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CA Intermediate Strategic Management (SM) MCQ

1. The low growth, low share businesses in BCG matrix are:

 
 
 
 

2. Entering into a ‘contract’ by MNCs is an example of:

 
 
 
 

3. A campaign advocating the message of ‘SAVE WATER’ is:

 
 
 
 

4. ‘Customer Analysis’ and ‘Market Analysis’ are the part of-

 
 
 
 

5. The competencies or skills that a firm employs to transform inputs into outputs are:

 
 
 
 

6. “Competitor’s Differentiation’, Customer Value’ and ‘Application of Competitiveness’ are the three important areas of:

 
 
 
 

7. Which of the following is true of a transnational Corporation:

 
 
 
 

8. When to organizations combine to increase their strength and financial gains along with breaking the trade barriers is called———–

 
 
 
 

9. ‘Attractiveness of firms’ while conducting industry analysis should be seen in-

 
 
 
 

10. Financial objectives involve all of the following except:

 
 
 
 

11. An organization that has a low relative market share position and competes in a slow- growth industry is referred to as a________.

 
 
 
 

12. The reasons for acquisition are

 
 
 
 

13. An important activity in_________is taking corrective action.

 
 
 
 

14. Change in company’s —————– gives rise to problems necessitating a new —————- to be made.

 
 
 
 

15. ‘Inbound and Outbound logistics” are related to:

 
 
 
 

16. Competitive rivalry has the most effect on the firm’s strategies than the firm’s other strategies.

 
 
 
 

17. Geographical Diversification, Product diversification and Entry Mode are the domains of:

 
 
 
 

18. Which section of the SWOT Matrix involves matching internal strengths with external opportunities?

 
 
 
 

19. Which of the following bases of competitive advantage is/are more sustainable:

 
 
 
 

20. Competitive landscape requires the application of-

 
 
 
 

21. Which of these basic questions should a vision statement answer?

 
 
 
 

22. The concept of ‘core competence’ has been advocated by-

 
 
 
 

23. An advertisement says, ‘Have Roohafza with milk and lassi too’. Which strategy is the company trying to use:

 
 
 
 

24. ‘Strategic group mapping’ involves-

 
 
 
 

25. In evaluating strategies, which one of Rumelt’s criteria for evaluating strategies, refers to the need for strategists to examine sets of trends?

 
 
 
 

26. Which of the following is not a limitation of SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunity, Threats) analysis?

 
 
 
 

27. A firm successfully implementing a differentiation strategy would expect:

 
 
 
 

28. Individual investors are reliant on upon the organization’s managers to

 
 
 
 

29. What type of organizational structure do most small businesses follow?

 
 
 
 

30. Horizontal integration is concerned with

 
 
 
 

31. ‘Build,’ ‘Hold,’ ‘Harvest,’ and ‘Divest’ are the strategies pursued in:

 
 
 
 

32. Corporate level strategy is concerned with the following-

 
 
 
 

33. A tool by which management identifies and evaluates the various businesses that make up a company is termed as:

 
 
 
 

34. ‘Determinants Analysis’ falls in the purview of?-

 
 
 
 

35. The most probable time to pursue a harvest strategy is in a situation of

 
 
 
 

36. Internal____________are activities in an organization that are performed especially well.

 
 
 
 

37. What can be defined as the art and science of formulating, implementing and evaluating cross-functional decisions that enable an organization to achieve its objectives?

 
 
 
 

38. Vertical integration may be beneficial when

 
 
 
 

39. The emphasis on product design is very high, the intensity of competition is low, and the market growth rate is low in the__________stage of the industry life cycle.

 
 
 
 

40. A narrow market focus is to a differentiation-based strategy as a

 
 
 
 

41. The Niche strategy is the best way to enter a:

 
 
 
 

42. ADL matrix has been propounded by:

 
 
 
 

43. Conglomerate diversification is another name for which of the following?

 
 
 
 

44. One of the primary advantages of diversification is sharing core competencies. In order for diversification to be most successful, it is important that

 
 
 
 

45. According to Porter, what is usually the most powerful of the five competitive forces?

 
 
 
 


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6 Replies to “CA Intermediate Strategic Management (SM) MCQ

  1. 4. ‘Build,’ ‘Hold,’ ‘Harvest,’ and ‘Divest’ are the strategies pursued in:

    1. Boston Consulting Group Growth Share Matrix
    2. Value chain Analysis
    3.Managerial Grid Matrix
    4. Ansoff’s Product Matrix Growth Matrix
    I think correct answer should be option 1 not value chain analysis

    1. Please tell from where to study limitations of SWOT .I can only find advantage of swot in icai module for SM in page 2.36 july 17 edition

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