Description
The AWS Certified Developer—Associate (DVA-C01) exam is intended for individuals who perform a
developer role. The target candidate should have 1 or more years of hands-on experience developing and maintaining an AWS-based application. The exam validates a candidate’s ability to do the following:
- Demonstrate an understanding of core AWS services, uses, and basic AWS architecture best
practices - Demonstrate proficiency in developing, deploying, and debugging cloud-based applications by
using AWS
The target candidate should have the following:
- In-depth knowledge of at least one high-level programming language
- Understanding of application lifecycle management
- The ability to write code for serverless applications
- Understanding of the use of containers in the development process
The target candidate should be able to do the following:
- Use the AWS service APIs, CLI, and software development kits (SDKs) to write applications
- Identify key features of AWS services
- Understand the AWS shared responsibility model
- Use a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipeline to deploy applications on
AWS - Use and interact with AWS services
- Apply basic understanding of cloud-native applications to write code
- Write code by using AWS security best practices (for example, use IAM roles instead of secret and
access keys in the code) - Author, maintain and debug code modules on AWS
