AWS Developer – Associate Roadmap

The four AWS Certified Developer – Associate (DVA-C02) exam domains: development with AWS services, security, deployment, and troubleshooting & optimization.

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Development with AWS Services

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Writing application code for AWS: Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, decoupling with SQS/SNS/EventBridge/Step Functions, and the SDK & CLI (Domain 1 · 32%)

Security

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Securing applications: IAM for apps, Cognito and JWTs, and encryption with KMS, Secrets Manager and Parameter Store (Domain 2 · 26%)

Deployment

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Shipping code: CloudFormation and SAM, the CI/CD pipeline (CodeCommit/Build/Deploy/Pipeline), and deployment strategies (Domain 3 · 24%)

Troubleshooting & Optimization

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Finding and fixing problems and making apps faster and cheaper: CloudWatch, X-Ray, logs, caching, and retries with backoff (Domain 4 · 18%)

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AWS Developer – Associate Roadmap

Development with AWS Services

AWS Lambda

Amazon API Gateway

Amazon DynamoDB

Amazon S3 for developers

Decoupling & orchestration

The AWS SDK & CLI

Containers for developers

Security

IAM for applications

Amazon Cognito

Encryption & secrets

Deployment

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD pipeline

Deployment strategies

Troubleshooting & Optimization

Observability

Resilience & retries

Performance & cost optimization