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AWS Associate Developer Exam Content

2024/08/10
Tags: AWS AWS Certification AWS Associate Developer

Introduction

I have decided to study and take the AWS associate developer exam (previous post) so I should start by looking at the content of the exam. This PDF (also linked here for reference in case the original link changes) summarises the content of the exam.

Domains

The exam is divided into the following four domains and each domain has a different weighting in the exam (as shown by the percentage in the brackets):

  1. Development with AWS Services (32%)
  2. Security (26%)
  3. Deployment (24%)
  4. Troubleshooting and Optimization (18%)

Task Statements

Each domain is subdivided into a series of task statements.

Domain 1 - Development with AWS Services task statements:

  1. Develop code for applications hosted on AWS.
  2. Develop code for AWS Lambda.
  3. Use data stores in application development.

Domain 2 - Security task statements:

  1. Implement authentication and/or authorisation for applications and AWS services.
  2. Implement encryption by using AWS services.
  3. Manage sensitive data in application code.

Domain 3 - Deployment task statements:

  1. Prepare application artifacts to be deployed to AWS.
  2. Test applications in development environments.
  3. Automated deployment testing.
  4. Deploy code by using AWS CI/CD services.

Domain 4 - Troubleshooting and Optimisation task statements:

  1. Assist in a root cause analysis.
  2. Instrument code for observability.
  3. Opimise applications by using AWS services and features.

Knowledge and Skills

Each task statement is further broken down into a set of knowledge points and skills. I won't list this them all in this page. But one of the things I like to do when studying for something is to a have checklist of the subjects that I can mark myself against so I know which areas I need to focus on the most. So I've created this checklist based on the domains, task statements, knowledge and skills.

AWS Services

The appendix of the exam content from AWS also lists all the in and out of scope AWS services the exam can cover. Both these list are (quote) non-exhaustive and subject to change. Which isn't very helpful. I'm taking it as all services are fair game and could be mentioned/referenced on the exam. So it's probably a good idea to at least have an idea of what each service is used for/it's purpose even if I don't learn specifically about it during study.

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