AWS Developer Associate
Amazon Web Services
Complete guide to passing the AWS Developer Associate exam on your first attempt.
$150
~65%
3 years
Global
Amazon Web Services
$95k-$140k
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Complete Overview
AWS Certified Developer - Associate, exam code DVA-C02, is a 130-minute, 65-question certification exam for software developers who build, deploy and debug applications that run on AWS, and it costs 150 USD. AWS recommends that candidates have one or more years of hands-on experience developing and maintaining applications using AWS services, together with proficiency in at least one high-level programming language such as Java, C#, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript or Go.
Pearson VUE delivers the exam, either at a physical test center or through online proctoring, and it is offered in English, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazil), Simplified Chinese and Spanish (Latin America). Of the 65 questions, 50 are scored and 15 are unscored pretest items that AWS uses to trial future questions. The unscored items are not flagged, so you have to treat every question as if it counts. Results arrive as a scaled score between 100 and 1,000, and the minimum passing score is 720.
The blueprint has four content domains with published weightings: Development with AWS Services at 32 percent, Security at 26 percent, Deployment at 24 percent, and Troubleshooting and Optimization at 18 percent. Scoring is compensatory, which means you need to clear 720 overall and do not need to pass each domain individually. Question types are multiple choice, with one correct answer and three distractors, and multiple response, with two or more correct answers out of five or more options. Unanswered questions count as wrong and there is no penalty for guessing.
This is a developer exam rather than an architecture exam, and the exam guide draws that line explicitly. Designing distributed systems, designing CI/CD pipelines, administering IAM users and groups, administering servers and operating systems, and designing VPC or Direct Connect networking are all listed as out of scope for the target candidate. What is in scope is the working detail: Lambda configuration and event lifecycle handling, DynamoDB key design and consistency models, API Gateway stages and request or response transformations, Cognito federated access, KMS encryption across account boundaries, CloudWatch embedded metric format, and X-Ray style tracing annotations.
Version 2.1 of the exam guide, published December 12, 2024, added skills that reflect current AWS tooling, including using Amazon Q Developer to assist with development and to generate automated tests, using Amazon EventBridge to implement event-driven patterns, implementing structured logging for application events, and writing resilient integration code with retry logic and circuit breakers. AWS also now includes unscored pretest questions on emerging topics such as AI-assisted code generation and securing AI service integrations. Those questions do not affect your score.
The certification is valid for three years. You can recertify by passing the current version of the exam, or by earning AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional, which automatically recertifies this associate credential. Once you hold any AWS Certification you get a 50 percent discount voucher for your next exam, available in your AWS Certification Account.
Why Get AWS Developer Associate Certified?
The exam costs 150 USD and takes 130 minutes, which makes it one of the cheaper credentials that hiring managers still treat as a real filter for cloud developer roles.
It is the AWS certification that maps most directly to writing code rather than drawing diagrams. Four of the exam guide's out-of-scope items are architecture and administration tasks, so preparation time goes into SDK behaviour, Lambda configuration and DynamoDB access patterns.
Passing it automatically qualifies you for a 50 percent discount voucher on your next AWS exam, which cuts a professional-level exam from 300 USD to 150 USD.
Earning AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional later recertifies this credential automatically, so the three-year clock can be reset without sitting the associate exam again.
The 32 percent Development with AWS Services domain forces depth on Lambda, DynamoDB, EventBridge and messaging services, which are the same services most serverless job descriptions list.
Version 2.1 of the exam guide added Amazon Q Developer as skills 1.1.11 and 3.3.6, and added Amazon Q Developer to the in-scope service list while removing AWS Copilot and Amazon CodeGuru, so preparing now means learning the toolset AWS currently tests.
Study materials are unusually well aligned because AWS publishes the full skill-level outline, the in-scope service list and the out-of-scope service list, so you can stop studying a topic with confidence.
Exam Format & Structure
Duration
130 minutes
Questions
65 questions, of which 50 are scored and 15 are unscored pretest items
Passing Score
720 on a scaled range of 100 to 1,000, using a compensatory model so no individual domain has to be passed
Question Types
- Multiple choice: one correct response and three incorrect responses
- Multiple response: two or more correct responses out of five or more response options
- Unscored pretest questions mixed in and not identified
- Unscored pretest questions on emerging topics such as AI-assisted development
Delivery Method
Pearson VUE test center or Pearson VUE online proctored exam (OnVUE)
Exam Domains & Topics
The largest domain covers writing application code that runs on AWS, developing for Lambda specifically, and using data stores from application code. It spans architectural patterns you consume rather than design, Lambda configuration and event lifecycle handling, and DynamoDB key and index design. Expect questions that give you a code or configuration symptom and ask which setting or API call fixes it.
Key Topics to Master:
- Event-driven, microservices, monolithic, choreography, orchestration and fanout patterns
- Stateful versus stateless design and tightly versus loosely coupled components
- Lambda memory, concurrency, timeout, runtime, handler, layers, extensions, triggers and destinations
- Lambda event lifecycle and error handling with Lambda Destinations and dead-letter queues
- DynamoDB high-cardinality partition keys, indexing, query versus scan, strong versus eventual consistency
- Amazon EventBridge for event-driven patterns and Amazon SQS or SNS messaging from code
- API creation and maintenance including request and response transformations, validation rules and status code overrides
- Data caching services and purpose-built stores such as Amazon OpenSearch Service
- Retry logic, circuit breakers and error handling for third-party service integrations
Security covers authentication and authorization for applications and AWS services, encryption using AWS services, and handling sensitive data inside application code. The framing is always from the developer seat: which token, which role, which key, which secret store. Administering IAM users and groups is explicitly out of scope, so questions target the calling application rather than the identity administrator.
Key Topics to Master:
- Amazon Cognito and IAM federated access, and securing applications with bearer tokens
- Assuming IAM roles and making authenticated calls to AWS services
- Defining permissions for IAM principals and application-level fine-grained authorization
- Cross-service authentication in microservice architectures
- Encryption at rest and in transit, client-side versus server-side encryption
- AWS KMS key use, key rotation enable and disable, and encryption across account boundaries
- Certificate management including AWS Private CA
- Encrypting environment variables and using AWS Secrets Manager or Systems Manager Parameter Store
- Data classification for PII and PHI, plus application-level data masking and sanitization
Deployment covers preparing application artifacts, testing in development environments, automating deployment testing, and shipping code through AWS CI/CD services. Designing a pipeline from scratch is out of scope, but using one is not. Infrastructure as code with AWS SAM and CloudFormation templates appears throughout, as do deployment strategies and rollbacks.
Key Topics to Master:
- Packaging dependencies, environment variables, configuration files and container images
- AWS AppConfig for environment-specific application configuration
- AWS SAM templates and CloudFormation templates, including updating existing templates
- Lambda deployment packaging options, Lambda aliases and versions
- API Gateway stages, stage variables and custom domains
- Blue/green, canary and rolling deployment strategies, plus rollback mechanisms
- Creating JSON test events for Lambda, API Gateway and AWS SAM resources
- Integration tests and mock APIs for external dependencies
- Using Amazon Q Developer to generate automated tests
The smallest domain covers root cause analysis, instrumenting code for observability, and tuning applications with AWS services. It is the domain most likely to hand you a log excerpt, a metric graph or a trace and ask what broke. Custom metrics, structured logging and tracing annotations all appear as things you implement in code, not things you configure in a console.
Key Topics to Master:
- Debugging code, interpreting application metrics, logs and traces, and querying logs
- CloudWatch embedded metric format for custom metrics
- Structured logging for application events and user actions
- Tracing with annotations, and the difference between logging, monitoring and observability
- Troubleshooting deployment failures using service output logs
- Lambda concurrency, memory sizing and performance profiling
- Application-level caching and caching content based on request headers
- Subscription filter policies to optimize messaging
- Health checks and readiness probes, and notification alerts for quota limits or deployment completion
Recommended Study Plan
- 1Read the DVA-C02 exam guide on docs.aws.amazon.com end to end, including the in-scope and out-of-scope AWS service lists
- 2Take the free AWS Certification Official Practice Question Set for Developer - Associate on AWS Skill Builder to see question style
- 3Enrol in the AWS Skill Builder Exam Prep Plan for AWS Certified Developer - Associate
- 4Create a tracking sheet with the four domains weighted 32, 26, 24 and 18 so study hours follow the blueprint
- 5Run the AWS Exam Demo tool on the Pearson VUE AWS page to learn the flag, review and comment controls
- 1Build a Lambda function with AWS SAM locally, then deploy it and invoke it from the CLI
- 2Change memory, timeout, reserved concurrency and provisioned concurrency and observe the effect on duration and cold starts
- 3Wire up Lambda Destinations for both success and failure, then add an SQS dead-letter queue and force a failure
- 4Attach a Lambda layer and a Lambda extension, and read the AWS documentation on the execution environment lifecycle
- 5Give a Lambda function VPC access and note what changes about outbound internet and ENI behaviour
- 1Design a table for one access pattern, then deliberately design a hot partition key and watch the throttling metrics
- 2Compare Query and Scan on the same table and record the consumed capacity difference
- 3Write code that uses strongly consistent and eventually consistent reads and explain when each is required
- 4Add a local secondary index and a global secondary index and list the constraints of each
- 5Add DynamoDB Accelerator or ElastiCache in front of a read-heavy path and measure the change
- 6Enable TTL and DynamoDB Streams and trigger a Lambda function from the stream
- 1Build a REST API with request validation, a mapping template and a status code override
- 2Create dev, test and prod stages with stage variables that point to different Lambda aliases
- 3Set up an EventBridge custom bus with a rule, an input transformer and a dead-letter queue on the target
- 4Build an SNS fanout to two SQS queues and apply a subscription filter policy to one of them
- 5Compare standard and FIFO SQS queues, and test visibility timeout and long polling behaviour
- 1Create a Cognito user pool and an identity pool and write down exactly which one issues which token
- 2Protect an API Gateway route with a Cognito authorizer, then with a Lambda authorizer, and compare
- 3Call sts:AssumeRole from application code and inspect the temporary credentials returned
- 4Write an IAM policy with a condition key and test it in the IAM policy simulator
- 5Read the AWS documentation on bearer tokens and JWT validation for API access
- 1Encrypt a Lambda environment variable with a customer managed KMS key and decrypt it in the handler
- 2Practise envelope encryption with GenerateDataKey, and compare client-side to server-side encryption on S3
- 3Enable and then disable automatic key rotation on a KMS key and note what happens to old ciphertext
- 4Share a KMS key across accounts with a key policy and grant, then encrypt and decrypt across the boundary
- 5Store a database credential in Secrets Manager with rotation, and the same value in Parameter Store, and compare the retrieval code
- 1Deploy the same AWS SAM template to two environments and use AppConfig for environment-specific values
- 2Configure a canary deployment on a Lambda alias with a CloudWatch alarm that triggers automatic rollback
- 3Configure a blue/green and a rolling deployment and write down the failure mode each protects against
- 4Commit code that triggers a build, test and deploy workflow, then break the build on purpose and read the output logs
- 5Use Amazon Q Developer to generate unit tests for one of your functions and review what it produced
- 1Emit custom metrics using the CloudWatch embedded metric format from a Lambda function
- 2Convert an application's plain-text logs to structured JSON logs and query them in CloudWatch Logs Insights
- 3Enable tracing, add annotations and subsegments, then find a slow downstream call in the trace map
- 4Profile a function at three memory settings and pick the cheapest configuration that meets the latency target
- 5Create a CloudWatch alarm on a service quota metric and route it to SNS
- 1Sit the AWS Certification Official Practice Exam for Developer - Associate under a 130-minute timer
- 2Sit a full Tutorials Dojo or Stephane Maarek practice set and log every wrong answer by domain
- 3Rework every missed question against AWS documentation rather than the answer explanation alone
- 4Re-read the out-of-scope service list and stop studying anything on it
- 5Review the Version 2.1 skill statements listed in the Revisions section of the exam guide, including Amazon Q Developer, EventBridge patterns and circuit breakers
- 1Schedule the exam through your AWS Certification Account, confirming your account name matches your ID exactly
- 2Familiarise yourself with the AWS service short-name list that will be available behind the Help button
- 3Do one timed pass at 2 minutes per question and practise flagging rather than stalling
- 4Rebuild one Lambda, one DynamoDB table and one API Gateway stage from memory without documentation
- 5Confirm your ID requirements, and run the Pearson VUE system test if you are testing online
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Best Study Resources
AWS Certified Developer - Associate exam guide (DVA-C02)
Official exam blueprintThe authoritative source for the four domains, their 32, 26, 24 and 18 percent weightings, every skill statement, and the in-scope and out-of-scope AWS service lists. AWS publishes revisions at least one month before they reach the live exam.
Free
AWS Skill Builder Exam Prep Plan: AWS Certified Developer - Associate
Official learning planAWS's own four-step plan: sample questions, digital courses to fill gaps, domain review with flashcards and instructor walkthroughs, then a readiness check. Some components sit behind the Individual subscription.
Free tier plus paid Individual subscription for the full set
AWS Certification Official Practice Question Set and Official Practice Exam
Official practiceThe question set shows the wording and difficulty AWS actually uses. The full practice exam is the closest available approximation of the timed 65-question experience and is the best single readiness signal.
Question set free, full practice exam included with an AWS Skill Builder subscription
AWS Builder Labs
Hands-on labsGuided labs in real AWS accounts, which matters for a developer exam where questions describe symptoms you only recognise if you have caused them yourself. Pairs with AWS Cloud Quest and AWS Jam for scenario practice.
Included with an AWS Skill Builder Individual subscription
AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM) documentation and CLI
Official documentation and toolingAWS SAM appears by name in skill statements for unit testing, deploying stack updates to staging environments and implementing infrastructure as code. Installing the CLI and running sam local invoke covers several exam objectives at once.
Free
Amazon DynamoDB Developer Guide
Official documentationRead the sections on partition key design, secondary indexes, read consistency, and query versus scan. These map one to one onto skills 1.3.1 through 1.3.4 of the exam guide and are the most commonly missed area of the Development domain.
Free
Stephane Maarek, Ultimate AWS Certified Developer Associate on Udemy
Video courseA widely used lecture course that walks each service with hands-on demos and includes a practice exam. Useful for building breadth quickly before switching to AWS documentation for depth.
Paid, price varies with Udemy promotions
Adrian Cantrill, AWS Certified Developer - Associate course
Video course with labsLonger and more mechanism-focused than most courses, with demo lessons you build yourself. Suited to candidates who want to understand why a service behaves the way it does rather than memorise its limits.
Paid one-off purchase
Tutorials Dojo practice exams for DVA-C02
Practice questionsTimed practice sets with long explanations that cite AWS documentation. Best used after you can already explain the four domains, as a way of finding blind spots rather than as a first learning source.
Paid
AWS Exam Demo at Pearson VUE
Interface walkthroughA short demo of the actual exam user interface, including colour contrast options, the flag-for-review control and the English-language toggle used on translated exams. Worth 15 minutes before exam day.
Free
Common Mistakes to Avoid
Preparing as if it is a general programming interview and grinding algorithm problems.
DVA-C02 never asks you to write an algorithm. It asks which Lambda setting, which DynamoDB key, which SDK call or which IAM condition solves a described problem. Spend the time in the AWS console and SDK docs instead.
Studying VPC design, IAM user and group administration, and CI/CD pipeline architecture in depth.
The exam guide lists all three as out of scope for the target candidate. Read the out-of-scope list, cut those topics, and move the hours into the 32 percent Development domain.
Memorising Lambda service quotas but never configuring destinations, layers, extensions or reserved concurrency.
Skill 1.2.2 names memory, concurrency, timeout, runtime, handler, layers, extensions, triggers and destinations directly. Configure each one at least once and note the failure behaviour when it is set wrongly.
Treating Cognito user pools and identity pools as the same thing.
A user pool authenticates users and issues ID and access tokens. An identity pool exchanges a token for temporary AWS credentials. Build both in one afternoon and write down which one your application calls at each step.
Designing DynamoDB tables with a low-cardinality partition key in practice questions and not noticing the throttling clue.
Skill 1.3.1 is specifically about high-cardinality partition keys for balanced partition access. When a question mentions throttling on a table that is under its provisioned capacity, the answer is almost always key distribution.
Skipping API Gateway stage variables and custom domains because they feel like configuration rather than development.
Skills 3.4.2 and 3.4.10 both name them. Build one API with stage variables that route to different Lambda aliases, which is the exact pattern the exam uses to test dynamic deployments.
Knowing that KMS encrypts data but not knowing what happens when key rotation is enabled or when a key is shared across accounts.
Skills 2.2.6 and 2.2.7 call out cross-account encryption and enabling or disabling key rotation. Practise both, and be able to say what happens to data encrypted under the previous key material.
Studying a syllabus written for Version 2.0 of the exam guide and missing the skills added in Version 2.1.
Version 2.1 adds Amazon Q Developer for development assistance and test generation, EventBridge event-driven patterns, structured logging, health checks and readiness probes, and circuit breaker patterns for third-party integrations. It also drops AWS Copilot and Amazon CodeGuru from the in-scope service list. Check the Revisions section of the guide before you book.
Leaving hard questions blank to come back to them and running out of time.
Unanswered questions are scored as incorrect and there is no guessing penalty. Always select something, then use Flag for Review so the end-of-exam review screen brings you back to it.
Exam Day Tips
- 1
You get 130 minutes for 65 questions, which is two minutes each. Multiple-response questions with five or more options will eat more than that, so bank time on the short ones early.
- 2
This exam uses short names for some AWS services. The mapping from short names to full service names sits behind the Help button. Open it once at the start so you are not discovering it at question 40.
- 3
Test center candidates need two primary IDs, or one primary and one secondary. Online proctored candidates need one primary ID. The first and last name must be identical to your AWS Certification Account, and name changes take two business days to process.
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At a test center, arrive 15 to 30 minutes early. Testing online, you can launch up to 30 minutes early, and arriving more than 15 minutes late forfeits the fee.
- 5
There are no scheduled breaks. At a test center you may take an unscheduled break but the clock keeps running and you cannot leave the building. Online proctored, you may not stand up or leave the camera view at all, for any reason.
- 6
The Candidate Code of Conduct screen gives you five minutes. Timing out on it ends the exam with no refund, so read it and click through promptly.
- 7
The on-screen Comment button subtracts from your exam time. Flag questions you want to comment on and add the comments only after you have answered everything.
- 8
A timer warning appears at five minutes remaining, and the end-of-exam review screen lets you filter by all, incomplete or flagged questions. Plan to reach that screen with at least ten minutes left.
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Most AWS exams do not show a pass or fail result on screen. Detailed results appear in your AWS Certification Account under Exam History within five business days, and a Credly badge email may arrive first.
Career Paths & Salary Ranges
Cloud application developer
Builds and maintains application code that runs on Lambda, ECS or EC2, using the AWS SDKs and CLI. The DVA-C02 blueprint is close to a job description for this role, particularly the Development with AWS Services and Troubleshooting domains.
$95k-$140k
Serverless engineer
Designs and ships event-driven systems built on Lambda, API Gateway, EventBridge, SQS, SNS and DynamoDB. Every one of those services appears by name in the exam guide skill statements.
$95k-$140k
Backend engineer on an AWS platform team
Owns APIs and services consumed by other teams, including versioning, stage management and rollback. The Deployment domain at 24 percent covers the release mechanics this role handles daily.
$95k-$140k
DevOps engineer
Runs build, test and deploy workflows and the infrastructure as code behind them. This certification is a common stepping stone to AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional, which also recertifies it automatically.
$95k-$140k
Software development engineer, cloud native products
Writes production code against AWS service APIs with responsibility for observability and cost. The Troubleshooting and Optimization domain maps to the instrumentation and rightsizing work this role owns.
$95k-$140k
Prerequisites & Requirements
- There are no mandatory prerequisites. AWS states that all AWS Certifications may be earned without completing specific prerequisites.
- AWS recommends one or more years of hands-on experience developing and maintaining applications by using AWS services.
- AWS recommends proficiency in at least one high-level programming language, understanding of application lifecycle management, and experience using development tools.
- AWS recommends the ability to develop and secure applications using AWS service APIs, the AWS CLI and the SDKs, and to use a CI/CD pipeline to deploy applications on AWS.
- Candidates with no IT work experience are advised by AWS to earn AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner first.
- Candidates must be 13 years or older. Candidates aged 13 to 17 need consent from a parent or legal guardian and have separate ID requirements.
Frequently Asked Questions
How much does the AWS Certified Developer - Associate exam cost?
The exam costs 150 USD. AWS also publishes local-currency prices for associate exams: 128 EUR, 224 AUD, 20,000 JPY, 197,287 KRW, 1,057 CNY, and 12,829.50 INR through the Pearson Mindhub voucher store. Applicable taxes such as VAT may be added, and AWS updates foreign exchange rates at least annually in May with a minimum of 30 days notice.
What is the passing score for DVA-C02?
The minimum passing score is 720 on a scaled range of 100 to 1,000. The scale is not a percentage. Scoring is compensatory, so you need 720 overall and do not have to pass each of the four domains individually. Only 50 of the 65 questions count toward that score.
How many questions are on the exam and how long do I get?
There are 65 questions and 130 minutes. Fifty questions affect your score and 15 are unscored pretest items that AWS uses to evaluate questions for future use. The unscored questions are not identified during the exam, so answer all 65 as though they count.
What happens if I fail the exam?
You must wait 14 calendar days before you are eligible to retake it. There is no limit on the number of attempts, but you pay the full registration fee each time. A failed attempt does not appear on your public Credly profile, since badges are only issued for passes.
How long does it take to get results?
Detailed results are available within five business days in your AWS Certification Account under Exam History, and AWS emails you when they are posted. Most AWS Certification exams do not display a pass or fail result on screen at the end. If you passed, the Credly digital badge email sometimes arrives before the score report.
How does the score scale work and what does the section feedback mean?
Scores are reported on a 100 to 1,000 scale so that results can be equated across exam forms of slightly different difficulty. Your score report may include a table of classifications showing performance per domain. AWS advises caution reading it, because domains have different question counts and the classifications are directional rather than precise.
What identification do I need on exam day?
For an online proctored exam you need one primary ID. For a test center you need two primary IDs, or one primary and one secondary. A primary ID must be original, unexpired, government-issued, with your name in Roman characters, a recognisable photo and a visible signature. Digital, photocopied and laminated paper IDs are not accepted.
Can I take a break during the exam?
There are no scheduled breaks on AWS Certification exams. At a test center you may take an unscheduled break, but the exam clock keeps running, you cannot leave the building, and you must repeat check-in to return. For online proctored exams no breaks are permitted at all, and you may not leave the camera view for any reason.
Am I allowed a calculator, scratch paper or reference materials?
No outside reference materials are permitted. The only in-exam reference is the list of AWS service short names and their full names, available through the Help button. Test center rules on note boards and comfort aids come from the Pearson VUE Candidate Rules Agreement, and specific comfort aids such as medicines and medical devices do not require prior approval.
Are accommodations available?
Yes. Reasonable accommodations are arranged with Pearson VUE and must be requested before you schedule each exam. Separately, AWS offers an ESL +30 accommodation that adds 30 minutes for non-native English speakers taking the exam in English. ESL +30 only needs to be requested once and then applies to all future registrations.
How do I recertify, and does anything reset the clock automatically?
The certification is valid for three years. You can recertify by passing the current version of the Developer - Associate exam, or by earning AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional, which automatically recertifies this associate credential. AWS does not use continuing education credits for certification renewal.
Can I reschedule or cancel my exam?
Yes, up to 24 hours before your appointment, with no additional fee, through the Manage Pearson VUE exams button in your AWS Certification Account. Each appointment can be rescheduled twice only. Inside the 24-hour window you forfeit the fee, and missing the appointment forfeits it too, although a missed exam does not count as a fail. AWS waives the fee with documentation for illness or unforeseen emergencies.
How does this compare to AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate?
Both cost 150 USD, run 130 minutes and use 65 questions, but the content differs sharply. Solutions Architect - Associate asks you to choose an architecture. Developer - Associate asks you to configure and debug code, and its exam guide places architecture design, VPC design and IAM administration out of scope. Developers who write Lambda and DynamoDB code daily usually find DVA-C02 the easier of the two.
Do I need to know a specific programming language?
No single language is required. The exam guide asks for proficiency in at least one high-level language and names Java, C#, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript and Go as examples. Questions are written so that the AWS behaviour, not the syntax, decides the answer.
Does the exam test AI or Amazon Q Developer?
Yes, in two ways. Amazon Q Developer appears in scored skill statements for assisting with development and generating automated tests. Separately, AWS includes unscored pretest questions on emerging topics such as AI-assisted code generation, securing AI service integrations, and using AWS AI tools in CI/CD workflows. Those pretest questions do not affect your score.
Is online proctoring available for this exam?
Yes. Online proctoring through Pearson VUE OnVUE is available for all AWS Certification exams. English proctoring runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Japanese proctoring runs Monday to Saturday, Spanish (Latin America) proctoring runs Monday to Friday, and Mandarin proctoring for customers in mainland China runs Monday to Friday. Communication with a proctor is required to complete the appointment.
Do I get a discount on my next AWS exam after passing?
Yes. Once you earn any AWS Certification you receive a 50 percent discount voucher for your next AWS Certification exam, accessible from the Benefits section of your AWS Certification Account. Applied to a professional or specialty exam, that turns 300 USD into 150 USD.
Can I retake the exam after I pass it?
Not for two years, unless AWS releases a new version with a new exam guide and exam series code, in which case you become eligible to sit the new version. Benefits, including the discount voucher, become available within five business days of passing.
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