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Professional Sellling Unit 5 Practice Exam

Total questions: 26

Worksheet time: 13mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Natalie is a salesperson for an office supply company. Which of the following activities is appropriate for Natalie to engage in if she is interested in converting her customers into highly committed lifetime customers?

a)

Handle complaints in a timely manner.

b)

Add value.

c)

Process requests for rush deliveries willingly.


d)

All of the above are correct.

2.

Why is it important to assess customer satisfaction?

a)

Doing so helps build customer trust.

b)

Doing so provided competitive information.

c)

It isn’t important as long as the company is profitable.

d)

Assessing satisfaction is a ploy used to begin the next sales cycle.


3.

Which of the following is not a method a salesperson might use to expand collaborative involvement between the selling organization and the customer’s organization?

a)

Hosting a week-long series of seminars for the customer’s organization.

b)

Initiating and enhancing relationships between multiple key individuals in both organizations.

c)

Refer the customer to customer service when complaints arise so that the customer will get to know the customer service agents.

d)

Host social engagements to allow key individuals from both organizations get to know each other.

4.

When handling customer complaints it is important to ask of the buyer what he/she would like to have happen in order to resolve the issue. By doing this, the salesperson:

a)

Avoids proposing an insufficient solution.

b)

Avoids proposing a solution that over-compensates for the problem.

c)

Will understand what the buyer wants to correct the problem.

d)

All of the above.

5.

What is the most important customer service dimension?

a)

Communication

b)

Reliability


c)

Resilience

d)

Motivation


6.

Ultimately, who is responsible for differentiating a company's products and positioning those products in the minds of its customers?

a)

The company's senior management

b)


The company's marketing department

c)

The company's product managers

d)

That company's salespeople

7.


Problems that result in the customer severing the relationship with the seller may be avoided by:

a)

Always having the lowest price.

b)

Always delivering on time.

c)

Maintaining open, two-way communication.

d)

Involving Upper level management.

8.

Which of the following methods of post-sale follow-up is probably most effective?

a)

A. A personal visit

b)

B. Phone call

c)

C. E-mail

d)

D. Both A and B are correct

9.

Suppose a salesperson is classifying accounts based on the level of sales potential. Which common method for classifying accounts is the salesperson using?

a)

Single-factor analysis

b)

Portfolio analysis

c)

Sales volume analysis

d)

Most Likely Sales (MLS) analysis

10.

Offices set up at multiple locations where salespeople can access a wide range of selling technologies are called:

a)

Web-based offices

b)

High-tech sales support offices

c)

Sales 2.O clouds

d)

Extranet-enabled offices

11.

The process of scheduling activities that can be used as a map for achieving objectives is referred to as:

a)

Self-leadership

b)

Territory analysis

c)

Sales planning

d)

Sales management

12.

In order to successfully establish territory routing plans, salespeople will need the information gained from ____.

a)

Setting sales call goals

b)

Setting personal goals

c)

Territory analysis and account classification

d)

Prospecting

13.

High performing salespeople with strong self-leadership skills:

a)

treat time as a valuable and irreplaceable resource.

b)

rarely plan out their days because sales requires schedule flexibility.

c)

leave at least two hours open in their daily schedules because sales requires schedule flexibility.

d)

often have trouble because they try to squeeze to many appointments into each day.

14.

Anthony is a salesperson for ABC Supplies. Based on his annual territory sales goal, he has set his annual account sales goals for his top 30 accounts. Next he needs to:

a)

Set sales call goals for each account.

b)

Call the accounts and tell them his objective.

c)

Begin setting his personal goals.

d)

Schedule his first sales call.

15.

Placing existing customers and prospects in categories based on their sales potential is called ____.

a)

Territory management

b)

Prospecting

c)

Account classification

d)

Customer management

16.

Salespeople should base their daily plans on their what?

a)

Annual plans

b)


Sales call goals

c)

Weekly plans

d)

Daily budget

17.


Which of the following is not a type of internal partnership?

a)

Sales partnerships

b)

Marketing partnerships

c)

Administrative support partnerships

d)

All of the above.

18.

Suppose a salesperson is classifying accounts based on the level of sales potential and strength of relationship (buyer-seller). Which common method for classifying accounts is the salesperson using?

a)

Single-factor analysis

b)

Portfolio analysis

c)

Sales volume analysis

d)

Most Likely Sales (MLS) analysis

19.

Steve is looking for a way to analyze customer data from his territory in an effort to identify new opportunities for sales revenue growth. _______________ could help Steve with this task.

a)

Conducting a sales audit

b)

Customer Relationship Management

c)

Sales call auditing software

d)

Deal analytics

20.

Scott is a salesperson who works to maximize the number of critical encounters with his customers in order to encourage effective dialogue. Which of the four sequential components of effective follow-up is Scott utilizing?

a)

Interact

b)

Connect

c)

Understand

d)

Relate

21.


Which of the following is not one of the steps for handling complaints?

a)

Get the whole story.

b)

Ask the customer to provide a written summary of the problem.

c)

Ask the customer what he/she would like you to do.

d)

Gain agreement on a solution.

22.

One of the primary objectives of portfolio analysis is ___________________.

a)

To help salespeople better understand how to best allocate their resources.

b)

To help salespeople eliminate the 10 percent of customers producing the least amount of sales.

c)

To help salespeople develop a portfolio of customers.

d)

To help salespeople divide their customer base by product type.

23.

Salespeople looking for ways to take relationships with their customers to higher levels after the sales should:

a)

A. Seek to expand collaborative involvement.

b)

B. Sell more products to those customers.

c)

C. Encourage and seek open communication.

d)

D. Both A and C are correct.

24.

Susan is a sales representative for an industrial chemical company. Over the course of the next few months Susan is going to try to have people from the R&D department visit her customers to see how they use the products. Which of the following explains why Susan is going to all of this trouble?

a)

She wants the people from the R&D department to handle complaints.

b)

She's making an effort to expand collaborative involvement between her company and her key accounts.

c)

She is trying to impress her customers.

d)

She is trying to build good will with her customers

25.

Which the following is not one of the sequential stages of self-leadership?

a)

Setting goals and objectives.

b)

Implementation of strategies.

c)

Taking advantage of technology.

d)

Each of the above is one of the sequential stages of self-leadership.

26.

I will pass this exam!

a)

True

b)

False

c)

Maybe