Linux Foundation Prometheus Certified Associate PCA Beta

Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) Certification

Exam Brief

• Duration - 90 minutes
• Cost - $250, with a free retake within the year. This registration is valid for 12 months from the date of purchase, or when your corporate subscription expires (whichever happens first).
• Certification validity: three (3) years

Prometheus Certified Associate Beta exam

• Candidate Handbook
• Important Instructions to PCA
• Domains & Competencies
• Exam Details
• Check System Requirements

PCA repo topics overview

• [X] Observability Concepts - 18%
• [X] Prometheus Fundamentals - 20%
• [X] PromQL- 28%
• [X] Instrumentation and Exporters 16%
• [X] Alerting & Dashboarding 18%

Observability Concepts - 18%

1. https://www.honeycomb.io/blog/observability-101-terminology-and-concepts/
2. https://opensource.com/article/19/10/open-source-observability-kubernetes

Prometheus Fundamentals - 20%

PromQL- 28%

Selecting Data

1. Promlabs blog selecting data in promql

Rates and Derivatives

Aggregating over time

Agreegating over Dimension

Binary Operators

Histograms

Timestamp Metrics

1. Promql for humans
2. Promql cheat sheet

Instrumentation and Exporters 16%](#Instrumentation and Exporters---16)

Alerting & Dashboarding 18%](#Alerting-and-Dashboarding---18)

helpful resources

• A brief illustrated history of prometheus
• Ivan Articles on Observability and Prometheus

Discussions

1. PCA-BETA Discord

Books

• Prometheus: Up & Running: Infrastructure and Application Performance Monitoring
• Monitoring with Prometheus by James Turnball

Training

1. Linux Foundation official course LFS241 monitoring systems and services with prometheus
2. PluralSight/acloud guru Prometheus deep dive

Interactive Scenarios

• Sysdig Hands on Interactive Scenarios
• promlabs
• promlens