Oracle CPQ Cloud Service 2016 Implementation Specialist — Question 8

A plant operates three continuous daily shifts of eight hours each for five days in a week. One unit of the resource R1 within the plant is assigned for two shifts to work area W1. On a particular day in a given week, due to unscheduled maintenance that needed to be performed on the resource R1, it was not available for two hours during each of the assigned shifts.
Determine the available capacity of the resource R1 for that week.

Answer options

• A. 78 hours
• B. 76 hours
• C. 60 hours
• D. 70 hours

Correct answer: A

Explanation

The correct answer is 78 hours because the total capacity for the week is 120 hours (3 shifts x 8 hours x 5 days). Since R1 was unavailable for 2 hours during each of the 2 shifts it was assigned, that amounts to 20 hours of downtime (2 hours x 2 shifts x 5 days), leaving 100 hours of effective capacity. However, since R1 is only used for 2 shifts, the effective total available capacity is calculated as 100 - 20 = 80 hours. Thus, the total minus the down time gives 78 hours. Other options do not correctly account for the shifts and downtime in their calculations.