Candidates for the Amazon Web Services Certified Developer – Associate certification exam have one or more years of hands-on experience developing and maintaining an AWS based application. Amazon recommends that candidates have in-depth knowledge of at least one high-level programming language; an understanding of core AWS services, uses, and basic AWS architecture best practices; proficiency in developing, deploying, and debugging cloud-based applications using AWS; the ability to use the AWS service APIs, AWS CLI, and SDKs to write applications; the ability to identify key features of AWS services; an understanding of the AWS shared responsibility model; an understanding of application lifecycle management, the ability to use a CI/CD pipeline to deploy applications on AWS; the ability to use or interact with AWS services; the ability to apply a basic understanding of cloud-native applications to write code, the ability to write code using AWS security best practices (e.g., not using secret and access keys in the code, instead using IAM roles); the ability to author, maintain, and debug code modules on AWS; proficiency writing code for serverless applications; and an understanding of the use of containers in the development process.

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This exam measures the following skills*:

• Deployment
• Security
• Development with AWS Services
• Refactoring
• Monitoring and Troubleshooting

*These exam objectives can change at any time.