Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) Practice Test

The Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) Practice Test is a free intermediate-level, 20-minute skill test from Science of Apps. Practice for the Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) exam and real Prometheus work — observability concepts and Prometheus architecture, PromQL, instrumentation and exporters, and alerting and dashboards — written to the CNCF PCA curriculum and the official Prometheus documentation for 2026. Score 70% or more on its 20 questions to earn a verifiable Prometheus PCA Readiness certificate (SOA-P6). Every question is based on published standards and research — including Prometheus overview and architecture (Prometheus (CNCF)), Querying Prometheus: PromQL basics (Prometheus (CNCF)), Alertmanager (Prometheus (CNCF)) — and each answer is explained with its source.

Yes. Science of Apps has a free Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) Practice Test built on the current The Linux Foundation / CNCF exam outline for 2026 and 2027. It covers observability and prometheus fundamentals, PromQL, instrumentation and exporters and alerting and dashboards, scores you instantly and issues a verifiable certificate.

Read the four skill areas on this page, then take the 20-minute test online — no fee, course or sign-up. You see every answer explained when you finish. Score 70% or more and you get a Prometheus PCA Readiness certificate straight away, on screen, as a PDF and by email, with a credential ID anyone can verify.

Yes. The questions are original scenarios written by Science of Apps, and each one is based on a public source you can read: Prometheus overview and architecture (Prometheus (CNCF)); Querying Prometheus: PromQL basics (Prometheus (CNCF)); Alertmanager (Prometheus (CNCF)); Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) exam (The Linux Foundation / CNCF); Metric types (Prometheus (CNCF)); Metric and label naming (Prometheus (CNCF)). The source is shown under each question and linked in the answer review. Science of Apps doesn't copy questions from other tests.

Four skill areas with five questions each, drawn from a bank of 10 per area so a retake brings new questions: Observability and Prometheus Fundamentals (Architecture, Data model and Configuration); PromQL (Selectors, Functions and Aggregation); Instrumentation and Exporters (Client libraries, Exporters and Naming); Alerting and Dashboards (Alert rules, Alertmanager and Visualisation). Every question is an original scenario written to the 2026–2027 standard, with the published source named under it.

Site reliability engineer, DevOps engineer, Platform engineer, Cloud or Kubernetes administrator and Observability engineer. It suits anyone who wants a quick, verifiable way to show Prometheus Certified Associate knowledge in 2026 and 2027, from students and career switchers to experienced professionals.

The PCA is a CNCF and Linux Foundation certification for engineers who use Prometheus. It is an online, proctored multiple-choice exam covering observability concepts, Prometheus fundamentals, PromQL, instrumentation and exporters, and alerting and dashboards.

Prometheus is an open-source monitoring system that scrapes numeric time-series metrics from targets over HTTP, stores them locally and lets you query them with PromQL. Alertmanager handles grouping, silencing and routing of the alerts it fires.

No. It is an independent practice test written to the publicly available Prometheus Certified Associate content outline for 2026 and 2027, for checking your readiness before you book the real exam. Passing earns a Science of Apps certificate rather than the official credential.

Yes. The test is online, in English and free everywhere — people take it from India, the US, the UK, Europe, Africa, Latin America and Asia-Pacific. Your certificate is dated with your own local date and can be verified from anywhere at scienceofapps.com/certification/verify/.

20 questions — 5 from each of 4 skill areas — with a 20-minute limit. You need 70% (14 of 20) to pass and 90% for distinction.

We rate it Intermediate: assumes hands-on experience in the role. It has 20 scenario questions — 5 from each of 4 skill areas — and a 20-minute limit. You need 70% (14 of 20) to pass and 90% for distinction.

Nothing. There is no fee to take a test, to receive the certificate, to have it emailed or to verify it, and no sign-up.

On our server, not in your browser. The answers never reach the page until you submit, so a certificate can only be earned by passing. Each certificate gets a unique credential ID stored by Science of Apps.

You see your score for each area and every question with the correct answer and why, with the published source behind it. You can retake after 30 minutes, and the retake draws questions you haven't seen yet.

No. Every certificate is dated, so it always shows when you passed. Retake a test any time for a newer date or a higher score.

Yes. After you pass, Add to LinkedIn opens the Licenses & certifications form with the certificate name, Science of Apps as the issuer, the issue date, your credential ID and the verification link filled in. You can also download it as a PDF or PNG, and it's emailed to you as a PDF.

Every certificate has a credential ID and a QR code. Scanning it, or entering the ID at scienceofapps.com/certification/verify/, shows the holder's name, the certification, the score and the issue date from our records.

No. They are Science of Apps' own assessments of applied skill. They aren't issued by a university or standards body, and they work best alongside a portfolio that shows the skills in real work.