Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) — Information & Free Practice
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Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA)
- Format
- Online, proctored, multiple-choice
- Time limit
- 90 minutes
- Passing score
- 75%
- Exam fee
- $250
Examination outline
Observability Concepts (18%)
- Metrics
- Understand logs and events
- Tracing and Spans
- Push vs Pull
- Service Discovery
- Basics of SLOs, SLAs, and SLIs
Prometheus Fundamentals (20%)
- System Architecture
- Configuration and Scraping
- Understanding Prometheus Limitations
- Data Model and Labels
- Exposition Format
PromQL (28%)
- Selecting Data
- Rates and Derivatives
- Aggregating over time
- Aggregating over dimensions
- Binary operators
- Histograms
- Timestamp Metrics
Instrumentation and Exporters (16%)
- Client Libraries
- Instrumentation
- Exporters
- Structuring and naming metrics
Alerting & Dashboarding (18%)
- Dashboarding basics
- Configuring Alerting rules
- Understand and Use Alertmanager
- Alerting basics (when, what, and why)
Examination sources
- CNCF PCA page
About the program
- PCA Exam Curriculum
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- CNCF PCA page
Exam details
- Multiple Choice Exams FAQ
How is my exam scored?
- Linux Foundation PCA page
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