Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) Practice Exam
Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) Practice Exam
About Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) Exam
The Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) is a foundational certification from the Linux Foundation and Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) designed to validate practical knowledge of Prometheus for monitoring and observability. It covers key concepts including Prometheus architecture, metrics, data models, PromQL, querying, alerting, monitoring Kubernetes environments, and basic troubleshooting. The certification helps candidates demonstrate their ability to understand and work with Prometheus in cloud native environments. The PCA exam is an online, proctored, multiple-choice assessment that evaluates knowledge of Prometheus fundamentals and observability practices. It is suitable for DevOps engineers, SREs, cloud professionals, Kubernetes practitioners, and others beginning their journey in cloud native monitoring. Earning the PCA certification provides a recognized way to demonstrate foundational Prometheus and observability skills.
Course Outline
- Metrics
- Understand logs and events
- Tracing and Spans
- Push vs Pull
- Service Discovery
- Basics of SLOs, SLAs, and SLIs
- System Architecture
- Configuration and Scraping
- Understanding Prometheus Limitations
- Data Model and Labels
- Exposition Format
- Selecting Data
- Rates and Derivatives
- Aggregating over time
- Aggregating over dimensions
- Binary operators
- Histograms
- Timestamp Metrics
- Client Libraries
- Instrumentation
- Exporters
- Structuring and naming metrics
- Dashboarding basics
- Configuring Alerting rules
- Understand and Use Alertmanager
- Alerting basics (when, what, and why)
