Capacity planning
Read growth trends, calculate how long capacity lasts, and plan upgrades before users notice.
- Level
- Intermediate
- Length
- About 35 minutes
- Contents
- 3 lessons · 1 video · final exam
- Status
- Published · updated 1 Oct 2026
Skills you'll practise
- Project storage growth from a trend
- Calculate time until a threshold is reached
- Explain why averages hide peaks
- Plan headroom and lead time for upgrades
Course outline
- 1.Capacity planning with simple mathVideo · 2 min
- 2.Staying ahead of growthLesson · 15 min
- 3.Forecasting storage with trendsLesson · 15 min
- 4.Planning CPU, memory and failover headroomLesson · 15 min
- 5.Capacity planning: knowledge checkKnowledge check · 15 questions
- 6.Capacity planning: practical exerciseKnowledge check · 1 question
- 7.Final exam6 questions · passing it completes the course, so people who already know the material can test out
Sources it draws on
The lessons and questions are written from these references, so learners can go back to the original.
- Capacity planning: trends, headroom and percentiles
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