OpenTelemetry Certified Associate (OTCA) PREP practice exams

Welcome to the OTCA (OpenTelemetry Certified Associate) Mock Exam course. This course is designed to help you test your readiness for the OTCA certification exam using mock exams, ensuring you have a solid understanding of OpenTelemetry concepts, Signals, Collector, API/SDK and telemetry fundementals. Throughout this course, you will learn about key topics through practice questions. Test your readiness for the exam with these solid practice exams based on the OpenTelemetry documentation and exam objectives.

This course includes:

• 2 full-length mock exams to simulate the exam level

Exam objectives:

- Fundamentals of Observability (18%)

• Distributed tracing, traces and spans

• Logs and log correlations

• Metrics

• Why observability is crucial in distributed systems and microservices

• Common data correlation strategies

• Standards and projects in the ecosystem: OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Jaeger, Grafana, etc.

- The OpenTelemetry API and SDK (46%)

• Instrumentation (and auto-instrumentation)

• Data correlation

• Understanding language SDKs

• Exporters

• Context Propagation

• Environment variable configuration and resource attributes

• Key OpenTelemetry API components:

- The OpenTelemetry Collector (26%)

• Collector architecture ( Receivers, Processors, Exporters, Connectors )

• Scaling and deploying the collector

• Processing and transformations

• Security Considerations

• When to use local collection VS central collection

- Maintaining and Debugging Observability Pipelines (10%)

• Debugging pipeline failures( exporter timeouts, span drops)

• Performance tuning

• Best practices for tagging and naming resources