HubSpot Digital Marketing Certification Exam Answers 2021

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Exam Name – HubSpot Digital Marketing Certification.

Total Questions and Time Limit – 60 Questions with 3 hours to complete the exam.

Exam URL – https://app.hubspot.com/academy/19656724/tracks/117/exam

Page Contents

1 HubSpot Digital Marketing Exam Questions and Answers (Updated 2021)
2 What is HubSpot Digital Marketing Certification Course and Exam?
3 Course Lessons
4 Conclusion

HubSpot Digital Marketing Exam Questions and Answers (Updated 2021)

Q.1 – All of the following are attributes of a content creation workflow EXCEPT:

(A) Identifies outside influencers who will be contributing

(B) Identifies and organizes who is in charge of specific tasks

(D) Breaks down all of the work needed to complete a specific initiative

Q.2 – True or false? Your content creation framework should stay consistent over time.

(A) True, the best way to remain efficient is to stick with a process.

(B) True, the investment to update a process can be very expensive and time intensive.

(D) False, your process should be updated every time a new team member joins.

Q.3 – True or false? If you want to produce great content, then you need to hire an in-house content creator.

(A) True

(B) False

Q.4 – What can you do to make a headline more compelling?

(A) Broaden the topic

(B) Make a promise to the reader

(D) Use special characters to help it stand out

Q.5 – True or false? Effective writers start by filling in the main points of their content and save writing the introduction and conclusion for after they’ve written their piece.

(A) True, it can be overwhelming to write an introduction first without knowing where the content is headed.

(B) True, the introduction is always the easiest part to write.

(D) False, you should write your conclusion before your introduction.

Q.6 – True or false? When possible, you should try and use extensive vocabulary in your writing.

(A) True, extensive vocabulary makes you appear more credible and confident.

(B) True, people make purchasing decisions based on if you look smarter than your competitors.

(D) False, extensive vocabulary takes up too much space on a page.

Q.7 – Fill in the blank: The following sentence is an example of ____________ voice? “The grocery shopping was done by your father.”

(A) Active

(B) Passive

(D) Subtle

Q.8 – True or false? Never use acronyms in your writing.

(A) True, this helps avoid confusion.

(B) True, deleting acronyms makes your content more welcoming.

(D) False, your audience will know what the acronyms mean

Q.9 – True or false? You should post the same message across all of your social channels.

(A) True, redundant messages ensure that your audience will see it and you get the highest reach.

(B) True, posting the same message will help you save time that you can use on more important initiatives.

(D) False, post the same message to Twitter and Facebook, but update LinkedIn as it’s more of a B2B social platform.

Q.10 – Fill in the blank: To keep your content calendar agile, it shouldn’t extend more than ___________.

(A) two weeks

(B) one month

(D) six months

Q.11 – You asked your colleague to provide feedback on a blog post you recently wrote. When they sent you their feedback, they made edits directly in the doc. Is this a best practice for a content editing process?

(A) Yes, because having an editor complete your content ensures it will read well to others.

(B) Yes, a content editor’s role is to make updates the way they see fit.

(D) No, they should have set up a meeting to discuss each edit so you could apply them together.

Q.12 – Fill in the blank: When creating a headline for your content, you should come up with ___________ different headlines.

(A) 1

(B) 5-10

(D) More than 10

Q.13 – To help increase awareness for an upcoming product launch, your manager increases paid promotion funds by 300%. Which channels could you disperse these funds to?

(A) Twitter

(B) LinkedIn

(D) A and B

(E) All of the above

Q.14 – There are three key components to sending the right email. Two of them are the right email and the right time. What is the third?

(A) The right person

(B) The right segments

(D) The right buyer personas

Q.15 – Having an understanding of what you’re trying to achieve is the most important part of creating high-performing emails. What theme does this correlate to?

(A) Setting a goal

(B) Selecting a template

(D) Sending your email

Q.16 – What are the two key actions to look at when optimizing each part of your email?

(A) The segment and the open

(B) The open and the click

(D) The subject line and the preview text

Q.17 – Which network has the longest life for a piece of content?

(A) Facebook

(B) LinkedIn

(D) Pinterest

Q.18 – On which social network should you share content most frequently?

(A) Facebook

(B) LinkedIn

(D) Pinterest

Q.19 – What does CRM stand for?

(A) Custom Rendering for Mobile

(B) Custom Relationship Modules

(D) Customer Rotation Model

Q.20 – What occurs during the attract stage of the inbound methodology?

(A) You answer questions and provide solutions for the challenges your prospects and customers face and strategies to accomplish the goals they set.

(B) You focus on bringing prospects and customers to your social pages or website through relevant and helpful content.

(C) You exceed a prospect or customer’s expectations so much that they’ll want to tell their friends and family about you.

(D) You collect information about the individual you’re working with.

Q.21 – When does the engage stage of the inbound methodology begin?

(A) The engage stage begins when a purchase occurs.

(B) The engage stage begins when a customer leaves you.

(D) The engage stage begins when a prospect or customer proposes you give them a discount.

Q.22 – What is the purpose of the delight stage of the inbound methodology?

(A) To exceed expectations

(B) To provide an outstanding experience every time a prospect or customer interacts with your company

(D) All of the above

Q.23 – True or false? As buying behavior changes, the inbound philosophy will also evolve.

(A) True

(B) False

Q.24 – Which KPI is most likely to be a vanity metric?

(A) Reach

(B) Engagement

(D) Retention and loyalty

Q.25 – True or false? You should use a consistent naming system to store and easily identify hosted files.

(A) True

(B) False

Q.26 – Fill in the blanks: Tail winds are to ________ : as headwinds are to _________.

(A) Forces, friction.

(B) Friction, force.

(D) Ships, friction.

Q.27 – What is the difference between a brand keyword and a non-brand keyword?

(A) A brand keyword is more expensive, a non-brand keyword is less expensive

(B) A brand keyword receives less traffic, a non-brand keyword receives more traffic

(D) A brand keyword includes a brand’s name, a non-brand keyword does not include a brand’s name

Q.28 – What is one benefit of running search ads for brand keywords?

(A) They always appear first in the search results, above other ads

(B) They protect your traffic if a competitor bids on your brand keywords

(D) They are significantly less expensive than search ads for other keywords

Q.29 – Fill in the blank: A keyword set to ______ match type will display your ad when the search term contains any or some combination or variations of the words in your keyword, in any order.

(A) phrase

(B) negative

(D) broad

Q.30 – If you have a keyword set to broad match, but you want to select specific keywords that must be included in the search query for your ad to be displayed, what would you use?

(A) A negative keyword

(B) A phrase keyword

(D) A phrase match modifier

Q.31 – Which of the following represents an exact match keyword?

(A) “dog treats”

(B) [dog treats]

(D) -dog treats

Q.32 – Which of the following represents a phrase match keyword?

(A) +smart tv

(B) -smart tv

(D) “smart tv”

Q.33 – What symbol would you use to add a broad match modifier?

(A) /

(B) ^

(D) –

Q.34 – What symbol would you use to add a negative keyword?

(A) /

(B) ^

(D) –

Q.35 – Fill in the blank: Videos related to __________ moments address company milestones, new product or service features, or other company-related updates.

(A) brand

(B) business

(D) sales

Q.36 – Which of the following is an example of a video in the engage stage?

(A) A promotional video featured on a landing page

(B) A social video that shows off your brand’s personality

(D) A funny video of a cat sitting on a window sill

Q.37 – Fill in the blank: The ideal blog post title is _____ characters.

(A) 15

(B) 60

(D) 90

Q.38 – True or false? To help improve SEO, your URL should match the title of your blog post, word for word.

(A) True

(B) False

Q.39 – Scenario: Your business is going through a website redesign. The goal of the redesign is to update the look and feel of the website to better represent the brand. Your manager recommends a custom font to help make the content stand out. How should you respond?

(A) “That sounds great. Do we have a size and preferred color for this custom font?”

(B) “To save budget on a custom font, we should consider purchasing another brand’s custom font and making updates to it.”

Q.40 – Fill in the blank: Measuring your website’s authority comes down to assessing the volume and quality of the ____________.

(A) title tags that are optimized for SEO

(B) pages your website ranks for on the first page of search engines

(D) content that exists on your website

Q.41 – Fill in the blank: Once a search engine bot discovers your web page, it _______.

(A) checks to see if the content is unique from its database of content

(B) checks to see if it can read all forms of media included within the page

(C) decides how relevant it is to certain search queries by indexing it based on signals like keywords used within it

(D) adds a cookie to it to come back later if it intends to rank it in the top 100

Q.42 – True or false? Relevancy directly impacts ranking strength.

(A) True

(B) False

Q.43 – What stage of the buyer’s journey is your audience in if they’re choosing a free trial or consultation?

(A) Awareness

(B) Engage

(D) Delight

Q.44 – Fill in the blank: When planning the timing of content in a calendar, _______.

(A) stick to a schedule and hold your team accountable to their deadlines

(B) create focus by only working on one project at a time

(D) have your team submit ideas they want to work on

Q.45 – What does it mean to have an inbound approach to doing business?

(A) Your business only runs ads that boost top-performing social media posts.

(B) Your business only focuses on an organic marketing strategy as opposed to interrupting them with ads.

(D) Your business’s word-of-mouth is so strong that you don’t have to do any form of marketing or advertising.

Q.46 – Scenario: Kyle is in a new role and looking to upskill, so he goes to Google to do some research. He finds a search engine listing that piques his interest and clicks it. He’s taken to a blog post on your site. He reads the post and sees there’s a content offer. He’s interested, but not sure he’s ready to give his information for it just yet. Below the offer, he sees a chatbot asking if he needs help so he clicks it to start a conversation. Which stage of the inbound methodology is Kyle in?

(A) Awareness

(B) Attract

(D) Decision

(E) Delight

Q.47 – The inbound methodology is meant to support which business functions?

(A) Marketing

(B) Sales

(D) A and B

(E) All of the above

Q.48 – True or false? A benefit of organic content promotion is the ability to develop and deliver highly targeted content to consumers who will find the content most relevant.

(A) True

(B) False

Q.49 – True or false? A content offer is something you create and publish in exchange for personal information, like an email address and a name.

(A) True

(B) False

Q.50 – What are the three stages of the buyer’s journey?

(A) Awareness, Consideration, Decision

(B) Attract, Engage, Delight

Q.51 – All of the following impact a website’s ability to rank on a search engine results page EXCEPT:

(A) URL

(B) Page title

(D) Header tags

(E) Site architecture

Q.52 – Which of the following is an example of a video in the delight stage?

(A) A promotional video featured on a landing page

(B) A social video that shows off your brand’s personality

(D) A funny video of a cat sitting on a window sill

Q.53 – How could this sentence be corrected to cut out fluffy words? “I really just want to go to the arcade to play games in order to have fun.”

(A) “I really just want to go to the arcade to play games in order to have fun.”

(B) “I just want to go to the arcade to play games in order to have fun.”

(D) “I want to go to the arcade to play games and have fun.”

Q.54 – Fill in the blank: Words like “free” or “percent off” may not trigger spam filters for your email, but could ___________.

(A) yield higher unsubscribe rates

(B) trigger fewer sales

(D) appear to be sent by a bot

Q.55 – When auditing your social media content, what questions should you be looking to answer? Choose all that apply.

(A) Does your Facebook text content resonate with your audience?

(B) Are you posting Facebook content with videos?

(D) What’s the average time-on-post?

Q.56 – Which of the following is an example of a video in the attract stage?

(A) A promotional video featured on a landing page

(B) A social video that shows off your brand’s personality

(D) A funny video of a cat sitting on a window sill

Q.57 – Fill in the blank: ________ refers to how well a document matches a search query.

(A) Authority

(B) Relevance

(D) Discover

Q.58 – From top to bottom, what should your search account structure hierarchy look like?

(A) Campaigns, ad groups, keywords

(B) Ad groups, campaigns, keywords

(D) Keywords, ad groups, campaigns

Q.59 – How many ad extensions should you include in your search ads?

(A) 2

(B) 3

(D) All that are available

(E) As many as many as make sense for your business

Q.60 – True or false: Quality score is an algorithm that scores each of your search ads on spelling and grammar.

(A) True

(B) False

Q.61 – Which of the following represents a broad match keyword?

(A) wall art

(B) “wall art”

(D) -wall art

Q.62 – Fill in the blank: A keyword set to _____ match type will display your ad if the search term contains the same order of the words, but it can also contain additional words.

(A) negative

(B) phrase

(D) specific

Q.63 – Fill in the blank: A keyword set to _____ match type will display your ad if the search term includes that keyword, or a very close variation.

(A) broad

(B) exact

(D) negative

Q.64 – What is the benefit of including ad extensions in your search ads?

(A) Take up more space in the SERPs

(B) Improve click-through rate

(D) All of the above

Q.65 – True or false? Website performance does not impact visibility on Facebook.

(A) True

(B) False

Q.66 – During the decision stage of the buyer’s journey, it’s effective to use which of the following content formats? Select all that apply.

(A) Case studies

(B) Infographics

(D) eBooks

Q.67 – True or false? The holistic social media team model is common in growing companies. In this model, one team coordinates the approach to managing each social media account in partnership with other groups within the organization.

(A) True

(B) False

Q.68 – ___________ characters is the average character length that will appear on a mobile device for your email.

(A) 10-15

(B) 23-36

(D) 50-65

Q.69 – Fill in the blank: When performing a social media content audit, begin by looking at all of the content you’ve posted in the last _________.

(A) 30 days

(B) 90 days

(D) year

Q.70 – Which of the following factors does YouTube pay attention to as part of its algorithm?

(A) Which videos each user watches

(B) What videos each user doesn’t watch

(D) Each users’ video likes and dislikes

(E) B, C, and D

(F) All of the above

Q.71 – What’s an example of a measurable key result? Choose all that apply.

(A) Increase customer retention from 70% to 85%

(B) Grow net new contact rate from 5.6% to 9% by the end of Q4

Q.72 – Which of the following is the best practice for optimizing the elements on a web page to reduce page size?

(A) Use Google Fonts instead of custom fonts.

(B) Make your images responsive.

(D) A and B

(E) All of the above

Q.73 – When is the most effective time to boost content on social media?

(A) When it’s performing well

(B) When it has a call-to-action that links to your website

(D) All of the above

Q.74 – True or false: You should include either budget information or a time estimate in your content creation plan.

(A) True

(B) False

Q.75 – Which of the following is NOT an example of paid media?

(A) Guest blog posts

(B) Boosted Facebook posts

(D) Sponsored content

Q.76 – Which of the following is NOT an example of owned media?

(A) Your website

(B) Social media profile

(D) Blog Content

Q.77 – To provide a personalized experience to your email reader, which of the following best practices should you employ? Select all that apply.

(A) Add the contact’s first name

(B) Mention their interests

(D) Mention an action the contact has taken with their company

Q.78 – Fill in the blank: The ideal length of an email subject line is _____ characters.

(A) 41–50

(B) 55–75

(D) 75–100

Q.79 – True or false? If you’re just starting out with paid ads and don’t know exactly how your persona will be searching, move from a narrower search to a broad match.

(A) True

(B) False

Q.80 – True or false? To deliver an ad only to people searching for dress shoes for men, you could modify your broad match keyword to “+men’s dress shoes.”

(A) True

(B) False

Q.81 – Scenario: A phrase-match keyword for one of your ads is “traveling in Boston.” Which of the following search queries would generate this ad? Choose all that apply.

(A) Traveling in Boston

(B) Traveling in Boston during the winter

(D) Where to travel in Boston

(E) What’s it like to travel in Boston

Q.82 – Scenario: An exact-match keyword for one of your ads is “blue women’s t-shirts.” Which of the following search queries would generate this ad? Choose all that apply.

(A) Blue women’s t-shirts

(B) Blue women’s t-shirt

(D) Women’s t-shirts

(E) Women’s t-shirt

Q.83 – True or false? You can have more than one key result per objective.

(A) True

(B) False

Q.84 – True or false? You shouldn’t join a competitor’s Facebook Group. Doing so would only help increase their visibility, making it harder for you to create and grow a Facebook Group for your business.

(A) True

(B) False

Q.85 – Scenario: Tom is an avid Facebook user. Tom’s friend, Jane, posts a video from a travel-focused company called Get Out, Stay Out, about a new, local hiking trail. In the comments, Jane shares her thoughts and opinions about the trail. The following day, Tom’s sister sends him the same video link through Facebook Messenger. The Facebook algorithm sees all these interactions. Keeping this in mind, it’s likely Facebook will _______.

(A) Send Tom a Facebook message with a detailed map of the trail

(B) Send Tom an email with a detailed map of the trail

(D) Feature the post at the top of Tom’s news feed

Q.86 – True or false? Adding a string of meaningless numbers to your Instagram username could appear spammy.

(A) True

(B) False

Q.87 – True or false? When getting started with a business Instagram account, consider purchasing at least 1,000 followers to make your brand look more credible and acquire followers at a faster rate.

(A) True

(B) False

Q.88 – In order to include a link in a Story, Instagram requires business accounts to have ____ followers.

(A) 500

(B) 1,000

(D) 10,000

Q.89 – Which of the following places on Instagram can you use a link to click through to your website? Choose all that apply.

(A) Stories

(B) Bio

(D) Advertisement

Q.90 – Which of these KPIs demonstrate social media ROI? Choose all that apply.

(A) Direct sales revenue from social media, such as orders that come in from a coupon or links into your website that lead to purchase.

(B) Lead conversions from social media campaigns. This may vary from company to company but could include email signups, downloads of materials like an ebook, or activations of trial software.

(C) Customer ratings and reviews demonstrate strong engagement and opinion. They are also one of the biggest indicators to other people that a product or a service is worth buying.

(D) Customer satisfaction – it’s often tracked with a net promoter score (often called NPS), this gives you a sense of whether or not your social customer service efforts are working.

Q.91 – Your manager tasks you with getting more of your web pages displayed in the featured snippet on a search engine results page. The best way to increase the number of your web pages that appear in featured snippets is by _______?

(A) answering a question in the form of a detailed list

(B) asking questions in your H4 headers

(D) creating a title tag with your primary keyword featured near the beginning of it

Q.92 – All of the following are key places your videos can appear on YouTube EXCEPT:

(A) In search results

(B) On the homepage

(D) In the trending system

(E) In subscriptions

Q.93 – Your manager asks your thoughts on how to increase visibility on the business’s YouTube channel. Which response best aligns with how YouTube’s algorithm works?

(A) “YouTube as a channel is not worth the investment. There are far more valuable channels with SEO benefits that the business should focus on.”

(B) “While views are important, YouTube rewards videos with the most clicks. The more people that start watching a video, the more YouTube will feature your video.”

(C) “YouTube wants viewers to watch videos all the way through. We should focus on creating more engaging video content.”

Q.94 – True or false? Watching three seconds of a YouTube video is considered a view.

(A) True

(B) False

What is HubSpot Digital Marketing Certification Course and Exam?

It is a Free educational program developed by HubSpot that teaches you everything you need to create a digital marketing strategy, how to build a content creation framework, how search engines rank content, how to find your website’s Domain Authority, how to improve your website’s performance by optimizing your website, how to create perfect blog posts, how to optimize blog posts, how to create engaging videos, how to develop a social media marketing strategy, paid advertising and how to create paid ads, and how to develop a successful email marketing strategy.

The course contains 10 lessons which is a total content time of around 5 hours. Once you finish the course you need to appear for the final certification exam. If you pass the exam then you get the Certificate.

The exam consists of 60 questions and you need to answer 45 questions correctly to pass the exam and get the certificate. If you fail the exam then you can retake the exam after 12 hours. The time limit for the exam is 3 hours.

Course Lessons

Here are the 10 different lessons in the course.

(1) Introduction to Digital Marketing.

(2) Digital Marketing Fundamentals.

(3) Building a Content Creation Framework.

(4) How to find the SEO Strategy that fits your business.

(5) Improving Website Performance.

(6) Creating quality blog content your audience loves to read and share.

(7) How to create a successful video marketing strategy.

(8) Developing a Social Media strategy.

(9) Introduction to Paid Search advertising.

(10) Creating a high performing Email.

Conclusion

This post contains all the answers with a detailed explanation for the HubSpot Digital Marketing Certification Exam. If you have any queries about this article then feel free to comment below.

HubSpot Digital Marketing Exam Questions and Answers (Updated 2021)

What is HubSpot Digital Marketing Certification Course and Exam?

Course Lessons

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