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How I became an AWS Certified Developer - how to pass the associate exam!

Andre on August 30, 2020

Originally published at andredevries.dev A few months ago I passed the AWS Certified Developer Associate Exam. This exam tests your knowledge o...
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Andrew Brown 🇨🇦 • Edited

I'm a core member of the 100DaysOfCloud. For those who might not know. It's more than a hashtag but a full community:

100daysofcloud.com/

I have a 16-hour free course to pass the AWS Developer Associate on freeCodeCamp.

I spent extra time creating this free CheatSheat just around DynamoDB for the exam:

freecodecamp.org/news/ultimate-dyn...

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HarveyEland

Yup.. I took this course on youtube. It was free and great. Thanks to Andrew. I passed my exam last week with 920. All thanks to his course and also Skillcertpro where I took the practice questions. Both equally helped me to clear this cert.
I suggest everyone to practice as many questions as possible before sitting for main exam. Skillcertpro skillcertpro.com/product/aws-certi... questions were also very identical to what I have seen in main exam. Schedule your exam if you're scoring above 85% in their mock exams and you're good to go. All the best for others.

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Andre

Ah that’s a great resource! Thanks for sharing. :)

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Melvin Canafranca

Thanks for sharing this. There is a missing thought in one of the sections of the article. "These often relate to security best practices. A rule of thumb when you work with AWS is that you are responsible of securing what's in the cloud, while AWS secur"

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Andre

Thanks! Fixed it.

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JohnMichael

Thank you for sharing the learning resoources. I checked them all they are really helpful. But I'd also recommend real exam practice questions and practice tests to evaluate the exam preparation and to get an idea of the real exam. github.com/Study4Exam/Free-DVA-C01...

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ronniecave

Great!!
I have passed my AWS Certified Developer - Associate DVA-C02 exam. I got DVA-C02 practice test from P2PExams and it was quite helpful. By practicing with this study material i saw a huge improvement in my concepts related to the final exam and i passed my test on the first attempt.
p2pexams.com/products/dva-c02

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Harish Kotra (he/him)

This is GOLD! Thank you!

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Andre

No problem! Glad you found it useful :)

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Vengadakrishnan Raja P • Edited

How usefull does aws certicate for you

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Andre

AWS Certificates are really useful. But then you have to define what is 'useful' - useful for yourself and your career or for the company you work for. You learn a lot while studying for it, not only about the Cloud but also IT in general. That's always a good thing of course.

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Andrew Baisden

Always wondered about this thanks for sharing.

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Tomasz Kozieł

Thank you for sharing this, sum up like yours should be really useful