AWS Developer DVA-C02

AWS Certified Developer - Associate (DVA-C02) covers developing with AWS services, security, deployment, and troubleshooting and optimization. These pages break the exam down objective by objective, with explained practice questions and memory hooks so you can see exactly where you stand before you book.

• Exam code: DVA-C02
• 65 questions
• Passing score: 720
• 130 minutes

Exam domains

Development with AWS Services 32%

• 1.1 - Developing with Lambda and serverless
• 1.2 - Developing with DynamoDB and API Gateway
• 1.3 - Application integration (presigned URLs, SQS FIFO, event filters)

Security 26%

• 2.1 - Authentication and secrets (Cognito, Secrets Manager)
• 2.2 - Encryption and authorization (KMS, envelope, explicit Deny)
• 2.3 - Configuration and API protection (Parameter Store, WAF)

Deployment 24%

• 3.1 - Deploying with Elastic Beanstalk and SAM
• 3.2 - CI/CD and deployment strategies (CodeDeploy, canary)

Troubleshooting and Optimization 18%

• 4.1 - Tracing and observability with X-Ray
• 4.2 - Troubleshooting performance and throttling