OpenTelemetry Certified Associate Questions and Answers
300 questions organized by topic with detailed explanations
Linux Foundation
OTCA
300 questions
4 topics
Updated Jul 2026Fundamentals of Observability
54 questions16 easy25 medium13 hard~18% of exam
A team wants to instrument applications once and keep the freedom to change observability backends later without re-inst...A team needs telemetry from a third-party application but cannot modify its source code. Which OpenTelemetry approach is...An SRE wants to know how many requests completed in under one second and how request latency is distributed overall. Whi...
The OpenTelemetry API and SDK
135 questions33 easy68 medium34 hard~46% of exam
A library author wants to add tracing hooks without forcing every application to pull in SDK dependencies. Which depende...A developer is initializing tracing for an application. Which statement about `TracerProvider` is correct?A shared framework library currently imports an SDK and exporter directly, causing applications to inherit telemetry beh...
The OpenTelemetry Collector
79 questions21 easy38 medium20 hard~26% of exam
A platform team scales a collector tier running tail sampling and starts seeing traces with missing spans because relate...A team wants pod name, node name, and workload metadata automatically added to telemetry in Kubernetes. Which processor ...A team is horizontally scaling stateless collectors that receive OTLP over gRPC, but traffic keeps sticking to a single ...
Maintaining and Debugging Observability Pipelines
32 questions9 easy16 medium7 hard~10% of exam
What Collector feature lets operators monitor the performance and health of the Collector itself?A team needs to see which receivers, processors, exporters, connectors, and extensions are available in its Collector di...A Collector is configured with a receiver, but no data enters the pipeline. According to the troubleshooting guidance, w...
All Questions
| # | Question | Topic | Difficulty |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A team wants to instrument applications once and keep the freedom to change observability backends l... | Fundamentals of Observability | medium |
| 2 | A library author wants to add tracing hooks without forcing every application to pull in SDK depende... | The OpenTelemetry API and SDK | easy |
| 3 | A developer is initializing tracing for an application. Which statement about `TracerProvider` is co... | The OpenTelemetry API and SDK | medium |
| 4 | A team needs telemetry from a third-party application but cannot modify its source code. Which OpenT... | Fundamentals of Observability | medium |
| 5 | A platform team scales a collector tier running tail sampling and starts seeing traces with missing ... | The OpenTelemetry Collector | hard |
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