AWS developer certification

The AWS Certified Developer Associate Level exam is for developers with a minimum of experience of coding solutions for Amazon Simple Queue Service, Amazon Simple Storage Service, Amazon Dynamo DB, Amazon Simple Notification Service, AWS Elastic Beanstalk and Amazon Simple Workflow Service using AWS.

To Register for AWS Developer Associate certification, associates should have significant hands-on experience or should have complete the AWS Technical essential course. A familiarity with Queuing and messaging service and understanding of stateless and loosely coupled distributed application and knowledge on the development of API interfaces.

Recommended Knowledge and Experience

• knowledge of high-level programming language
• Knowledge of core AWS services, uses, and basic AWS architecture best practices
• Ability in deploying, developing and debugging cloud-based applications using AWS
• Proficiency to use the AWS CLI, AWS service APIs, and SDKs to write applications
• Basic Knowledge to identify features of AWS services
• Knowledge of the AWS shared responsibility model
• Understanding of application lifecycle management
• Basic knowledge to use a CI/CD pipeline to deploy applications on AWS
• Knowledge to interact or use of AWS services
• Ability to apply a basic understanding of cloud-native applications on AWS
• Proficiency to the author, maintain and debug code modules on AWS
• Ability to writing code for serverless applications
• Knowledge of the use of containers in the development process

Exam Details:

Format of the Exam: Multiple Choice, Multiple Answer

of the exam: Associate

Delivery Method: online proctored exam or Testing Center

Duration of Exam: 130 mins to complete the exam

Cost of exam: 150 USD

Language: Available in English, Japanese, Simplified Chinese and Korean

Services which are Important to clear the AWS Developer Certification:

• Compute
• Databases
• Access Management
• Storage
• Edge Services
• Serverless Architecture
• Encryption
• CI/CD
• Developer Tools

Associate should have knowledge of DevOps with AWS and also should understand key services methodologies and technologies including CI/CD, Serverless and the decoupling of architecture to design, support and implement, optimize and resilient applications at scale.

The advantage of having AWS certified depends on the individual profile but It has two universal benefits:

Certified Candidates will be more valuable in the corporate market. AWS certifications have Huge demand in the cloud computing job market: Corporate companies are looking for these specific skills

AWS certified profiles make your resume stand out and land into a better position. AWS certified employees are usually paid more than non-certified employees.

Pre-requisites

• Basic Understanding of Cloud computing
• Introduction of AWS Services
• Good Knowledge of AWS services and Basic AWS architecture best practices.

Important Concepts AWS Developer Certification Exam:

Serverless

• We can expect a lot of questions directly on Lambda or combination of Lambda with other services
• Lambda -Alias related questions
• Lambda-Version related questions
• Lambda-SAM Combination questions
• Lambda-SAM-Code Deploy Combination Questions

KMS

• questions will be asked with the combination of other services
• S3 Encryption
• Encryption while transferring data from Kinesis
• KMS related question includes on Envelop Key, Master Key, Generated key and data Key

Dynamo DB

• understanding of Dynamo DB is must
• Combination of Dynamo DB with Lambda and S3

Elastic Beanstalk

• combination of Elastic Beanstalk and Cloud Formation
• Changing of the Instance Types
• Deployment of different version of Application

Cloud Formation

• S3, lambda combination Question
• Templates stored in S3

Code Commit, Code Build Code Deploy Elasticcache

• Memcache and its use cases
• Redis and its use cases
• Uses of Elastic cache with RDS

S3

• Bucket policies
• combination with Kinesis

Elastic Container Service

• BCombination of ECS and Code Deploy
• ECS deployed on EC2 Instances

IAM

• How IAM used instead of Access Key scenarios
• Understanding IAM Role and attaching to other resources

Kinesis

• Shards related questions
• Different Kinesis options – data analytics, Dataware House

AWS Cognito

Questions would be on Data Sync and unauthenticated users

Route 53

• Route53 Health Checks
• Static Website

Cloud watch and cloud Trail

• Cloud Watch and its capabilities
• Comparisons between cloud watch and other related services

Rational Database Service (RDS)

• Mostly questions will be asked with the combinations of other services

Simple Notification Service (SNS)

• In combination with other AWS services

AWS Developer Certified – Associate examination focus on hands-on experience rather than theoretical concepts. Most of the questions will be scenario-based. Questions are mostly concentrated on Application Development and Deployment

Topics that won't appear in the Developer Associate Exam:

• This Examination has the least number of questions related to networking concepts like VPC, VPN
• Do Not Expect the questions on Storage, route table, Gateway and any configuration with respect to it
• Do Not expect questions on EBS Volumes, Subnet, Regions, Availability zones