How I Passed AWS Certified Developer — Associate Certification Exam (DVA-C02)
This blog explains the step by step guide to prepare on AWS (Amazon Web Services) Certified Developer — Associate Certification exam (DVA-C02) in 2025 with recommended resources.
If you are planning to take the career path in AWS in a professional way, you should start with foundation certification. I have done this foundation exam long time ago. You can refer it here.
Once you have done it you can continue to next level, AWS Certified Developer — Associate exam. This is for software developers. For this certification I recommending you to follow following resources to study well. For more information about the exam refer following link.
How to Prepare for AWS Certified Developer — Associate Certification Exam
- As a first step you need to read the study guide and make short notes. To choose a study guide there are few resourses. If you are a reader, if you like to read or basically, if you are a person who seeks knowledge through books I recommend following book to refer as a study guide.
Or if you are a person who seeks knowledge through video tutorials I recommend a udemy video tutorial. See following link for that.
https://www.udemy.com/course/aws-certified-developer-associate-dva-c01/
Go though every page of the book or every second in the video tutorial to understand the syllabus and the technology for the exam.
2. Now think you have studied the syllabus (book / video tutorial) thoroughly, then after that you have to do some questions to understand where you are. In here we can do past questions and mock questions.
2.1 For past questions I recommend examtopics questions. refer following link for that.
2.2 For mock questions refer ‘Whizlab’ and ‘AWS Certified Developer Associate Practice Exams’ udemy course.
https://www.udemy.com/course/aws-certified-developer-associate-practice-exams-amazon-dva-c01/
Finally, to pass the exam you have to score more than 80% from all above questions. Until that do not register for the exam. It will be a waste of your time and money. This helps you to find your weak areas in the syllabus and study those areas until you confident about the theory with practical. Don’t forget to create an aws account for practicals. This will help you to remeber hands on experience techniques.
AWS technology is updating day by day. There are high-paying professional jobs for AWS experts in this world. This is not only gives you approval from the AWS but also prepares you for your interviews and further work. So that’s all about AWS Certified Developer — Associate (DVA-C02).
Good Luck !
