Cloud Academy Developer Associate (DVA-C01)

About the Exam

Expected learning from the exam :

  • Understanding of core AWS services, uses and basic AWS architecture best practices (common in other three associate programs)
  • Proficiency in developing, deploying and debugging cloud-based application using AWS
  • comphrehensive understanding of application life-cycle management

Exam Logistics :

  • 65 questions
  • 130 minutes to complete (over 2 hrs)
  • 2 min/question
  • passing score of 720/1000 (scaled score)

Scenario ----> Specific Question about Scenario ----> Set of possible answers

Common Question Theme : Highly Available, Cost effective, the most secure, performance improvement and least amount of downtime. (won’t be asked for best/easiest solution because in that aspect opinion varies person to person)

Focus is on use of services and features rather than memorisation.

Question Type : Single correct and Multiple Correct Type Questions

Skipped question = Incorrect questions. There is no penality for guessing.

Exam Content

  1. Deployment - 22%

    • Deploy written code in AWS using existing CI/CD pipelines, processes, and patterns
      • AWS Code Commit
      • AWS Code Build
      • AWS Code Deploy
      • AWS Code Pipeline
    • Deploy Application using Elastic Beanstalk
    • Prepare the application deployment package to be deployed to AWS (5 deployment policies)
    • Deploy serverless applications (SAM, API Gateway)

  2. Security - 26%

    • Make authenticated calls to AWS services
    • Implement encryption using AWS services
    • Implement application authentication, and authorization
    • Services Covered (AWS IAM (as user management doesn’t scale), Amazon Cognito, AWS KMS, AWS Secrets Manager, Identity federation, SAML, Identity providers)

  3. Development with AWS Services - 30%

    • Write code for serverless application
    • translate function requirements into application design (SQL -> AWS RDS)
    • implement application design into application code
    • write code that interacts with AWS services by using APIs, SDKs and AWS CLI

  4. Refactoring - 10%

    “Services not servers” : Always stop services that you don’t use to save money !

    • Optimize application to best use AWS services and features
    • Migrate existing application code to run on AWS (Auth application to Amazon Cognito)

  5. Monitoring and Troubleshooting - 12%

    • Write code that can be monitores
    • Perform root cause analysis on faults found in testing or production
    • Tools/Services like Amazon Cloud Watch, Amazon Cloud Trail, AWS X-ray.

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