CNCF PCA - Prometheus Certified Associate Exam
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Total 60 questions
Question #6 (Topic: Exam A)
What are Inhibition rules?
A. Inhibition rules repeat a set of alerts when another matching alert is firing.
B. Inhibition rules mute a set of alerts when another matching alert is firing.
C. Inhibition rules inject a new set of alerts when a matching alert is firing.
D. Inhibition rules inspect alerts when a matching set of alerts is firing.
Answer: B
Question #7 (Topic: Exam A)
Which field in alerting rules files indicates the time an alert needs to go from pending to firing state?
A. expr
B. fire_after
C. for
D. offset
Answer: C
Question #8 (Topic: Exam A)
Which of the following signal does belong to symptom-based alerting?
A. API latency
B. CPU usage
C. Disk space
D. Database availability
Answer: A
Question #9 (Topic: Exam A)
What is considered the best practice when working with alerting notifications?
A. Make sure to generate alerts on every metric of every component of the stack.
B. Minor alerts are as important as major alerts and should be treated with equal care.
C. Have as many alerts as possible to catch minor problems before they become outages.
D. Have as few alerts as possible by alerting only when symptoms might become externally visible.
Answer: D
Question #10 (Topic: Exam A)
Which receiver will get an alert when the following alert is firing?
Given the following Alertmanager configuration:
Given the following Alertmanager configuration:
A. team-Y-pager
B. team-X-pager
C. team-X-mails
D. team-Y-mails
Answer: B
