Advertising - Marketing aptitude questions
Q1. For making advertisement s more effective, the manufacturers improve _____________and launch new products.
(1) Existing products
(2) Advertisement style
(3) Marketing channel
(4) Sponsors
(5) None of these
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: (1) Existing products
Q2. It is advisable to use ____________________ as a source of advertising.
(1) Social media
(2) Email
(3) Radio
(4) Television
(5) Print
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ3. Selecting time, choosing media types, deciding on reach of frequency and media vehicle for advertisements are part of
(1) Media strategy
(2) Media execution
(3) Selecting media
(4) Measuring communication
(5) None of these
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: (3) Selecting media
Q4. To introduce the new products to world of consumers is the main goal of
(1) Entertainment
(2) Advertising
(3) Boost the sales
(4) Online marketing
(5) None of these
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ5. Advertisement through radio was very popular till the middle of last century because of _______________.
(1) Its effectiveness
(2) More popular than newspaper
(3) Mass reach
(4) Cost of advertisement
(5) None of these
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ6. Advertising creates employment as it increases the volume of sales and ___________________________
(1) Production
(2) Marketing
(3) Promotion
(4) Personal selling
(5) New products
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ7. Lower costs, greater global advertising coordination consistent worldwide image are the ______________________ of international marketing decision.
(1) Standardization drawbacks
(2) Advertisement regulations
(3) Standardization benefits
(4) Typical responses
(5) None of these
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: (3) Standardization benefits
Q8. The most popular form of advertising and it reaches to masses.
(1) Social media
(2) Email
(3) Radio
(4) Television
(5) Print
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ9. Advertising for __________________ is not allowed.
(1) Liquor
(2) Washing powder
(3) Cigarette
(4) Cold cream
(5) Both 1 and 3
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ10.The best advertisement is
(1) By emails
(2) Print media
(3) Television
(4) A satisfied customer
(5) Radio
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: (4) A satisfied customer
Q11. Catalogues, magazines, newspaper and invitations to organization-sponsored events are associated with the marketing mix activity of ___________________.
(1) Manufacture
(2) Production
(3) Promotion
(4) Development
(5) None of these
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ12. Advertisement is a type of ________________________.
(1) Outdoor marketing
(2) Indirect marketing
(3) Share marketing
(4) Transaction marketing
(5) Relationship marketing
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: (2) Indirect marketing
Q13.With the popularity of satellites, phones, iPod etc. usage of ________________________ becomes ineffective but in remote areas it is considered as the fastest way to communicate with masses.
(1) Social media
(2) Email
(3) Radio
(4) Television
(5) Print
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ14. Advertising is a non-personal process but must be written or printed in words ________________________advertise and helps in the sale of the product.
(1) Salesman
(2) Sponsors
(3) Marketer
(4) Marketing manager
(5) None of these
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ15. The advertisement of newspaper has a very short life span of
(1) One day
(2) One week
(3) One month
(4) One year
(5) None of these
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ16. Advertising is not flexible as the message is once fixed it can’t be altered again and again according to the_____________.
(1) Advertiser
(2) Sponsor
(3) Customer
(4) Marketer
(5) None of these
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ17. From the perspective of sales, advertisements are required for
(1) Profit
(2) Loss
(3) Increasing sales
(4) Decreasing sales
(5) None of these
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: (3) Increasing sales
Q18. When a number of advertisements are published in the newspaper in series and in regular intervals are called
(1) Monopoly in market
(2) Feedback mechanism
(3) Boosting the sales
(4) Teaser advertisements
(5) None of these
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: (4) Teaser advertisements
Q19. Advertising is generally criticized because the cost involved in making ads are generally__________________
(1) High
(2) Low
(3) Medium
(4) Equal to the production
(5) None of these
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ20 ____________________ and loyalty programs are wonderful and cost effective way to stay in touch with customers when customer database is used correctly.
(1) Social media
(2) Email
(3) Radio
(4) Television
(5) Print
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ21. “Through newspaper any firm can reach literate customers only”. It’s a
(1) Nothing related to illiterate customers
(2) Advantage of newspaper
(3) Drawback of newspaper
(4) No problem in such advertising
(5) None of these
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: (3) Drawback of newspaper
Q22. Levels of differentiation, market share, product lifecycle stage, correlating promotional spending and brand sales are part of _________________________________ in advertising.
(1) Objective of advertising
(2) Models of advertising
(3) Evaluation of advertising
(4) Developing strategy
(5) None of these
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: (4) Developing strategy
Q23. Advertising involves dissemination of information about a produce, service to induce people to take actions beneficial to
(1) Advertiser
(2) Sponsor
(3) Marketing manager
(4) Firm
(5) Retailer
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ24. Which of the following is the most popular print media available to advertiser?
(1) Magazine
(2) Pamphlet
(3) Emails
(4) Newspaper
(5) None of these
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ25. Direct mail advertising is suitable in case of
(1) Retailer
(2) Wholesaler
(3) Personal selling
(4) Share broker
(5) None of these
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ26._________________ is helpful in promotion the businesses people and big industrialists are promoting their goods and services through networking sites like Facebook, Twitter etc.
(1) Social media
(2) Email
(3) Radio
(4) Television
(5) Print
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ27. _______________________ ignores large differences in cultures, demographics, and economics of international marketing decision.
(1) Standardization drawbacks
(2) Advertisement regulations
(3) Standardization benefits
(4) Typical responses
(5) None of these
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: (1) Standardization drawbacks
Q28. Pioneer advertising, consumer advertising and product advertising are
(1) Objective of advertising
(2) Types of advertising
(3) Marketing decisions in advertising
(4) Evaluating advertising
(5) None of these
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: (2) Types of advertising
Q29. Drama, exhibitions, fair are effective means of
(1) Personal selling
(2) Advertisements
(3) Sales territory
(4) Entertainment
(5) None of these
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: (4) Entertainment
Q30. _________________ in advertisement means of providing complete information about the product and its uses to the society.
(1) Legal environment
(2) Awareness
(3) Interest
(4) Personal selling
(5) Educative
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ31. Comparing past sales and advertisement, trying for new experiments, measuring sale difficulties are
(1) Objective of advertising
(2) Models of advertising
(3) Evaluation of advertising
(4) Developing strategy
(5) None of these
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: (3) Evaluation of advertising
Q32. In advertisements we generally see a warning for cigarettes that “Smoking is Injurious to health”. It’s an example of
(1) Advertising
(2) Monopoly in market
(3) Legal environment
(4) Entertainment
(5) None of these
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: (3) Legal environment
Q33. Selecting style, tone, words for making ads are part of
(1) Message strategy
(2) Message execution
(3) Selecting media
(4) Measuring communication
(5) None of these
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: (2) Message execution
Q34. Through ads customer used to take their purchasing decision in advance, in this way advertisement help in
(1) Online marketing
(2) Customer decision
(3) Personal selling
(4) Convenient purchasing
(5) None of these
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: (4) Convenient purchasing
Q35. “Think globally, act locally” is a global advertising strategies and local advertising programs under ______________________ of international marketing decision.
(1) Standardization drawbacks
(2) Advertisement regulations
(3) Standardization benefits
(4) Typical responses
(5) None of these
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: (4) Typical responses
Q36. Sandwich Board Advertisements is not suitable for the products like
(1) Burger
(2) Pizza
(3) Cold drink
(4) Pizza
(5) Potato chips
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ37. A particular growing of customers assigned to a salesman for his sales activity is called
(1) Marketing territory
(2) Sales territory
(3) Advertisement territory
(4) Promotion territory
(5) None of these
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: (2) Sales territory
Q38. Digital marketing is same as
(1) Marketing through emails
(2) Marketing on Facebook
(3) Marketing on Twitter
(4) Online ads
(5) All of the above
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: (5) All of the above
Q39. “Advertising is any paid form of non-personal presentation and promotion of ideas, goods and services by an identified person”. Who stated this?
(1) Australian marketing Association
(2) European marketing Association
(3) China marketing Association
(4) American marketing Association
(5) Indian marketing Association
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: (4) American marketing Association
Q40. Advertising influences the mind of the consumers by creating desire and taste for
(1) Old products
(2) Same products
(3) New products
(4) Different products
(5) None of these
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ41. Magazines add credibility to the message because of the reputation in the eyes of
(1) Marketing manager
(2) Salesman
(3) Retailers
(4) Consumers
(5) Wholesalers
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ42. Creating innovative and new ideas, identifying customers benefit, selecting specific appeals for advertisements are the part of
(1) Message strategy
(2) Message execution
(3) Selecting media
(4) Measuring communication
(5) None of these
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: (1) Message strategy
Q43. Advertising gives benefits to society of large people. At the same time it adds to cost, undermine social values, creating monopoly and encourage______________________.
(1) Sale of products
(2) Sale of interior products
(3) Sale of old products
(4) Sale of large products
(5) None of these
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: (2) Sale of interior products
Q44. Advertisement is a mass communication. It addresses to masses and it’s a form of ____________________________ communication.
(1) Personal
(2) Non personal
(3) Direct
(4) Indirect
(5) None of these
View Answer / Hide AnswerQ45. Advertisement provides information regarding product, or idea in non-personal forms, as no face to face contact is involved between _________________________.
(1) Marketer and retailer
(2) Jobber and wholesaler
(3) Buyer and customer
(4) Market manager and salesman
(5) None of these
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: (3) Buyer and customer
Q46. It is difficult to evaluate the impact of advertising message as there is no immediate and accurate _______________.
(1) Legal environment
(2) Feedback mechanism
(3) Convenient purchasing
(4) Educative
(5) None of these
View Answer / Hide AnswerANSWER: (2) Feedback mechanism
Q 47.__________________ is the most recent and effective medium of advertisement.
(1) Newspaper
(2) Magazine
(3) Television
(4) Emails
(5) Radio
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