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OpenTelemetry Certified Associate (OTCA)

Licensing authority: Cloud Native Computing Foundation

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OpenTelemetry Certified Associate (OTCA)
Summary
Passing the OTCA examination leads to the OTCA certification badge; the current exam page states there are no prerequisites.

OpenTelemetry Certified Associate (OTCA)

Format
Online proctored multiple-choice examination
Time limit
90 minutes
Exam fee
$250
Examination outline
  • Fundamentals of Observability (18%)
    • Telemetry Data
    • Semantic Conventions
    • Instrumentation
    • Analysis and Outcomes
  • The OpenTelemetry API and SDK (46%)
    • Data Model
    • Composability and Extension
    • Configuration
    • Signals (Tracing, Metric, Log)
    • SDK Pipelines
    • Context Propagation
    • Agents
  • The OpenTelemetry Collector (26%)
    • Configuration
    • Deployment
    • Scaling
    • Pipelines
    • Transforming Data
  • Maintaining and Debugging Observability Pipelines (10%)
    • Context Propagation
    • Debugging Pipelines
    • Error Handling
    • Schema Management
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