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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 PCA Exam Objectives

Section Weight Objectives
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)
Official Information https://training.linuxfoundation.org/certification/prometheus-certified-associate/

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