AWS-DVA-C02-cheatsheet

AWS Certified Developer Associate DVA-C02 cheat sheet

Useful resources:

• Stephane Mareek’s course: https://www.udemy.com/course/aws-certified-developer-associate-dva-c01/
• Stephane Mareek’s practice tests: https://www.udemy.com/course/aws-certified-developer-associate-practice-tests-dva-c01/
• TutorialsDojo practice tests (by Jon Bonso): https://tutorialsdojo.com/courses/aws-certified-developer-associate-practice-exams/
• ExamTopics “free” questions:
  • https://www.examtopics.com/exams/amazon/aws-certified-developer-associate-dva-c02/
  • https://www.examtopics.com/exams/amazon/aws-certified-developer-associate/
• Digital Cloud AWS Developer Associate cheat sheet: https://digitalcloud.training/category/aws-cheat-sheets/aws-developer-associate/

Exam time - 2 hours and 10 minutes (+30 minutes if English isn't native language)

AWS DVA-C02 topics:

• Domain 1: Development with AWS Services (32%)
• Domain 2: Security (26%)
• Domain 3: Deployment (24%)
• Domain 4: Troubleshooting and Optimization (18%)

You can expect a lot of questions about:

AWS Services:

• AWS Lambda:
  • integration with API Gateway
  • running function inside VPC
  • difference between sync and async invocations (including Dead Letter Queues)
  • event-based Lambda invocation
  • deployment modes
  • versions and aliases
• DynamoDB:
  • WCU/RCUs
  • GSIs
  • LSIs
  • DAX
  • partition keys and sort keys
  • Streams
  • hot partition and how to avoid hot partition
  • eventually and strongly consistent reads
• API Gateway
• EC2
• SQS
• SNS
• Kinesis
• S3:
  • encryption options
• ECS
• CI/CD tools
• Elastic Beanstalk
• CloudFront
• SAM
• Step Functions
• Cognito
• CloudWatch
• CloudTrail
• X-Ray

Security:

• KMS
• Secrets Manager
• SSM Parameter Store

Deployment:

• Deployment strategies of different services
• CodeCommit
• CodeDeploy
• CodeBuild
• CodePipeline
• AWS CloudFormation
• CDK
• Understand when to use SAM vs CloudFormation vs CDK