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AWS DVA-C02AWS Certified Developer — Associate
AWS Certified Developer — Associate covers building, deploying, and debugging applications on AWS using SDKs, CLI, and core services.
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Exam facts
Everything you need to know about the AWS DVA-C02 exam.
- Passing score
- 720 / 1000
- Format & length
- 65 questions · 130 minutes
- Voucher cost
- $150 USD
- Prerequisites
- 1+ year of hands-on AWS development recommended
- Validity
- 3 years
Exam facts sourced from the official AWS certification page. Last reviewed June 2026.
What’s tested
Key topics on the AWS DVA-C02 exam.
The Cert Climb question bank is mapped to every domain on the official AWS DVA-C02 exam blueprint, so what you study is what the test asks.
- Development with AWS Services
- Security
- Deployment
- Troubleshooting & Optimization
Who it’s for
Built for the people taking this exam.
Application developers building on AWS — Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, SQS, S3.
Why it matters in 2026
The career signal.
DVA-C02 is the AWS credential that aligns with serverless and microservices roles — Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, Step Functions, EventBridge. Job postings for cloud developers increasingly call it out by name alongside or instead of SAA, and it pairs naturally with a language cert (Python/Node) for backend roles. Senior dev compensation with DVA-C02 in the US clusters around $130–150K.
Sample question
What a AWS DVA-C02 question looks like.
A developer is designing a DynamoDB table for a multi-tenant SaaS application where each tenant can have millions of orders. The access pattern requires fetching all orders for a specific tenant sorted by order creation timestamp, and the cardinality of tenants is very high (hundreds of thousands). Which partition key design best avoids hot partitions while supporting this access pattern?
See the answer & explanation
Correct: B. Use a composite partition key such as tenantId#shardSuffix (e.g., tenantId#1 through tenantId#10) and createdAt as the sort key, then scatter-gather across shards at read time.
Why: Write sharding by appending a random or deterministic suffix to the partition key (tenantId#N) distributes writes across multiple physical partitions, preventing hot-partition throttling for high-volume tenants. At read time you issue parallel Query requests for each shard and merge results — a well-known scatter-gather pattern. Option A creates a hot partition for any tenant with very high write throughput. Option C requires a full-table Scan, which is expensive and does not scale. Option D co-locates all tenant data under a single partition key value 'SERVICE', which creates the most extreme hot-partition scenario possible.
What you get
Everything you need to actually pass.
Full question bank
40 questions covering every objective on the official AWS DVA-C02 exam blueprint, with detailed explanations on every option — right and wrong.
Quiz modes
Timed exam simulation, missed-only review, topic drills, and a daily question of the day. Practice the way you study best.
Flashcards
Spaced-repetition flashcards generated from each topic. Pull them up on a phone in the gap between meetings.
Progress tracking
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Per-category premium
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No-fluff explanations
Every wrong answer comes with a 2-3 sentence explanation of why it’s wrong, not just “the correct answer is X.” Pattern recognition is the whole game.
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FAQ
Frequently asked questions about AWS DVA-C02
What is the AWS DVA-C02 exam?
AWS Certified Developer — Associate covers building, deploying, and debugging applications on AWS using SDKs, CLI, and core services.
How many questions are on the AWS DVA-C02 exam, and how long is it?
65 questions · 130 minutes
What is the passing score for the AWS DVA-C02 exam?
720 / 1000
How much does the AWS DVA-C02 exam cost?
$150 USD
Are there prerequisites for the AWS DVA-C02 exam?
1+ year of hands-on AWS development recommended
How long is the AWS DVA-C02 certification valid?
3 years
How many questions does the AWS DVA-C02 bank have?
40 questions, organized into 4 subject areas mapped to the official exam objectives.
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We track exam version updates and refresh the bank within weeks of new objectives. Where the version of an exam matters (e.g. CompTIA SY0-701 vs. SY0-601), question explanations call it out.
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