HubSpot Content Certification Exam Answers

HubSpot Content Marketing Certification Exam Answers

Content marketing is the foundation for executing an effective inbound marketing strategy. This content marketing certification course will teach you how storytelling, content creation, repurposing, and promotion come together to build a content marketing machine that grows your business, and your career.

This course will teach you how to build scalable, repeatable processes for creating and promoting content that converts into leads and new customers. If you’re creating content or managing content creators – this course will give you expert tactics for efficiently building your content library, and extracting more value from every content asset you create.

Who should get certified?

Marketers looking to advance their marketing career with an advanced certification.
Marketing Leaders who want their team to get more value from every content asset.
Entrepreneurs who need to grow their audience, and nurture their customers.
Students looking for internships or full-time positions in digital marketing roles.

Classes include:
1. Understanding Content Marketing (14:41)
2. The Power of Storytelling (24:55)
3. Generating Content Ideas (15:29)
4. Planning a Long-Term Content Strategy (19:00)
5. Building a Content Creation Framework (20:11)
6. Becoming an Effective Writer (22:48)
7. Extending the Value of Your Content Through Repurposing (24:47)
8. How to Effectively Promote Content (22:07)
9. Measuring and Analyzing Your Content (26:19)
10. Developing a Growth Marketing Mentality (20:24)

HubSpot Content Marketing Certification Exam

60 questions
90 minutes
75% minimum grade to pass
Validity period of 13 months

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1.) True or false? Content marketing is a relatively new practice that became popular in the 1950’s with the boom of advertising firms.

TRUE
FALSE

2.) Which best describes the content marketing and inbound marketing relationship?

Both are valuable and take a lot of time and work. It’s best to focus your time on one or the other.
If you do both then you’ll be competing with yourself.
A great content marketer doesn’t need to do inbound marketing.
Success relies on both as each serves a different function.

3.) All of the following are content marketing practices EXCEPT:

Social media posts
Blogging
Technical SEO
Email copy

4.) What are the four stages of the Inbound Methodology?

Identify, Connect, Explore, and Advise
Find, Engage, Convert, and Nurture
Awareness, Consideration, Decision, and Delight
Attract, Convert, Close, and Delight

5.) Which of the following is NOT a storytelling best practice?

Your story should be clear and concise
Create emotional appeal through your content
Use the third-person point of view
Be consistent and authentic

6.) Fill in the blank: This blog post is written from a _____________.

First-person point of view
Second-person point of view
Third-person point of view
None of the above

7.) True or false? You need conflict to tell an impactful story.

True, people care more about the conflict than the resolution.
False, conflict only reduces the connection of what you’re trying to communicate.
False, your story is strong enough to explain the value of your products and services.
True, conflict helps build developmental and emotional connections.

8.) Fill in the blank: The conflict in your content’s story should focus on the ____________.

prospects’ needs
prospects’ stage of the buyer’s journey
prospects’ problems
All of the above

9.) Fill in the blank: The _________ can help you develop a mission statement that connects with your audience

persona creation process
Golden Circle
Inbound Methodology
buyer’s journey

10.) True or false? If prospects can get the answers to their questions and see themselves as characters in your story, they’ll be more likely to purchase from you.

TRUE
FALSE

11.) Fill in the blank: To effectively tell your business’ story, you need ________________.

an interesting history
a testimonial from a happy customer
a mission with supporting values
great products and services

12.) Every story has these three storytelling elements. What are they?

Characters, conflict, and resolution
Conflict, idea, and resolution
Conflict, spark, and conclusion
Characters, conflict, and interest

13.) Your boss has tasked you with writing a company story that will help make them stand out from their competitors. Keeping this in mind, what’s the most effective question you should start with?

What are you offering?
How will this help your audience?
Why are you doing what you are doing?
None of the above

14.) Fill in the blank: When you tell a story and the character is your audience, you should tell the story with a ___________.

first-person point of view
second-person point of view
third-person point of view
All of the above

15.) True or false? When identifying raw material for generating ideas, it’s best to stick with a specific area of focus. This way you can become an expert in generating ideas in this field.

TRUE
FALSE

16.) You’re a content creator for an automobile dealership. You’re looking for some inspiration to help generate new content ideas for an upcoming holiday promotion. What source might you find valuable and be inspired by?

Motor Trend Magazine
Wall Street Journal
TIME Magazine
All of the above

17.) True or false? After you digest material it’s best to try and put ideas together immediately.

True, because the best ideas come in the first 30 seconds of consuming content.
True, because the material is fresh in your mind.
False, you want to give your mind a break to process the information.
False, you first need to write concepts down to organize everything.

18.) Fill in the blank: __________ is when you think of an idea out of nowhere.

Aha moment
Spontaneous ideation
The eureka moment
Thought spawning

19.) How can you uncover your buyer personas’ reading habits?

Include a question on a form
Interview some of your best customers
Make a list of publications you read
A and B
All of the above

20.) Fill in the blank: A content compass helps organize monthly initiatives by ____________.

SMART goals
sales campaigns
theme(s)
All of the above

21.) Fill in the blank: When identifying buyer’s journey content for a long-term content strategy, it’s important to focus on content for the ___________ stage(s).

Awareness
Consideration
Decision
All of the above

22.) When it comes to a long-term content strategy, what is an important buyer persona trait?

Demographics
Challenges
Identifiers
All of the above

23.) All of the following are examples of a SMART goal EXCEPT:

Increase year over year traffic by 30%.
Significantly reduce the amount of time the team spends on creating content.
Add five new content formats to the website by end of year.
All of the above are SMART goals.

24.) True or false? A buyer’s journey is ever-evolving. You should make updates as you learn more about your buyer persona.

TRUE
FALSE

25.) You just landed your dream job as a content creator at a local startup. It’s your first week and your boss asks you to perform a content audit to get acquainted with the company’s collateral as well as organize it. Where might you start looking for content that already exists?

Talk with the sales team
Check with more tenured employees
Look through the company’s CRM and CMS
All of the above

26.) Which of the following is NOT a category you should organize your content audit by?

Content title
Buyer’s journey stage
Content length
Marketing funnel stage

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

two weeks
one month
three months
six months

28.) All of the following are attributes of a content creation workflow EXCEPT:

How much money it will cost to complete initiative
Identifies outside influencers who will be contributing
Identifies and organizes who is in charge of specific tasks
Breaks down all of the work needed to complete a specific initiative

29.) True or false? A proper content creation workflow would include written, edited, and published elements.

TRUE
FALSE

30.) How many rounds of edits should content undergo before being finished?

1
2-4
Post your content once it’s finished and edit as you receive feedback.
As many times as you possibly can

31.) 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?

Yes, because having an editor complete your content ensures it will read well to others.
Yes, a content editor’s role is to make updates the way they see fit.
No, the editor should have tracked changes which would have shown you where they would apply recommended edits.
No, they should have set up a meeting to discuss each edit so you could apply them together.

32.) Fill in the blank: The above graphic uses a ___________ to help organize hosted files.

linear word formula
acronym-based system
nomenclature system
Word association connector

33.) What can you do to make a headline more compelling?

Make it specific
Make a promise to the reader
Keep it short
A and B
All of the above

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

1
2-3
5-10
At least 10

35.) The following question pertains to the blog post shown below:
6 Questions To Ask Before You Plan Your #GivingTuesday Campaign

The above blog post is an example of which type of headline format?

How-to format
List format
Negative angle format
Secret of format

36.) 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.

True, it can be overwhelming to write an introduction first without knowing where the content is headed.
True, the introduction is always the easiest part to write.
False, writing an introduction first will help align the rest of the article.
False, you should write your conclusion before your introduction.

37.) True or false? When possible, you should try and use extensive vocabulary in your writing.

True, extensive vocabulary makes you appear more credible and confident.
True, people make purchasing decisions based on if you look smarter than your competitors.
False, extensive vocabulary makes you appear less credible and confident.
False, extensive vocabulary takes up too much space on a page.

38.) Which of the following do you need to include in a republished piece of content to maintain SEO authority and attribute value to the appropriate website or author?

Inbound link
Canonical tag
Anchor text
A and B

39.) How can a third-party website avoid duplicate content issues with republishing your content?

Add a tracking URL
Update the content to make it different
Have the third-party publish it at the same time as the original piece
Add a NoIndex tag

40.) How long should you wait before republishing a piece of content to a new website?

It depends, wait until you have at least 5 inbound links.
You shouldn’t wait. Republish it immediately.
Two weeks
One week

41.) You have a top-performing blog post that you want to republish. Which platforms should you republish it to?

Only websites that you have partnerships with as you won’t have to pay for it.
As many websites as possible; the more sites the more impressions the content will receive.
Only sites that are relevant to your business and industry.
You shouldn’t republish content because you’ll have duplicate content issues.

42.) When republishing your content, how can you make sure the republished post stands out in contrast to your original post in search engine result listings?

Update the headline
Use a new author
Add sub-headings to each section
All of the above

43.) You are trying to turn an ebook into a checklist, which method should you keep in mind when repurposing content?

DART
BASE
ACE – Adjust, Combine, Expand
ARC

44.) After you identify the theme and format for an offer, what should you do next?

Choose a template to put it together
Start writing the content
Identify a list of support topics
Build a content creation timeline

45.) True or false? A benefit of organic content promotion is that it allows you to show your content to a highly specific audience.

TRUE
FALSE

46.) 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?

Twitter
LinkedIn
Google
A and B
All of the above

47.) When is the most effective time to boost content on social media?

When it’s performing well
When it has a call-to-action that links to your website
When it showcases one of your products or services
All of the above

48.) True or false? You should post the same message across all of your social channels.

True, redundant messages ensure that your audience will see it and you get the highest reach.
True, posting the same message will help you save time that you can use on more important initiatives.
False, you should customize the message based on the platform.
False, post the same message to Twitter and Facebook, but update LinkedIn as it’s more of a B2B social platform.

49.) Fill in the blank: _______________ helps you group an audience together based on specific criteria from a large list of people.

Demographics
Segmentation
Buyer personas
Ideal matching

50.) True or false? To make sure you’re appropriately communicating the value of your content, you should define as many benefits as possible when promoting it. The more the better.

TRUE
FALSE

51.) You can measure brand awareness by all of the following, except?

How high you rank in search engine results.
How many press releases exist on your website.
Level of engagement on your social channels.
Inbound links coming to your website.

52.) True or false? It’s best to change your key metrics every few months to follow what’s trending.

TRUE
FALSE

53.) Fill in the blank: All of the following are engagement signals that help you understand your content’s effectiveness, except for _______________.

likes and shares on a Facebook post
sharing the thank you page to an offer someone just downloaded
comments on a recent blog post
email send rate

54.) Your boss asks you to report on how your content campaign has contributed to his lead generation goals. What metric do you report on to demonstrate its contribution?

Social engagements
Returning blog subscribers generated from your campaign
Total leads generated from your campaign
Increase of brand awareness

55.) What does an UTM parameter help you identify?

Lifecycle stage
Lead attribution
Company name
Content medium

56.) Fill in the blank: You had a successful team meeting where you were able to prove the ROI of your content marketing efforts. However, your boss wants more details on the content path that helped closed leads into customers. You could do this by creating a(n) ______________.

attribution report
referrals report
sales report
None of the above

57.) Which departments does growth marketing support?

Marketing
Sales
Customer Service
A and B
All of the above

58.) Fill in the blank: Understanding your ____________ is the first step to instilling a growth mindset within your organization.

marketing funnel
buyer personas
ad budget
buyer’s journey

59.) Once you’re able to quantify your metrics, what is the next step in developing a growth mindset?

Create a facebook audience
Select a marketing channel to focus on
Start looking for weaknesses in your funnel
Start looking for strengths in your funnel

60.) Which best explains the bullseye framework?

A testing sequence geared towards identifying content your audience cares about
An organized three-step approach to gaining traction
A system that notifies you when your competitors produce a piece of high-performing content
All of the above

61.) What does the center ring of the bullseye framework represent?

Your possibility channels
Your long-shot channels
The channels you haven’t tested yet
Your top-performing channels

62.) Fill in the blank: When conducting a test, it should work to uncover _______________.

the cost to attain a customer through this channel
the amount of customers available through this channel
whether or not you should be acquiring these customers
All of the above

63.) The following question pertains to the blog post shown below:
The Thing Old-School Sellers Do That Pisses Prospects Off

The above blog post is an example of which type of headline format?

Negative angle format
Secret of format
How-to format
List format

64.) Which is true about content and its relationship with the Inbound Methodology?

Content is only needed to attract people to your site.
Content is needed to attract visitors and convert them into leads.
Content is needed to close leads into customers and turn customers into promoters.
B and C
All of the above

65.) What’s the best way to have your business’ story remembered and shared?

Explain the value of your products and services and how you’re the best at what you do.
Explain your history in detail.
Show the ROI you can bring your customers.
Create emotional alignment between your business and your prospects and customers.

66.) True or false? If prospects can get the answers to their questions and see themselves as characters in your story, they’ll be more likely to purchase from you.

True
False

67.) Fill in the blank: The goal of a long-term content plan is to _________________.

create a unifying document you can use to track initiatives
identify all objectives over the course of a year and create silos for each department to work from
give a detailed breakdown of what team members should be doing on a weekly basis
None of the above

68.) All of the following are elements of an event-based audit EXCEPT:

Prospective inbound marketing campaign
Upcoming priorities by month
Initiative overview
Duration of initiative

69.) Fill in the blank: The above graphic uses a ___________ to help organize hosted files.

linear word formula
acronym-based system
nomenclature system
Word association connector

70.) What can you do to make a headline more compelling?

Make it specific
Make a promise to the reader
Keep it short
A and B
All of the above

71.) True or false? When possible, you should try and use extensive vocabulary in your writing.

True, extensive vocabulary makes you appear more credible and confident.
True, people make purchasing decisions based on if you look smarter than your competitors.
False, extensive vocabulary makes you appear less credible and confident.
False, extensive vocabulary takes up too much space on a page.
Extending the Value of Your Content Through Repurposing

72.) All of the following are sites you can manage republished content on EXCEPT:

Social Media Today
Medium
Inbound.org
LinkedIn

73.) You have a top-performing blog post that you want to republish. Which platforms should you republish it to?

You shouldn’t republish content because you’ll have duplicate content issues.
As many websites as possible; the more sites the more impressions the content will receive.
Only sites that are relevant to your business and industry.
Only websites that you have partnerships with as you won’t have to pay for it.
Extending the Value of Your Content Through Repurposing

74.) You are trying to turn an ebook into a checklist, which method should you keep in mind when repurposing content?

DART
BASE
ARC
ACE

75.) True or false? A benefit of organic content promotion is that it allows you to show your content to a highly specific audience.

True
False

76.) All of the following are attributes of a content promotion calendar EXCEPT:

Details about your audience
Where posted content fits into the buyer’s journey
External and internal communication channels
Content distributed on communication channels

77.) Fill in the blank: All of the following are engagement signals that help you understand your content’s effectiveness, except for _______________.

likes and shares on a Facebook post
comments on a recent blog post
email send rate
sharing the thank you page to an offer someone just downloaded

78.) Fill in the blank: You had a successful team meeting where you were able to prove the ROI of your content marketing efforts. However, your boss wants more details on the content path that helped closed leads into customers. You could do this by creating a(n) ______________.

attribution report
referrals report
conversion report
None of the above
Developing a Growth Marketing Mentality

79.) True or false? The conflict in this blog article is preventing team burnout.

True
False

80.) Fill in the blank: The above graphic uses a ___________ to help organize hosted files.

linear word formula
Word association connector
acronym-based system
nomenclature system

81.) True or false? Your content creation framework should stay consistent over time.

True, the best way to remain efficient is to stick with a process.
True, the investment to update a process can be very expensive and time intensive.
False, as business goals and content change, so should your process to support them.
False, your process should be updated every time a new team member joins.

82.) What can you do to make a headline more compelling?

Broaden the topic
Make a promise to the reader
Over five words
Use special characters to help it stand out

83.) Which of the following do you need to include in a republished piece of content to maintain SEO authority and attribute value to the appropriate website or author?

UTM tracking code
Canonical tag
Anchor text
None of the above

84.) When is the most effective time to boost content on social media?

When it’s performing well
When it has a call-to-action that links to your website
When it showcases one of your products or services
If budget is permitting, then you should boost every social media post

85.) Fill in the blank: A content compass helps organize monthly initiatives by ____________.

SMART goals
sales campaigns
inbound marketing campaigns
All of the above