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DVA-C02 Mock Exams & Practice Exam Questions | AWS Certified Developer - Associate

DVA-C02 mock exams and practice exam questions for AWS Certified Developer - Associate. Timed practice sets and detailed explanations in the AWS Exam Prep app (web, iOS, Android).

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Tip: Begin with 20–25 question domain drills for weak areas, then move to mixed mocks. Aim for consistent ~75–80% before test day.

Suggested progression

  1. Domain drills (daily): 2× 20–25 questions focused on one domain.
  2. Mixed sets (alternate days): 1× 30–40 questions combining 2–3 domains.
  3. Full mocks (final week): 2–3 complete 65‑question exams under time. Review every miss.

Timeboxing

  • Domain set: ~35–45 minutes
  • Mixed set: ~60–70 minutes
  • Full mock: 130 minutes

What to pair with practice

  • Syllabus: objective-by-domain outline → view
  • Cheatsheet: high-yield patterns & defaults → open
  • Overview: format, domains, and study plan → read

Exam at a glance

  • Exam name: AWS Certified Developer — Associate (DVA-C02)
  • Questions: 65 total (multiple-choice and multiple-response)
  • Time: 130 minutes
  • Delivery: Pearson VUE testing center or online proctored exam
  • Result: Scaled score (100–1000); minimum passing score: 720
  • Cost: 150 USD

Tip: DVA-C02 rewards “developer realism”: secure-by-default IAM, event-driven patterns, idempotency, and practical troubleshooting with CloudWatch/X-Ray.

Domain breakdown (weights)

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

What the exam emphasizes (high level)

Expect scenario-driven items where you choose the best solution for:

  • Building with AWS primitives (Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, S3, messaging)
  • Applying security correctly (IAM roles/policies, authn/authz, encryption, secrets)
  • Deploying safely (CI/CD, IaC, config/params, versioning/rollback)
  • Debugging production issues (logs, metrics, traces, retries, throttling)

Who should take DVA-C02

  • Application developers building or maintaining AWS workloads
  • Engineers working with serverless and event-driven architectures
  • Developers who can reason about security, reliability, and cost/performance trade-offs

Recommended background: ~1 year of hands-on experience with AWS services and the AWS SDK/CLI at a developer level (not deep networking).

Study plan (efficient)

  1. Work the Syllabus domain-by-domain and drill immediately after each domain.
  2. Keep a miss log: convert each miss into a one-liner rule (“DynamoDB Query vs Scan”, “SQS visibility timeout”, “Lambda retry/DLQ”).
  3. Do mixed sets twice weekly to build transfer across services.
  4. Final week: 2–3 full timed mocks; review every miss and re-drill weak domains.

Ready to start structured study? Open the Syllabus .