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OTCA study guide

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Lessons

  1. Architectural Separation of API and SDK
  2. Composability & Extension: Plugin Interfaces
  3. Span Events, Attributes & Status Codes — Free Study Guide 2026
  4. The Core Trace Model: Spans, SpanContext & L
  5. Collector Configuration Structure & Pipeline
  6. Collector Core Architecture & Component Life
  7. Essential Collector Extensions — Free Study Guide 2026
  8. Standard Exporters & Delivery Guarantees
  9. Core Processors & Execution Order — Free Study Guide 2026
  10. Standard Receivers & Ingestion Protocols
  11. Resilience: Backpressure, Buffering & Persis
  12. Agent vs Gateway Deployment Topologies — Free Study Guide 2026
  13. Scaling, Load Balancing & High Availability
  14. Advanced Connectors — Free Study Guide 2026
  15. OTTL Concepts & Syntax Grammar — Free Study Guide 2026
  16. Transform Processor In Action — Free Study Guide 2026
  17. In-Process & Cross-Process Context Propagati
  18. W3C Baggage & Alternative Propagators — Free Study Guide 2026
  19. W3C Trace Context Specification — Free Study Guide 2026
  20. The Logging Bridge API & Log Appenders — Free Study Guide 2026
  21. OpenTelemetry Logs Data Model & Architecture
  22. Debugging Collector Pipelines & Telemetry He
  23. Schema Management & Telemetry Evolution
  24. Troubleshooting Broken Traces & Context Loss
  25. Metric Aggregations & Temporality — Free Study Guide 2026
  26. Asynchronous Metric Instruments — Free Study Guide 2026
  27. Synchronous Metric Instruments — Free Study Guide 2026
  28. Telemetry Analysis, SLOs & High Cardinality
  29. Core Telemetry Signals: Traces, Metrics, Log
  30. OTCA Exam Structure & Observability Paradigm
  31. Head-Based Sampling & Built-in Samplers
  32. OpenTelemetry SDK Configuration & Environmen
  33. Tail-Based Sampling vs Head-Based Sampling
  34. Zero-Code Agents: Configuration, Kubernetes
  35. Metric Readers & Log Processors — Free Study Guide 2026
  36. Standard Exporters & OTLP Wire Protocols
  37. Span Processors & Exporters — Free Study Guide 2026
  38. Zero-Code vs Code-Based Instrumentation
  39. Resource Attributes & Entity Modeling — Free Study Guide 2026
  40. OpenTelemetry Semantic Conventions & Namespa