Free Linux Foundation Prometheus-Certified-Associate Exam Questions

Become Linux Foundation Certified with updated Prometheus-Certified-Associate exam questions and correct answers

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Total 286 Questions | Updated On: Feb 11, 2026

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Question 1

What is the role of the Pushgateway in Prometheus?

A : To scrape short-lived targets directly.

B : To receive metrics pushed by short-lived batch jobs for later scraping by Prometheus.

C : To store metrics long-term for historical analysis.

D : To visualize metrics in Grafana.

Answer: B

Question 2

What is metamonitoring?

A : Metamonitoring is a monitoring that covers 100% of a service.

B : Metamonitoring is the monitoring of non-IT systems.

C : Metamonitoring is the monitoring of the monitoring infrastructure.

D : Metamonitoring is monitoring social networks for end user complaints about quality of service.

Answer: C

Question 3

What is the difference between client libraries and exporters?

A : Exporters are written in Go. Client libraries are written in many languages.

B : Exporters expose metrics for scraping. Client libraries push metrics via Remote Write.

C : Exporters run next to the services to monitor, and use client libraries internally.

D : Exporters and client libraries mean the same thing.

Answer: C

Question 4

What type of database does Prometheus use?

A : Time Series

B : Relational

C : Document

D : Key-Value

Answer: A

Question 5

Which of the following is a valid way to trigger a Prometheus configuration reload?

A : Sending an HTTP GET request to the /-/reload endpoint with the --web.enable-admin-api command line flag set

B : Sending an HTTP GET request to the /-/reload endpoint with the --web.enable-enable-lifecycle command line flag set

C : Sending an HTTP POST request to the /-/reload endpoint with the --web.enable-admin-api command line flag set

D : Sending a SIGHUP to the Prometheus process

Answer: D

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