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AWS Certified Developer – Associate
The AWS Certified Developer – Associate (DVA-C02) validates an individual's technical expertise in developing, deploying, and debugging cloud-based applications using Amazon Web Services
- 130 min
- 72% to pass
- 65 bank questions
- 4 domains
Exam syllabus, organized by domain
The official Amazon Web Services blueprint, with the real weight each domain carries on test day.
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Sample AWS Certified Developer – Associate exam question
Answer this question the same way you would on exam day. No sign-up needed — one random question, three tries to swap it out.
A company needs to notify several services about inventory changes. Each service has its own independent queue and must process messages in the same order they were published. Which combination of AWS services should be used?
Exam facts at a glance
Every figure below comes from the certification record or from the question bank itself.
- Time limit
- 130 minutes
- Passing score
- 72%
- Domains
- 4
- Questions in our bank
- 65
- Level
- ASSOCIATE
- Measured complexity
- 2.0 / 10
- Question mix
- 22 single · 22 multi · 21 interactive
Where the hard questions actually are
We score every question in the bank 1-10 on a reproducible formula. Below is the per-domain breakdown.
- Deployment15 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle
33% multi-select · 0% scenario · 33% interactive
- Development with AWS Services21 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle
33% multi-select · 0% scenario · 33% interactive
- Security17 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle
35% multi-select · 0% scenario · 29% interactive
- Troubleshooting and Optimization12 questions · complexity 2.0/10 · Gentle
33% multi-select · 0% scenario · 33% interactive
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Frequently asked questions
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