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Q1:

2025: 13 May Shift 1

Marketing

Easy

Aroma Coffee House, a boutique café, aims to expand its brand by focusing on the marketing mix. The product is its artisanal coffee, known for unique flavors and organic ingredients. The café ensures appealing packaging, using recyclable and aesthetically designed coffee bags to align with eco-conscious consumers. Its branding strategy emphasizes sustainability and local community support, making it a trusted choice.

The pricing is premium, reflecting the high quality of the coffee beans and exclusivity. They also apply psychological pricing, like $4.99, to appeal subtly. The place involves both a cozy café experience and an online delivery service to cater to a broader audience. For promotion, Aroma relies on social media marketing, influencer collaborations, and loyalty programs.

In line with their marketing philosophy, the café follows a societal marketing concept, prioritizing the welfare of customers and the environment. For instance, they source coffee ethically and support local farmers. Their labeling highlights critical attributes like "organic," "fair trade," and "hand-roasted," catering to health-conscious customers while ensuring clarity and compliance with regulations.

Aroma's integrated approach ensures its appeal to both loyal customers and new markets, balancing ethics with profitability.

What is Aroma Coffee House's primary branding focus?

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Option 2
Correct Answer
Explanation for 2025: 13 May Shift 1 BST question 1

Q2:

2024

Marketing

Medium

"Just Foodie" is a food chain offering different snacks like chips, biscuits, chocochip cookies, cakes, etc. through their own retail outlets. To make their products available to customers at right time, right place, they are also selling their products to grocery stores in addition to their own outlets. The taste, quality and packing are given utmost care. They are offering good quality, so they are able to charge higher price than their competitors. To increase their sales, they are using different offers like: Free gifts, Cash backs, etc. They are offering discounts to customers on various occasions. All these considerations have made "Just Foodie" a complete success and they are able to win over all the competitions in the market and their market share is rising continuously.

In the above case 'Just Foodie' is using various variables of Marketing Mix. Identify the variable used in the following statement: 'To make their products available to customers at right time, right place, they are also selling their products to grocery stores in addition to their own outlets.'

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Option 4
Correct Answer
Explanation for 2024 BST question 2

Q3:

2024

Marketing

Medium

"Just Foodie" is a food chain offering different snacks like chips, biscuits, chocochip cookies, cakes, etc. through their own retail outlets. To make their products available to customers at right time, right place, they are also selling their products to grocery stores in addition to their own outlets. The taste, quality and packing are given utmost care. They are offering good quality, so they are able to charge higher price than their competitors. To increase their sales, they are using different offers like: Free gifts, Cash backs, etc. They are offering discounts to customers on various occasions. All these considerations have made "Just Foodie" a complete success and they are able to win over all the competitions in the market and their market share is rising continuously.

Identify the element of marketing mix in the following statement: 'The taste, quality and packing are given utmost care.'

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Option 1
Correct Answer
Explanation for 2024 BST question 3

Q4:

2024

Marketing

Medium

"Just Foodie" is a food chain offering different snacks like chips, biscuits, chocochip cookies, cakes, etc. through their own retail outlets. To make their products available to customers at right time, right place, they are also selling their products to grocery stores in addition to their own outlets. The taste, quality and packing are given utmost care. They are offering good quality, so they are able to charge higher price than their competitors. To increase their sales, they are using different offers like: Free gifts, Cash backs, etc. They are offering discounts to customers on various occasions. All these considerations have made "Just Foodie" a complete success and they are able to win over all the competitions in the market and their market share is rising continuously.

They are able to charge higher price than their competitors.' Which element of marketing mix is discussed in the statement?

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Option 2
Correct Answer
Explanation for 2024 BST question 4

Q5:

2024

Marketing

Medium

"Just Foodie" is a food chain offering different snacks like chips, biscuits, chocochip cookies, cakes, etc. through their own retail outlets. To make their products available to customers at right time, right place, they are also selling their products to grocery stores in addition to their own outlets. The taste, quality and packing are given utmost care. They are offering good quality, so they are able to charge higher price than their competitors. To increase their sales, they are using different offers like: Free gifts, Cash backs, etc. They are offering discounts to customers on various occasions. All these considerations have made "Just Foodie" a complete success and they are able to win over all the competitions in the market and their market share is rising continuously.

To increase their sales, they are using different offers like: Free gifts, Cash backs etc. They are offering discounts to customers on various occasions.' Identify the marketing mix element from the above statement.

Answer options
Option 3
Correct Answer
Explanation for 2024 BST question 5

Q6:

2024

Marketing

Medium

"Just Foodie" is a food chain offering different snacks like chips, biscuits, chocochip cookies, cakes, etc. through their own retail outlets. To make their products available to customers at right time, right place, they are also selling their products to grocery stores in addition to their own outlets. The taste, quality and packing are given utmost care. They are offering good quality, so they are able to charge higher price than their competitors. To increase their sales, they are using different offers like: Free gifts, Cash backs, etc. They are offering discounts to customers on various occasions. All these considerations have made "Just Foodie" a complete success and they are able to win over all the competitions in the market and their market share is rising continuously.

To increase their sales, they are using different offers like: Free gifts, Cash backs etc. They are offering discounts to customers on various occasions.' Which tool of the promotion mix is used in the given statement?

Answer options
Option 2
Correct Answer
Explanation for 2024 BST question 6

Q7:

2023: 22 June Shift 1

Marketing

Medium

Match List I with List II

LIST ILIST II
A. Shopping ProductsI. Cigarettes, Ice cream, Medicines
B. Speciality ProductsII. Raw materials, Engines, Lubricants
C. Industrial ProductsIII. Radio, Jewellery, Furniture
D. Convenience ProductsIV. Salon, Restaurant, Boutique

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

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Q8:

2023: 22 June Shift 1

Marketing

Easy

Safex Ltd is a company manufacturing masks. The newly appointed marketing manager of the firm has taken 'Covid Pandemic' as an opportunity to increase sales. He used a combination of tools to achieve its communication objective. He constituted 4 teams for designing these tools.

Team 1 :- The tool used by them was an impersonal form of communication which was paid for.

Team 2:- The tool used by them involves oral presentation of message in the form of conversation with one or more prospective customers for the purpose of making sales

Team 3:- This team used short-term incentives which were designed to encourage the buyers to make immediate purchase.

Team 4:- This team used a non-personal form of communication which was non-paid.

All the teams successfully designed their tools and achieved their desired results.

The variable of marketing mix discussed in the above case is _______

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Q9:

2023: 22 June Shift 1

Marketing

Easy

Safex Ltd is a company manufacturing masks. The newly appointed marketing manager of the firm has taken 'Covid Pandemic' as an opportunity to increase sales. He used a combination of tools to achieve its communication objective. He constituted 4 teams for designing these tools.

Team 1 :- The tool used by them was an impersonal form of communication which was paid for.

Team 2:- The tool used by them involves oral presentation of message in the form of conversation with one or more prospective customers for the purpose of making sales

Team 3:- This team used short-term incentives which were designed to encourage the buyers to make immediate purchase.

Team 4:- This team used a non-personal form of communication which was non-paid.

All the teams successfully designed their tools and achieved their desired results.

The tool used by Team 3 was _______

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Q10:

2023: 22 June Shift 1

Marketing

Easy

Safex Ltd is a company manufacturing masks. The newly appointed marketing manager of the firm has taken 'Covid Pandemic' as an opportunity to increase sales. He used a combination of tools to achieve its communication objective. He constituted 4 teams for designing these tools.

Team 1 :- The tool used by them was an impersonal form of communication which was paid for.

Team 2:- The tool used by them involves oral presentation of message in the form of conversation with one or more prospective customers for the purpose of making sales

Team 3:- This team used short-term incentives which were designed to encourage the buyers to make immediate purchase.

Team 4:- This team used a non-personal form of communication which was non-paid.

All the teams successfully designed their tools and achieved their desired results.

The tool used by Team 4 is _______

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Q11:

2023: 22 June Shift 1

Marketing

Easy

Safex Ltd is a company manufacturing masks. The newly appointed marketing manager of the firm has taken 'Covid Pandemic' as an opportunity to increase sales. He used a combination of tools to achieve its communication objective. He constituted 4 teams for designing these tools.

Team 1 :- The tool used by them was an impersonal form of communication which was paid for.

Team 2:- The tool used by them involves oral presentation of message in the form of conversation with one or more prospective customers for the purpose of making sales

Team 3:- This team used short-term incentives which were designed to encourage the buyers to make immediate purchase.

Team 4:- This team used a non-personal form of communication which was non-paid.

All the teams successfully designed their tools and achieved their desired results.

The tool used by Team 1 is _______

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Q12:

2023: 22 June Shift 1

Marketing

Easy

Safex Ltd is a company manufacturing masks. The newly appointed marketing manager of the firm has taken 'Covid Pandemic' as an opportunity to increase sales. He used a combination of tools to achieve its communication objective. He constituted 4 teams for designing these tools.

Team 1 :- The tool used by them was an impersonal form of communication which was paid for.

Team 2:- The tool used by them involves oral presentation of message in the form of conversation with one or more prospective customers for the purpose of making sales

Team 3:- This team used short-term incentives which were designed to encourage the buyers to make immediate purchase.

Team 4:- This team used a non-personal form of communication which was non-paid.

All the teams successfully designed their tools and achieved their desired results.

The tool used by Team 2 is _______

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Q13:

2023: 11 June Shift 3

Marketing

Medium

Select the correct statements about elements of Promotion Mix, out of the following :

(A) Advertising is a personal form of communication

(B) Advertising can cover the market in a short time

(C) Personal selling is not rigid

(D) Personal selling is not an impersonal form of communication

(E) Personal selling can cover the market in a short time

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

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Q14:

2023: 11 June Shift 3

Marketing

Easy

Arrange the following marketing Management philosophies in a sequence based on their evolution over a period of time.

(A) Product Concept

(B) Production Concept

(C) Marketing Concept

(D) Selling Concept

(E) Societal Marketing Concept

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

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Q15:

2023: 11 June Shift 3

Marketing

Easy

Match List - I with List - II.

List - IList - II
(A) Personal selling(I) Impersonal form of communication paid for by the marketers
(B) Public Relations(II) Short term incentives for increasing sale
(C) Advertising(III) Promote or protect a company's image
(D) Sales promotion(IV) Oral presentation of message with customers for making sales

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

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Q16:

2023: 11 June Shift 3

Marketing

Medium

Which of the following statements are correct regarding marketing management philosophies ?

(A) The main focus of Product concept is quantity of product

(B) The main focus of production concept is quality of product

(C) The main focus of selling concept is existing product

(D) The main focus of marketing concept is customer needs

(E) The main focus of societal concept is customer needs and society's well being

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

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Q17:

2022: 28 May Shift 2

Marketing

Easy

Identify the true statement out of the below given statements :

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Q18:

2022: 28 May Shift 2

Marketing

Medium

Arrange the following marketing philosophies according to their evolution :

(A) The Product Concept

(B) The Selling Concept

(C) The Production Concept

(D) The Marketing Concept

(E) The Societal Marketing Concept

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

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Q19:

2022: 28 May Shift 2

Marketing

Easy

Choose the pair which is not included in marketing mix elements :

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Q20:

2022: 28 May Shift 2

Marketing

Medium

Match List - I with List - II.

List - IList - II
(A) Packaging(I) Impersonal form of communication
(B) Labelling(II) Act of designing containers/wrappers
(C) Advertising(III) Process of giving a name/sign
(D) Branding(IV) Act of designing labels

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

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Q21:

2022: 28 May Shift 2

Marketing

Easy

Considering the fact about "Branding" which among the following are its related terms ?

(A) Pricing

(B) Brand Mark

(C) Trade Mark

(D) Brand Name

(E) Brand

Choose the correct answer from the options given below :

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Q22:

2022: 6 Oct Shift 1

Marketing

Medium

As the volume of advertising is getting more and more expanded it is becoming difficult to make advertising messages heard by the target prospects. This will affect the _____ of advertising

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Option 3
Correct Answer
Explanation for 2022: 6 Oct Shift 1 BST question 22

Q23:

2022: 6 Oct Shift 1

Marketing

Medium

That part of a brand which can be recognised but cannot be utterable is called _____.

Answer options
Option 3
Correct Answer
Explanation for 2022: 6 Oct Shift 1 BST question 23

Q24:

2022: 6 Oct Shift 1

Marketing

Medium

Which one of the following is not true about objections to advertising?

Answer options
Option 2
Correct Answer
Explanation for 2022: 6 Oct Shift 1 BST question 24

Q25:

2022: 30 Aug Shift 1

Marketing

Easy

Ravi has started his online business of selling Garments because of low cost of production. Identify the distributions channel used by Ravi.

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Q26:

2022: 30 Aug Shift 1

Marketing

Medium

Identify the function of marketing that is also given by F.W. Taylor as one of the Techniques of Scientific Management.

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Q27:

2022: 30 Aug Shift 1

Marketing

Medium

Identify the correct sequence of factors affecting Price Determination from the following.

(a) Product cost

(b) Environmental factors

(c) The Utility and Demand

(d) Company Characteristics

(e) The Extent of competition in the market

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :

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Q28:

2022: 30 Aug Shift 1

Marketing

Medium

Read the passage carefully and answer the question.

Mr. Rajesh Gulati is the Finance Manager of 'Health and Life Ltd.' a company dealing with health and organic food items. The company sells its products in smaller quantities in attractive containers. Moreover they have also decided to provide an additional layer of packaging for their products for the purpose of protections along with necessary storage, identification and even convenient transportation.

Keeping up with the latest packaging technology the company decided to upgrade its machinery. This, however, involved a major decision making as to how funds should be invested, so what the company is able to earn highest possible return.

Mr. Gulati estimated the amount of funds required for this purpose. He began with the preparation of sales forecast for the next four years.

He also collected the relevant data about the profit estimates in the coming years. By doing this he wanted to be sure about the availability of funds from internal sources. For the remaining funds he is trying to find out alternative sources.

Name the various levels of packaging used by 'Health and Life Ltd.' as mentioned in the case study.

(a) Primary Package

(b) Secondary Package

(c) Tertiary Package

(d) Transportation Package

(e) Fancy Package

Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below :

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Q29:

2022: 20 Aug Shift 1

Marketing

Easy

_______ is an impersonal form of communication which is paid for by the marketers to promote goods or services.

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Q30:

2022: 20 Aug Shift 1

Marketing

Easy

PJ enterprises decided to launch a new range of washing machine with inbuilt water softener which can be used effectively in the areas where the water is hard. Instead of marketing the product by generic name, the company has decided to call it 'easy wash'. Identify the marketing function highlighted above.

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