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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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