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PCA practice labs

Prepare for the Prometheus Certified Associate with hands-on labs on real machines, automatic checks and a timed mock exam.

Associate 1.5 h exam Multiple choice, online proctored Coming soon

Skills you’ll practise

Grouped from the public exam objectives published by CNCF / Linux Foundation.

  • Observability concepts: metrics, logs, traces, SLOs
  • Prometheus architecture, configuration and data model
  • Query time series with PromQL
  • Instrument applications and use exporters
  • Alerting with Alertmanager and dashboarding basics

Planned labs

5 labs in preparation
  1. 01

    Observability concepts: metrics, logs, traces, SLOs

    Guided walkthrough · knowledge checks

    Coming soon
  2. 02

    Prometheus architecture, configuration and data model

    Guided walkthrough · knowledge checks

    Coming soon
  3. 03

    Query time series with PromQL

    Guided walkthrough · knowledge checks

    Coming soon
  4. 04

    Instrument applications and use exporters

    Guided walkthrough · knowledge checks

    Coming soon
  5. 05

    Alerting with Alertmanager and dashboarding basics

    Guided walkthrough · knowledge checks

    Coming soon

PCA mock exam · 1.5 h

A full timed practice test over every domain, with a score per domain and explanations.

Coming soon

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