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Linux Foundation PCA Exam Syllabus

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Before starting your PCA exam preparation, it is recommended to review the complete Linux Foundation Prometheus Certified Associate exam syllabus and carefully go through the exam objectives listed below. Once you understand the exam structure and objectives, you should practice using our free PCA questions. We also provide premium PCA practice test, fully updated according to the latest exam objectives, to help you accurately assess your preparedness for the actual exam.

Linux Foundation
Vendor
PCA
Exam Code
60
Total Questions
5
Total Exam Domains

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Linux Foundation PCA Exam Objectives

Section 1: Observability Concepts
Weight:
18%
  • Metrics
  • Understand logs and events
  • Tracing and Spans
  • Push vs Pull
  • Service Discovery
  • Basics of SLOs, SLAs, and SLIs
Section 2: Prometheus Fundamentals
Weight:
20%
  • System Architecture
  • Configuration and Scraping
  • Understanding Prometheus Limitations
  • Data Model and Labels
  • Exposition Format
Section 3: PromQL
Weight:
28%
  • Selecting Data
  • Rates and Derivatives
  • Aggregating over time
  • Aggregating over dimensions
  • Binary operators
  • Histograms
  • Timestamp Metrics
Section 4: Instrumentation and Exporters
Weight:
16%
  • Client Libraries
  • Instrumentation
  • Exporters
  • Structuring and naming metrics
Section 5: Alerting & Dashboarding
Weight:
18%
  • Dashboarding basics
  • Configuring Alerting rules
  • Understand and Use Alertmanager
  • Alerting basics (when, what, and why)
Info
https://training.linuxfoundation.org/certification/prometheus-certified-associate/