KCNA Cloud Native Observability Practice Question
Which THREE of the following are components of the OpenTelemetry project?
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Why each option matters
Answer the question above first, then reveal the full breakdown to understand why each option is right or wrong.
Correct answer & explanation
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Collector
OpenTelemetry includes specification, SDKs, Collector, and instrumentations. Prometheus and Jaeger are separate projects.
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Option-by-option breakdown
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Prometheus
Why it's wrong here
Prometheus is a separate monitoring project.
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Collector
Why this is correct
A vendor-agnostic telemetry pipeline.
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Specification
Why this is correct
Defines the data model and API.
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Jaeger
Why it's wrong here
Jaeger is a tracing backend, not part of OpenTelemetry core.
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SDKs (Software Development Kits)
Why this is correct
For instrumenting applications in various languages.
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