AWS / Associate / DVA-C02
Developer Associate
Follow a request from authentication to storage, deployment and diagnosis. Learn retry behaviour, permissions and safe releases.
THE REVISION PATH
Your topics, in order.
Read. Recall. Explain the alternative.
IAM & AWS CLI
Identify who is calling, how they authenticated, and which policies authorize the exact request.
Serverless services
Separate execution limits, data access patterns, API authorization and workflow state instead of treating serverless as unlimited capacity.
SQS, SNS, Kinesis and Amazon MQ
Queue work for competing workers, fan out events to independent consumers, and retain streams when replay matters.
S3 Introduction
A key names an object, versioning preserves history, and replication places eligible copies elsewhere.
Security & Encryption
Protect the connection, the stored data, the permission to use it and the evidence of misuse separately.
Lambda Runtime, Events and SDK Behaviour
Find who invokes the function before deciding who owns retries.
DynamoDB, APIs and Application Contracts
Access patterns choose the key; tokens identify callers; conditions protect state changes.
Artifacts, SAM and Continuous Delivery
Build once, identify the artifact, test it, then move traffic deliberately.
Observability, Debugging and Optimisation
Trace the slow request, distinguish its dependency, then measure the fix.
How this guide is organised
Original revision notes arranged around practical decisions. The linked official objectives define the mapped scope; primary documentation supports the explanations. Read each topic, answer without looking, then explain why another option would fail.
- Official exam guide ↗ Scope authority
Revision material supports preparation; it does not guarantee every possible exam question. Check the exam version and official objectives before booking.