Today I just passed the AWS Certified Developer Exam (DVA-C01)!
So here I’m going to write down some thoughts and tips I have for the exam.
I’ve spent around a month to study for this exam, since I didn’t take the Solutions Architect (SAA) prior to this, while Developer Associate is definitely harder than SAA.
My Preparations:
Read all whitepapers and take notes
Watched a lot of re:Invent videos
Practice Exams (5 - 6 sets), and heavily reviewed afterwards
Take notes, and review frequently (30k words of notes in total)
Some topics from the exam:
- IAM Role Policy (
GetRole&PassRole) - S3 Encryption & KMS (Encryption in general)
- Cognito use cases (with hands-on experience)
- AWS CLI for development
- VPC & Network connectivity
- X-Ray & CloudWatch
- SNS & Event sources to trigger Lambda (Push)