Course Information
Registration period
Year-round Recruitment
Course Level
Study Mode
Duration
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Language
English
Taught by
Tore Sæterdal
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Course Overview
Prepare for the OTCA exam with 120+ relevant questions that tests your knowledge of the exam objectives
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
Course Content
- 1 section(s)
- Section 1 Practice Tests
What You’ll Learn
- Instrument applications for metrics, logs and traces
- Exporting telemetry to Observability backends such as Prometheus, Tempo/Jaeger/Zipkin and Loki
- Master the fundamentals about Opentelemetry to pass OpenTelemetry Certified Associate
- Connect Observability components to export, collect and visualize important information about your applications
Skills covered in this course
Reviews
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SSam Butler
Experience would be much better if there were explanations for the wrong answers as well. There should be links to documentation supporting each answer as well.
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SShaoyi Li
I learned a lot from the practice questions and passed the OTCA by preparing with them. They were helpful, though I felt the practice questions were somewhat easier than the actual exam.
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SSimen Røstvik
The questions are written in the same style as the exam, this helps your ability to pick up the correct keywords for the trickier questions in the exam. Taking this mock exam just before the exam certainly skewed the odds in my favor.
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TTore L
To the point, seems like all questions are relevant for the actual test.
