dan assignment saya?

Saya tidak ghairah lagi menjalankan tugasan pensyarah. Kekecewaan terasa apabila menatap assignment pelajar di mana hasilnya adalah `cut and paste' dan secara lurus menyerupai assignment kawan yang lain atau menyerupai jawapan dalam teks. Kalau teks itu dipenuhi dengan contoh dari USA, maka itulah yang ternampak di assignment pelajar. Anjakan pemikiran dan kreativiti tidak terdapat pada jawapan. Apa yang harus saya lakukan bila berdepan dengan keadaan begini? Walaupun agak kecewa, tetapi di hati kecil ini mendoakan agar ketamadunan yang sebenar berlaku di mana rakyatnya kreatif, aktif, dan progresif, bebas dari meniru hasilan orang lain. Allahuakbar.

Thursday 21 June 2012

Essay Q for TEST2

QUESTION 1

Sales promotion consists of short-term incentives to encourage purchase or sales of a product or service.

a) Explain four (4) reasons for the growth of sales promotion.
b) What and discuss the three (3) forms of sales promotion. Relate with the tools that are being used.

QUESTION 2

a) Identify and list five (5) requirements for an effective segmentation.
b) Explain with examples of products four (4) bases for segmentation.

QUESTION 3

a) Describe , with examples, the three (3) main Vertical Marketing Systems (VMS) marketers can adopt.

b) Define Marketing Logistics. Using appropriate examples, explain four (4) functions of logistics.

c) What are the key functions peeformed by Channel members. Explain with examples any three of the
     functions.

Wednesday 20 June 2012

Ch1 MC for TEST2

Chapter 1   Marketing: Creating and Capturing Customer Value

1) All of the following are accurate descriptions of modern marketing, EXCEPT which one?
A) Marketing is the creation of value for customers.
B) Marketing is managing profitable customer relationships.
C) Selling and advertising are synonymous with marketing.
D) Marketing involves satisfying customers' needs.
E) Marketing is used by for-profit and not-for-profit organizations.


2) According to management guru Peter Drucker, "The aim of marketing is to ________."
A) create customer value
B) identify customer demands
C) make selling unnecessary
D) set realistic customer expectations
E) sell products

3) ________ is defined as a social and managerial process by which individuals and organizations obtain what they need and want through value creation and exchange.
A) Selling
B) Advertising
C) Bartering
D) Marketing
E) Negotiating

4) Which steps of the five-step marketing process are about understanding customers, creating customer value, and building strong customer relationships?
A) the first two only
B) the first three only
C) the first four only
D) the last three only
E) the last four only



5) ________ are human needs as shaped by individual personality and culture.
A) Needs
B) Wants
C) Demands
D) Values
E) Exchanges

6) When backed by buying power, wants become ________.
A) social needs
B) demands
C) physical needs
D) self-esteem needs
E) exchanges

7) What do companies call a set of benefits that they promise to consumers to satisfy their needs?
A) market offering
B) value proposition
C) demand satisfaction
D) need proposition
E) evoked set


8) Which of the following refers to sellers being preoccupied with their own products and losing sight of underlying consumer needs?
A) selling myopia
B) marketing management
C) value proposition
D) marketing myopia
E) the product concept



9) ________ is the act of obtaining a desired object from someone by offering something in return.
A) A value proposition
B) Exchange
C) Bribery
D) Value creation
E) Donation

10) A(n) ________ is the set of actual and potential buyers of a product.
A) market
B) audience
C) group
D) segment
E) exchange



11) The art and science of choosing target markets and building profitable relationships with them is called ________.
A) marketing management
B) positioning
C) segmentation
D) selling
E) differentiation

12) Selecting which segments of a population of customers to serve is called ________.
A) market segmentation
B) positioning
C) customization
D) target marketing
E) managing the marketing effort

13) Which of the following is the set of benefits a company promises to deliver the customer to satisfy their needs?
A) a money-back guarantee
B) low pricing
C) good customer service
D) a value proposition
E) an attribute




14) Which of the following marketing management concepts is most likely to lead to marketing myopia?
A) customer-driven marketing
B) customer-driving marketing
C) social marketing
D) selling
E) production


15) The ________ concept is aligned with the philosophy of continuous product improvement and the belief that customers will choose products that offer the most in quality, performance, and innovative features.
A) product
B) production
C) customer
D) marketing
E) promotion


16) Which concept calls for aggressive selling and focuses on generating transactions to obtain profitable sales?
A) marketing
B) production
C) product
D) selling
E) societal marketing


17) Which concept holds that achieving organizational goals depends on knowing the needs and wants of target markets and delivering the desired satisfactions better than competitors do?
A) product
B) production
C) selling
D) marketing
E) equity


18) According to the production concept, consumers will favor products that are ________ and ________.
A) satisfying; quality focused
B) advertised; affordable
C) in high demand; hard to find
D) segmented; convenient
E) available; affordable


19) Air Asia Airlines  used the marketing concept in his successful organization. Having a customer department rather than a marketing department, as suggested by Kelleher, is an example of a(n) ________ perspective.
A) outside-in
B) external
C) inside-out
D) modern
E) traditional


20) Which of the following reflects the marketing concept philosophy?
A) "We don't have a marketing department; we have a customer department."
B) "We're in the business of making and selling superior products."
C) "We build them so you can buy them."
D) "When it's profits versus customers' needs, profits will always win out."
E) "You won't find a better deal anywhere."


21) The societal marketing concept seeks to establish a balance between consumer short-run wants and consumer ________.
A) short-run costs and profits
B) short-run ethics
C) long-run welfare
D) immediate health
E) value propositions

22) Which concept holds that firms must strive to deliver value to customers in a way that maintains or improves the consumer's and society's well-being?
A) marketing
B) selling
C) product
D) societal marketing
E) equity




23) The three areas of consideration that should be balanced in the societal marketing concept are consumer wants, society's interests, and ________.
A) human welfare
B) want satisfaction
C) company profits
D) short-run wants
E) long-term needs

24) The set of marketing tools a firm uses to implement its marketing strategy is called the ________.
A) promotion mix
B) product mix
C) marketing mix
D) TQM
E) marketing effort


25) Customer-perceived value is determined by a customer's ________ of the benefits and costs of a market offering relative to those of competing offers.
A) personal assessment
B) rational expectations
C) accurate assessment
D) objective evaluation
E) emotional understanding


26) It is most accurate to say that customers buy from stores and firms that offer which of the following?
A) the highest value for the dollar
B) the highest customer-perceived value
C) the highest level of customer satisfaction
D) the most attractive company image
E) the most concern for society's interests



27) ________ is defined as the customer's evaluation of the differences between all the benefits and all the costs of a marketing offer relative to those of competing offers.
A) Customer equity
B) Customer satisfaction
C) Customer evangelism
D) Customer-perceived value
E) Marketing myopia



28) Which of the following best explains why consumers have greater power and control in today's marketplace?
A) The production concept and competition have lowered prices.
B) Implementation of the product concept has resulted in continually improving products.
C) Customer-driven marketing creates products and services that meet customers' future needs.
D) More companies are implementing social marketing and weighing long-term costs and benefits.
E) Through new communication technologies, customers have more access to information and more methods of sharing their opinions with other customers.



29) The final step in the marketing process is ________.
A) capturing value from customers
B) creating customer loyalty
C) creating customer lifetime value
D) understanding the marketplace
E) designing a customer-driven marketing strategy


30) The ultimate aim of customer relationship management is to produce ________.
A) customer equity
B) market share
C) sales volume
D) a reliable database
E) higher profit margins

31) Which of the following is currently the fastest-growing form of marketing?
A) consumer-generated marketing
B) online marketing
C) mass media marketing
D) social marketing
E) word-of-mouth marketing

32) Today almost every company, small and large, is affected in some way by which of the following?
A) the societal marketing concept
B) not-for-profit marketing
C) global competition
D) customer-generated marketing
E) caring capitalism





Ch3 MC for TEST2

Chapter 3   Analyzing the Marketing Environment

1) You are directed to study the actors close to the company that affect its ability to serve its customers-departments within the company, suppliers, marketing intermediaries, customer markets, competitors, and publics. What are you studying?
A) the macroenvironment                  
B) the microenvironment
C) the marketing environment
D) the demographic environment
E) the global environment


2) Which of the following terms is used to describe the factors and forces outside marketing that affect marketing management's ability to build and maintain successful relationships with target customers?
A) the marketing environment
B) the cultural environment
C) strategic planning
D) target markets
E) the marketing mix

3) You are directed to study the demographic, economic, natural, technological, political, and cultural factors that are larger societal forces affecting your company. What are you studying?
A) the macroenvironment
B) the microenvironment
C) the external environment
D) the marketing mix
E) the global environment


4) Which of the following is NOT a type of factor in a company's macroenvironment?
A) demographic
B) economic
C) technological
D) competitive
E) political

5) All of the groups within a company are called the ________.
A) culture
B) diversity
C) internal environment
D) climate
E) range

 
6) A ________ is defined as any group that has an actual or potential interest in, or impact on, an organization's ability to achieve its objectives.
A) team
B) competitor
C) market
D) public
E) intermediary



7) Workers, managers, and members of the board are all part of a company's ________ public.
A) general
B) internal
C) local
D) intermediary
E) market

8) Percy Original caters to a market of individuals and households that buys goods and services for personal consumption. Percy Original caters to a ________ market.
A) business
B) reseller
C) government
D) consumer
E) marketing intermediary

9) Which type of market buys goods and services for further processing or for use in the production process?
A) business
B) reseller
C) wholesale
D) consumer
E) retail

 10) Your marketing department is currently researching the size, density, location, age, and occupations of your target market. Which environment is being researched?
A) demographic
B) psychographic
C) economic
D) geographic
E) cultural
 
11) The ________ environment consists of factors that affect consumer purchasing power and spending patterns.
A) cultural
B) political
C) technological
D) economic
E) natural
 
12) Which of the following groups of expenses uses up the most household income?
A) food, housing, retirement planning
B) housing, insurance, taxes
C) food, housing, transportation
D) housing, taxes, transportation
E) food, travel, savings


13) The natural resources that are needed as inputs by marketers or that are affected by marketing activities are referred to as the ________.
A) raw material market
B) natural environment
C) endangered environment
D) green movement
E) factors of production

  
14) The recent rash of business scandals and increased concerns about the environment have created fresh interest in the issues of ________ and ________.
A) ethics; promotion responsibility
B) ethics; social responsibility
C) finances; employee discrimination
D) management ethics; insider trading
E) promotion; pricing



15) A society's basic values, perceptions, preferences, and behaviors are all part of its ________ environment.
A) social
B) cultural
C) political
D) cultural-economic
E) natural

16) Marketers should understand that a society's core beliefs and values have a high degree of ________.
A) persistence
B) flexibility
C) similarity
D) ethnocentrism
E) conformity



17) A society's ________ are expressed in how people view themselves, organizations, society, nature, and the universe.
A) social codes
B) cultural values
C) demographics
D) public policies
E) economies








Chapter 5   Consumer Markets and Consumer Buyer Behavior


1) The consumer market is made up of which of the following?
A) individuals who acquire goods or services for personal consumption
B) households that purchase goods or services for personal consumption
C) businesses that purchase goods and services
D) A and B
E) all of the above

2) Economic, technological, and cultural forces are all ________ in the stimulus-response model of buyer behavior.
A) buyer responses
B) stimuli
C) components of the buyer's decision process
D) buyer characteristics
E) buying attitudes


3) The starting point of understanding a consumer's response to various marketing efforts is the ________ of a buyer's behavior.
A) belief
B) subculture
C) postpurchase feeling
D) stimulus-response model
E) postpurchase dissonance


4) Marketing stimuli consist of the four Ps. Which is NOT one of these?
A) product
B) politics
C) price
D) promotion
E) place



5) The marketer wants to understand how the stimuli are changed into responses inside the consumer's ________, which has two parts. First, the buyer's characteristics influence how he or she perceives and reacts to the stimuli. Second, the buyer's decision process itself affects the buyer's behavior.
A) culture
B) black box
C) belief
D) lifestyle
E) social class

6) In the model of buyer behavior, which of the following is NOT a major type of force or event in the buyer's environment?
A) economic
B) technological
C) political
D) channel
E) cultural

7) ________ is(are) the most basic cause of a person's wants and behavior.
A) Culture
B) Brand personality
C) Cognitive dissonance
D) Societal factors
E) Selective perception



8) Marketers are always trying to spot ________ in order to discover new products that might be wanted.
A) lifestyles
B) cultural shifts
C) groups
D) dissonance
E) attitudes

9) Each culture contains smaller ________, or groups of people with shared value systems based on common life experiences and situations.
A) alternative evaluations
B) cognitive dissonances
C) subcultures
D) motives
E) attitudes



10) ________ are society's relatively permanent and ordered divisions whose members share similar values, interests, and behaviors.
A) Social classes
B) Cultures
C) Reference groups
D) Attitudes
E) Lifestyles

11) What is one way that social class is NOT measured?
A) occupation
B) education
C) income
D) number of children in the family
E) wealth


12) Opinion leaders are sometimes referred to as ________.
A) the influentials
B) the upper uppers
C) the middle class
D) buzz marketers
E) networkers



13) The ________ is the most important consumer buying organization in society; the roles and influences of different members have been researched extensively.
A) family
B) social class
C) membership group
D) subculture
E) reference group


14) A ________ consists of the activities people are expected to perform according to the persons around them.
A) motive
B) role
C) lifestyle
D) life cycle
E) tradition


15) A buyer's decisions are influenced by ________ such as the buyer's age and life-cycle stage, occupation, economic situation, lifestyle, and personality and self-concept.
A) personal characteristics
B) reference groups
C) perceptions
D) attitudes
E) psychographics

16) People change the goods and services they buy over time because of the two changing factors of ________.
A) belief and attitude
B) perception and personality
C) age and life-cycle stage
D) groups and learning
E) family and tradition

17) ________ is a person's pattern of living as expressed in his or her psychographics, including his or her activities, interests, and opinions.
A) Personality
B) Culture
C) Lifestyle
D) Motive
E) Social class


18) All of the following make up a person's lifestyle EXCEPT ________.
A) AIO dimensions
B) interests
C) dissonance-reducing buying behavior
D) opinions
E) work



19) ________ refers to the unique psychological characteristics that lead to relatively consistent and lasting responses to one's own environment. It is usually described in traits such as self-confidence, dominance, sociability, autonomy, defensiveness, adaptability, and aggressiveness.
A) Alternative evaluation
B) Belief
C) Culture
D) Personality
E) Self-awareness


20) A person's buying choices are influenced by four major psychological factors. Which is NOT one of these factors?
A) motivation
B) perception
C) alternative evaluation
D) learning
E) beliefs

21) A  ________ is a need that is sufficiently pressing to direct a person to seek satisfaction.
A) stimulus
B) perception
C) culture
D) motive
E) tradition



22) Maslow's theory is that ________ can be arranged in a hierarchy.
A) stimuli
B) beliefs and attitudes
C) perceptions
D) human needs
E) decisions


23) Which of the following is NOT part of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
A) physiological needs
B) safety needs
C) stimulus needs
D) self-actualization needs
E) social needs


24) What is the LEAST pressing in Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs?
A) physiological needs
B) social needs
C) esteem needs
D) self-actualization needs
E) safety needs



25) ________ is the process by which people select, organize, and interpret information to form a meaningful picture of the world.
A) Personality
B) Perception
C) Selective grouping
D) Learning
E) Self-actualization


26) People cannot focus on all of the stimuli that surround them each day. A person's tendency to screen out most of the information to which he or she is exposed is called ________.
A) selective retention
B) selective distortion
C) selective attitude
D) selective attention
E) selective perception


27) People forget much that they learn. They tend to retain information that supports their attitudes and beliefs. This is called ________.
A) selective attention
B) selective retention
C) selective attitude
D) selective distortion
E) perceptual vigilance


28) A(n) ________ is a person's relatively consistent evaluations, feelings, and tendencies toward an object or idea.
A) lifestyle
B) motive
C) belief
D) attitude
E) perception



29) When consumers are highly involved with the purchase of an expensive product and they perceive significant differences among brands, they most likely will undertake ________.
A) habitual buying behavior
B) complex buying behavior
C) reflective buying behavior
D) habitual buying behavior
E) variety-seeking buying behavior

30) Which of the following typically occurs with habitual buying behavior?
A) There is high consumer involvement.
B) There is strong brand loyalty.
C) Consumers search extensively for information.
D) Ad repetition creates brand conviction.
E) none of the above




31) When customers have a low involvement in a purchase but perceive significant brand differences, they will most likely engage in ________.
A) complex buying behavior
B) dissonance-reducing buying behavior
C) habitual buying behavior
D) variety-seeking buying behavior
E) brand conviction buying behavior

32) The buyer decision process consists of five stages. Which of the following is NOT one of these stages?
A) need recognition
B) information search
C) variety-seeking buying behavior
D) purchase decision
E) postpurchase behavior


33) The buying process starts with ________, in which the buyer recognizes a problem.
A) need recognition
B) information search
C) product awareness
D) product interest
E) alternative evaluation



34) If the consumer's drive is strong and a satisfying product is near at hand, the consumer is likely to buy it then. If not, the consumer may store the need in memory or undertake a(n) ________.
A) brand personality
B) alternative evaluation
C) postpurchase behavior
D) information search
E) product adoption

35) The consumer can obtain information from any of several sources. Which of the following is NOT one of these types of sources?
A) personal
B) commercial
C) attitude
D) public
E) experiential


36) The most effective sources from which consumers obtain information are ________ because they legitimize or evaluate products for the buyer.
A) commercial
B) public
C) experimental
D) personal
E) experiential




37) Marketers describe the way the consumer processes information to arrive at brand choices as ________.
A) alternative evaluation
B) information search
C) purchase decision
D) situational factors
E) post-purchase dissonance

38) Generally, the consumer's purchase decision will be to buy the most preferred brand, but two factors can come between the purchase intention and the purchase decision. Which of the following is one of these factors?
A) postpurchase behavior
B) attitude of others
C) cognitive dissonance
D) alternative evaluation
E) new product adoption

39) After the purchase of a product, consumers will be either satisfied or dissatisfied and engage in ________.
A) need recognition
B) alternative evaluation
C) postpurchase behavior
D) product expectations
E) information searches



40) The relationship between the consumer's expectations and the product's ________ determines whether the buyer is satisfied or dissatisfied with a purchase.
A) perceived performance
B) brand personality
C) recognition
D) consumer market
E) service quality


41) Almost all major purchases result in ________, or discomfort caused by postpurchase conflict.
A) need recognition
B) cognitive dissonance
C) purchase decisions
D) legitimization
E) dissatisfaction