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Question 1

What is a rule group?

A : It is a set of rules that are executed sequentially.

B : It is the set (the group) of all the rules in a file.

C : It is a set of rules, split into groups by type.

D : It is a set of rules that are grouped by labels.

Answer: A

Question 2

What is the difference between client libraries and exporters?

A : Exporters are written in Go. Client libraries are written in many languages.

B : Exporters expose metrics for scraping. Client libraries push metrics via Remote Write.

C : Exporters run next to the services to monitor, and use client libraries internally.

D : Exporters and client libraries mean the same thing.

Answer: C

Question 3

Given the following two time series, what is the result of the query given below?

Series:

up{job="node", instance="node1"} 0 1 1 0 1

up{job="node", instance="node2"} 1 0 1 1 1

Query: sum(up)

A : {job="node", instance="node1"} 3

B : {job="node", instance="node2"} 4

C : {} 2

D : up{job="node", instance="node1"} 1

E : up{job="node", instance="node2"} 1

F : {job="node"} 2

Answer: C

Question 4

Regarding the offset modifier, which of the following queries is NOT valid?

A : sum(http_requests_total{method="GET"}) offset 5m

B : http_requests_total offset 5m

C : rate(http_requests_total[5m] offset 5m)

D : sum(http_requests_total{method="GET"} offset 5m)

Answer: A

Question 5

What is the difference between alert labels and annotations?

A : Alert annotations can be used for routing while labels cannot

B : Alert labels should be used for metadata that uniquely identifies an alert while annotations should be used for longer-form descriptive content about an alert

C : Alert annotations can be used for silencing alerts while labels cannot

D : Alert annotations should be used for metadata that uniquely identifies an alert while labels should be used for longer-form descriptive content about an alert

Answer: B

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