Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) Complete Prep

Name: Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) Complete Prep
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Master Prometheus monitoring and PromQL to pass the Linux Foundation PCA exam. This course covers all five official exam domains: Observability Concepts, Prometheus Fundamentals, PromQL, Instrumentation & Exporters, and Alerting & Dashboarding — with hands-on labs, Grafana integration, and Kubernetes production patterns.

4.80/5.0

12 hours

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Updated May 2026

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By Marcus Reid

What You'll Learn

Explain the observability pillars and the pull-based Prometheus architecture

Identify all four metric types and select the correct one for a given instrumentation scenario

Build PromQL queries using selectors, aggregation operators, rate(), histogram_quantile(), and binary operators

Apply recording rules and Alertmanager routing trees to build a production alerting pipeline

Evaluate exporters and client libraries to instrument custom applications and third-party services

Demonstrate a complete kube-prometheus-stack deployment on Kubernetes with SLO dashboards in Grafana

Prerequisites

Basic Linux CLI — comfortable running shell commands and editing YAML files
Familiarity with Docker and container concepts
General understanding of how web services and HTTP APIs work
Basic YAML syntax knowledge

About the Instructor

Marcus Reid

Expert instructor with hands-on industry experience in Devops.

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LevelIntermediate

Duration12 hours

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Rating4.80 / 5.0

Cert targetPCA

This course includes

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AI-powered explanations
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Certificate of completion
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