Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) Certification

• 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

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

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

1. Promlabs blog selecting data in promql

1. Promql for humans
2. Promql cheat sheet

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

1. PCA-BETA Discord

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

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

• Sysdig Hands on Interactive Scenarios
• promlabs
• promlens