AWS Certified Developer – Associate
For developers who build on AWS: serverless applications, SDK usage, deployment pipelines, and application-level security.
- Exam questions
- 65
- Duration
- 130 min
- Exam cost
- $150 USD
- Passing score
- 720/1000
39 reviewed practice questions live on this site · Official AWS certification page
Exam domains and weights
Serverless development, APIs, messaging, and using AWS services in application code.
Authentication/authorization for applications, encryption, and secrets management in code.
CI/CD pipelines, IaC, deployment strategies, and packaging applications for AWS.
Debugging, observability (X-Ray, CloudWatch), and application performance tuning.
Practice topics
Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB SDK patterns, and event-driven development.
IAM in code, Cognito, encryption SDKs, and secrets handling in applications.
CodePipeline/CodeDeploy, deployment strategies, CloudFormation, and X-Ray.
X-Ray tracing, CloudWatch debugging, caching strategies, and application performance tuning.
How to prepare for DVA-C02
Learn the blueprint
Start with the domain weights above — they tell you exactly where exam points are concentrated.
Official exam pageStudy the core services
Work through service-focused study guides for the services that appear most in this exam's questions.
Service study guides →Practice by topic
Take focused question sets per topic, read every per-option explanation — including why wrong answers are wrong.
All practice topics →Simulate the real exam
Take a timed mock exam at real pace (~2 min per question) and review every miss.
Mock exams →Close the gaps
Use your domain breakdown to find weak areas, bookmark tricky questions, and re-drill them before exam day.
Build a study plan →
39 reviewed DVA-C02 questions available
Practice interactively, or browse every question with answers and explanations.