OpenTelemetry Certified Associate Questions and Answers
200 questions organized by topic with detailed explanations
Linux Foundation
OTCA
200 questions
4 topics
Updated May 2026Fundamentals of Observability
36 questions12 easy17 medium7 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
89 questions23 easy42 medium24 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
53 questions13 easy26 medium14 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
22 questions5 easy12 medium5 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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