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Book Description

The AWS Certified Developer Associate certification demonstrates your expertise in developing, deploying, and maintaining applications on the world’s leading cloud platform, Amazon Web Services. AWS Certified Developer Associate Cert Guide is the comprehensive self-study resource for the updated version of Amazon’s valuable new exam.

 

Designed for all AWS Certified Developer Associate candidates, this guide covers every exam objective concisely and logically, with extensive teaching features designed to promote retention and understanding. You’ll find:

  • Hands-on labs you can perform with a free AWS account
  • Real-world examples throughout
  • Pre-chapter quizzes to assess knowledge upfront, and efficiently focus your study
  • Foundation topics sections that explain concepts and configurations, and link theory to practice
  • Key topics sections calling attention to every figure, table, and list you must know
  • Exam Preparation sections with additional chapter review features
  • Final preparation chapter with tools and resources to help you craft review and test-taking strategies and optimize study time
  • A customizable practice test library

This guide’s comprehensive, developer-focused, real-world coverage addresses all exam topics related to:

  • AWS authentication, identity and access management
  • Computing services
  • Data storage, processing, and transformation
  • AWS developer tools
  • DevOps: CI/CD in the cloud
  • AWS Cloud9 and CodeStar
  • Migrating, refactoring, monitoring, and troubleshooting AWS code

Table of Contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. About This eBook
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Figure Credits
  6. About the Author
  7. About the Technical Reviewer
  8. Dedication
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Contents at a Glance
  11. Contents
  12. Reader Services
  13. Introduction
    1. The Companion Website for Online Content Review
    2. How to Access the Pearson Test Prep (PTP) App
  14. Chapter 1. Overview of AWS
    1. “Do I Know This Already?” Quiz
    2. Foundation Topics
    3. Overview of Cloud Computing
    4. The Shared Responsibility Model
    5. AWS Services
    6. AWS Global Architecture
    7. Accessing AWS
    8. Summary
    9. Exam Preparation Tasks
    10. Review All Key Topics
    11. Define Key Terms
    12. Q&A
  15. Chapter 2. Authentication, Identity, and Access Management
    1. “Do I Know This Already?” Quiz
    2. Foundation Topics
    3. Overview of IAM
    4. Identity Principals in IAM
    5. Identity Providers and Federation
    6. Implementing Application Authentication and Authorization
    7. Encryption in AWS Services
    8. Exam Preparation Tasks
    9. Review All Key Topics
    10. Define Key Terms
    11. Q&A
  16. Chapter 3. Compute Services in AWS
    1. “Do I Know This Already?” Quiz
    2. Foundation Topics
    3. Computing Basics
    4. Networking in AWS
    5. Computing in AWS
    6. Storing Persistent Data
    7. Scalability and High Availability
    8. Orchestration and Automation
    9. Exam Preparation Tasks
    10. Review All Key Topics
    11. Define Key Terms
    12. Q&A
  17. Chapter 4. Storing Data in AWS
    1. “Do I Know This Already?” Quiz
    2. Foundation Topics
    3. Storing Static Assets in AWS
    4. Relational Versus Nonrelational Databases
    5. Deploying Relational Databases in AWS
    6. Handling Nonrelational Data in AWS
    7. Caching Data in AWS
    8. Exam Preparation Tasks
    9. Review All Key Topics
    10. Define Key Terms
    11. Q&A
  18. Chapter 5. Going Serverless in AWS
    1. “Do I Know This Already?” Quiz
    2. Foundation Topics
    3. Going Serverless
    4. Automating Serverless Processing Flows
    5. Messaging and Queueing
    6. Exam Preparation Tasks
    7. Review All Key Topics
    8. Define Key Terms
    9. Q&A
  19. Chapter 6. AWS Development Tools
    1. “Do I Know This Already?” Quiz
    2. Foundation Topics
    3. DevOps Basics
    4. Developing Code in AWS Cloud9
    5. Storing Code in AWS CodeCommit
    6. Using AWS CodeBuild to Build Artifacts
    7. Using AWS CodeDeploy to Deploy Applications
    8. Building a CI/CD Pipeline with AWS CodePipeline
    9. Exam Preparation Tasks
    10. Review All Key Topics
    11. Define Key Terms
    12. Q&A
  20. Chapter 7. Migrating and Refactoring
    1. “Do I Know This Already?” Quiz
    2. Foundation Topics
    3. Migrating to AWS
    4. AWS Migration Tools and Services
    5. Exam Preparation Tasks
    6. Review All Key Topics
    7. Define Key Terms
    8. Q&A
  21. Chapter 8. Monitoring and Troubleshooting
    1. “Do I Know This Already?” Quiz
    2. Foundation Topics
    3. Amazon CloudWatch
    4. Amazon CloudTrail
    5. AWS Config
    6. Troubleshooting an Application in AWS
    7. Exam Preparation Tasks
    8. Review All Key Topics
    9. Define Key Terms
    10. Q&A
  22. Chapter 9. Final Preparation
    1. Exam Information
    2. Getting Ready
    3. Tools for Final Preparation
    4. Suggested Plan for Final Review/Study
    5. Summary
  23. Glossary of Key Terms
  24. Appendix A: Answers to the “Do I Know This Already?” Quizzes and Q&A Sections
    1. Chapter 1
    2. Chapter 2
    3. Chapter 3
    4. Chapter 4
    5. Chapter 5
    6. Chapter 6
    7. Chapter 7
    8. Chapter 8
  25. Appendix B: AWS Certified Developer–Associate (DVA-C01) Exam Updates
    1. Always Get the Latest at the Book’s Product Page
    2. Technical Content
  26. Index
  27. Appendix C: Study Planner
  28. Where are the companion content files? - Register Page
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