Chapter 1 test !!

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Question 1 (5 points)

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During the early days of business growth, many sold or bartered products from their homes in what became known as:

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Customers and clients

Cottage industries

The service sector

Montgomery Ward

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Question 2 (5 points)

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Technology has not affected jobs in which of the following ways:

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Quantity of jobs created

Distribution of jobs

Fewer professionals to design systems

Quality of jobs

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Question 3 (5 points)

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Telephone sales and product support services can easily be handled by a customer:

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Visiting the main office

Calling a designated 800 number

Being relocated to another branch

Being put on hold while service is searched

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According to the US Census figures for 2000:

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50.5 percent of US households have and use Internet access

The use of e-mail is declining rapidly

A small percentage uses search engines

The use of the Internet is down from 1998 figures

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Question 5 (5 points)

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A term applied to an ongoing trend of information, knowledge and resource sharing around the world is:

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Networking

Telecommuting

Globalization

Deregulation

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Prime-age workers are classified by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics as those between the ages of:

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50-68

16-24

55 and older

25-54

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A type of business that is independently owned and operated and is not dominant in its field of operation is a:

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Small business

Large corporation

Entrepreneur

Middle-management operation

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Surfing the Net for goods has coined a new term in technology for accessing goods and services called:

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E-commerce

B2B

SBA

Y2K

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Summaries that condense current business publications to a three- or four-page synopsis of key points are:

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Executive book summaries

Book reports

Executive summaries or abstracts

Personal shopping guides

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The event that worried all computer systems people on December 31, 1999, was aptly called the

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SBA

B2B

Y2K

Asian Beatle

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The customer service environment is made up of six components of which customer, organizational culture, human resources, products/deliverables and delivery systems comprise five. The sixth component is:

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The computer

The building plans

Service

Management

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Employees of other departments or branches, coworkers and other people who work within the same organization are:

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External customers

Internal customers

Online customers

Current customers

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Question 13 (5 points)

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Those who actively seek out, research and buy, rent or lease products or services offered by a business are its:

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External customers or clients

Internal customers

Online customers only

Call center personnel

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Question 14 (5 points)

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The two potential areas of customer satisfaction or dissatisfaction about a deliverable are:

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Price and taxes

Earnings ratio or profit

Quality and quantity

Color and style

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When one applies for a job, those who take care in recruiting, selecting and training of qualified people may be called:

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Human resources

The employment group

Applicants

Customers

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The frontline service representatives, the standard bearers for an organization, who set the tone for how others view the organization, are the:

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Data entry/order clerks

Service technicians

Members of management

Receptionist/front desk clerks

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Question 17 (5 points)

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Employees who perform telemarketing service need strong self-confidence and other personal skills because of the:

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Low salary they receive

Number of rejections to offers and irate calls they receive

Lack of training usually offered

Lack of up-to-date equipment and training

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Question 18 (5 points)

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Simply stated, the manner in which you and other employees treat your customers and each other as you deliver your company's product(s) or other deliverables is known as:

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Outsourcing

Education and training

Service

The competition

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Question 19 (5 points)

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A term which describes an organization that uses knowledge as a competitive advantage is:

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A learning organization

The Fifth Discipline

Networking

A cottage industry

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A concept in which employees can act without asking first for management intervention to resolve a customer issue is called:

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A learning organization

Service recovery

Networking

Outsourcing