AWS Certified Developer Associate DVA-C02

Associate DVA-C02

AWS Certified Developer – Associate validates skills in developing, optimizing, packaging, and deploying applications on AWS using CI/CD workflows. It covers Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Cognito, Secrets Manager, X-Ray, and the full developer toolkit.

AWS Lambda API Gateway Amazon DynamoDB Amazon Cognito AWS X-Ray CodePipeline Serverless Amazon SQS/SNS AWS KMS Elastic Beanstalk

Exam Domains

Four Core Developer Domains

The DVA-C02 exam covers four domains from application development through deployment, security, troubleshooting and optimization.

Domain 01

Development with AWS Services

32%

exam weight

›Architectural patterns — event-driven, microservices, choreography, orchestration
›AWS Lambda — event sources, VPC access, stateless patterns, scalability
›DynamoDB — keys, indexing, CRUD, consistency models, caching with DAX
›Amazon S3 — tiers, lifecycle, event notifications, pre-signed URLs
›Stateful vs stateless patterns, fault tolerance, SQS/SNS messaging

Domain 02

Security

26%

exam weight

›Authentication and authorization — Amazon Cognito user pools and identity pools
›Bearer tokens — JWT, OAuth 2.0, AWS STS temporary credentials
›Encryption at rest and in transit — KMS managed and customer managed keys
›Secrets management — Secrets Manager and Systems Manager Parameter Store
›IAM roles, resource-based policies, principle of least privilege

Domain 03

Deployment

24%

exam weight

›Lambda deployment packaging, layers, aliases, and traffic shifting
›Container images for Lambda and ECS with Amazon ECR
›AWS SAM and CDK for serverless and IaC deployments
›CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy CI/CD workflows
›Deployment strategies — canary, blue/green, rolling, all-at-once

Domain 04

Troubleshooting & Optimization

18%

exam weight

›AWS X-Ray distributed tracing — service maps, segments, subsegments
›CloudWatch Logs Insights for root cause analysis
›Common HTTP error codes and SDK exception handling
›Performance optimization — caching, concurrency, SQS/SNS patterns
›Application metrics — custom, embedded, and built-in CloudWatch metrics

Why DVA-C02

The Essential AWS Developer Certification

Cloud-native application development is now the standard. DVA-C02 proves you can build, deploy, and troubleshoot serverless and containerized applications on AWS with confidence.

Associate Tier — Cloud Developer Track

DVA-C02 is the natural progression from CLF-C02 or SAA-C03. It's listed as preferred in thousands of backend developer, cloud engineer, and DevOps job postings globally.

Serverless Is the Future

Lambda, API Gateway, and DynamoDB form the backbone of modern cloud applications. DVA-C02 makes you proficient in the full serverless stack.

Security-First Development

Cognito, KMS, Secrets Manager, and IAM are tested deeply — ensuring you build applications that are secure by design, not bolted on after.

CI/CD Is Standard

CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy automate every release. DVA-C02 ensures you can build and govern delivery pipelines as a developer.

Observability Is Non-Negotiable

X-Ray distributed tracing and CloudWatch Logs Insights help you debug and optimise applications in production — skills every employer demands.

Opens Doors to Senior Roles

DVA-C02 is a stepping stone to DOP-C02 (DevOps Professional) and SAP-C02 (Solutions Architect Professional) — the highest AWS certifications.

Curriculum

13-Topic DVA-C02 Programme

Complete AWS developer curriculum covering application development, security, deployment, and observability.

Architectural patterns — event-driven, microservices, monolithic, fan-out
Idempotency and stateful vs stateless application design
Fault-tolerant patterns — retries with exponential backoff, dead-letter queues
Tightly coupled vs loosely coupled components
Synchronous vs asynchronous communication patterns

Lambda event source mapping and invocation models
Stateless application design for Lambda functions
Lambda in VPCs — ENI attachment and private resource access
Unit testing Lambda functions with local invocation
Lambda concurrency — provisioned and reserved, throttling

Relational (RDS, Aurora) and non-relational (DynamoDB) selection criteria
DynamoDB — partition keys, sort keys, GSI, LSI, and CRUD operations
Caching strategies — write-through, read-through, lazy loading, TTL with DAX/ElastiCache
S3 storage tiers, lifecycle management, and pre-signed URLs
Ephemeral vs persistent data storage patterns

Amazon Cognito user pools (authentication) vs identity pools (authorization)
Bearer tokens — JWT, OAuth 2.0, AWS Security Token Service (STS)
Identity federation with SAML, OIDC, and social identity providers
Resource-based, service, and principal IAM policies
Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and principle of least privilege

Encryption at rest (KMS SSE) and in transit (TLS) for AWS services
AWS Private Certificate Authority for internal certificates
KMS key types — AWS managed, customer managed, and data keys
Client-side vs server-side encryption patterns
KMS key rotation and cross-account key sharing

PII and PHI data classification and handling
Environment variables and AWS Lambda configuration secrets
AWS Secrets Manager — secret rotation and cross-service access
Systems Manager Parameter Store — SecureString for configurations
Secure credential handling in code — avoiding hardcoded secrets

Lambda deployment packages — .zip and container image formats
Lambda layers for shared dependencies and runtimes
AWS App Config for feature flags and configuration management
Git-based version control with AWS CodeCommit
Container images with Amazon ECR and Docker best practices

AWS-native deployment testing — CodeDeploy, Elastic Beanstalk
Integration testing with mock endpoints and API Gateway stages
Lambda versions and aliases for blue/green testing
AWS SDK mock libraries for unit testing

API Gateway stages and stage variables for environment config
CI/CD workflow stages — source, build, test, and deploy
Automated testing with CodeBuild reports and test artifacts
Canary and linear deployment testing with CodeDeploy

CodePipeline — stages, actions, manual approvals
CodeBuild — build specifications and environment variables
CodeDeploy — EC2, Lambda, and ECS deployment groups
Deployment strategies — canary, blue/green, rolling, all-at-once
AWS SAM CLI and CDK deploy for serverless and IaC

CloudWatch Logs Insights — query syntax and log pattern analysis
AWS X-Ray service maps and trace filtering
Common HTTP error codes (4xx, 5xx) and remediation strategies
SDK exceptions — throttling, service, and client exceptions
Code analysis and debugging with CloudWatch metrics

AWS X-Ray SDK — adding traces, segments, and subsegments
Differences between logging, monitoring, and observability
Structured logging best practices for CloudWatch Logs
Custom, embedded, and built-in CloudWatch application metrics
Distributed tracing patterns for microservices and Lambda

ElastiCache for Redis and Memcached — session store and caching
Lambda concurrency optimization and cold start reduction
SQS message batching and visibility timeout tuning
SNS fanout patterns for parallel processing
API Gateway caching, throttling, and usage plans

Course Snapshot

13 Topics

Full DVA-C02 domains

45+ Hours

Total learning time

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Career Outcomes

DVA-C02 Careers in Cloud Development

AWS developer certification is listed in thousands of backend, serverless, and full-stack job postings. DVA-C02 proves you can build and ship production cloud applications.

Infosys

Cloud Dev

TCS

Backend Dev

Wipro

AWS Dev

Accenture

App Dev

AWS Cloud Developer

Build serverless and containerised applications on AWS using Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, and the full developer toolkit.

₹8–22 LPA

Backend Engineer

Design and implement scalable API services, event-driven systems, and microservices architectures on AWS.

₹10–26 LPA

DevOps / Full-Stack Developer

Combine cloud application development with CI/CD skills to ship features rapidly and reliably using AWS CodeSuite.

₹9–24 LPA

Serverless Developer

Specialise in Lambda, Step Functions, API Gateway, and event-driven architectures for cost-efficient cloud applications.

₹8–22 LPA

API Engineer

Design, build, and publish RESTful and WebSocket APIs on API Gateway with authentication, throttling, and observability.

₹8–20 LPA

Topics

45+ hrs

Training Hours

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Cert Level

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Developer

Associate DVA-C02

Four Core Developer Domains

The Essential AWS Developer Certification

13-Topic DVA-C02 Programme

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