DVA-C02 study notes
AWS Certified Developer – Associate · 65 questions (50 scored) · 130 minutes · pass 720/1000 · Development 32 % · Security 26 % · Deployment 24 % · Troubleshooting and Optimization 18 %.
Each module has a guide (concept → exam facts → developer angle → traps → practice questions) and a cheat sheet (tables, numbers, decision rules, memory hooks). Highlighted lines carry a ⚠️ value that changed versus older course or practice material — learn the current value.
267 lessons · quick checks · flashcards · module tests · exam simulator
⚠️ Current AWS facts — every value that changed versus older material
Tier 1 — highest exam weight
IAM
iam · 12 topics · 30 bank questions · security
CLI, SDK and IAM policies
cli-sdk-policies · 12 topics · 30 bank questions · security, development
Lambda
lambda · 13 topics · 40 bank questions · development, troubleshooting, deployment
API Gateway
api-gateway · 14 topics · 40 bank questions · development, deployment, security
Serverless (DynamoDB and serverless patterns)
dynamodb · 14 topics · 40 bank questions · development, troubleshooting
Security and encryption (KMS, Secrets Manager, Parameter Store)
security-encryption · 13 topics · 40 bank questions · security
Advanced Identity (Cognito, STS, cross-account roles)
advanced-identity · 14 topics · 40 bank questions · security
Tier 2 — deployment and messaging
CI/CD (CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CodePipeline)
cicd · 14 topics · 35 bank questions · deployment
Elastic Beanstalk
beanstalk · 14 topics · 30 bank questions · deployment
CloudFormation
cloudformation · 14 topics · 35 bank questions · deployment
SAM (Serverless Application Model)
sam · 13 topics · 30 bank questions · deployment
CDK (Cloud Development Kit)
cdk · 13 topics · 30 bank questions · deployment
SQS, SNS and Kinesis
sqs-sns-kinesis · 14 topics · 40 bank questions · development, troubleshooting
Other services (Step Functions and smaller services)
other-services · 14 topics · 35 bank questions · development, deployment, security
Tier 3 — supporting services
Monitoring (CloudWatch, X-Ray, CloudTrail, EventBridge)
monitoring · 10 topics · 30 bank questions · troubleshooting
Containers (ECS, ECR, Fargate)
containers · 10 topics · 30 bank questions · deployment, development
S3
s3 · 10 topics · 30 bank questions · development, security
EC2 (instances, storage, ELB, Auto Scaling)
ec2 · 11 topics · 40 bank questions · troubleshooting, development, security, deployment
RDS (with Aurora and ElastiCache)
rds · 10 topics · 25 bank questions · development, troubleshooting
Tier 4 — skim (developer-facing only)
CloudFront
cloudfront · 5 topics · 15 bank questions · troubleshooting, security
Route 53
route53 · 5 topics · 12 bank questions · deployment, troubleshooting
VPC
vpc · 5 topics · 10 bank questions · troubleshooting, security