PCA (Prometheus Certified Associate) sample exam question with answer 350

Question:
What does the Prometheus scrape timeout represent?

1. How long to wait for a response before giving up on a scrape
2. How long to wait in between scrapes of a particular target
3. How long to wait before persisting scrape metrics
4. How long to wait to start scraping after initialization

Answer:
A - is the correct answer. More at scrape_config
B - this is known as the scrape interval
C - is incorrect as Prometheus automatically persists metrics as soon as it has scraped them
D - is incorrect as Prometheus automatically starts scraping as soon as it is initialized