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Course and practice questions

OTCA course and practice questions

OpenTelemetry Certified Associate (OTCA). 4 modules and 20 lessons, plus 27 original practice questions in 4 quizzes. This course is lessons and practice questions. There are no hands-on cluster labs.

  • Intermediate
  • 3 hours
  • Pass mark 75%
  • 90-minute exam
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Modules
4
Lessons
20
Quizzes
4
Questions
27

Lessons and original practice questions. No hands-on cluster labs in this course.

The exam

OTCA at a glance

  • Exam formatMultiple choice
  • Exam length90 minutes
  • Pass mark75%
  • NoteA course and original practice questions. A kubeadm cluster does not run a Collector.
  • This course20 lessons and 27 practice questions. No cluster labs.

Exam domains

4 domains, weighted like the exam

Exam domains from the public curriculum. Practice for this course is the module quizzes. There are no hands-on cluster labs.

  • The OpenTelemetry API and SDK

    46%of the exam

    7 competencies

  • The OpenTelemetry Collector

    26%of the exam

    5 competencies

  • Fundamentals of Observability

    18%of the exam

    4 competencies

  • Maintaining and Debugging Observability Pipelines

    10%of the exam

    4 competencies

Weights come from this catalog. The public exam page is the source for the exam itself: OTCA on training.linuxfoundation.org.

What's included

Lessons and practice questions

  • 20 lessons

    Lessons mapped to the public exam domains.

  • 4 module quizzes

    27 original practice questions, with an explanation for every answer.

  • No cluster labs

    This course is lessons and original practice questions. There are no hands-on cluster labs.

Curriculum

4 modules

20 lessons: 2 h 56 min of reading, about 3 hours with the linked practice.

01Fundamentals of observability4 lessons · 6 questions

What telemetry is for, why names have to match, how code gets instrumented, and what you do with the data once it arrives. Domain: Fundamentals of Observability.

  1. lessonTelemetry data9 min
  2. lessonSemantic conventions9 min
  3. lessonInstrumentation8 min
  4. lessonAnalysis and outcomes8 min
02The OpenTelemetry API and SDK7 lessons · 8 questions

The data each signal carries, how the API and SDK fit together, how environment variables configure a process, and how context crosses a network hop. Domain: The OpenTelemetry API and SDK.

  1. lessonThe telemetry data model10 min
  2. lessonComposability and extension8 min
  3. lessonSDK configuration11 min
  4. lessonSignals: traces, metrics and logs10 min
  5. lessonSDK pipelines9 min
  6. lessonContext propagation9 min
  7. lessonAgents8 min
03The OpenTelemetry Collector5 lessons · 7 questions

How a Collector config is structured, where you run it, how you scale it, how pipelines connect, and how processors change data in flight. Domain: The OpenTelemetry Collector.

  1. lessonCollector configuration10 min
  2. lessonCollector deployment9 min
  3. lessonScaling the Collector8 min
  4. lessonCollector pipelines9 min
  5. lessonTransforming data9 min
04Maintaining and debugging pipelines4 lessons · 6 questions

How to tell that context died on a hop, how to see what a pipeline is doing, what happens when an export fails, and how schema versions stay compatible. Domain: Maintaining and Debugging Observability Pipelines.

  1. lessonWhen context propagation breaks8 min
  2. lessonDebugging pipelines8 min
  3. lessonError handling in the pipeline8 min
  4. lessonSchema management8 min

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A free account includes 5 starter CKA labs, one in each CKA exam domain. The OTCA course is lessons and practice questions, with no cluster labs.

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