DVA-C02 · AWS
AWS Certified Developer - Associate
The AWS associate exam for the person writing the code, not the architecture diagram.
The developer-side associate exam: building on AWS rather than designing for it. It concentrates on the services application code actually calls - Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, S3 and the SDKs - along with deployment pipelines, CI/CD, and how to instrument and debug what you have shipped. It is the natural third step on the AWS track after CLF-C02 establishes the vocabulary and SAA-C03 covers architecture, and it is the one of the three that assumes you write code.
Who sits this exam
Engineers who already build on AWS with an SDK open. It assumes you write software - if you configure AWS more than you call it, SAA-C03 is the closer fit, and CLF-C02 is the cheaper place to start.
What it covers
Each domain below is weighted the way the real exam weights it, and scored separately, so you can see which one is holding the total down.
- 01Development with AWS Services
- 02Security
- 03Deployment
- 04Troubleshooting and Optimization
How you will practise
- Review
- Practice with answers explained immediately.
- Section
- Review one domain at a time.
- Timed
- A timed set with results at the end.
- Final
- The full exam simulation — every question, timed.
What passing proves
That you can build against AWS's APIs rather than its console: wire up Lambda, DynamoDB and API Gateway, handle identity and encryption from inside an application, ship it through a pipeline, and instrument it well enough to debug once it is live.