AWS Certified Developer Associate Exam Study Guide [DVA-C01]
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Preparing for the AWS Certified Developer Associate (DVA-C01) exam? Don’t know where to start? This post is the AWS Certified Developer Associate Certificate Study Guide (with links to each objective in the exam domain).
I have curated a detailed list of articles from AWS documentation and other blogs for each objective of the AWS Certified Developer Associate (DVA-C01) exam. Please share the post within your circles so it helps them to prepare for the exam.
Skills Measured
- Deployment – 22%
- Security – 26%
- Development with AWS Services – 30%
- Refactoring – 10%
- Monitoring and Troubleshooting – 12%
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For each test objective, I’ve compiled a thorough collection of articles from Microsoft documentation. Please feel free to forward this page to your friends and coworkers in order to assist them in preparing for the test .
Deployment - 22%
Deploy Written Code in AWS Using Existing CI/CD Pipelines, Processes, and Patterns
- Practicing CI and CD on AWS
- Overview of Deployment Options on AWS
- A Roadmap to Continuous Delivery Pipeline Maturity
- AWS CodeCommit
- A managed source-control service to host Git repositories in AWS.
- AWS CodeCommit
- What is AWS CodeCommit?
- Set up your first AWS CodeCommit Repository
- Create a simple pipeline (CodeCommit repository)
- Deploy code from a CodeCommit repo to Beanstalk
- AWS CodeBuild
- Hosts build server so you don’t have to. A build service that compiles your code, runs unit tests, and drops artifacts into your target location, ready to be deployed.
- AWS CodeBuild
- What is AWS CodeBuild?
- Deploy to Production with AWS CodeBuild
- Push Docker images to ECR using CodeBuild
- AWS CodePipeline
- A fully-managed continuous delivery service that defines your release process. Whenever there is a commit to the source control repository, CodePipeline automates the process of building the code, running tests, and releasing it to production.
- AWS CodePipeline
- What is AWS CodePipeline?
- Set Up a CI/CD Pipeline on AWS
- Practicing CI/CD with AWS CodePipeline
- Build a CI/CD pipeline for a React app
- Building a pipeline for multi-region deployment
- AWS CodeStar
- With CodeStar, developers provision the necessary resources for creating a pipeline for their development activities. You can choose from a variety of project templates (C#, Java, Python, etc.,) and build a variety of apps like websites, web apps, etc.,
- The difference between CodeStar and CodePipeline is that the latter is a CI/CD pipeline. Whereas CodeStar allows you to build things from scratch with a set of getting started templates. Targeted for different project scenarios.
- AWS CodeStar
- What is AWS CodeStar?
- AWS CodeStar: Who is it for?
- CodeStar: Develop, build, & deploy apps on AWS
- Streamline your Serverless Development with AWS CodeStar
- CD/CI for .NET applications in AWS CodeStar
- AWS CodeDeploy
- Automates deployments to different Compute services like EC2, Lambda, or your servers in an on-premises environment.
- The difference between CodeDeploy and CodeBuild is that the latter acts as the CI server. Whereas CodeDeploy provides an installable agent that manages deployments to EC2 or just any other compute instances.
- AWS CodeDeploy
- What is CodeDeploy?
- CodePipeline demo using CodeCommit & CodeDeploy
- Deploy to AWS with CodeDeploy
- Complete CI/CD with CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, & CodePipeline
- Deployment patterns
- Overview of Serverless Application Deployment Patterns
- Blue-Green Deployment on AWS
- Canary deployment
- Rolling deployment
Deploy Applications Using Elastic Beanstalk
- Elastic Beanstalk, mainly used by developers, handles applications developed in a variety of frameworks like .NET, Go, Java, PHP, Python, etc., Simply put, you just upload your application to the AWS, and Beanstalk takes care of the infrastructure, load balancing, scaling, and monitoring.
- Beanstalk is ideal for 3-tier applications (a number of them given below)
- What is AWS Elastic Beanstalk?
- Deploying your first application with Beanstalk
- Beanstalk: Deploy an application with Command Line
- Deploying applications to Elastic Beanstalk environments
- PHP based applications
- Deploying a Laravel App via Elastic Beanstalk
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk – Deploying PHP Application
- Deploying A WordPress website using Beanstalk
- (Russian) Deploy a Sumfont app
- Deploy Drupal on AWS Beanstalk with EC2 S3 & RDS
- Java applications
- Deploy Java web app on Elastic BeanStalk
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk Tomcat example
- Deploy Spring Boot Applications with Elastic Beanstalk
- .Net applications
- Deploying Multiple .NET Apps in AWS Elastic Beanstalk
- Easy way to deploy the .NET Core 3.0 app with Beanstalk
- Python-based web frameworks
- Deploying a Python web app via GitHub, Jenkins, & Beanstalk
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk: How to deploy a Flask web app
- Deploy Django app using Elastic Beanstalk
- Ruby apps
- Ruby: Deploying a Ruby on Rails app to Beanstalk
- Deploy a Sinatra application to Elastic Beanstalk
- Other apps
- Node.js app: Deploy to Elastic Beanstalk from GitHub
- Deploying A Go App to AWS Elastic Beanstalk
- AWS Elastic Beanstalk: Deploying Docker Containers
Prepare the Application Deployment Package to Be Deployed to AWS
- AWS Lambda deployment package in Python
- Lambda deployment package in Node.js
- How to build an AWS Lambda deployment package for .NET?
- AWS Lambda deployment package in Go
- Slimming down your AWS Lambda deployment package
- Creating a deployment package for Java
- An easier way to build AWS Lambda deployment packages
Deploy Serverless Applications
- AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM)
- An opensource framework that enables you to build serverless applications on AWS. With SAM, you use YAML to define your app. When you deploy, the YAML is transformed into the AWS CloudFormation syntax.
- What is the AWS SAM?
- Deploying a Hello World application
- SAM: Deploying serverless applications
- Deploying serverless applications gradually
- Authoring & deploying serverless applications with SAM
- Automate your serverless application deployments
- AWS Serverless Application Repository
- It is a managed repository. Enables your team members to save & share apps, so you can use pre-built applications to define your serverless architectures.
- Deploy a new app using the AWS Management Console
- AWS CLI: Deploying a new application from the command line
- Other blogs/YouTube videos
- 6 steps to deploy your first Serverless Application in AWS
- Deploy code faster with the Serverless Framework
- Lambda function: Deploy with the Serverless Framework
- Deploy your React app to AWS with the Serverless Framework
Security - 26%
Make Authenticated Calls to AWS Services
- Amazon API Gateway
- API developers create either a REST or a WebSocket API with the Amazon API Gateway. As an app developer, you build the functionality of the application by invoking a WebSocket API or the REST API.
- What is Amazon API Gateway?
- Invoking a REST API in Amazon API Gateway
- Invoking a WebSocket API
- How to invoke a private API
- Control access for invoking an API
- Tutorial: Using AWS Lambda with Amazon API Gateway
- Query requests for Amazon EC2
- Calling the IAM API using HTTP query requests
- Making API requests with Amazon CloudWatch
- Use Postman to call a REST API
- Building Real-time applications using WebSocket APIs
- API calls using Python SDK
- Call a REST API through generated SDKs
- Java SDK
- Android SDK
- JavaScript SDK
- Ruby SDK
- iOS SDK
- Articles related to authenticating APIs
- Signing and authenticating REST requests
- Authenticating requests using the REST API
- Controlling and managing access to a REST API in API Gateway
- Enable IAM authentication for API Gateway APIs
Implement Encryption Using AWS Services
- The importance of encryption & how AWS can help?
- Protect data at rest with EC2 Instance Store Encryption
- How does encryption work in AWS?
- Encrypting everything with AWS
- Tools to protect your data at rest or in transit
- AWS services use the below tools to encrypt the data at rest or in transit.
- AWS CloudHSM
- AWS Key Management Service
- AWS Encryption SDK
- DynamoDB Encryption Client
- AWS Secrets Manager
- Client-side encryption
- Before uploading the data to AWS, you encrypt the data in the client app with a key (typically stored in AWS Key Management Service, or within the app itself). Since the key is not available with the service provider, it would be impossible for AWS to decrypt and access your data.
- Protecting data using client-side encryption
- AWS KMS keys for S3 encryption in the AWS SDK for .NET
- Java: Amazon S3 client-side encryption
- Using the AWS SDK for Go encryption client
- S3 Client-side encryption with the AWS SDK for PHP
- Ruby: Encrypting S3 Object with an AWS KMS Key
- S3 Encryption client now available for C++
- AWS Encryption SDK
- AWS Encryption SDK is a client-side encryption library. Use this library to encrypt and decrypt data in your application.
- What is the AWS Encryption SDK?
- Using the AWS Encryption SDK for C
- AWS Encryption SDK for Java example code
- Encryption SDK for JavaScript example
- AWS Encryption SDK for Python example
- Encryption using the Encryption CLI
Implement Application Authentication, and Authorization
- What is Amazon Cognito?
- Amazon Cognito is the service that provides authentication, authorization for web & mobile apps. It supports simple password authentication or a third-party identity provider like Google, Amazon, Facebook, or Active Directory.
- 2 main components of Cognito: User pools (directory for user sign-in) and identity pools (granting users access to AWS resources).
- Amazon Cognito user pools
- Amazon Cognito identity pools
- Authentication
- User authentication & authorization with Cognito
- Getting started with Amazon Cognito: Authentication for your apps
- User authentication for web & iOS apps with AWS Cognito (Part 1)
- User authentication for web and iOS apps with AWS Cognito (Part 2)
- AWS API authentication with Amazon Cognito
- Use Cognito JWTs to authenticate with an Amazon HTTP API
- Authorization
- Build fine-grained authorization with Cognito user pools groups
- Control access to a REST API using Cognito User Pools
- Authorize access to Gateway APIs with custom scopes in Cognito
- Building ADFS federation for your app using user pools
- AWS SSO
- AWS Single Sign-On
- What Is AWS Single Sign-On?
- Create & manage users within AWS SSO
- Configuring the AWS CLI to use AWS SSO
Development with AWS Services - 30%
Write Code for Serverless Applications
- AWS Lambda
- Writing AWS Lambda functions in Node.js
- Develop AWS Lambda functions in Python
- AWS Lambda function handler in Ruby
- Developing AWS Lambda functions in Java
- AWS Lambda function handler in Go
- Develop Lambda functions in C#
- AWS Lambda function handler in PowerShell
- AWS Lambda@Edge
- Runs your code closest to the location of the user in response to CloudFront events.
- Creating a Simple Lambda@Edge Function
- Lambda@Edge Example Functions
Translate Functional Requirements into Application Design
- The article explains how implementing the 5 pillars of the AWS well-architected framework helps you to focus on the functional requirements of your application without worrying about stability.
- The 5 Pillars of the AWS Well-Architected Framework
- Why deployment requirements are important for architectural choices?
- How AWS delivers against your requirements?
- How to Translate business requirements to technical specifications?
Implement Application Design into Application Code
- Modern application development on AWS whitepaper
- Design your code
- Develop your application with AWS SDKs
- Deploy & manage Ruby on Rails apps on AWS
- Develop applications with the AWS SDK for .NET
- Get started with .NET development on AWS with Visual Studio
- AWS SDK for Java developer guide
- Getting Started in Node.js
- Building high-performance cloud apps in C++
- AWS SDK for Go developer guide
- Writing JavaScript applications with the AWS SDK
- Boto3: AWS SDK for Python
Write code that interacts with AWS services by using APIs, SDKs, and AWS CLI
- AWS CLI
- Use commands in your command-line tool to interact with the AWS services. This is an alternative to the browser-based AWS Console to create, update, delete, or modify your AWS resources.
- What is the AWS Command Line Interface?
- Getting help with the AWS CLI
- The command structure in the AWS CLI
- Specifying parameter values for the AWS CLI
- Use AWS CLI with AWS services
- Using Amazon DynamoDB with the AWS CLI
- Amazon EC2 with the AWS CLI
- Using Amazon S3 Glacier with the CLI
- AWS CLI with AWS IAM
- Using Amazon S3 with the AWS CLI
- Amazon SNS with the Command Line Interface
- Using Amazon SWF with the AWS CLI
- AWS SDK
- Use any of the programming language SDKs to develop applications on AWS
- AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio
- AWS Toolkit for Visual Studio Code
- AWS SDKs for different programming languages
- Browse by programming language
- AWS SDK for C++
- What is the AWS SDK for JavaScript?
- Getting Started in Node.js
- Getting Started with the AWS SDK for PHP
- Getting Started with AWS and Python
- AWS SDK for Ruby code examples
- APIs
- Query requests Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud
- Use the Data API to interact with Aurora MySQL database
- Redshift Data API to interact with clusters
Refactoring - 10%
Optimize Application to Best Use AWS Services and Features
- Continuous optimization
- Optimizing a Lift-and-Shift for performance
- Amazon CodeGuru Profiler: Optimize application performance
- Optimizing AWS performance over the long term
- Optimizing CPU options
- Optimizing GPU settings
- Optimizing Amazon S3 performance
- AWS Optimizer
- AWS Compute Optimizer
- Identify optimal EC2 instance type using AWS Compute Optimizer
- Refactoring applications
- 2-Week Rule: Refactor your applications for the cloud in 10 days
- 5 best ways to refactor your app on the way to the cloud
- Minimum Viable Refactoring achieves post-migration excellence
- Refactor your Mainframe workloads to AWS
Migrate Existing Application Code to Run on AWS
- How to migrate to AWS?
- 6 strategies for migrating applications to the cloud
- Migrating your existing applications to the AWS cloud
- AWS Migration whitepaper
- 8 Business drivers that motivate cloud migrations
- AWS migration scenarios
- Migrating web applications to the AWS cloud
- Migrating batch processes to the AWS cloud
- Migrating backend processing pipeline to the AWS cloud
- a. Lift-and-shift solutions
- Typically for legacy applications that need to be rehosted in the cloud.
- CloudEndure Migration
- CloudEndure Migration
- CloudEndure migration resources
- AWS VM Import/Export
- VM Import/Export
- What Is VM Import/Export?
- Importing a VM as an image using VM Import/Export
- Importing a VM as an instance using VM Import/Export
- b. Replatforming
- Reduce administration/infrastructure overhead by migrating on-premises applications to use PaaS services in the cloud to take advantage of scalability & flexibility
- Example: AWS Database Migration Service
- AWS Database Migration Service
- What is AWS Database Migration Service?
- Migrating Microsoft SQL to AWS
Monitoring and Troubleshooting - 12%
Write Code That Can Be Monitored
- Automated monitoring tools
- Manual monitoring tools
- Monitor HTTP 404 response
- Monitor HTTP 4xx Codes
- Monitoring functions in the AWS Lambda console
- Monitoring the state of a function with the Lambda API
- Custom monitoring dashboards
- Monitor custom application metrics using CloudWatch Agent
- Monitoring API Requests with CloudWatch
- Monitor application health using CloudWatch ServiceLens
Perform Root Cause Analysis on Faults Found in Testing or Production
This brings us to the end of the AWS Certified Developer Associate (DVA-C01) Exam Study Guide.
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