Important: Complete the courses and study material suggested in the AWS Solution Architect first as this has some overlap. After you have completed this, then follow the study guide below.
Please review the following in addition to Developer notes:
AWS Solution Architect Associate Notes
1. My Study Guide for AWS Certified Developer Associate
| No | Course | Time | Status | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stephane's Certified Developer Associate | 2 months | Completed | Highly Recommend |
| 2 | A Cloud Guru | 1 month | Completed | Any course from #1-2 in this table is sufficient for the exam |
| 3 | Tutorial Dojo Practice Exams | 15 days | Completed | Highly recommend |
| 4 | Neal Davis Practice Exams | 7 days | Completed | Highly recommend |
| 5 | Exam Readiness - Live Sessions | 4 sessions | Completed | You MUST COMPLETE this course before taking the exam. |
| 6 | Exam Readiness: AWS Certified Developer – Associate (Digital) | 2 hours | Completed | You MUST COMPLETE this course before taking the exam. |
| 7 | AWS SkillBuilder - AWS Certified Developer - Associate Official Practice Question Set (DVA-C01 - English) | 1 hour | Completed | You MUST COMPLETE this course before taking the exam. |
| 8 | AWS SkillBuilder AWS Certified Developer - Associate Official Practice Question Set (DVA-C02 - English) | 1 hour | Completed | You MUST COMPLETE this course before taking the exam. |
| 9 | Whitepapers | 7 hours | Completed | |
| 10 | re:Invent videos | 6 hours | Completed |
Whitepapers:
Practicing CI/CD on AWS
Practicing CI/CD
Blue/Green Deployments, Introduction to DevOps
Serverless Multi-Tier Architectures, Docker on AWS
Running Containerized Microservices on AWS
Optimizing Enterprise Economics with Serverless Architectures
Note: You can either watch YouTube videos of Developer Associate or read the white papers.
FAQs:
Which video courses do I need to take?
If you are like me and have completed the other two associate certifications, then I recommend completing Stephane's course.How long does it take to prepare?
It took me about 6 months as I prepared in conjunction with Solution Architect Professional.What happens if I don't pass the practice exams?
Try to score close to 70% in any practice exam in your first attempt. Don't be worried if you don't pass on your first attempt.What do I do if I discover that I still have some weak areas after doing the practice exams?
During the practice exams, if you find any areas that you seem to be weak in, then read more about those particular services in the AWS documentation.
2. AWS Certified Developer Associate Notes
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Disclaimer:
The information has been taken from the content in acloudguru
I highly recommend you to purchase the course from acloudguru
The purpose of these notes is to help students with their revision prior to taking the certification.
3. Exam Tips
During the exam, I marked the questions I was unsure of for review. At the end of the exam, I had about 15 questions for review, which made me feel slightly confident that I might pass the exam.
Make sure that you don't leave any questions unanswered as there is no negative marking.
DO NOT attempt to answer the questions based on key words alone, ensure you read all the answers as well.
If English is your second language, you can request for ESL+30 mins before booking the exam from certmetrics > Request Exam Accomodations and wait for the approval. It might take a couple of days for the approval to come through.
5. Further Reading from AWS Practice exams
Lambda
Creating and sharing Lambda layers
Lambda function versions
Lambda function aliases
Lambda permissions
Lambda deployment packages
Blog: Using Lambda layers to simplify your development process
Lambda - Configuring reserved concurrency
Lambda - Configuring provisioned concurrency
API Gateway
Setting up stage variables for a REST API deployment
Blog: Using API Gateway stage variables to manage Lambda functions
Signing AWS API requests
Step Functions
Step Functions Activities
Error handling in Step Functions
Congnito
Cognito - Post authentication Lambda trigger
6. AWS Labs
- This is a list of labs which you can use for practice, using your own AWS account. This is optional as some of these labs are quite advanced.
Top comments (6)
Thank you for this guide.
Thank you for this guide, quite helpful
thanks for sharing!! I'll use it when I start this certification.
you're welcome @marquake , please feel free to ask in case you need any help. It could be technical questions or certification related.
To prepare for the AWS Developer Associate certification exam, you can start by reviewing the AWS documentation and familiarizing yourself with the AWS services and their features. AWS also offers a range of free and paid training resources, including self-paced online courses, classroom training, and virtual instructor-led training and also visit essaythinkers.com/ site there. You may also find it helpful to take practice exams and review sample questions to get a sense of the types of questions that will be on the exam.
Both tutorial dojo's and neal davis's practice exams are well-regarded for AWS Developer Associate certification preparation. However, during my exam preparation, I personally didn't find them as helpful as I had hoped. Instead, a friend of mine, who recently passed the exam, recommended ExamsKit AWS DVA-C02 Questions. I opted for the premium ones, and I must say they were incredibly beneficial. These questions closely resemble the actual exam questions and cover all core exam topics very well.