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AWS Developer – Associate (DVA-C02) Study Guide

This guide helps structure your learning for the AWS Developer – Associate exam.
It emphasizes hands-on services and real-world development workflows.

For detailed progress tracking, see: CHECKLIST_DEV.md

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What to Expect on the DVA Exam

• Hands-on questions about Lambda, API Gateway, and CI/CD
• Code-level understanding of SDKs, error handling, retries
• Event-driven architecture, observability, and automation

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Key Learning Areas

Compute & Application Services

• Lambda: triggers, versions, permissions
• API Gateway: types, auth methods
• S3 pre-signed URLs and integration

Deployment & DevOps

• CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy
• SAM and CI/CD deployment patterns
• Blue/green and canary rollouts

Security

• IAM roles vs policies
• Cognito for identity federation
• Signed URLs and cookies

Integration

• SQS, SNS, EventBridge, Step Functions
• DLQs, retries, visibility timeouts

Monitoring & Observability

• CloudWatch Logs and Metrics
• Lambda logging
• X-Ray and tracing

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Additional Resources

• DVA-C02 Exam Guide
• AWS Developer Center
• AWS SDK Docs

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Next Steps

• Study key areas using this guide
• Track what you've covered in CHECKLIST_DEV.md
• Write .md summaries for services as you go