What defines Service Quality?

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• AA series of activities that can be assessed in advance by a provider and customer
• BAchieving a 99.999% continuous level of availability
• CMeeting stated customer requirements and expectations
• DProviding a cost-effective service

• A
  15% (3)
• B
  10% (2)
• C
  70% (14)
• D
  5% (1)

Explanation

Service Quality is fundamentally defined by how well a service meets what customers have explicitly stated they need and expect - making C correct. Quality isn't measured by the provider's internal standards alone; it's validated against the customer's actual requirements.

Why the distractors are wrong:

• A describes a characteristic of services (intangibility and the difficulty of pre-assessment) - that's a property of services, not a definition of quality.
• B (99.999% availability) is a specific SLA metric, not a universal definition - high availability doesn't automatically mean quality if it's not what the customer needs.
• D (cost-effectiveness) is a business goal, not a quality definition - a cheap service that fails customer expectations is not a quality service.

Memory tip: Think of the word quality as rooted in "qualify" - a service qualifies as high-quality only when it matches what the customer stated they wanted, not what the provider thinks is good.

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