WGU D099 Sales Management OA | Objective pre
Assessment | Questions and Answers | 2025 Update |
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A retailer is advertising its new product line and has designed a campaign that includes social
media advertising, print promotional pieces, online promotions, and a special product launch
event. Which concept is the retailer using to promote its new product line?
Relationship selling
Integrated marketing communications
Buyer journey
Marketing research - ANSWER Integrated marketing communications
A salesperson wants to get to know a prospective customer by establishing ongoing
communication to ensure current as well as future sales. Which sales approach is the
salesperson using?
Transactional
Relationship
Adaptive
Direct - ANSWER Relationship
A salesperson prepares for a customer meeting by reviewing the number of products the
customer has purchased since the company started. The salesperson decides to open the
conversation by reviewing how the company has consistently provided a trusted product since
the start of the customer relationship .How does this salesperson's approach help achieve sales
goals?
It emphasizes company value to the customer
It analyzes return on customer investment
It evaluates the cost of customer investment
It calculates net customer profit - ANSWER It emphasizes company value to the customer
,Every semester, a nationally known textbook company's salesperson visits each professor at a
college to show what the company offers in the subject that the professor teaches. The
salesperson hopes the professors will adopt the book for use in the next academic year. Which
type of salesperson role does this scenario illustrate?
Trade
Prospector
Missionary
Technical - ANSWER Missionary
A small company manufactures automobile hood ornaments and sells them in a small store
located at one end of the factory. Which type of sales channel is being used by this company?
Direct
Distributor
Agent
Wholesale - ANSWER Direct
How does empathy contribute to building a good relationship with a customer?
By sharing beliefs with clients to build interactions based on mutual interests
By displaying vulnerability to clients to make them feel like they have the upper hand
By creating distance from the company to show high customer awareness
By creating an emotional connection with clients to show understanding that is built on trust -
ANSWER By creating an emotional connection with clients to show understanding that is built
on trust
Why is responsive listening important when participating in verbal communication?
It allows a salesperson to be prepared to counter any arguments made by a potential client.
It ensures that a salesperson is responding quickly to the customer's needs.
, It encourages the salesperson to repeat back to the customer what they believe the customer
needs.
It promotes rotating salespeople when dealing with clients who have specific requirements. -
ANSWER It encourages the salesperson to repeat back to the customer what they believe the
customer needs.
What is a result of a salesperson conducting follow-up on a sale?
Ensures customer satisfaction
Establishes contract terms
Determines customer needs
Handles customer objections - ANSWER Ensures customer satisfaction
A school administrator receives a request from a textbook salesperson to meet with the school
principal. The administrator asks for the salesperson's contact information and indicates that
the principal may contact the salesperson if interested in meeting. Which type of business-to-
business (B2B) stakeholder is this school administrator?
Gatekeeper
Buyer
User
Initiator - ANSWER Gatekeeper
A manufacturing company needs to replace its material requirements planning system and has
sent out Requests for Proposal (RFPs). The company has received several responses back. A
meeting has been called by the company's decision makers to review the proposals received.
Which stage of the organizational buying process has this company entered?
Order placement
Performance review
Need recognition
Supplier selection - ANSWER Supplier selection
Assessment | Questions and Answers | 2025 Update |
100% Correct | Success Guaranteed
A retailer is advertising its new product line and has designed a campaign that includes social
media advertising, print promotional pieces, online promotions, and a special product launch
event. Which concept is the retailer using to promote its new product line?
Relationship selling
Integrated marketing communications
Buyer journey
Marketing research - ANSWER Integrated marketing communications
A salesperson wants to get to know a prospective customer by establishing ongoing
communication to ensure current as well as future sales. Which sales approach is the
salesperson using?
Transactional
Relationship
Adaptive
Direct - ANSWER Relationship
A salesperson prepares for a customer meeting by reviewing the number of products the
customer has purchased since the company started. The salesperson decides to open the
conversation by reviewing how the company has consistently provided a trusted product since
the start of the customer relationship .How does this salesperson's approach help achieve sales
goals?
It emphasizes company value to the customer
It analyzes return on customer investment
It evaluates the cost of customer investment
It calculates net customer profit - ANSWER It emphasizes company value to the customer
,Every semester, a nationally known textbook company's salesperson visits each professor at a
college to show what the company offers in the subject that the professor teaches. The
salesperson hopes the professors will adopt the book for use in the next academic year. Which
type of salesperson role does this scenario illustrate?
Trade
Prospector
Missionary
Technical - ANSWER Missionary
A small company manufactures automobile hood ornaments and sells them in a small store
located at one end of the factory. Which type of sales channel is being used by this company?
Direct
Distributor
Agent
Wholesale - ANSWER Direct
How does empathy contribute to building a good relationship with a customer?
By sharing beliefs with clients to build interactions based on mutual interests
By displaying vulnerability to clients to make them feel like they have the upper hand
By creating distance from the company to show high customer awareness
By creating an emotional connection with clients to show understanding that is built on trust -
ANSWER By creating an emotional connection with clients to show understanding that is built
on trust
Why is responsive listening important when participating in verbal communication?
It allows a salesperson to be prepared to counter any arguments made by a potential client.
It ensures that a salesperson is responding quickly to the customer's needs.
, It encourages the salesperson to repeat back to the customer what they believe the customer
needs.
It promotes rotating salespeople when dealing with clients who have specific requirements. -
ANSWER It encourages the salesperson to repeat back to the customer what they believe the
customer needs.
What is a result of a salesperson conducting follow-up on a sale?
Ensures customer satisfaction
Establishes contract terms
Determines customer needs
Handles customer objections - ANSWER Ensures customer satisfaction
A school administrator receives a request from a textbook salesperson to meet with the school
principal. The administrator asks for the salesperson's contact information and indicates that
the principal may contact the salesperson if interested in meeting. Which type of business-to-
business (B2B) stakeholder is this school administrator?
Gatekeeper
Buyer
User
Initiator - ANSWER Gatekeeper
A manufacturing company needs to replace its material requirements planning system and has
sent out Requests for Proposal (RFPs). The company has received several responses back. A
meeting has been called by the company's decision makers to review the proposals received.
Which stage of the organizational buying process has this company entered?
Order placement
Performance review
Need recognition
Supplier selection - ANSWER Supplier selection
