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  • Week 1
    • 1.AWS from a Developer's Perspective: Regions, Infrastructure, and the Boundary of Responsibility
    • 2.The 4 Core Entities of IAM: User, Group, Role, Policy
    • 3.STS and Policy Conditions: The Deep World of Temporary Credentials
    • 4.AWS CLI and SDK: From Credential Chaining to SigV4
    • 5.Week 1 Review: The Chain of Trust Built by Infrastructure and IAM
  • Week 2
  • Week 3
  • Week 4
  • Week 5
  • Week 6
  • Week 7
  • Week 8
  • Week 9
  • Week 10
  • Week 11
  • Week 12
  • Week 13
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Developer - Associate

13 weeks · 65 days · Associate

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Exam Information

Intermediate · 1-2 years of relevant hands-on experience recommended
Questions
65
Duration
130min
Passing
720 / 1000
Cost
$150
Validity
3y

Domain Weights

Development with AWS Services32%
Security26%
Deployment24%
Troubleshooting and Optimization18%
Format65 multiple-choice or multiple-response questions
Prerequisites1 or more years of experience developing and maintaining applications using AWS services recommended
LanguagesEnglish, Korean, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese (Brazil), Spanish (Latin America)

Benefits & Tips

  • Passing earns you a 50% discount voucher for your next exam. Find it under "Benefits" in your AWS Certification account and use it for recertification or another certification (it has an expiry date, so use it before then).
  • The certification is valid for 3 years and must be renewed before it expires. You can use the 50% voucher for recertification too.
  • There is no free retake (every attempt is paid in full). Passing on the first try is the cheapest route, so take the real exam once your mock exam scores clear the passing mark.
  • Passing also earns you a Credly digital badge that you can add to LinkedIn and your email signature.

FAQ

How many questions are on the DVA-C02 exam, and how long is it?+

DVA-C02 has 65 questions and a time limit of 130 minutes. Questions are multiple-choice and multiple-response.

What is the passing score?+

A score of 720 or higher out of 1000 is required to pass. Scores are scaled to account for question difficulty, so they are not the same as a simple percentage of correct answers.

How much does the exam cost, and how do I register?+

The exam fee is US $150. You can take it through Pearson VUE at a test center or as an online proctored exam. There is no free retake, so you pay the full fee each time you sit the exam.

How long is the certification valid, and how do I recertify?+

The certification is valid for 3 years after you pass, and you must recertify before it expires. Passing the exam earns you a 50% discount voucher for your next exam, which you can use to recertify or to take another AWS certification.

Can I take the exam in Korean?+

Yes. The exam is offered in 6 languages, including Korean. You can choose your language when you register for the exam.

Official Exam Guide Register for Exam

Week 1

  • Day 1AWS from a Developer's Perspective: Regions, Infrastructure, and the Boundary of Responsibility
  • Day 2The 4 Core Entities of IAM: User, Group, Role, Policy
  • Day 3STS and Policy Conditions: The Deep World of Temporary Credentials
  • Day 4AWS CLI and SDK: From Credential Chaining to SigV4
  • Day 5Week 1 Review: The Chain of Trust Built by Infrastructure and IAM

Week 2

  • Day 1The Anatomy of EC2: Nitro, Instance Families, and What's Inside an AMI
  • Day 2The Network Boundary a Developer Actually Touches: Security Groups, Key Pairs, User Data
  • Day 3EC2's Disk Layer: EBS, Instance Store, and EFS and FSx on Top of Them
  • Day 4The Traffic-Distribution Layer: ALB, NLB, GWLB, and the Auto Scaling Group
  • Day 5Week 2 Synthesis: How the EC2 Layers Mesh Inside a Single System

Week 3

  • Day 1Lambda Execution Model: How Firecracker MicroVMs Run Your Function
  • Day 2Lambda Event Source Mapping: The Internal Polling Mechanics of SQS, Kinesis, and DynamoDB Streams
  • Day 3Lambda Versions, Aliases, and Layers: The Principles of Immutable Deployment and Dependency Separation
  • Day 4Lambda Concurrency Control: The Token Bucket Algorithm and Error Handling Layers
  • Day 5Week 3 Review: Sharpening Your Instincts With Comprehensive Lambda Scenarios

Week 4

  • Day 1API Gateway REST API: The Full Path a Request Takes to Reach the Backend
  • Day 2API Gateway Integration Types and VTL Mapping Templates: Calling DynamoDB Directly Without Lambda
  • Day 3API Gateway Security, Caching, and Throttling: How Requests Are Controlled, from SigV4 to the Token Bucket
  • Day 4WebSocket API and HTTP API: The Inner Workings of Real-Time Connections and Lightweight Proxies
  • Day 5Week 4 Review: Sharpening Real Exam Instincts with Comprehensive API Gateway Scenarios

Week 5

  • Day 1S3: The Philosophy of Object Storage and Designing Storage Classes
  • Day 2S3: Versioning, Lifecycle Policies, and the Inner Workings of Replication
  • Day 3S3 Security: Bucket Policies, Encryption, and the Layered Structure of Access Control
  • Day 4S3 Performance Optimization: Multipart Upload, Transfer Acceleration, Prefix Design
  • Day 5S3 Advanced Features + Week 5 Comprehensive Review

Week 6

  • Day 1DynamoDB: The Philosophy of NoSQL and the Math of Partition Design
  • Day 2DynamoDB: The Mathematics of Partition Key Design, LSI/GSI Internal Workings, Single-Table Design
  • Day 3DynamoDB: RCU/WCU Math, DAX Architecture, and Streams Processing
  • Day 4DynamoDB: Transactions, Conditional Writes, and TTL Internal Workings
  • Day 5Week 6 Comprehensive Review: The Complete DynamoDB Map

Week 7

  • Day 1RDS: The Two Faces of a Managed RDBMS, Multi-AZ and Read Replicas
  • Day 2RDS Security, Backup, and Monitoring: Lessons Left by the Capital One Incident
  • Day 3ElastiCache: How an In-Memory Cache Saves Your Database
  • Day 4Aurora: The Story of How AWS Rewrote the Storage Layer of an RDBMS
  • Day 5Week 7 Wrap-Up: Everything About Data-Tier Decisions

Week 8

  • Day 1CodeCommit and CodeBuild: The First Two Squares of CI/CD as Drawn by AWS
  • Day 2CodeDeploy: Making the Riskiest Moment, Deployment, Safe
  • Day 3CodePipeline: The Conductor of CI/CD Flow
  • Day 4Elastic Beanstalk: AWS's Most Friendly PaaS
  • Day 5Week 8 Comprehensive Review: Running the CI/CD Pipeline End to End in Your Head

Week 9

  • Day 1KMS: Handling Encryption Keys Without Touching Them Directly
  • Day 2Secrets Manager and Parameter Store: Getting Secrets Out of Code
  • Day 3Cognito: Why Authentication and Authorization Split Into Two Pools
  • Day 4WAF, Shield, ACM: Three Layers to Filter Traffic Before It Touches the App
  • Day 5Week 9 Review: Security Is Not a Single Setting but the Sum of Layers

Week 10

  • Day 1CloudWatch: How a Single Metric Becomes an Alarm and Automation
  • Day 2X-Ray: Answering "Where Is It Slow?" with Distributed Tracing
  • Day 3CloudTrail and EventBridge: The Two Axes of Audit and Response
  • Day 4CloudWatch Advanced: Containers, Synthetic Monitoring, and ML Anomaly Detection
  • Day 5Week 10 Synthesis: Monitoring as One Story

Week 11

  • Day 1SQS: How a Single Queue Decouples a System
  • Day 2SNS: Publish Once and Everyone Hears It
  • Day 3Kinesis: A Log That Holds On to Flowing Data
  • Day 4Step Functions and AppSync: Taking the Flow Out of the Code
  • Day 5Week 11 Review: The Questions That Divide the Messaging Models

Week 12

  • Day 1ECS and Fargate: What "Running Containers Without Servers" Really Means
  • Day 2CloudFormation: The Idea of "Declaring" Infrastructure
  • Day 3SAM: Compressing CloudFormation for Serverless
  • Day 4CDK and Serverless Architecture: The End of "Infrastructure as Code," and the Grammar of Good Design
  • Day 5Week 12 Comprehensive Review: Threading Containers and IaC Into One Picture

Week 13

  • Day 1Final Review 1: IAM, EC2, Lambda, API Gateway
  • Day 2Final Review 2: S3, DynamoDB, RDS, ElastiCache
  • Day 3Final Review 3: Security, Monitoring, CI/CD
  • Day 4Final Review 4: Messaging, Containers, Architecture Patterns
  • Day 5Final Mock Exam + Exam Preparation Complete