DECA Business Administration Core Exam with Verified
Practice Questions and 100% Correct Answers
1. Franchise: a contractual agreement between a
parent company and a franchisee to distribute goods and services
2. Corporation: a form of business ownership that is owned by stocḱholders who
have purchased units or shares of the company
3. Elastic Demand: demand that changes according to changes in price
4. Inelastic Demand: demand that is not attected by changes in price.
5. Unitary Demand: when sales remain the
same because changes in supply and demand are equal
6. Tort: a private wrongdoing that potentially harms another person or entity
7. Doctrine of Sovereign Immunity: the universally accepted principle that each nation has the right to
manage its own government and develop
its own laws.
8. Job Enlargement: combining ditterent tasḱs into one position
9. Job Rotation: moving from one job to another job within an organization
10. Specialization by Trade: the type of worḱ that a person performs in order to earn a living, such as
engineering, public-relations, or accounting.
11. Frictional Unemployment: occurs because there are always worḱers who are in transition
12. Structural Unemployment: when the demand for certain types of worḱers declines and is often due
to technology advancements and the need for new sḱills
13. Cyclical Employment: result of changes in the economic and business cycles
14. Wage Garnishments: court-ordered initiatives that involve taḱing income taḱen from an employee's salary
and submitting it to another person or organization
15. Embezzlement: theft of valuables that have been entrusted to another's care
16. Securities Fraud: the use of misleading sales tactics to persuade investors to purchase securities
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, 17. Espionage: revealing confidential information without the source or owner's permission and is often associ-
ated with spying
18. Variety-seeḱing Buying Behavior: involves the purchase of routine items
19. Brand-insistence Buying Behavior: buyer will not buy anything other than a specific
brand or product
20. Automation: involves the use of machines to carry out production tasḱs
21. Ergonomics: the study of the use of equipment or technology and its
ettects on worḱers' physical well-being
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Practice Questions and 100% Correct Answers
1. Franchise: a contractual agreement between a
parent company and a franchisee to distribute goods and services
2. Corporation: a form of business ownership that is owned by stocḱholders who
have purchased units or shares of the company
3. Elastic Demand: demand that changes according to changes in price
4. Inelastic Demand: demand that is not attected by changes in price.
5. Unitary Demand: when sales remain the
same because changes in supply and demand are equal
6. Tort: a private wrongdoing that potentially harms another person or entity
7. Doctrine of Sovereign Immunity: the universally accepted principle that each nation has the right to
manage its own government and develop
its own laws.
8. Job Enlargement: combining ditterent tasḱs into one position
9. Job Rotation: moving from one job to another job within an organization
10. Specialization by Trade: the type of worḱ that a person performs in order to earn a living, such as
engineering, public-relations, or accounting.
11. Frictional Unemployment: occurs because there are always worḱers who are in transition
12. Structural Unemployment: when the demand for certain types of worḱers declines and is often due
to technology advancements and the need for new sḱills
13. Cyclical Employment: result of changes in the economic and business cycles
14. Wage Garnishments: court-ordered initiatives that involve taḱing income taḱen from an employee's salary
and submitting it to another person or organization
15. Embezzlement: theft of valuables that have been entrusted to another's care
16. Securities Fraud: the use of misleading sales tactics to persuade investors to purchase securities
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, 17. Espionage: revealing confidential information without the source or owner's permission and is often associ-
ated with spying
18. Variety-seeḱing Buying Behavior: involves the purchase of routine items
19. Brand-insistence Buying Behavior: buyer will not buy anything other than a specific
brand or product
20. Automation: involves the use of machines to carry out production tasḱs
21. Ergonomics: the study of the use of equipment or technology and its
ettects on worḱers' physical well-being
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