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CNCF PCA Practice Status: Prometheus Associate

Track PCA practice status for Prometheus Certified Associate and request IT Mastery coverage.

PCA is Prometheus Certified Associate. It validates foundational observability and Prometheus knowledge, including metrics, scraping, PromQL, instrumentation, exporters, alerting, dashboards, and operational use of monitoring data.

This page tracks PCA practice-bank rollout for IT Mastery. Dedicated simulator practice is not live yet, but the official exam is multiple-choice, making it a strong fit for future QBank coverage.

PCA snapshot

  • Vendor: Linux Foundation / CNCF
  • Official certification name: Prometheus Certified Associate
  • Exam code: PCA
  • Exam format: online, proctored, multiple-choice
  • Exam time shown by Linux Foundation: 90 minutes
  • Current IT Mastery status: full simulator not yet live

Topic coverage for PCA

DomainWeight
Observability Concepts18%
Prometheus Fundamentals20%
PromQL28%
Instrumentation and Exporters16%
Alerting and Dashboarding18%

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