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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
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