AWS Certified Developer – Associate (DVA-C02)

Cloud application delivery can stall when development teams lack a shared AWS pattern for building, deploying, securing, and monitoring applications. This intermediate AWS Certified Developer – Associate (DVA-C02) course gives IT Directors and Team Leads a structured path for developers with cloud experience to standardize on AWS services used in modern application delivery: Lambda, API Gateway, SAM, SQS, SNS, ECS, DynamoDB, RDS, S3, CodeCommit, CodePipeline, IAM, encryption, CloudWatch, and logging.

The course is a realistic assignment for software developers, cloud engineers, and DevOps-aligned IT Practitioners who need certification preparation and practical AWS deployment fluency. Plan for roughly 34 hours per learner, plus review time for exam readiness or internal implementation standards. For change management, Team Leads can assign sections by role — serverless, containers, databases, CI/CD, or monitoring — before rolling patterns into production workflows.

CBT Nuggets Playlists and Team Reporting help Training Managers assign the right sequence, monitor progress, and support certification-focused upskilling across the team.

IT teams complete this training to connect AWS developer skills with day-to-day application delivery work, not just exam objectives. The course maps to common production scenarios: deploying Lambda functions, exposing applications through API Gateway, building CI/CD pipelines, securing access with IAM, connecting workloads to private VPC resources, and monitoring resources with CloudWatch.

• Faster cloud application deployment: Teams practice packaging and deploying serverless applications with Lambda, SAM templates, API Gateway, and CodePipeline.
• More consistent integration patterns: Developers learn when to use SQS queues, SNS fanout, WebSocket APIs, caching, and DynamoDB batch operations.
• Stronger operational readiness: IT Practitioners cover encryption at rest, IAM roles and policies, CloudWatch monitoring, log streaming to S3, and logging plans.
• Reduced dependency on specialists: Cross-functional teams gain working knowledge of containers on ECS, RDS in private subnets, DynamoDB querying, and storage resources.

Knowledge

• Core AWS developer services covered by the DVA-C02 exam, including Lambda, API Gateway, DynamoDB, RDS, S3, ECS, and ECR
• Serverless application patterns using Lambda, SAM templates, queues, notifications, and API integrations
• CI/CD concepts using AWS CodeCommit, CodePipeline, Elastic Beanstalk, Taskcat, and infrastructure as code templates
• Security and access control fundamentals, including AWS accounts, IAM roles, policies, VPC connectivity, and encryption at rest
• Monitoring and logging approaches using CloudWatch, real-time log streaming to S3, and AWS logging plans

Ability

• Create, extend, deploy, and test Lambda-based applications in AWS
• Build REST and WebSocket API Gateway integrations for application workloads
• Deploy containerized applications with ECR, ECS, Docker Compose, and advanced ECS deployment methods
• Configure DynamoDB, RDS, caching, storage, and time-series data resources for application use cases
• Build basic and more advanced CI/CD pipelines for AWS application deployments