Exam Tips: AWS Certified Developer – Associate

Discover the core concepts and skills required to prepare for the AWS Certified Developer - Associate (DVA-C02) certification exam.

Introduction

• AWS Certified Developer Associate DVA-C02 Exam overview
• AWS Certified Developer Associate DVA-C02 Exam domains

1. AWS Certified Developer

• Amazon Web Service (AWS) overview
• AWS Global Infrastructure
• AWS compute services
• AWS container services
• AWS database services
• AWS application integration services
• AWS analytics services
• AWS storage services
• AWS monitoring services
• AWS networking and content delivery services
• AWS management and governance services
• AWS machine learning services
• Serverless computing overview
• Serverless architectures
• AWS Lambda overview
• AWS Lambda synchronous vs. asynchronous invocation
• AWS Lambda execution environment lifecycle
• AWS Lambda event vs. context object
• AWS Lambda layers
• AWS Lambda versions and aliases
• AWS Lambda and Amazon VPC integration
• Hands-on lab: AWS Lambda basics
• AWS CodeCommit overview
• AWS CodeBuild overview
• AWS CodeBuild workflow
• AWS Step Functions overview
• AWS Amplify overview
• AWS Amplify demo
• Amazon VPC overview
• The anatomy of an Amazon VPC
• Amazon EC2 overview
• Amazon EC2: Amazon Machine Image (AMI)
• Amazon EC2: Instance user data
• Amazon EC2: Instance metadata
• Hands-on lab: AWS CLI setup
• Amazon DynamoDB overview
• Amazon DynamoDB core components
• Amazon RDS overview
• Amazon Aurora overview
• Amazon S3 overview
• Amazon S3 storage classes
• Amazon S3 event notification
• Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) overview
• Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS) overview
• Amazon Route 53 overview
• Amazon CloudFront overview

2. AWS Certified Developer

• AWS security services
• AWS Identity Services
• AWS audit and compliance services
• IAM overview
• IAM identities
• IAM policy types
• IAM policy basics
• IAM policy evaluation logic
• Amazon Cognito user pool
• Amazon Cognito identity pool
• AWS Secrets Manager overview
• AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store overview
• AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store vs. AWS Secrets Manager
• Amazon S3 encryption
• Amazon S3 bucket policy
• AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) overview
• AWS KMS API commands
• Hands-on lab: Encryption and Decryption using AWS KMS CLI
• Amazon API Gateway authorizer
• Amazon CloudFront security features
• AWS CloudTrail overview
• Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS)

3. AWS Certified Developer

• AWS deployment services
• AWS CloudFormation overview
• AWS CloudFormation template anatomy
• AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) overview
• Hands-on lab: AWS SAM CLI
• Deploying codes with external dependencies to AWS Lambda
• Hands-on lab: Deploying codes with to AWS Lambda
• AWS CodeDeploy overview
• AWS CodeDeploy primary components
• AWS CodeDeploy in-place vs. blue-green deployment
• AWS CodeDeploy deployment configuration
• AWS CodeDeploy lifecycle event hooks
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk overview
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk deployment policies
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk lifecycle policy
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk CLI
• AWS Elastic Beanstalk vs. AWS CodeDeploy
• Amazon API Gateway overview
• Amazon API Gateway usage plans
• Hands-on lab: API Gateway basics
• Hands-on labs: Amazon API Gateway stages configuration
• AWS CodePipeline overview
• Hands-on lab: AWS CodePipeline manual approval actions

4. AWS Certified Developer

• AWS monitoring services
• AWS X-Ray overview
• Concurrency in AWS Lambda
• Hands-on lab: AWS Lambda execution environment reuse
• Hands-on lab: AWS Lambda cold start
• Hands-on lab: Access to a CodeCommit repository
• Hands-on lab: Step Functions Workflow Studio walkthrough
• Amazon DynamoDB Secondary Indexes overview
• Amazon DynamoDB Global Secondary Index (GSI)
• Hands-on lab: Creating a Global Secondary Index (GSI)
• Amazon DynamoDB Local Secondary Index (LSI)
• Global Secondary Index (GSI) vs. Local Secondary Index (LSI)
• Amazon DynamoDB capacity modes
• Amazon DynamoDB RCU and WCU calculation
• Amazon DynamoDB Accelerator (DAX)
• Amazon DynamoDB Streams
• Amazon DynamoDB Time to Live (TTL)
• Amazon DynamoDB transactions
• Amazon DynamoDB global tables