Hootsuite Social Media Marketing Certification Exam Answers
Hootsuite Social Media Marketing Certification Exam Answers
- The exam contains 60 multiple-choice questions.
- You need to score at least 80% to pass.
- You have 60 minutes to complete the exam.
In this certification you have more possible questions that you get during the exam, 80 in total. Every time you take the exam you get 60 random questions from the all possible questions list in a random order. Our PDF file contains ALL POSSIBLE questions.
Questions:
- Building a Social Media Strategy
- Building a Social Media Community
Which of the following is typically included as a core element in a social media strategy?
- Analytics report template
- Product pricing information
- Brand voice and design guidelines
- Your content calendar
Which of the following types of media is controlled and created directly by your brand?
- Earned Media
- Owned media
- Converged media
- Paid Media
- Contact information of decision-makers for each platform
- Salary information on each employee and contractor
- Information on your competition that you can leverage
- Important information on your engagement metrics
- Change your socials profile image to a black image
- Immediately respond to the crisis on your social accounts
- Pause all content, review your social profiles, and create a response
- Delete all the content on your socials until the crisis is over
Pick the best option
- Pause it.
- Edit it.
- Keep it as planned.
What should you update on the profile?
Match the pairs
- Posting humor about the situation.-❌ Avoid
- Updated contact details for customer support. - ✅ Correct Action
- Ignoring customer inquiries about changes to store policies. - ❌ Avoid
- Adjusted opening hours. - ✅ Correct Action
- Pinned post with important customer information. - ✅ Correct Action
Comment: “I can’t believe your brand is still running ads during this crisis. So insensitive.”
Pick the best option
- Apologize & pause ads.
- Ignore it.
- Defend your strategy.
Your marketing team has three content drafts for a post during a crisis.
Pick the best option
- Post C: “No crisis can stop us! Buy now and support our brand.”
- Comes across as tone-deaf and self-centered.
- Post A: “Exciting discounts! Don’t let the crisis stop you from shopping.”
- This makes it seem like the brand is exploiting the crisis to sell.
- Post B: “We know this is a difficult time. Here’s a guide on how to adjust your budget during uncertainty.”
Pick the best option
- Check the crisis response plan for backup contacts and escalate accordingly.
- Reply immediately without guidance.
- Make a public post stating you don’t know what’s happening.
What’s a responsible way for employees to advocate for the brand during a crisis?
Pick the best option
- Share approved messages from the company’s official channels.
- Promote discounts.
- Share personal opinions about the crisis.
What are three reasons why strategic influencer partnerships are often a good idea for brands?
Select all that apply
- They are typically trusted over brands.
- They will often work for free
- They can increase brand awareness
- They can bring in new customers.
What two things should you consider when deciding which influencer to work with?
Select all that apply
- Influencers follower amount
- If the influencer is famous
- Your social objectives
- Your budget and resources
Select all that apply
- Mega influencers don’t typically drive sales conversions
- Mega influencers only cater to a very specific audience
- Mega influencers are the most expensive
- Micro, or nano could provide better results for your niche audience
What is the downside of using a micro or nano influencer?
Pick the best option
- They typically have no filter and are likely to post offensive content
- They may need more direction or resources to deliver content
- They have a broad audience that doesn't typically engage with their content
- They are the most expensive influencer type
What are the three main ways an engaged community can help your brand?
Select all that apply
- Creating paid advertisements
- Becoming self-monitoring
- Creating user-generated content
- Providing useful feedback
- Inclusivity & Accessibility on Social
Which of the following features should you add to videos to make sure everyone can enjoy them?
Select all that apply
- Color contrast
- Music with no lyrics
- Subtitles
- An on-screen graphic telling your audience to turn on audio
What's one way to make your image-based content more accessible?
Pick the best option
- Descriptive text
- Subtitles
- Illustrated text
- Visual text
How would you make this hashtag compliant with accessibility standards? #athenehotelresort
Pick the best option
- #athene-hotel-resort
- #atheneHotelResort
- #atheneHotelresort
- #AtheneHotelResort
Pick the best option
- It gives you an idea on how to improve your socials for SEO to reach as many people as possible
- It helps you find progressive content that you then can flip to sell your product to your customers
- It gives you an idea of who your audience is and what their unique needs are
- It guides you to find customers that have the most spending power
Pick the best option
- Make sure that the text and background have a strong contrast
- Make sure that the text and the background have a slightly varied color contrast
- Make sure that you always use black text against a colored background
- Make sure that the text and the background are the same color
- Measuring Success
What metric would you track to see how many times a single person may have seen your content?
Pick the best option
- Engagement Rate
- Reach
- Views
- Impressions
What calculation method would you use to check the dollar value of your social ads?
Pick the best option
- Engagement rate
- Cost-per-click
- Percentage growth
- Virality rate
What metric would you track if you wanted to see if your content is leading people to your website?
Pick the best option
- Click-through rate
- Engagement rate
- View completion rate
- Reach conversion rate
What metric would you track to see how many unique people are seeing your content?
Pick the best option
- Reach
- Engagement
- Impressions
- Views
Pick the best option
- Clicks
- Impressions
- Engagement
- Reach
- Social Media Content Marketing
Select all that apply
- Make sure the content hasn’t been used by competitors
- Make sure you aren’t releasing misinformation
- Double-check to make sure the content is on brand
- Make sure you aren’t violating copyright
You’re setting up your content calendar for the year ahead. What dates should you consider?
Select all that apply
- Dates important to your brand (for example, a product launch)
- Dates important to your team or employees (for example, vacation days)
- Dates important to your audience (for example, Pride)
- National and international holidays (for example, Remembrance Day)
Select all that apply
- Share your content with key influencers
- Make your social profile more attractive to SEO
- Add relevant keywords to your posts
- Add relevant hashtags to your posts
Pick the best option
- Paid media
- Curated content
- Earned media
- Created content
Pick the best option
- Created content means you can completely control the message.
- Created content lets you take part in trends faster than curated
- Created content is less resource intensive than content curation
- Created content always outperforms curated content.
Which post is evergreen?
Pick the best option
- Post on the right
- Post on the left
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- It can positively influence sales
- It can help build audience trust
- It can immediately turn your brand into a success
- It allows you to access new customers
Which of the following best describes social media governance?
- An audit carried out by a third party company
- A committee of decision makers
- A comprehensive list of passwords
- An internal community management plan
- Helping you create content for your socials
- Giving you new brand objectives to pursue
- Providing useful feedback about your brand
- Saving you time by monitoring your socials
DEI stands for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. What does it mean for social marketing? Pick three.
- Creating content that engages with a broad spectrum of identities
- Making content that is tailored for a specific audience
- Creating a social space that be used and enjoyed by anyone
- Representing a diverse range of voices on your socials
What are two best practices for creating videos on social?
- Creating videos that add value to your audience
- Making sure your video highlights a product update or sale
- Making sure your videos aligns with your larger brand objectives
- Creating videos that follows the latest TikTok trends
- Encouraging your audience to remix your content
- Responding to comments
- Promoting a sale on your socials
- Liking or sharing audience comments or posts
Which type of influencer often has the smallest following, but the highest engagement rate?
- Micro influencers
- Macro influencers
- Nano influencers
- Mega influencers
- Paying for a series of video ads on YouTube
- Creating brand new TikToks specifically for a holiday campaign
- Paying to promote a customer’s post of them using your product
- Sharing a positive customer testimonial on LinkedIn
- Content, culture fit, calendar, goals and objectives, penalties
- Scope, updates, operational considerations, employee policy, education
- Summary, measurement, reviews, approvals, reporting
- Targets, passwords, employee access, stakeholders, training
What are two advantages of using video in your socials?
- It’s easier to share video content across platforms
- Video content is easier to produce than any other type
- Platforms favour video content over any other type
- Audiences engage with video content more than any other type
- A product update
- A holiday feature
- A new co-worker spotlight
- A brand FAQ
- A campaign risk assessment
- A centralized resource playbook
- A crisis management plan
- An emergency chain of command
Which of these are examples of implementing accessibility into your socials? Pick three.
- Contrasting text against backgrounds
- Using common language vs. jargon in your copy
- Having content descriptions for images
- Including only two or three hashtags in your posts
- Ensure you’re counting link clicks for each post
- Ask influencer for engagement number on their post
- Compare your sales against your competitors
- Supply the influencer with UTM links to use
- Content calendar
- Directions to other documents
- Roles and Responsibilities
- Social media overview
- Your social media objectives
- Your policy document
- Your reporting plan
- Your employee guidelines
- The Crisis Communicator - monitors for potential crisis situations, escalate issues, and liaises with internal stakeholders
- The Social Media Manager - plans and overseas day to day execution of the social strategy
- The Director - involved in high level planning and has final approval over campaign direction and budgets
- The Social Media Coordinator - publishes all the content, monitors engagement and responds to messages
- If the content is being shared across other popular social accounts
- If the content deviates from your created brand content or voice.
- If the content has never been shared before and has viral potential
- If the content aligns with your content pillars relevant key topics
- Assess timing and budget constraints
- Creating and populating an action plan
- Assign team roles for campaign duration
- Set up a calendar of key brand dates
What are two brand benefits of maintaining an active community across platforms?
- Makes sure your content is prioritized
- Results in overall higher engagement
- Increases brand visibility
- Establishes you as a thought leader
- A product post with a heartfelt caption about the crisis, linking to the product purchase landing page
- A cheeky, fun post featuring a pun or joke, intended to lighten the online mood and spread some joy
- A post announcing a new brand partnership along with a product promotion to celebrate the launch
- A post that speaks to your customers concerns during the crisis, such as sharing resources that will help them adapt to the situation
- People use social platforms for different reasons
- All social networks have the same requirements
- All audiences are looking for entertaining content
- Your audience is the same across platforms
- Your platform data
- Your strategic goals
- Your audience activity
- Your allocated budget
What are three examples of implementing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) in your socials?
- Outlining your stance on social issues on your platform
- Celebrating holidays that feature diverse people and voices
- Making sure you are promoting popular social issues
- Using inclusive language and images
- Choose a creative username, so people don’t confuse your brand with another.
- Choose a username that includes relevant keywords, and include them in your bio.
- Include your address or city if location is important to your business.
- Add links to your website, blog, e-commerce shop, and relevant online properties.
- Only show data that is relevant to your report
- Explain how the data impacted brand objectives
- Visualize the data
- Explain in detail how the data is measured
- An Evergreen library
- A monthly calendar
- A weekly Calendar
- A team vacation calendar
When creating a crisis management plan for social media, what element should you start with?
- A key contact list of stakeholders
- A social media crisis drill
- A social media monitoring strategy
- A bank of pre-approved messages
- Do your research. Actionable and vanity metrics vary year to year, depending on what’s trending in different industries and on social.
- Review your post performance. Actionable metrics are found on your highest performing posts, while vanity metrics are tied to the lowest.
- Talk to your team. It’s up to you as a brand to determine which metrics are most important to present to leadership.
- Look to your objectives. Actionable metrics will directly support them, vanity metrics will not.
- They help give your content direction and structure
- They help you to define your brand voice and style
- They make sure you always maintain an evergreen library
- They give you set topics for your brand to focus on
- Making sure you are represented (share what you know)
- Using neutral language (salesperson vs. salesman)
- Considering many identities in your copy (gender, culture, etc)
- Using correct terminology (visually impaired)
What does accessibility mean in social media?
- Socials that are available to everyone, regardless of disability
- Socials that display correctly on every device
- Socials that can be understood in most common languages
- Socials that are available on all networks
What metric should you track if you want to see how many unique users are seeing your post?
- Reach
- Audience Growth Rate
- Engagement Rate
- Impressions
- Network specific crisis management plans
- The team’s titles, responsibilities, and contact info
- Links to other important brand documents for reference
- Each network’s content type, audience, and posting frequency
- A short screen break to regroup and think about next steps
- The chain of command and key contacts list for stakeholders
- A social media management tool to shut down branded social accounts
- Access to the company-wide slack channel to post an update
- It’s simple to schedule and manage
- It gives total control of your messaging
- It is cost effective to create
- It’s easy to find using social listening tools
- A summary of your campaign objectives
- A target audience demographic breakdown
- An overview of the competitive landscape
- The actionable metrics your reported on weekly
- Engagement Rate
- Conversion Rate
- Reach
- Impressions
What are some examples of commonly used social media tactics? (Choose Three Answers)
- Interacting with your audience in the comment section
- Distributing publishing responsibilities within your team
- Running a contest or giveaway
- Promoting user generated content
What are some examples of commonly used social media tactics? Pick three.
- Interacting with your audience in the comment section
- Distributing publishing responsibilities within your team
- Running a contest or giveaway
- Promoting user generated content
- Imagine your brand as a person
- Have one team member answer all messages
- Set up a message approvals process
- Ask for customer feedback
What are two things you should consider doing when cross-posting?
- Edit your copy for each network
- Change your brand voice for each platform
- Create different pieces of content for each platform
- Take advantage of platform-specific features in your posts
Which of the following is a key factor in determining your posting schedule and frequency,?
- When your team is available
- When your audience is online
- When popular holidays occour
- When your competitors post
- A new product giveaway hosted on social
- A five star review of your brand on Google
- A paid influencer post recommending your brand
- A campaign video shot and produced by your team
- Does this platform integrate with my social media management software?
- Is the platform being adopted by gen z and younger generations?
- Is my audience on the platform?
- Can I do things on this platform that I can’t do on my existing channels?
- Compare data across campaigns, influencers, and platforms for a well-rounded view
- Look at engagement on each post to see what’s resonating and driving conversations
- Ask influencers to supply engagement data during a campaign such as retweets, shares, and replies
- Monitor your branded hashtag on social to see how often it’s being used and by which audience
- The scope and length of the campaign
- The influencer’s overall experience
- The potential for freebies to replace payment
- The time and resources needed to create content
What is the purpose of post-mortem reporting?
- To examine what tactics or platforms performed best on the completion of a campaign
- To break down each metric used involved your platform(s) and it’s role on objectives
- To show how your campaign is performing over various periods of time
- To give higher-management an easy-to-understand overview of your socials performance
- It makes your brand relatable, and gives you an edge over traditional marketing strategies
- It immediately places you as one of the top players in your social niche, increasing clout
- It automatically improves your brands’s SEO, making sure your audience will see your content first
- It makes your brand feel contemporary, which can attract a younger audience
- Delete older posts that may be insensitive to this situation
- Comb through your content library to make sure your future posts are not insensitive to the situation
- Continue with your original posting schedule, but mention the event in your copy
- Pause your publishing schedule until you can regroup with your team to plan on how to proceed
- Redistributing budget towards an authentic influencer program
- An ad campaign targeting your audience on every social network
- Pausing your content strategy to focus solely on posts relating to the crisis
- Leaning on employee advocacy to share news via their own channels
- Use at least 15 hashtags to hit various niches and groups
- Encourage people to share your content in your post
- Include keywords in post copy
- Include brand specific hashtags in your post copy
How will creating a calendar of key dates for your campaign planning benefit your team? Pick two.
- It will help them stay ahead of essential dates
- It will help them track performance metrics
- It will help them prevent scheduling conflicts
- It will help them plot out posts across networks
Which of the following are best practices for responding to a social media crisis? Pick three.
- Review how competitors are handling the situation and follow suit
- Listen to what your audience is saying for insight into sentiment
- Pause all outgoing content to review it for anything obsolete or tonedeaf
- Review and update social profiles to highlight any changes
- Brand awareness metrics
- Likes, follows, and shares metrics
- Direct web traffic and sales
- Community growth and engagement
What are two major benefits of growing an active community?
- Increased brand advocacy
- It can lead to an increase in sales
- Audiences are less likely to move to other accounts for content
- Customers will exclusively buy from your brand
What are S.M.A.R.T objectives?
- Scaffolded, mandated, approved, rotated, and teachable
- Specific, measureable, attainable, relevant, and timebound
- Siloed, measured, active, real, and tenacious
- Sound, meaningful, articulate, revenue-driving, and targeted
- Outline how your social brand voice translates to other platforms
- Check for existing marketing documents that defines your voice
- Develop brand attributes to highlight through your social voice
- Use previous customer conversations to shape your voice
- By cross-posting external content across your platforms
- By posting created content alongside external content
- By dressing external content in your brands own perspective
- By paying to have external content boosted across your platforms
Why is it important to track relevant social metrics? Pick three.
- They help you keep track of your socials performance
- They help you from having to rely on influencers to drive sales/engagement
- They help you demonstrate your team's efforts to higher management
- They help you develop strong strategies
A social media strategy provides a roadmap for your team to achieve its goals.
Which of the following are essential elements of a strong social media strategy? Pick three.
- A list of industry influencers
- A crisis communications plan
- A measurement and reporting plan
- A social media audit
Your click-through rate measures how many people click a link in your post. How do you calculate it?
- Divide the total number of clicks on a link in a post by the total number of impressions
- Divide the number of conversions you received against the number of clicks you received on your links
- Divide the number of conversions you received against the total engagement rate
- Divide the total number of clicks on a link in a post by the total reach
What is something you should consider before cross-posting a video on your socials?
- That it’s formatted correctly for each platform
- That it’s following the latest trends
- That it isn’t similar to your competitors
- That it was filmed with a camera and not your phone
- Ask for feedback via a poll or questionnaire
- Use a social listening tool to find honest feedbacK
- Ask your competitors what they think of your brand
- Tally the positive vs. negative comments on your socials
- It allows you post content immediately without much effort
- It cements your reputation as a pro in your field
- It allow you to diversify your content collection quickly
- You can always be sure that it's tonally and visually consistent with your brand voice
- Content reach
- Follower count
- Clickthrough rate
- Post likes
- Reinforce that they wouldn’t work with a brand unless they truly recommended them
- Do not mention advertisements or paid partnerships, because it detracts from the power of the post
- Do not engage influencers from geographic locations that are regulated by government bodies
- Disclose partnerships as early as possible in every post in the caption or by using an #ad hashtag
- Don’t join the platform if you’re not sure it’s a good fit
- Ask your team what they like and dislike about it
- Dive in and join the platform, add it to your strategy
- Join the platform and test it, to see if it works
- Increase comments by 5% on LinkedIn posts weekly
- Generate 20 additional landing page views via LinkedIn weekly
- Pitch to leadership for a budget increase of 15% for the campaign
- Join a new social media network to increase brand reach
Which of the following is a S.M.A.R.T social media objective?
- Engage an influencer to create 10 pieces of campaign content
- Increase link clicks on Instagram by 10% in Q4
- Generate UGC on TikTok
- Run a social media contest to gain followers
- Micro influencers
- Mega influencers
- Macro influencers
- Nano influencers
What are the best sources of information you can use to guide your owned media creation?
- Employees, as they know the brand best
- Brand mentions and hashtags
- Social media audit and objectives
- Conference and industry report findings
What is one way to get stakeholder buy-in while sharing social reports?
- Highlight customer testimony on why your social channel is the best
- Don’t highlight any data or metrics
- Contrast your vanity metrics against your actionable metrics
- Know who you are reporting to and tailor the report
- List them in a centralized location that your team can access
- Private message relevant people individually with the new passwords
- Send them out via a team email, mention it’s sensitive information
- Use a tool to manage account access without sharing passwords
- Any content that you have paid for an influencer to create and posted on your channel
- User generated campaign content created and shared by brand advocates
- Campaign images your team shot on location and published to branded accounts
- Thought-leadership content created internally, hosted on your blog and shared on social
- In your social overview policy document
- In your social media audit sheet
- In your brand voice guidelines
- In your internal stakeholder report
- Stop - decrease resources on Facebook and allocate to TikTok
- Continue - maintain current roster of image and video content
- Start - join a new social network to repost existing video content
- Start - increase social video production budget
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