AIPMM- CPM EXAM QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS(VERIFIED ANSWERS)
Product lifecycle stages - ANSWER: 1. Introduction
2. Growth
3. Maturity
4. Decline
Product manager - ANSWER: Product Managers investigate, select, and drive the
development of products for an organization, performing the activities or product
mgmt.
Product Marketing Manager - ANSWER: Act as the voice of customer to the rest of
the product team and company.
Business Model - ANSWER: Framework that describes the rationale of how an org.
creates, delivers, and captures value
Reasons for business model - ANSWER: Describe & classify businesses
Explore opportunities
Public reporting purposes
Allows managers to focus on value creation
Business Case - ANSWER: Supports planning & decision making - whether to buy,
which product to bring to market, which vendor to choose, when to implement
Captures reasoning for creating/enhancing
Business cases are evaluated to ensure - ANSWER: 1. Investment has value and
importance
2. Project will be properly managed
3. Organization has capability to deliver the benefits
4. Resources are working on highest value opportunities
5. Projects with inter-dependencies are started in optimum sequence
Levels of a product - ANSWER: 1. Core - benefit
2. Actual - Product appearance - design, brand, packaging, quality, functionality
3. Extended product - Payment terms, delivery, warranty, Maintenance & care, on
site service, education/training
Characteristics of a service - ANSWER: intangible, perishable, variable, inseparable
Product lifecycle phases - ANSWER: Conceive, plan, develop, qualify, launch, deliver,
retire
Name 5 key deliverables during product lifecycle and the phases they are important -
ANSWER: Strategic plan, competitive analysis, market trends, MRD, business case,
, PRD, product roadmaps, marketing strategic plan, Beta program plan, launch plan,
marketing plan, end of life plan
Product lifecycle knowledge areas - ANSWER: Business, market, organization,
product, customer
Marketing objective for commercialization strategies - ANSWER: Introduction - Gain
awareness
Growth - Stress differentiation
Maturity - Maintain brand loyaly
Decline - Harvest and deletion
Product - ANSWER: A good or service offered by an organization which affords a
bundle of benefits both objective (physical) and subjective (image) to a user
Goods - ANSWER: Goods marketing relates to selling physical products - durable and
nondurable
Service Goods - ANSWER: Rented goods services, owned-goods services, non-goods
services; shared services (consolidated and shared services by different units within
an organization - finance, HR, security)
Types of consumer products - ANSWER: convenience product, shopping product,
specialty product, unsought product, consumer product
Service - ANSWER: Product that is not embodied in a physical good and that typically
effects some change in another product, person, or institution (example: painted
nails)
4 P's of Marketing - ANSWER: Product, Price, Place, Promotion
3 P's of Service - ANSWER: People, Process, Physical proof
Product line - ANSWER: a group of closely related product items with similar
attributes or target markets (iPhones)
Fill considerations - ANSWER: Product attributes - fuel type, engine size, capacity,
size
Stretch considerations - ANSWER: Buying power, target customer
Product line extension - ANSWER: the use of an established product brand name for
a new item in the same product category.
Product width/breadth - ANSWER: Number of different product categories offered
by company
ANSWERS(VERIFIED ANSWERS)
Product lifecycle stages - ANSWER: 1. Introduction
2. Growth
3. Maturity
4. Decline
Product manager - ANSWER: Product Managers investigate, select, and drive the
development of products for an organization, performing the activities or product
mgmt.
Product Marketing Manager - ANSWER: Act as the voice of customer to the rest of
the product team and company.
Business Model - ANSWER: Framework that describes the rationale of how an org.
creates, delivers, and captures value
Reasons for business model - ANSWER: Describe & classify businesses
Explore opportunities
Public reporting purposes
Allows managers to focus on value creation
Business Case - ANSWER: Supports planning & decision making - whether to buy,
which product to bring to market, which vendor to choose, when to implement
Captures reasoning for creating/enhancing
Business cases are evaluated to ensure - ANSWER: 1. Investment has value and
importance
2. Project will be properly managed
3. Organization has capability to deliver the benefits
4. Resources are working on highest value opportunities
5. Projects with inter-dependencies are started in optimum sequence
Levels of a product - ANSWER: 1. Core - benefit
2. Actual - Product appearance - design, brand, packaging, quality, functionality
3. Extended product - Payment terms, delivery, warranty, Maintenance & care, on
site service, education/training
Characteristics of a service - ANSWER: intangible, perishable, variable, inseparable
Product lifecycle phases - ANSWER: Conceive, plan, develop, qualify, launch, deliver,
retire
Name 5 key deliverables during product lifecycle and the phases they are important -
ANSWER: Strategic plan, competitive analysis, market trends, MRD, business case,
, PRD, product roadmaps, marketing strategic plan, Beta program plan, launch plan,
marketing plan, end of life plan
Product lifecycle knowledge areas - ANSWER: Business, market, organization,
product, customer
Marketing objective for commercialization strategies - ANSWER: Introduction - Gain
awareness
Growth - Stress differentiation
Maturity - Maintain brand loyaly
Decline - Harvest and deletion
Product - ANSWER: A good or service offered by an organization which affords a
bundle of benefits both objective (physical) and subjective (image) to a user
Goods - ANSWER: Goods marketing relates to selling physical products - durable and
nondurable
Service Goods - ANSWER: Rented goods services, owned-goods services, non-goods
services; shared services (consolidated and shared services by different units within
an organization - finance, HR, security)
Types of consumer products - ANSWER: convenience product, shopping product,
specialty product, unsought product, consumer product
Service - ANSWER: Product that is not embodied in a physical good and that typically
effects some change in another product, person, or institution (example: painted
nails)
4 P's of Marketing - ANSWER: Product, Price, Place, Promotion
3 P's of Service - ANSWER: People, Process, Physical proof
Product line - ANSWER: a group of closely related product items with similar
attributes or target markets (iPhones)
Fill considerations - ANSWER: Product attributes - fuel type, engine size, capacity,
size
Stretch considerations - ANSWER: Buying power, target customer
Product line extension - ANSWER: the use of an established product brand name for
a new item in the same product category.
Product width/breadth - ANSWER: Number of different product categories offered
by company
