Capacity Planning Practice Exam

About Capacity Planning
Capacity planning refers to the capability to develop plans to better manage the available capacity of resources at disposal of the organization.

Capacity planning is widely used by production lines, service providers, managers to make plans for optimum usage of the organizational resources which usually includes manpower, machines, tool, experts, etc.

Capacity planning also outlines the level of resources needed in future to fulfill the demand which the company need to discharge else loss of revenue or profits will be incident on loss of fulfilling orders.

Capacity need to be enhanced for increased demand by extra shifts, better tools or techniques to ramp up or capacity needs to be reduced for addressing low or slump demand by layoffs, shutting down plants, etc.

Why is Capacity Planning important?
Capacity planning is an important part of organizational immediate future plans to address the likely demand. Capacity planning helps companies by
•    Ensuring resource availability
•    Highlighting any shortages in skills, tools or space
•    Make timely plans to fulfill future demands
•    Provide a blueprint for optimum resource usage in future
•    Reduce sudden spikes in resource costs
•    Makes availability and scheduling of resources more transparent
•    Enables informed data based decision making

Who should take the Capacity Planning Exam?
•    Business managers and senior executives
•    Business owners
•    Anyone who wants to assess their capacity management skills
•    Entrepreneurs
•    Logistics or SCM professionals
•    Production in charge or managers

Capacity Planning Exam Objectives
Capacity Planning exam validates your skills in capacity planning skills effective and efficient manner.

Capacity Planning Exam Prerequisite
Capacity Planning exam has no prerequisite. Candidate with good knowledge of capacity planning will be able to clear the assessment.

Capacity Planning Certification Course Outline

1. Forecasting
1.1 Introduction to Forecasting
1.2 Forecasting Models
1.3 Weighted Moving Average
1.4 Causal Forecasting Models
1.5 Linear Regression Analysis
1.6 Multiple Regression Analysis
1.7 Other Forecasting Methods
1.8 Forecast Error
1.9 Forecast Evaluations
1.10 Forecast Management

2. Sales and Operations Planning
2.1 Sales and Operations Planning Basics
2.2 Demand Review
2.3 Supply Review
2.4 Financial Review
2.5 Reconciliation
2.6 Executive Review
2.7 S and OP Process

3. Inventory Management
3.1 Types of Inventory
3.2 Types of Inventory Costs and Factors affecting Inventory
3.3 Inventory Management Models
3.4 Techniques of Inventory Control
3.5 Inventory Performance Measurement
3.6 Inventory Management Tools

4. Material Requirements Planning
4.1 MRP Basics
4.2 MRP Processing
4.3 MRP II
4.4 Factors affecting Material Planning
4.5 Tools of Material Planning
4.6 Principles and Procedure for Material Planning
4.7 Bill of Materials or BOM
4.8 ERP

5. Production Scheduling
5.1 Production Environments
5.2 Production Scheduling Basics
5.3 Scheduling Concepts
5.4 Scheduling Terminology
5.5 Scheduling Types
5.6 Production Scheduling Types
5.7 Theory of constraints (TOC)
5.8 Drum Buffer Rope
5.9 Scheduling Methods
5.10 Scheduling Strategies

6. Capacity Planning Basics
6.1 What is capacity planning?
6.2 Concepts and terminology
6.3 Applications and related domains
6.4 Capacity planning and performance measurements
6.5 Predict IT resource requirements
6.6 SLA and service management
6.7 Capacity management
6.8 Network capacity planning
6.9 Required components
6.10 Administrative considerations
6.11 System performance tuning
6.12 Domain model review
6.13 Process for network capacity planning
6.14 Performance tuning & capacity planning

7. ITIL Capacity Management
7.1 Performance monitoring
7.2 Workload monitoring
7.3 Application sizing
7.4 Resource forecasting
7.5 Demand forecasting
7.6 Modeling


Exam Format and Information
Certification name – Capacity Planning Certification
Exam duration – 60 minutes
Exam type - Multiple Choice Questions
Eligibility / pre-requisite - None
Exam language - English
Exam format - Online
Passing score - 25
Exam Fees  - INR 1199