Exam overview
Level: Associate
Length: 130 minutes to complete the exam
Cost: 150 USD
Format: 65 questions, either multiple choice or multiple response
Delivery method: Pearson VUE and PSI; testing center or online proctored exam
Domain % of Exam
Domain 1: Deployment 22%
Domain 2: Security 26%
Domain 3: Development with AWS Services 30%
Domain 4: Refactoring 10%
Domain 5: Monitoring and Troubleshooting 12%
TOTAL 100%
Unanswered questions are scored as incorrect; there is no penalty for guessing. The exam includes 50 questions that will affect your score.
The exam includes 15 unscored questions that do not affect your score. AWS collects information about candidate performance on these unscored questions to evaluate these questions for future use as scored questions. These unscored questions are not identified on the exam.
The AWS Certified Developer – Associate (DVA-C01) exam is a pass or fail exam. The exam is scored against a minimum standard established by AWS professionals who follow certification industry best practices and guidelines. Your results for the exam are reported as a scaled score of 100–1,000. The minimum passing score is 720.
Which key tools, technologies, and concepts might be covered on the exam?
The following is a non-exhaustive list of the tools and technologies that could appear on the exam. This list
is subject to change and is provided to help you understand the general scope of services, features, or
technologies on the exam. The general tools and technologies in this list appear in no particular order.
AWS services are grouped according to their primary functions. While some of these technologies will likely
be covered more than others on the exam, the order and placement of them in this list is no indication of
relative weight or importance:
Analytics
Application Integration
Containers
Cost and Capacity Management
Data Movement
Developer Tools
Instances (virtual machines)
Management and Governance
Networking and Content Delivery
Security
Serverless
AWS services and features
Analytics:
Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES)
Amazon Kinesis
Application Integration:
Amazon EventBridge (Amazon CloudWatch Events)
Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)
Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)
AWS Step Functions
Compute:
Amazon EC2
AWS Elastic Beanstalk
AWS Lambda
Containers:
Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR)
Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)
Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Services (Amazon EKS)
Database:
Amazon DynamoDB
Amazon ElastiCache
Amazon RDS
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Developer Tools:
AWS CodeArtifact
AWS CodeBuild
AWS CodeCommit
AWS CodeDeploy
Amazon CodeGuru
AWS CodePipeline
AWS CodeStar
AWS Fault Injection Simulator
AWS X-Ray
Management and Governance:
AWS CloudFormation
Amazon CloudWatch
Networking and Content Delivery:
Amazon API Gateway
Amazon CloudFront
Elastic Load Balancing
Security, Identity, and Compliance:
Amazon Cognito
AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)
AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)
Storage:
Amazon S3
