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PROGRAMMING CHALLENGES

Tech Support Ticket System

Difficulty:

3 Hard

2.2 Practice Exam Questions

Topic:

Part 1: Write a program to manage a tech support ticket system. Each ticket has a priority (High, Medium, Low) and time required to resolve (in hours). Input the number of tickets and calculate the total time required for each priority level. Part 2: Extend the program to include an escalation process where Low priority tickets older than 7 days are upgraded to Medium. Output the updated ticket details.

Inputs: Number of tickets, priority, time required, ticket age. Outputs: Total time for each priority, updated ticket details. Calculations: Sum time, update priority. Variables: tickets, priority, time, age, total_time, updated_tickets.

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