MARK 3336 FINAL EXAM QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026
Perceptual Positioning Maps - Answers Show consumer perceptions of their brands versus those of competing products on important buying dimensions
Cash Cows - Answers Low market growth and high market share
- Profitable products
- Generate more cash than needed for share maintenance
- Slow sales growth
- Need less investment to hold their market share
- Can finance question marks and stars
Differentiation - Answers Distinguishing firm's market offering
Social Marketing - Answers The use of traditional business marketing concepts and tools to encourage behavior that will create individual and societal well-being
- Health care, education, environmental sustainability, human rights, and personal safety
Straight Rebuy - Answers Buyer reorders something without any modifications
Modified Rebuy - Answers The buyer wants to modify product specifications, prices, terms, or suppliers
New Task - Answers Buying a product or service for the first time
Product/Market Expansion Grid - Answers - Present Products and Present Customers: Market Penetration
- New Products and Present Customers: Product development
- Present Products and New Customers: Market development
- New Products and New Customers: Diversification
Accessible - Answers Markets that can be effectively reached and served
First Step of Strategic Planning - Answers Defining the company mission
Strategic Planning - Answers The process of developing and maintaining a strategic fit between the organization's goals and capabilities and its changing market opportunities
Second Step of Strategic Planning - Answers Setting company objectives and goals
Third Step of Strategic Planning - Answers Designing the business portfolio
Fourth Step of Strategic Planning - Answers Planning marketing and other functional strategies
Competitive Advantage - Answers The extent that a company can differentiate and position itself as providing superior customer value
Descriptive Research - Answers Marketing research to better describe marketing problems, situations or markets, such as the market potential for a product or the demographics and attitudes of consumers
Exploratory Research - Answers Marketing research to gather preliminary information that will help define problems and suggest hypotheses
Ethnographic Research - Answers A form of observational research that involves sending trained observers to watch and interact with consumers in their "natural environments"
Observational Research - Answers Gathering primary data by observing relevant people, actions and situations
Experimental Research - Answers Gathering primary data by selecting matched groups of subjects, giving them different treatments, controlling related factors, and checking for differences in group responses
Survey Research - Answers Gathering primary data by asking people questions about their knowledge, attitudes, preferences, and buying behavior
Online Marketing Research - Answers Collecting primary data through internet and mobile surveys, online focus groups, consumer tracking, experiments and online panels and brand communities
Causal Research - Answers Marketing research to test hypotheses about cause-and-effect relationships
Market Segmentation - Answers Dividing a market into distinct groups of buyers who have different needs, characteristics, or behaviors and who might require separate marketing strategies or mixes
Psychographic Segmentation - Answers Divides buyers into different segments based on lifestyle or personality characteristics
Behavioral Segmentation - Answers Divides buyers into segments based on their knowledge, attitudes, uses or responses to a product
Occasion Segmentation - Answers Dividing the market into segments according to occasions when buyers get to the idea to buy, actually make their purchase, or use the purchased item
Benefit Segmentation - Answers Dividing the market into segments according to the different benefits that consumers seek from the product
Lifestyle - Answers A person's pattern of living as expressed in his or her activities, interests and opinions
Culture - Answers The set of basic values, perceptions, wants and behaviors learned by a member of society from family and other important institutions
Motive (Drive) - Answers A need that is sufficiently pressing to direct the person to seek satisfaction of the need
Personality - Answers The unique psychological characteristics that distinguish a person or group
Social Class - Answers Relatively permanent and ordered divisions in a society whose members share similar values, interests and behaviors
Business Purchases - Answers Involves more professional purchasing effort than consumer purchases
Segment is Less Attractive - Answers If it already contains many strong and aggressive competitors
Mission Statement - Answers The organization's purpose, what it wants to accomplish in the larger environment
Vision Statement - Answers Depicts the company's aspiration for the future position of the company
Consumer Buying Behavior - Answers The buying behavior of final consumers - individuals and households that buy goods and services for personal consumption
Business Buying Behavior - Answers The buying behavior of organizations that buy goods and services for use in the production of other products and services that are sold, rented, or supplied to others
Complex Buying Behavior - Answers Consumer buying behavior in situations characterized by high consumer involvement in a purchase and significant perceived differences among brands
Dissonance-Reducing Buying Behavior - Answers Consumer buying behavior in situations characterized by high involvement but few perceived differences among brands
Habitual Buying Behavior - Answers Consumer buying behavior in situations characterized by low consumer involvement and few significant perceived brand differences
Variety-Seeking Buying Behavior - Answers Consumer buying behavior in situations characterized by low consumer involvement but significant perceived brand differences
Physiological Needs (1st Maslow) - Answers Hunger, thirst
Safety Needs (2nd Maslow) - Answers Security, protection
Social Needs (3rd Maslow) - Answers Sense of belonging, love
Esteem Needs (4th Maslow) - Answers Self-esteem, recognition, status
Self-Actualization Needs (5th Maslow) - Answers Self-development and realization
Capital Items - Answers Another term for large, expensive industrial products
Positioning - Answers Arranging for a market offering to occupy a clear, distinctive and desirable place relative to competing products in the minds of target consumers
Positioning Statement - Answers To (target segment and need) our (brand) is (concept) that (point of difference)
Online Privacy Issues - Answers The most prevalent worry for internet marketing
Derived Demand - Answers Business demand that ultimately comes from the demand for consumer goods
Users (Buying Center) - Answers Members of the organization who will use the product or service
Influencers - Answers People in an organization's buying center who affect the buying decision; they often help define specifications and also provide information for evaluating alternatives
Buyers - Answers People in an organization's buying center who make an actual purchase
Deciders - Answers People in an organization's buying center who have formal or informal power to select or approve the final suppliers
Gatekeepers - Answers People in an organization's buying center who control the flow of information to others
Internal Databases - Answers Can be accessed more quickly and cheaply than other info sources
Consumer Product - Answers A product bought by final consumers for personal consumption
Convenience Product - Answers A consumer product that customers usually buy frequently, immediately and with minimal comparison and buying effort
Shopping Product - Answers A consumer product that the customer, in the process of selecting and purchasing, usually compares on such attributes as suitability, quality, price and style
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MAN 4583 EXAM 2 MIDTERM EXAM QUESTIONS ANSWERED CORRECTLY LATEST UPDATE 2026
Arrows can flow from left to right or from right to left. - Answers When drawing a network diagram,
which of the following is NOT true about arrows?
Arrows can flow from left to right or from right to left.
Arrows can cross.
Arrows represent precedence.
Arrows may represent an activity or a relationship among activities.
Conditional statements are allowed but looping statements are not allowed - Answers Which of the
following is NOT one of the basic rules to follow when developing project networks?
Networks flow from left to right
Conditional statements are allowed but looping statements are not allowed
An activity cannot begin until all preceding activities have been completed
Each activity must have a unique identification number
Earliest time an activity can finish. - Answers The backward pass in project network calculations helps
determine all of the following EXCEPT
The critical path.
Latest time an activity can finish.
Earliest time an activity can finish.
Latest time an activity can begin.
Schedule - Answers The Gantt chart is used to illustrate the project _________.
Budget
Schedule
Triple Constraint
Work Breakdown Structure
Rough estimates - Answers During project selection and chartering, what types of budgeting is
applied?
Rough estimates
None
Exact numbers
Time-phased budget estimates
Approximation - Answers The three most commonly used methods of cost estimation include all of
the following except ______.
Analogous
Parametric
Three-point estimate
Approximation
Variable - Answers Costs are most commonly divided into fixed and _________.
Constant
Fluctuating
Variable
Large
Time phased budget - Answers All of the project costs can be assembled into a ________.
WBS
Calendar
Gantt chart
Time phased budget
Budget - Answers You are creating the project's Cost Baseline. Ultimately, what document will be the
outcome of this process?
Cost Control Accounts
Budget
Change Request
Performance Report
Management reserves are used to handle unknown unknowns, while contingency reserves are -
Answers Which of the following is a difference between management reserves and contingency
reserves?