We hope you are sincerely preparing for your AWS Certified Developer Associate Exam. Here is a complete guide on how to pass your AWS Certified Developer Associate Exam with Whizlabs resources. As we aim to provide the best-in-industry and up-to-date study and practice materials, learners are benefiting, and so is the internal tech team. The AWS Certified Developer Associate exam DVA-C02 helps candidates demonstrate their understanding of core AWS services, their uses, and basic AWS architecture best practices. Along with that show their proficiency in development, deployment, and debugging cloud-based applications using AWS.
From where to start your AWS Certified Developer Associate Exam preparation?
The main preparation resource for the AWS Certified Developer Associate certification exam would be the AWS Certified Developer Associate online course, that provides focused content to pass the AWS Certified Developer Associate exam on the first attempt. The courses provide 15+ hours of training videos with interactive labs, hands-on practice labs to gain real-time experience are a perfect starter.
For your AWS developer associate certification exam, take a look at the comprehensive set of videos under the following sections:
- Introduction
- Getting Started
- Core Services
- Command Line Interface
- Serverless
- CI/CD and Developer Tools
- Security
- Additional Key Services
After completing the online video course, take the AWS CDA practice tests to check if you are well-prepared. Attempting 2 or 3 times, and scoring 80% above in the first attempt, 90% above in the second attempt, and so on in the real exam. All of these resources are available in the Whizlabs e-learning platform, designed exclusively for each course to meet its requirements.
Most Important Concepts and Topics for the AWS CDA Exam
Here is a checklist of the important topics and subtopics from which the question was spotted in the exam.
1. Serverless
- Lambda – Many questions were asked about this.
- A lot of questions were either directly on Lambda or a combination of Lambda with other services
– Lambda – Version-related questions
– Lambda – Alias-related questions
– Lambda – SAM-combination questions
– Lambda – SAM and CodeDeploy combination - SAM – Parameters in SAM code-related questions – Which parameter does what in the YAML code
- Lambda for solving Complex architecture
2. KMS
- Encryption at rest, Encryption in transit
- KMS Questions are asked in combination with a lot of other services
- S3 Encryption
– Encryption while transferring data from Kinesis
– Lambda function to process data and encryption before transferring data to S3
– Default S3 Encryption - Key-related questions – Master Key, Envelope key, Data Key, GeneratedDataKey, etc
3. DynamoDB
- A complete understanding of DynamoDB is a must for the Developer exam
- Understanding RCU, WCU, and Calculations based on this
- Local secondary index, Global secondary index
- Scan vs Query
- Projection expression
- DAX
- Using DynamoDB in combination with ElastiCache, like Redis and Memcached
- DynamoDB in combination with Lambda and S3
- DynamoDB session-related questions
- Fetching data from DynamoDB – Lazy loading, Write Through
- How to solve ProvisionedThroughputExceededException
- DynamoDB TTL
4. Elastic Beanstalk
- Understanding of different ways of updating is needed – rolling, all at once, rolling with batch, immutable, etc
- Combination of CloudFormation and Elastic Beanstalk
- Understanding clearly how configuration in Elastic Beanstalk works
- How to change the Instance type
- How RDS can be saved while deleting Elastic Beanstalk
- Deploying different versions of the application in Elastic Beanstalk
5. CloudFormation
- This is also one of the important topics
- Understanding parameters inside the CloudFormation Template
- CloudFormation template stored in S3
- CloudFormation, Lambda, CodeDeploy, S3 combination Question
- Pointing to the right version of the Lambda function in CloudFormation
6. CodDeploy, CodeBuild, CodeCommit, Code Pipeline
- Complete understanding of Code Deploy Configuration file and its parameters – appspec file
- CodeDeploy errors and reverting back to previous versions
- Run order of hooks
- CodeBuild in combination with SAM
- Understanding CodeBuild Configuration file and its parameters – Buildspec file
- CodeCommit – Even though there were not many direct questions on this, this was in many options
- Using Code Pipeline to automate the process
- Error handling in the Code pipeline and what happens when one of the processes fails in the Code pipeline
7. SQS
- Visibility timeout
- Long and short polling
- SQS for solving complex scenarios
- SQS in combination with EC2
- FIFO and Standard Queues
8. ElasticCache
- Understanding Redis and its use cases
- Understanding Memcached and Its Use Cases
- Redis Vs Memcached
- How ElastiCache is useful with RDS
9. API Gateway
- Many questions on this as well
- Understanding different staging
- Deploying multiple stages
- Uses of API Gateways
- API Gateway and Lambda Combination Questions
- API Gateway and CORS
- API Gateway Caching
10. S3
- Bucket Policies
- One question on bucket policy details for CodeCommit (it was an unexpected question, however.)
- S3 Optimisation-related questions – Random prefix
- S3 combination with Kinesis
- CloudFront, CloudFront Edge
- CloudFront – TTL – how to do it
11. Elastic Load Balancer, EC2, and Autoscaling
- SSL on ELB and EC2-related questions
- Traffic diversion based on the scenario
- How to allow traffic from ELB and EC2
- Health check-related questions
- Combination with Route53 Questions
12. Elastic Container Service
- How it’s used
- Docker images
- Combination of this with CodeDeploy
- ECS deployed on EC2 instances
- There are many complex and confusing questions from this. You have to be very careful while selecting an option for the questions from this topic.
13. IAM
- Mainly understanding IAM Role and how it is attached to other resources
- How IAM role is used instead of AccessKeys in a scenario
- IAM Policy related questions – one question was how to make a common IAM policy for 10 users
14. Kinesis
- Understanding different Kinesis options – firehose, data analytics, etc
- Understanding how Kinesis works
- Shards related questions
- Streaming data to S3
- Processing streaming data from Kinesis with Lambda, moving data to S3
15. AWS Cognito
- Many questions about Cognito-related Concepts
- Data Sync
- Assume assumerolewithwebidentity
- Question on unauthenticated users
- Understanding Cognito streams, events, data, etc
16. Route53
- StaticWebsite
- Routing policies – understanding when to use which policy
- Route53 Health Checks
17. CloudWatch, CloudTrail related questions.
- It is important to understand CloudWatch and its capabilities
- Usually, questions are mostly like choosing between CloudWatch or CloudTrail or some other service
18. AWS Parameter Store
- A Few Questions, in combination with other services, and the scenarios on how to use this.
19. Step Functions
- How it is used to solve complex architectures and make them easy to manage
20. RDS
- Questions had RDS in combination with other services in use cases
21. SNS
- In combination with other services
Topics that You Won’t Find in the AWS CDA (DVA-C01) Exam
Here are a few topics that you won’t find in the AWS Certified Developer Associate exam. So, you can skip these topics and prepare with the important topics that will help you pass the AWS Certified Developer Associate exam on the first attempt:
- The CDA exam has the least number of questions related to networking concepts like VPC, On-premise, and VPN.
- You shouldn’t expect questions on Storage Gateway, Route Table, or any configuration with respect to it.
- You won’t find any questions on EC2 w.r.t. EBS volumes, Subnets, Availability Zones, and Regions like high availability, disaster recovery, etc.
Target audience for AWS Certified Developer Associate (AWS CDA) Exam
The individuals who appear for the AWS Certified Developer Associate exam need to uphold the following skills and knowledge and which may include:
- Candidate must have experience working in a developer role and in-depth knowledge of at least one high-level programming language
- Working knowledge of AWS technology
- Strong familiarity with on-premises IT experience and a clear understanding of mapping on-premises to cloud technology
- Experience in other cloud services was also found to be beneficial
Note that the AWS Certified Developer Associate exam is more focused on hands-on experience compared with other AWS associate certifications. So, you need to get hands-on experience in using AWS Services to build an application for real-time rather than understanding theoretical concepts. You will find a lot of questions based on the hands-on scenarios. The questions are concentrated on Application development and deployment. So, while preparing for theAWS Certified Developer Associate exam, don’t forget to get your hands dirty on the AWS platform with AWS services.
Whizlabs AWS Developer Practice Tests w.r.t. – The Real Exam
Whizlabs AWS Developer online course is good enough to prepare for the AWS Certified Developer Associate exam. Now, let’s find out what the status of Whizlabs AWS developer practice tests is concerning the real exam.
Observations
- Existing practice test questions are helpful to understand all the right topics.
- The practice text follows a similar Question pattern to the actual exam
- Remember that questions, as well as options, are twisted in some way. Be careful while picking the correct option.
Get Hands-on Experience with AWS Labs
Now, Whizabs also provides you with Hands-on labs that guide you to a practical experience on the AWS topics and also test your skills with our lab challenges that they launched recently.
What are you waiting for? Get your hands dirty by taking up labs practically. In AWS Certified Developer Associate, Whizlabs offers 86 Hands-on labs that help to understand various concepts practically.
So, Are You Ready to Take Your AWS Certified Developer Associate Exam?
Hope this blog gives you a heads up to pass your AWS Developer certification exam. Prepare with the important topics and leave the topics for which questions are not expected in the exam. Don’t worry if you are in a full-time job, you’ll need 15-20 hours for the AWS Certified Developer Associate video course and 15-20 hours in total for the AWS AWS Certified Developer Associate practice tests. Get a total of 30-40 hours for the exam preparation, and you will be ready for the exam. You can also check out AWS Whitepapers and FAQs of the AWS Services for your preparation, along with the Whizlabs integrated AWS Certified Developer Associate training course, which has Practice labs, video Courses, hands-on labs and sandboxes. What now? Kickstart your prep and pass the AWS DVA C02 exam in the best way, and reach out in case of any queries.
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Thanks Pavan. This is really helpful. These topics look very advanced and aligns more to the exam topics. MAny online courses I took doesn cover these topics in depth. The courses are not updated as per new exam guidelines.
Could you please provide same break out of areas to concentrate for Solution Architect as well. Would be really helpful.
Also If I need to preview few videos of whiz lab to decide If I need to purchase , can you please guide how do I go about it.
How much I need to score to pass aws developer associate exam
Hi,
i am trying to crack the exam. i failed three time with scores very close to the passing score 65% 70% 71% i have studied white papers and FAQs. initially i studied the practice test in udemy. later i study the practice test in whizlab i studied hard but still i could not crack it. my weakness was on troubleshooting and deployment