CNCF-PCA Exam Information and Outline
Prometheus Certified Associate
Syllabus Update Checked on: October 30, 2026
CNCF-PCA Exam Syllabus & Study Guide
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The information below reflects the 2026 syllabus defined by
CNCF.
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- Exam Format
- 60 multiple-choice questions; 90 minutes; online proctored
- Observability Concepts (18%)
- Metrics, logs and traces
- Push vs. pull
- Service discovery basics
- SLOs, SLAs and SLIs
- Prometheus Fundamentals (20%)
- System architecture
- Configuration and scraping
- Data model and labels
- Exposition format
- PromQL (28%)
- Selecting data and rates/derivatives
- Aggregating over time and dimensions
- Binary operators and histograms
- Timestamp metrics
- Instrumentation and Exporters (16%)
- Client libraries and instrumentation
- Exporters and structuring/naming metrics
- Alerting and Dashboarding (18%)
- Dashboarding basics
- Configuring alerting rules
- Alertmanager and alerting basics