AWS DVA-C02 Study Guide

Goal: follow an actionable plan to pass AWS Certified Developer - Associate (DVA-C02).

Exam Overview

  • Duration: 130 minutes
  • Question types: multiple choice / multiple response
  • Focus areas: development, deployment, monitoring, identity and access, best practices

Domain Map

  1. Deployment
    • CodeDeploy / CodePipeline / CodeBuild
    • Blue/Green and rolling deployments
  2. Security
    • IAM policy boundaries, STS, role assumption
    • KMS, Secrets Manager, Parameter Store
  3. Development with AWS Services
    • Lambda / API Gateway / DynamoDB / SQS / SNS
    • SDK retries, signing, pagination
  4. Troubleshooting and Optimization
    • CloudWatch / X-Ray
    • Latency and error investigation patterns
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