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This set of Service Management Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Service Management Set 2

Q1 | Pension and life insurance funds hold few short-term assets because
  • their cash flows are predictable
  • short-term asset share too dear
  • long-term assets are more profitable
  • short-term assets are too risky
Q2 | What is the full form of BPO
  • business process outsourcing
  • business persons outsourcing
  • business production outsourcing
  • business price outsourcing
Q3 | Full form of KPO
  • knowledge process outstanding
  • knowledge process outsourcing
  • knowledge persons outsourcing
  • knowledge production out sourcing.
Q4 | Outsourcing technically means:
  • moving functions or activities out of an organizations
  • the delegation of non-core operations from internal production to an external entity specializing in the management of that operation
  • buying resources from outside a company's main domestic market
  • a & b
Q5 | Which is the largest outsourcing country in the world ?
  • china
  • america
  • india
  • brazil
Q6 | Outsourcing on the American continents is supported by ________, in that there areprovision with reference to workers from low-labor cost countries.
  • oecd
  • natfa
  • g8
  • mercosur
Q7 | Microsoft is an example of a:
  • diagonally integrated multinational corporation
  • horizontally integrated multinational corporation
  • diversified multinational corporation
  • vertically integrated multinational corporation
Q8 | A ______________________ is a form of product that consists of activities, benefits, or satisfactions offered for sale that are essentially intangible and do not result in the ownership of anything.
  • Service
  • Demand
  • Need
  • Physical object
Q9 | Distinct characteristic of services is_____________
  • Intangibility
  • Inseparability
  • Variability
  • Perishability
Q10 | All of the following are examples of services EXCEPT:
  • banking.
  • hotels and motels.
  • tax preparation.
  • computer software.
Q11 | Services are typically produced and consumed simultaneously. This is an example of the ________characteristic of services.
  • Intangibility
  • Variability
  • Inseparability
  • Simultaneously
Q12 | Services can not be stored. This describes the ___________characteristic of services. a.
  • Intangibility
  • Variability
  • Inseparability
  • Perishability
Q13 | Examples of pure tangible goods include all of the following EXCEPT:
  • Soap.
  • Tax preparation.
  • Toothpaste.
  • Salt.
Q14 | __________describes the employees skills in serving the client.
  • Internal Marketing
  • External Marketing
  • Relationship marketing
  • Interactive marketing
Q15 | SSTS refers to __________
  • Service Standards Testing
  • Self- Service Technologies
  • Standard Service Technologies
  • Self Service Treatments
Q16 | _____________ occurs when a company intentionally uses services as the stage, and goods as the props, to engage individual customers in a way that creates a memorable event.
  • Hybrid offer
  • Core service
  • Augmented or ancillary product
  • Experience
Q17 | Top firms audit service performance by collecting measurements to probe customer satisfiers and dis satisfiers.
  • Customer satisfier
  • Customer complaint
  • Voice of the customer
  • Psychological
Q18 | The services a customer expects are called the ______service package.
  • Expected
  • Augmented
  • Primary
  • Secondary
Q19 | The fact that a business traveler may have one very positive check-in experience at a hotel and then a very negative check-in experience with a different employee on a subsequent visit is evidence of service:
  • intangibility.
  • inseparability.
  • variability.
  • perishability.
Q20 | Added features to an offering are called _________service features.
  • Expected
  • Augmented
  • Primary
  • Secondary
Q21 | The intangibility of services has implications for the choice of _________
  • Brand elements
  • Location
  • Price
  • Product features
Q22 | __________cost refers to the product’s purchase cost plus the discounted cost of maintenance and repair less the discounted salvage value
  • Total
  • Variable
  • Life cycle
  • Net
Q23 | Successful service companies focus their attention on both their customers and their employees. They understand ___________________, which links service firm profits with employee and customer satisfaction.
  • Internal marketing
  • Service-profit chains
  • Interactive marketing
  • Service differentiation
Q24 | If a firm is practicing ____________________, the firm is training and effectively motivating its customer-contact employees and all of the supporting service people to work as a team to provide customer satisfaction.
  • Double-up marketing
  • Internal marketing
  • Interactive marketing
  • Service marketing
Q25 | According to Parasuraman, Zeithaml & Berry , the most important determinant of service quality is :
  • Responsiveness
  • Reliability
  • Assurance
  • Empathy