Practice Prometheus-Certified-Associate Exam Online

Question 1

What popular open-source project is commonly used to visualize Prometheus data?

A : Kibana

B : Grafana

C : Thanos

D : Loki

Answer: B

Question 2

Given the following two time series and assuming a scrape interval of 1m, what is the result of the query given below?

Series:

up{job="node", instance="node1"} 0 1 1 0 NaN

up{job="node", instance="node2"} 1 0 1 1 0

Query: max_over_time(up[5m])

A : {job="node", instance="node1"} NaN

B : {job="node", instance="node2"} 1

C : {job="node", instance="node1"} 1

D : job="node", instance="node2"} 1

E : {job="node"} 0

F : up{job="node", instance="node1"} 1

G : up{job="node", instance="node2"} 1

Answer: C

Question 3

What is the definition of an error budget?

A : The set of actions to be taken when an SLO or SLA has been breached

B : The measurement for an SLO

C : The maximum time a system can be down without violating an SLO or SLA

D : The number of errors a system can have without having an adverse effect on the company budget

Answer: C

Question 4

Which of the following queries will return the currently firing alerts in Prometheus?

A : No such query exists

B : ALERTS

C : ALERTS{alertstate="firing"}

D : ALERTS{alertstate="firing",location="alertmanager"}

Answer: C

Question 5

Given the following time series and assuming a scrape interval of 1m, what is the result of the query given below?

Series:

up{job="node", instance="node1"} 0 1 1 1 0

up{job="node", instance="node2"} 1 1 1 1 1

Query: count(up) by (job)

A : up{job="node", instance="node1"} 5

B : up{job="node", instance="node2"} 5

C : {job="node"} 2

D : {} 2

E : {job="node", instance="node1"} 5

F : {job="node", instance="node2"} 5

Answer: C

Name:	Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA)
Exam Code:	Prometheus-Certified-Associate
Certification:	Clouds and Containers
Vendor:	Linux Foundation
Total Questions:	286
Last Updated:	Sep 29, 2026

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