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Marketing covers how organisations identify customer needs, create value and exchange products or services through suitable markets. Key concepts include market segmentation, targeting, positioning, consumer behaviour, the marketing mix of product, price, place and promotion, branding, product life cycle and differences between marketing and selling.

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  • A. brand endorsement
  • B. brand mix
  • C. product mix
  • D. category assortment

Explanation: Brand mix is the complete set of brands and brand lines offered by a company.

Correct answer: brand mix
  • A. customer preferences
  • B. product similarities
  • C. brand knowledge
  • D. product difference

Explanation: Brand knowledge includes the thoughts, beliefs, experiences, feelings and associations that consumers connect with a brand or product.

Correct answer: brand knowledge
  • A. brand advantage
  • B. brand presence
  • C. brand performance
  • D. brand decline

Explanation: Brand advantage is the consumer belief that a brand offers a rational or emotional benefit superior to competing brands.

Correct answer: brand advantage
  • A. product extension
  • B. brand extension
  • C. line extension
  • D. category extension

Explanation: A line extension keeps the existing product category and brand while adding flavours, colours, package sizes, or forms.

Correct answer: line extension
  • A. faded brands
  • B. failed brands
  • C. strong new brands
  • D. existing brands

Explanation: Strong new brands typically have not yet built high esteem or consumer knowledge because they are recently introduced, although they may…

Correct answer: strong new brands
  • A. impression management
  • B. community engagement
  • C. brand use
  • D. social networking

Explanation: Brand use covers the ways consumers create value through using and adapting a brand, including practices such as customizing or…

Correct answer: brand use
  • A. brand imagery
  • B. brand feelings
  • C. brand salience
  • D. brand performance

Explanation: Brand feelings are the consumer's emotional reactions to a brand, such as warmth, excitement, security or social approval.

Correct answer: brand feelings
  • A. positive brand equity
  • B. negative brand equity
  • C. buyer's equity
  • D. market share equity

Explanation: Positive brand equity exists when consumers respond more favourably to a product because they recognize and value its brand.

Correct answer: positive brand equity
  • A. brand classification
  • B. brand association
  • C. brand dilution
  • D. brand prestige

Explanation: Brand dilution occurs when a brand's associations become weaker or less distinctive, so consumers think less about the brand or connect…

Correct answer: brand dilution
  • A. family brand
  • B. product extension
  • C. sub-product
  • D. parent company

Explanation: A family brand is a common parent name used across several related products.

Correct answer: family brand
  • A. external marketing
  • B. internal marketing
  • C. internal branding
  • D. external branding

Explanation: Internal branding equips and motivates employees to understand and deliver the brand promise.

Correct answer: internal branding
  • A. line extension
  • B. category extension
  • C. parent extension
  • D. brand extension

Explanation: A line extension adds a new product, flavour, size or variant within an existing product category under the parent brand.

Correct answer: line extension
  • A. customer multiplier
  • B. program multiplier
  • C. market multiplier
  • D. customer multiplier

Explanation: The market multiplier measures how market performance, such as sales and market share, is converted into shareholder value.

Correct answer: market multiplier
  • A. transferable
  • B. unmemorable
  • C. adoptable
  • D. protectable

Explanation: Defensive brand elements should be memorable, transferable, adaptable and protectable so competitors cannot easily weaken the brand.

Correct answer: unmemorable
  • A. parent brand
  • B. product extension
  • C. brand extension
  • D. sub-brand

Explanation: A sub-brand combines an established parent brand with a new brand name to distinguish a particular offering.

Correct answer: sub-brand
  • A. brand valuation
  • B. assets evaluation
  • C. brand audit
  • D. brand tracking studies

Explanation: Brand tracking studies repeatedly collect quantitative measures such as awareness, associations, preference and loyalty to monitor brand…

Correct answer: brand tracking studies
  • A. price elasticity
  • B. associations
  • C. communications
  • D. risk profile

Explanation: Price elasticity shows how strongly demand changes when price changes, helping assess the market performance and financial value created…

Correct answer: price elasticity
  • A. brand salience
  • B. brand performance
  • C. brand imagery
  • D. brand feelings

Explanation: Brand salience is the likelihood that customers will recall or recognize a brand in a buying or consumption situation.

Correct answer: brand salience
  • A. performance
  • B. advantage
  • C. presence
  • D. brand relevance

Explanation: Brand relevance measures whether a brand meets consumers’ needs and fits their budget, so it addresses usefulness and affordability.

Correct answer: brand relevance
  • A. attachment
  • B. product and trade
  • C. price premiums
  • D. market capitalization

Explanation: At the shareholder-value stage, the relevant outcome is the financial value created for owners, commonly reflected in market…

Correct answer: market capitalization