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Multiple choice exam for Public relations
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Question 1

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The process of researching, creating and refining a product or service and distributing that product or service to targeted customers is called ____
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  • advertising
  • marketing
  • public relations
  • all of the above

Question 2

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The execution phase of the public relations process is known as
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  • planning
  • propaganda
  • evaluation
  • research
  • communication

Question 3

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When public relations practitioners seek to maintain or improve relations with local special interest groups, they are engaged in _____
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  • investor relations
  • community relations
  • employee relations
  • media relations
  • consumer relations

Question 4

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A group that can directly influence your organization's abilities to achieve its goals is known as ____
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  • a secondary public
  • a primary public
  • a latent pulic
  • an interviewing public
  • an aware public

Question 5

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Most crises are _____
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  • unavoidable
  • time consuming
  • predictable
  • expensive
  • disastrous

Question 6

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A tactic in marketing public relations is ____
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  • billboards
  • advertising
  • blogs and interactive websites
  • all of the above

Question 7

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public relations professionals interact with which groups?
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  • employees
  • stockholders
  • customers
  • all of the above

Question 8

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what is lobbying?
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  • directly interacting to influence elected officials or government regulators and agents
  • protesting in Washington, D.C. about a particular cause
  • the enhancement of communication between investor-owned companies and their shareholders

Question 9

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what is a focus group?
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  • small groups of a targeted public who are interviewed for research
  • a group of people chosen to be finalists for the next reality show
  • a group chosen as the best of the best
  • a group of people who want to go into public relations

Question 10

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the practice of combining public relations, marketing, advertising and promotion into a seamless campaign is known as
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  • viral marketing
  • integrated marketing communications
  • satellite-delivered media
  • video news conferences

Question 11

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which tool of the promotional mix is defined as any paid form of nonpersonal presentation of ideas, goods or services by an identified sponsor?
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  • advertising
  • public relations
  • direct marketing
  • sales promotion

Question 12

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The _____ is the specific mix of advertising, personal selling, sales promotion, public relations and direct marketing tools that the company uses to pursue its advertising and marketing objectives?
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  • value mix
  • integrated dealer mix
  • marketing communications mix
  • marketing control mix

Question 13

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Two major factors are changing the face of today's communications. One of these factors is the fact that:
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  • costs of promotion are rising
  • mass markets are fragmented and marketers are shifting away from mass marketing
  • global communications are not growing rapidly enough
  • marcom managers have achieved more power and control

Question 14

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__________ combines sight, sound, and motion, appeals to the senses, and has a low cost per exposure as advantages
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  • newspapers
  • television
  • direct mail
  • radio

Question 15

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factors leading to the need to manage crises well include all the following except:
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  • round-the-clock cable news coverage
  • tabloid journalism techniques used by various media outlets
  • insensitivity of those not affected by the immediate crisis
  • increased numbers and depth of crises affecting society

Question 16

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elements of issues management include all the following except:
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  • anticipated issues that are a year or more away
  • impact of external factors
  • impact of internal factors
  • bottom-line orientation

Question 17

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for a public relations function to gain acceptance for issues management, they must have approval from:
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  • the director of human resources
  • top management, particularly the CEO
  • the marketing director
  • the security director

Question 18

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for risk communication to be effective, public relations people need to:
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  • encourage management to be part of the communications loop
  • anticipate the needs of media by approaching them with solid information before they approach you
  • take the matter seriously
  • ensure the organisations deed match the words

Question 19

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you can expect to sense or see all the following when a crises strikes except
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  • the element of surprise
  • events escalate
  • truly helpful politicians and observers
  • siege mentality

Question 20

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"Transparency" a term business people are prone to use as a result of the fallout from many unethical business dealings in the early 21st century, refers to:
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  • organisations, particularly their management, increasing their efforts to be more open to their various constituencies
  • Making accounting procedures even more understandable to the SEC
  • CEOs committing to share profits with employees and shareowners
  • Renewed efforts to publish corporate codes of ethics

Question 21

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Corporate social responsibility boils down to:
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  • Providing safe products that perform well and do not harm the environment
  • providing employees a safe, healthy work environment
  • avoiding discrimination in hiring, promoting and retaining the best people for your organisation
  • all of the above

Question 22

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most public relations analysis take the informal form called:
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  • primary research
  • objective research
  • abstract research
  • secondary research

Question 23

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Public Relations can be defined as
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  • a collection of techniques for persuading people to buy products they don't need
  • a collection of techniques for persuading news organisations to give space or time to people or products that are not inherently newsworthy
  • planned and continuous communication to provide information about an organisation, issue or product to the public
  • planned and continuous communication to obscure the inadequacies of an organisation or product

Question 24

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public relations professionals often deal with either internal or external communications. Which of the following best describes those two types of communications?
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  • internal communications deal with investors, clients, customers or contributors, and external communications keep company employees informed about the company
  • internal communications always flow from the top of the organisation down, and external communications always flow from the bottom to the top
  • internal communications always are carried out by e-mail, and external communications always are carried out through the mass media
  • internal communications keep the company employees informed about the company, and external communications deal with investors, clients, customers or contributors.

Question 25

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effective public relations practitioners first
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  • send as many press releases as possible to as many people
  • determine which media outlets best serve their purposes
  • ask editors to promise to use their press releases
  • find out which media have been most friendly to their client in the past

Question 26

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which of the following is NOT among the reasons often cited by journalists for rejecting news releases?
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  • they are not newsworthy
  • they are too well written
  • they are sent to the wrong person
  • they fail to include important information

Question 27

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public relations professionals should send news well in advance of the publication date because
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  • news organisations move slowly and need plenty of time to rewrite the release
  • a release received close to a deadline is likely to be thrown away
  • a release received close to a deadline leaves news organisations with too little time to plan special coverage
  • a release received too close to a deadline is less likely to be published

Question 28

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if a news release contains a statement such as "parents are worried about the amount of violence in our society", that release is of questionable news value because it is
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  • probably a one sided story
  • stating the obvious
  • full of pluffery
  • reporting a contrived event

Question 29

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Public relations is defined as a _____ within an organisation
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  • media-communication function
  • consumer-community function
  • leadership-management function
  • management-media function

Question 30

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public relations practitioners develop, execute and evaluate organisational programs that promote the exchange of influence and understanding _____________
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  • among an organisations constituent parts and publics
  • so that hostile publics can be silenced
  • in an attempt to make sure organisational secrets are not leaked
  • when initial attempts to cover up negative news fail

Question 31

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social marketing involves
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  • organising social events to benefit a non-profit agency
  • joining social groups to promote an organisation
  • working on behalf of a social cause that benefits society as a whole
  • marketing an organisation to specific social groups

Question 32

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as part of its management function, public relations practitioners might
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  • develop new products
  • layout sale ads
  • determine employee salary ranges
  • assist in influecning or changing public policy

Question 33

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a public is defined as a group of individuals or organisations who
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  • work for the same company
  • have a relationship with an organisation
  • use the same product
  • are boycotting a corporation

Question 34

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a group can become one of an organisations _____ when it recognises an issue related to an organisation, understands its relevance to the groups members and begins to talk about or organise to take action on the issue
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  • publics
  • problems
  • rivals
  • competitors

Question 35

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public relations, advertising and marketing are _____ terms
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  • interchangeable
  • distinctly different
  • synonymous
  • all of the above

Question 36

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decision making in an organisation should include PR practitioners because
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  • theyre the only ones who know how to communicate the decisions with appropriate publics and audiences
  • they are in charge of the social responsibility of the organisation
  • they are at the highest levels of organisational leadership with the organisation
  • their interaction with the organisations publics gives them insight into valid issues that may influence decisions

Question 37

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public relations practitioners should be involved in management's decision making _____
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  • only during crises
  • during the decision making process
  • only after decisions have been made
  • only if key publics will oppose the decision

Question 38

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which of the following is secondary research
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  • using company or public records and contacts
  • reviewing previously published or broadcast information
  • using focus groups and surveys
  • interviewing company officials

Question 39

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the internet has changed public relations in what way?
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  • PR practitioners can put news on the website for reporters to access anytime
  • blogs provide an opportunity to communicate with publics and find target audiences
  • podcasting allows organisations to provide audio and video information to the gernal public without news media
  • all of these

Question 40

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youtube, flickr and facebook are examples of what kind of collaborative media?
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  • social
  • interactive
  • sharing
  • new

Question 41

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newspapers, television and radio are examples of what kind of media?
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  • social
  • interactive
  • controlled
  • uncontrolled

Question 42

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the definition of community relations as a public relations function includes
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  • the goal of benefitting the organisation only
  • the goal of benefitting the community only
  • unplanned, spontaneous participation with a community
  • participation with a community to maintain and enhance its environment

Question 43

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guerilla tactis are which of the following?
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  • a wartime maneuvers
  • illegal
  • nontraditional communication vehicles
  • never successful

Question 44

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when selecting a company spokesperson, what matters most is that persons ability to add ______ to the brand
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  • value
  • credibility
  • trust
  • integrity

Question 45

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the first task of inventor relations is to __________
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  • create and maintain investor confidence
  • obtain support from SEC makers
  • file and distribute paperwork to various stock exchanges
  • meet with company financial officers to strategise
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