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PCA Prometheus Certified Associate VIP Practice Exam
PCA — The Prometheus Certified Associate (PCA) is a multiple-choice, online-proctored exam offered by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) / Linux Foundation, consisting of approximately 60 questions in 90 minutes with a 75% passing score, covering observability concepts, Prometheus fundamentals, PromQL, dashboarding, instrumentation, and alerting.
30
Questions
90m
Time Limit
75.00%
To Pass
Question 1 of 30👑 VIP
Your team is migrating a microservices application to Kubernetes. You need to decide between a pull-based and push-based monitoring approach. A colleague argues that a push-based model is better because services can emit metrics even if the monitoring system cannot reach them at collection time. Which statement BEST describes the primary advantage of Prometheus's pull-based model that outweighs this concern?
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