PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE - MARKETING APTITUDE MCQ

 PRODUCT LIFE CYCLE - MARKETING APTITUDE MCQ



Q1. What does the term PLC stands for?


(1) Product life cycle

(2) Production life cycle

(3) Product long cycle

(4) Production long cycle

(5) None of these


ANSWER: (1) Product life cycle


Q2. PLC in marketing represents two main challenges. 1st an organization must be good at developing new product to replace old ones and 2nd it must be good at _________________.


(1) Functioning

(2) Marketing

(3) Selling

(4) Adapting

(5) Testing 


ANSWER: (4) Adapting


Q3. Which of the following is stage of Product Life Cycle?


(1) Introduction Stage

(2) Growth stage

(3) Decline stage

(4) Mature stage

(5) All of the above


ANSWER: (5) All of the above


Q4. When a new product arrives in the market with higher quality, higher value and new features better than its competitors. Such products are known as


(1) Superior products

(2) Develop superior products

(3) Unique superior products

(4) New products

(5) None of these


ANSWER: (3) Unique superior products


Q5. Which of the following is not a characteristic of “Market Introduction Stage” in PLC?


(1) Demands has to be created

(2) Costs are low

(3) Makes no money at this stage

(4) Slow sales volume to start

(5) There is little or no competition


ANSWER: (2) Costs are low


Q6. Developing a unique superior product with high quality, new features, and high value in use is ______________________ in new product development strategy.


(1) New product development process

(2) Typical reasons for failure

(3) Success factors

(4) Product concept

(5) Develop superior product 


ANSWER: (3) Success factors


Q7. Which thing will make the project more attractive while evaluating a new development project using net present value analysis?


(1) Market penetration

(2) Sequential product development 

(3) Idea generation

(4) Continuous improvements

(5) Idea screening


ANSWER: (4) Continuous improvements


Q8. According to whom “ a product lifecycle is very much similar to human life cycle.”


(1) Arch Paton

(2) Stanton

(3) Neil Borden

(4) Philip Kotler

(5) Nielson


ANSWER: (1) Arch Paton


Q9. Increased competition leads to price decrease, increasing public awareness, sales volume increase significantly are the characteristics of ______________ in PLC.


(1) Mature stage

(2) Decline stage

(3) Growth stage

(4) Market introduction stage

(5) None of these.


ANSWER: (3) Growth stage


Q10. __________________________ includes review of sales, profit projections and cost for a new product, to find out whether it satisfied the company objective or not.


(1) Product Development 

(2) Business Analysis

(3) Marketing Strategy

(4) Test Marketing

(5) Idea Screening


ANSWER: (2) Business Analysis


Q11. In _______________________ all the augmentations and transformations of a product might undergo in the failure. 

(1) Generic Product

(2) Expected Product

(3) Augmented Product

(4) Potential Product

(5) None of these


ANSWER: (4) Potential Product


Q12. Which concept is useful for a family of products who shares similar technology?


(1) Product Platform

(2) Pricing Platform 

(3) Process Platform

(4) Distribution Platform

(5) None of these


ANSWER: (1) Product Platform


Q13. Color and size of the product, brand and packaging are considered as


(1) Chemical features of product

(2) Physical features of product

(3) Product designing

(4) Product manufacture

(5) Business strategy


ANSWER: (2) Physical features of product


Q14. A true definition of a product is the detailed version of the product only if it is stated in 


(1) Meaningful marketer view

(2) Meaningful supplier view

(3) Meaningful consumer view

(4) Meaningful Manager view

(5) None of these


ANSWER: (3) Meaningful consumer view


Q15. The most important performance dimension for product development project is


(1) Time to market

(2) Time to target

(3) Time to consumer

(4) Time to seller

(5) Time to manager 


ANSWER: (1) Time to market


Q16. A version of products containing only those features which are absolutely necessary for it to function.


(1) Expected Product

(2) Augmented Product

(3) Generic Product

(4) Potential product

(5) None of these


ANSWER: (3) Generic Product


Q17. __________________________uses cross functional integration for concurrent development of a product.


(1) Value engineering

(2) Concurrent engineering

(3) Business analysis

(4) Value analysis

(5) Product analysis


ANSWER: (2) Concurrent engineering


Q18. _________________________ outline the planned price, marketing budget, distribution and describe the target market, planned product positioning, profit goals, market share, sales for the first few years.


(1) Product development

(2) Business analysis 

(3) Marketing strategy

(4) Test Market

(5) Sequential product development


ANSWER: (3) Marketing strategy


Q19. More calls to the same customer, alternate marketing, and surrogate marketing all can be done in case of ___________________.


(1) Commercialization

(2) Market penetration

(3) Business analysis

(4) Adapting

(5) Continuous improvement


ANSWER: (2) Market penetration


Q20. _______________________is one of the challenges presented by the Product Life Cycle for a product.


(1) Product development

(2) New product development

(3) Product testing

(4) Poor margins

(5) More products


ANSWER: (2) New product development


Q21. A detailed specification for the product development and pricing is established in _____________________ stage of “Product Development Process”.


(1) Launch

(2) Testing

(3) Feature specification

(4) Idea screening

(5) Development 


ANSWER: (3) Feature specification


Q22. What would be the assumed percentage of newly launched product, will sure fail and cannot achieve their potential to survive?


(1) Up to 90%

(2) Up to 80%

(3) Up to 70%

(4) Up to 60%

(5) Up to 50%


ANSWER: (1) Up to 90%


Q23. Linked with different marketing and technology strategy the overall corporate strategy is considered as


(1) Differentiation strategy

(2) New product strategy

(3) Market strategy

(4) Product development strategy

(5) None of these


ANSWER: (2) New product strategy


Q24. The cost, potential sale, profit of the offering are calculated at different price levels in ______________ stage of “Product Development Process”.


(1) Evaluation

(2) Testing 

(3) Idea screening

(4) Idea generation

(5) Feature specification 


ANSWER: (3) Idea screening


Q25.______________________ is the reason for failure in “New Product Development Strategy”


(1) Poor product design

(2) Incorrect positioning

(3) Price too high

(4) Market size overestimated

(5) All of the above


ANSWER: (5) All of the above


Q26. ________________ includes small number of representative test cities for marketing campaigns store audits, consumer and distributor surveys.


(1) Control test markets

(2) Standard test markets

(3) Stimulated test markets

(4) Commercialization

(5) None of these


ANSWER: (2) Standard test markets


Q27. Encourage all stakeholders like customers, dealers, employees etc to send ideas to the idea manager and formally recognize the program to reward best new ideas is characteristic of which stage in the “New Product Development Process”.


(1) Idea generation

(2) Idea screening

(3) Testing

(4) Development

(5) Evaluation 


ANSWER: (1) Idea generation


Q28. In __________________R&D needs to perform prototyping and testing of various alternative implementation ways. The company conducts performance and safety tests possibly with customer groups.


(1) Test marketing

(2) Product development

(3) Business strategy

(4) Market strategy

(5) Standard test market


ANSWER: (2) Product development


Q29. Which is the next stage after “Idea Generation” in “New Product Development Process”?


(1) Feature specification

(2) Testing 

(3) Development

(4) Idea Screening

(5) Evaluation 


ANSWER: (4) Idea Screening


Q30. When more number of conversions takes place in a particular market, what does it mean in terms of marketing?


(1) Marketing strategy development

(2) Decline stage

(3) Poor margin

(4) More products

(5) More customers


ANSWER: (4) More products


Q31. When market reach to its saturation, the producers begin to leave the market due to____________


(1) Marketing strategy development

(2) Decline stage

(3) Poor margin

(4) Market penetration

(5) None of these


ANSWER: (3) Poor margin


Q32. In “Product Life Cycle” a stage represents rapid growth of product sale knows as


(1) Market introduction phase

(2) Growth phase

(3) Saturation phase

(4) Mature phase

(5) All of these


ANSWER: (2) Growth phase


Q33. The objective of ______________________ is to achieve better performance at a lower cost. 


(1) Value Analysis/Value Engineering

(2) Quality Function Development

(3) Effective production step

(4) Continuous Improvements

(5) None of these


ANSWER: (1) Value Analysis/Value Engineering


Q34. _______________________ Stage introduces a new product in the market.


(1) Evaluation

(2) Commercialisation

(3) Feature specification

(4) Development

(5) None of these


ANSWER: (2) Commercialisation


Q35. “A product has to pass through various stages and different competitive environments from its introduction to decline” was stated by


(1) Arch Paton

(2) Philip Kotler

(3) Nielson

(4) Stanton

(5) Neil Borden


ANSWER: (4) Stanton


Q36. To reach forward for positioning strategy and to come back to core capabilities. Which strategy is important in the case?


(1) Differentiation strategy

(2) New product strategy

(3) Market strategy

(4) Product development strategy

(5) None of these


ANSWER: (1) Differentiation strategy


Q37. A new-product development approach in which one company department works to complete its stage of the process before passing the new product along to the next department and help to control complex and risky projects. This stage is called


(1) Simultaneous product development

(2) Sequential product development

(3) Product development

(4) Marketing strategy statement

(5) None of these


ANSWER: (2) Sequential product development


Q38. ________________________ increases consumption of the current product and reposition the brand to appeal to a larger or faster-growing segment.


(1) Modifying the market mix

(2) Modifying the market

(3) Modifying the product

(4) Modifying the process

(5) None of these 


ANSWER: (2) Modifying the market


Q39. In terms of “Product Life Cycle”, a style is a basic and distinctive mode of


(1) Perception

(2) Growth

(3) Impression

(4) Expression

(5) Subculture


ANSWER: (4) Expression


Q40. A concept for designing an initial marketing strategy for a new product based on product concept is


(1) Simultaneous product development

(2) Sequential product development

(3) Marketing strategy development

(4) Product development phase

(5) Quality function deployment


ANSWER: (3) Marketing strategy development


Q41. A tool that translates customer requirements into concrete operating and engineering goal is called


(1) Product development phase

(2) Quality function deployment

(3) Quantity function deployment

(4) Marketing strategy development

(5) None of these


ANSWER: (2) Quality function deployment


Q42. Launch better advertising campaign and use aggressive sales promotions like trade-deals, discounts, premiums, contests etc is


(1) Modifying the market mix

(2) Modifying the market

(3) Modifying the product

(4) Modifying the process

(5) None of these


ANSWER: (1) Modifying the market mix


Q43. The products enters maturity when


(1) Decrease in profit

(2) Increase in sale

(3) Sales stop growing and demand stabilises

(4) Sales start growing

(5) Mets consumer needs


ANSWER: (3) Sales stop growing and demand stabilises


Q44. A weak product may be very costly to the firm, hidden costs may fail product reputation and affect overall company image, shift of consumer taste, technological advances are characteristics of which stage of “Product Life Cycle”?


(1) Market introduction stage

(2) Growth stage

(3) Mature stage

(4) Decline stage

(5) None of these


ANSWER: (4) Decline stage


Q45. Which characteristic provides potential access to a variety of markets, it increases perceived customer benefit and it is hard for competitors to imitate?


(1) Continuous improvement

(2) Company’s core competence

(3) Idea management system

(4) Market penetration

(5) Projective technique


ANSWER: (2) Company’s core competence


Q46. Costs are high, demand has to be created, customers have to prompted to try the product, slow sales volume starts and makes no money at this stage are the characteristics of which stage in PLC.


(1) Saturation stage

(2) Decline stage

(3) Mature stage

(4) Introduction stage

(5) Growth stage


ANSWER: (4) Introduction stage


Q47. Introducing a new product and marketing program to more realistic market settings, allow testing and fine tuning of product and marketing program before costly full introduction carried out at which stage of “New Product Development Process”?


(1) Marketing strategy

(2) Product development

(3) Telemarketing

(4) Business strategy

(5) None of these


ANSWER: (3) Telemarketing


Q48. Reason of product failure associated with its feature is due to


(1) Good quality of product

(2) Poor quality of product

(3) Good quantity of product

(4) Poor quantity of product

(5) None of these


ANSWER: (2) Poor quality of product


Q49. Loss in product distinctiveness is one of the limitations of using


(1) Product Platforms

(2) Pricing Platforms

(3) Process Platforms

(4) Distribution Platforms

(5) None of these


ANSWER: (1) Product Platforms


Q50. Surveying market opinion and looking at the sales history of similar products are tools used at which stage of “New Product Development Process”?


(1) Marketing strategy

(2) Product development

(3) Business analysis

(4) Tele marketing

(5) Idea generation


ANSWER: (3) Business analysis


Q51. If Maruti describes one of the future car with moderate price, subcompact design and family car to be used around the city. Then the company has stated a potential new product in terms of 


(1) Marketing concept

(2) Product concept

(3) Selling concept

(4) Telemarketing

(5) Business strategy


ANSWER: (2) Product concept


Q52. Market share plays most important role in context to product development. If in case we want to increase the market share then we have to


(1) Increase the sale

(2) Increase the price

(3) Decrease the sale

(4) Decrease the price

(5) Increase the stock


ANSWER: (1) Increase the sale


Q53. To develop superior products company must understand


(1) Consumer 

(2) Market

(3) Competitors

(4) All of these

(5) None of these


ANSWER: (4) All of these


Q54. In marketing ________________________introduces new product so radically that it changes the way people live.


(1) Marketing strategy

(2) Quality function deployment

(3) Discontinuous innovation

(4) Differentiation strategy

(5) None of these


ANSWER: (3) Discontinuous innovation


Q55. By installing _____________________________ the search for new product ideas will be always systematic rather than haphazard. 


(1) Idea generation

(2) Idea management system

(3) Idea screening

(4) Innovating ideas

(5) None of these


ANSWER: (2) Idea management system

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