diff --git a/experimental/CHANGELOG.md b/experimental/CHANGELOG.md
index 919b2099d51..85eb46abbc9 100644
--- a/experimental/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/experimental/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ For notes on migrating to 2.x / 0.200.x see [the upgrade guide](doc/upgrade-to-2
 * feat(opentelemetry-configuration): parse more parameters from config file [#5955](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js/pull/5955) @maryliag
 * feat(exporter-prometheus): support withoutTargetInfo option [#5962](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js/pull/5962) @cjihrig
 * feat(opentelemetry-configuration): parse trace provider from config file [#5992](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js/pull/5992) @maryliag
+* feat(opentelemetry-configuration): parse config file with format 1.0-rc.2 [#6029](https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-js/pull/6029) @maryliag
 
 ### :bug: Bug Fixes
 
diff --git a/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-configuration/src/FileConfigProvider.ts b/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-configuration/src/FileConfigProvider.ts
index 9b31cf2cebf..7c828254e21 100644
--- a/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-configuration/src/FileConfigProvider.ts
+++ b/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-configuration/src/FileConfigProvider.ts
@@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ export function hasValidConfigFile(): boolean {
 }
 
 function parseConfigFile(config: ConfigurationModel) {
-  const supportedFileVersions = ['1.0-rc.1'];
+  const supportedFileVersions = ['1.0-rc.1', '1.0-rc.2'];
   const configFile = getStringFromEnv('OTEL_EXPERIMENTAL_CONFIG_FILE') || '';
   const file = fs.readFileSync(configFile, 'utf8');
   const parsedContent = yaml.parse(file);
diff --git a/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-configuration/test/ConfigProvider.test.ts b/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-configuration/test/ConfigProvider.test.ts
index b0063b9766a..6ff7110c55e 100644
--- a/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-configuration/test/ConfigProvider.test.ts
+++ b/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-configuration/test/ConfigProvider.test.ts
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ const defaultConfig: Configuration = {
 
 const configFromFile: Configuration = {
   disabled: false,
-  log_level: DiagLogLevel.DEBUG,
+  log_level: DiagLogLevel.INFO,
   node_resource_detectors: ['all'],
   resource: {
     schema_url: 'https://opentelemetry.io/schemas/1.16.0',
diff --git a/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-configuration/test/fixtures/kitchen-sink.yaml b/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-configuration/test/fixtures/kitchen-sink.yaml
index 85c40c0526e..f44e11628dd 100644
--- a/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-configuration/test/fixtures/kitchen-sink.yaml
+++ b/experimental/packages/opentelemetry-configuration/test/fixtures/kitchen-sink.yaml
@@ -8,13 +8,13 @@
 # The file format version.
 # The yaml format is documented at
 # https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-configuration/tree/main/schema
-file_format: "1.0-rc.1"
+file_format: "1.0-rc.2"
 # Configure if the SDK is disabled or not.
 # If omitted or null, false is used.
 disabled: false
 # Configure the log level of the internal logger used by the SDK.
 # If omitted, info is used.
-log_level: debug
+log_level: info
 # Configure general attribute limits. See also tracer_provider.limits, logger_provider.limits.
 attribute_limits:
   # Configure max attribute value size. 
@@ -200,12 +200,6 @@ meter_provider:
             # Configure port.
             # If omitted or null, 9464 is used.
             port: 9464
-            # Configure Prometheus Exporter to produce metrics without a unit suffix or UNIT metadata.
-            # If omitted or null, false is used.
-            without_units: false
-            # Configure Prometheus Exporter to produce metrics without a type suffix.
-            # If omitted or null, false is used.
-            without_type_suffix: false
             # Configure Prometheus Exporter to produce metrics without a scope info metric.
             # If omitted or null, false is used.
             without_scope_info: false
@@ -225,6 +219,15 @@ meter_provider:
               # If omitted, .included resource attributes are included.
               excluded:
                 - "service.attr1"
+            # Configure how Prometheus metrics are exposed. Values include:
+            #
+            #  * UnderscoreEscapingWithSuffixes, the default. This fully escapes metric names for classic Prometheus metric name compatibility, and includes appending type and unit suffixes.
+            #  * UnderscoreEscapingWithoutSuffixes, metric names will continue to escape special characters to _, but suffixes won't be attached.
+            #  * NoUTF8EscapingWithSuffixes will disable changing special characters to _. Special suffixes like units and _total for counters will be attached.
+            #  * NoTranslation. This strategy bypasses all metric and label name translation, passing them through unaltered.
+            #
+            # If omitted or null, UnderscoreEscapingWithSuffixes is used.
+            translation_strategy: UnderscoreEscapingWithSuffixes
         # Configure metric producers.
         producers:
           - # Configure metric producer to be opencensus.