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Monitoring Systems and Services with Prometheus (LFS241) + Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) Exam Bundle

The Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) exam demonstrates an engineers foundational knowledge of observability and skills using Prometheus, the open source systems monitoring and alerting toolkit.

Learn how to monitor real-world systems with Prometheus—track containers, catch issues early, use service discovery, and build production-grade observability into your Kubernetes stack with Monitoring Systems and Services with Prometheus (LFS241).

Purchase the course + PCA for $299 OR get a subscription with unlimited access to all e-learning courses and SkillCreds for $495!

Who Is It For
The LFS241 course is built for DevOps engineers, SREs, and system admins ready to level up observability skills and get Prometheus-ready for high-impact roles in modern, cloud-native environments. The PCA is a pre-professional certification designed for an engineer or application developer with special interests in observability and monitoring.
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What You’ll Learn
Walk away knowing how to monitor real-world systems with Prometheus—track containers, catch issues early, use service discovery, and build production-grade observability into your Kubernetes stack.
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What It Demonstrates
The PCA demonstrates a candidate's understanding of best practices for monitoring cloud native applications and infrastructure using Prometheus.
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Course Outline
Chapter 1. Course Introduction
Chapter 2. Introduction to Observability
Chapter 3. Introduction to Prometheus
Chapter 4. Installing and Setting Up Prometheus
Chapter 5. Basic Querying
Chapter 6. Dashboarding
Chapter 7. Monitoring Host Metrics
Chapter 8. Monitoring Container Metrics
Chapter 9. Instrumenting Code
Chapter 10. Building Exporters
Chapter 11. Advanced Querying
Chapter 12. Relabeling
Chapter 13. Service Discovery
Chapter 14. Blackbox Monitoring
Chapter 15. Pushing Data
Chapter 16. Alerting
Chapter 17. Making Prometheus Highly Available
Chapter 18. Recording Rules
Chapter 19. Scaling Prometheus Deployments
Chapter 20. Local Storage
Chapter 21. Remote Storage Integrations
Chapter 22. Transitioning From and Integration with Other Monitoring Systems
Chapter 23. Monitoring and Debugging Prometheus
Chapter 24. Prometheus and Kubernetes
Exam Domains & Competencies
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Observability Concepts18%
Metrics
Understand logs and events
Tracing and Spans
Push vs Pull
Service Discovery
Basics of SLOs, SLAs, and SLIs
Prometheus Fundamentals20%
System Architecture
Configuration and Scraping
Understanding Prometheus Limitations
Data Model and Labels
Exposition Format
PromQL28%
Selecting Data
Rates and Derivatives
Aggregating over time
Aggregating over dimensions
Binary operators
Histograms
Timestamp Metrics
Instrumentation and Exporters16%
Client Libraries
Instrumentation
Exporters
Structuring and naming metrics
Alerting & Dashboarding18%
Dashboarding basics
Configuring Alerting rules
Understand and Use Alertmanager
Alerting basics (when, what, and why)
Exam Details & Resources
This exam is an online, proctored, multiple-choice exam.
Lab Info
To successfully complete the lab exercises in LFS241, access to a Linux server or Linux desktop/laptop is required. Access to a public cloud provider, or VirtualBox on your machine is also needed. Detailed instructions to set up your lab environment are provided in the course.
If using a cloud provider like GCP or AWS, you should be able to complete the lab exercises using the free tier or credits provided to you. However, you may incur charges if you exceed the credits initially allocated by the cloud provider, or if the cloud provider’s terms and conditions change.
Prerequisites
Before starting LFS241, you should be familiar with:

  • Basic experience with Linux/Unix system administration
  • Familiarity with common shell commands, such as ls, cd, curl, etc.
  • Some knowledge and/or development experience in Go and Python
  • Experience with running containers and building container images with Docker
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes concepts

There are no pre-requisites for the PCA exam.

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Course Includes
Online, Self Paced
8-10 Hours of Course Material
Hands-on Labs & Assignments
12 Months of Access to Online Course
Digital Badge
Discussion Forums
Exam Includes
Online
Exam Duration 90 Minutes
Certification Valid for 2 Years
Includes 12 Month Exam Eligibility
One Retake
PDF Certificate and Digital Badge
Multiple Choice Exam
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