43 thoughts on “AWS Certified Developer – Associate Exam Learning Path”

1. Hi Jayendra,

   I am planning to write AWS Certified Developer – Associate Exam .

   Would you please share questions and answer , if you have ?

   Thanks

   1. Hi Jothi, the questions and answer are covered in the blog for Developer as well.
      Refer https://jayendrapatil.com/aws-certified-developer-associate-exam-learning-path/ for more details

      1. Thanks JayendraPatil . It is very useful for me

         1. Hello Jothi,

            Have you completed your exam. If yes then can you please share your study plan & steps required to crack this certification. Do you have any dumps related to this examination.

2. Hi Jayendra,

   Which are the white papers I need to refer for AWS-Certified Developer Associate exam? (Please mention white papers needed for AWS-CDA only, not solution architect ones)

   Thank you for your time in advance.

   1. Hi Chitra, there are no specific Whitepapers for Developer. Also, none is listed in the AWS blue print.

      1. Thanks for quick response Jayendra, then which white papers I should refer to crack CDA exam? or I need not go through them? or any main specific ones?

      2. Thanks for quick response Jayendra.

3. A Cloud Guru AWS Certified Developer – Associate (Practice Tests)

   you didn’t put a note whether the questions from this are similar to actual exam. was that intentional?

   1. Its intentional, I have not taken the A Cloud Guru tests and do not have users feedback as well, hence nothing is quoted for it.

4. How can I get your contact number jayendra ,I read lot of ur articles

   1. you can reach me through the https://jayendrapatil.com/contact/ page

5. Jayendra for Associate Developer exam for what specific topics we should read the FAQs?

   1. For Developer the focus should be in SQS, DynamoDB in addition to the VPC, S3, EC2, IAM and other core services.

6. Hi Everyone,

   Hope the whole world is doing great. Thanks to Jayendrapatil for all his hard work!

   “Let’s support the one that support others” ~Q.A

   Here’s something I would like to share!!

   AWS Developer Study Guide

   Which of the following items are required to allow an application deployed on an EC2 instance to write data to a DynamoDB table?

   Assume that no security Keys are allowed to be stored on the EC2 instance. (Choose two.)

   A. Create an IAM User that allows write access to the DynamoDB table.
   B. Add an IAM Role to a running EC2 instance.
   C. Add an IAM User to a running EC2 Instance.
   D. Launch an EC2 Instance with the IAM Role included in the launch configuration.
   E. Create an IAM Role that allows write access to the DynamoDB table.
   F. Launch an EC2 Instance with the IAM User included in the launch configuration.

   What is the maximum number of S3 Buckets available per AWS account?

   A. 100 per region
   B. there is no limit
   C. 100 per account
   D. 500 per account
   E. 100 per IAM user

   You attempt to store an object in the US-STANDARD region in Amazon S3, and receive a confirmation that it has been successfully stored. You then immediately make another API call and attempt to read this object. S3 tells you that the object does not exist.

   What could explain this behavior?

   A. US-STANDARD uses eventual consistency and it can take time for an object to be readable in a bucket
   B. Objects in Amazon S3 do not become visible until they are replicated to a second region.
   C. US-STANDARD imposes a 1 second delay before new objects are readable.
   D. You exceeded the bucket object limit, and once this limit is raised the object will be visible.

   After launching an instance that you intend to serve as a NAT (Network Address Translation) device in a public subnet you modify your route tables to have the NAT device be the target of internet bound traffic of your private subnet. When you try and make an outbound connection to the Internet from an instance in the private subnet, you are not successful.

   Which of the following steps could resolve the issue?

   A. Attaching a second Elastic Network interface (ENI) to the NAT instance, and placing it in the private subnet
   B. Attaching a second Elastic Network Interface (ENI) to the instance in the private subnet, and placing it in the public subnet
   C. Disabling the Source/Destination Check attribute on the NAT instance
   D. Attaching an Elastic IP address to the instance in the private subnet

   What item operation allows the retrieval of multiple items from a DynamoDB table in a single API call?

   A. GetItem
   B. BatchGetItem
   C. GetMultipleItems
   D. GetItemRange

   When uploading an object, what request header can be explicitly specified in a request to Amazon S3 to
   encrypt object data when saved on the server side?

   A. x-amz-storage-class
   B. Content-MD5
   C. x-amz-security-token
   D. x-amz-server-side-encryption

   Which of the following services are key/value stores? (Choose three.)

   A. Amazon ElastiCache
   B. Simple Notification Service
   C. DynamoDB
   D. Simple Workflow Service
   E. Simple Storage Service

   If a message is retrieved from a queue in Amazon SQS, how long is the message inaccessible to other users by default?

   A. 0 seconds
   B. 1 hour
   C. 1 day
   D. forever
   E. 30 seconds

   You have an environment that consists of a public subnet using Amazon VPC and 3 instances that are running in this subnet. These three instances can successfully communicate with other hosts on the Internet. You launch a fourth instance in the same subnet, using the same AMI and security group configuration you used for the others, but find that this instance cannot be accessed from the Internet.
   What should you do to enable internet access?

   A. Deploy a NAT instance into the public subnet.
   B. Modify the routing table for the public subnet
   C. Configure a publically routable IP Address In the host OS of the fourth instance.
   D. Assign an Elastic IP address to the fourth instance.

   Which of the following are correct statements with policy evaluation logic in AWS Identity and Access
   Management? (Choose two.)

   A. By default, all requests are denied
   B. An explicit allow overrides an explicit deny
   C. An explicit allow overrides default deny.
   D. An explicit deny does not override an explicit allow
   E. By default, all request are allowed

   What happens, by default, when one of the resources in a CloudFormation stack cannot be created?

   A. Previously-created resources are kept but the stack creation terminates.
   B. Previously-created resources are deleted and the stack creation terminates.
   C. The stack creation continues, and the final results indicate which steps failed.
   D. CloudFormation templates are parsed in advance so stack creation is guaranteed to succeed.

   Which features can be used to restrict access to data in S3? (Choose two.)
   A. Use S3 Virtual Hosting
   B. Set an S3 Bucket policy.
   C. Enable IAM Identity Federation.
   D. Set an S3 ACL on the bucket or the object.
   E. Create a CloudFront distribution for the bucket
   Which code snippet below returns the URL of a load balanced web site created in CloudFormation with an AWS::ElasticLoadBalancing::LoadBalancer resource name “ElasticLoad Balancer”?
   A. “Fn::Join” : [“”. [ “http://”, {“Fn::GetAtr” : [ “ElasticLoadBalancer”,”DNSName”]}]]
   B. “Fn::Join” : [“”. [ “http://”, {“Fn::GetAtr” : [ “ElasticLoadBalancer”,”Url”]}]]
   C. “Fn::Join” : [“”. [ “http://”, {“Ref” : “ElasticLoadBalancerUrl”}]]
   D. “Fn::Join” : [“.”, [ “http://”, {“Ref” : “ElasticLoadBalancerDNSName”}]]

   Which of the following platforms are supported by Elastic Beanstalk? (Choose two.)
   A. Apache Tomcat
   B. .NET
   C. IBM WebsphereD. Oracle JBoss
   E. Jetty

   Company D is running their corporate website on Amazon S3 accessed from http//www.companyd.com. Their marketing team has published new web fonts to a separate S3 bucket accessed by the S3 endpoint https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/cdfonts. While testing the new web fonts, Company D recognized the web fonts are being blocked by the browser.

   What should Company D do to prevent the web fonts from being blocked by the browser?
   A. Enable versioning on the cdfonts bucket for each web font
   B. Create a policy on the cdfonts bucket to enable access to everyone
   C. Add the Content-MD5 header to the request for webfonts in the cdfonts bucket from the website
   D. Configure the cdfonts bucket to allow cross-origin requests by creating a CORS configuration

   When using a large Scan operation in DynamoDB, what technique can be used to minimize the impact of a scan on a table’s provisioned throughput?

   A. Set a smaller page size for the scan
   B. Use parallel scans
   C. Define a range index on the table
   D. Prewarm the table by updating all items

   In AWS, which security aspects are the customer’s responsibility? (Choose four.)

   A. Life-cycle management of IAM credentials
   B. Decommissioning storage devices
   C. Security Group and ACL (Access Control List) settings
   D. Encryption of EBS (Elastic Block Storage) volumes
   E. Controlling physical access to compute resources
   F. Patch management on the EC2 instance’s operating system

   Which EC2 API call would you use to retrieve a list of Amazon Machine Images (AMIs)?

   A. DescnbeInstances
   B. DescribeAMls
   C. DescribeImages
   D. GetAMls
   E. You cannot retrieve a list of AMIs as there are over 10,000 AMIs

   EC2 instances are launched from Amazon Machine images (AMIs). A given public AMI can:
   A. be used to launch EC2 Instances in any AWS region.
   B. only be used to launch EC2 instances in the same country as the AMI is stored.
   C. only be used to launch EC2 instances in the same AWS region as the AMI is stored.
   D. only be used to launch EC2 instances in the same AWS availability zone as the AMI is stored

   How can software determine the public and private IP addresses of the Amazon EC2 instance that it is running on?

   A. Query the appropriate Amazon CloudWatch metric.
   B. Use ipconfig or ifconfig command.
   C. Query the local instance userdata.
   D. Query the local instance metadata.

   Which of the following are valid arguments for an SNS Publish request? (Choose three.)

   A. TopicArn
   B. Subject
   C. Destination
   D. Format
   E. Message
   F. Language

   How is provisioned throughput affected by the chosen consistency model when reading data from a DynamoDB table?

   A. Strongly consistent reads use the same amount of throughput as eventually consistent reads
   B. Strongly consistent reads use more throughput than eventually consistent reads
   C. Strongly consistent reads use less throughput than eventually consistent reads
   D. Strongly consistent reads use variable throughput depending on read activity

   Which of the following are valid SNS delivery transports? (Choose two.)

   A. HTTP
   B. UDP
   C. SMS
   D. DynamoDB
   E. Named Pipes

   A startup s photo-sharing site is deployed in a VPC. An ELB distributes web traffic across two subnets. ELB session stickiness is configured to use the AWS-generated session cookie, with a session TTL of 5 minutes. The webserver Auto Scaling Group is configured as: min-size=4, max-size=4.
   The startups preparing for a public launch, by running load-testing software installed on a single EC2 instance running in us-west-2 After 60 minutes of load-testing, the webserver logs show:

   Which recommendations can help ensure load-testing HTTP requests are evenly distributed across the four webservers? (Choose two.)

   A. Launch and run the load-tester EC2 instance from us-east-1 instead.
   B. Re-configure the load-testing software to re-resolve DNS for each web request.
   C. Use a 3rd-party load-testing service which offers globally-distributed test clients.
   D. Configure ELB and Auto Scaling to distribute across us-west-2a and us-west-2c.
   E. Configure ELB session stickiness to use the app-specific session cookie.
   Which of the following statements about SWF are true? (Choose three.)

   A. SWF tasks are assigned once and never duplicated
   B. SWF requires an S3 bucket for workflow storage
   C. SWF workflow executions can last up to a year
   D. SWF triggers SNS notifications on task assignment
   E. SWF uses deciders and workers to complete tasks
   F. SWF requires at least 1 EC2 instance per domain

   Which of the following is chosen as the default region when making an API call with an AWS SDK?

   A. ap-northeast-1
   B. us-west-2
   C. us-east-1
   D. eu-west-1
   E. us-central-1

   How can you secure data at rest on an EBS volume?

   A. Attach the volume to an instance using EC2’s SSL interface.
   B. Write the data randomly instead of sequentially.
   C. Use an encrypted file system on top of the EBS volume.
   D. Encrypt the volume using the S3 server-side encryption service.
   E. Create an IAM policy that restricts read and write access to the volume.

   What is one key difference between an Amazon EBS-backed and an instance-store backed instance?

   A. Virtual Private Cloud requires EBS backed instances
   B. Amazon EBS-backed instances can be stopped and restarted
   C. Auto scaling requires using Amazon EBS-backed instances.
   D. Instance-store backed instances can be stopped and restarted.

   An application stores payroll information nightly in DynamoDB for a large number of employees across
   hundreds of offices. Item attributes consist of individual name, office identifier, and cumulative daily hours.
   Managers run reports for ranges of names working in their office. One query is. “Return all Items in this office for names starting with A through E”.

   Which table configuration will result in the lowest impact on provisioned throughput for this query?

   A. Configure the table to have a hash index on the name attribute, and a range index on the office identifier
   B. Configure the table to have a range index on the name attribute, and a hash index on the office identifier
   C. Configure a hash index on the name attribute and no range index
   D. Configure a hash index on the office Identifier attribute and no range index

   Which of the following is an example of a good DynamoDB hash key schema for provisioned throughput efficiency?

   A. User ID, where the application has many different users.
   B. Status Code where most status codes are the same
   C. Device ID, where one is by far more popular than all the others.
   D. Game Type, where there are three possible game types

   Company A has an S3 bucket containing premier content that they intend to make available to only paid
   subscribers of their website. The S3 bucket currently has default permissions of all objects being private to prevent inadvertent exposure of the premier content to non-paying website visitors.

   How can Company A provide only paid subscribers the ability to download a premier content file in the S3
   bucket?
   A. Apply a bucket policy that grants anonymous users to download the content from the S3 bucket
   B. Generate a pre-signed object URL for the premier content file when a paid subscriber requests a download
   C. Add a bucket policy that requires Multi-Factor Authentication for requests to access the S3 bucket objects
   D. Enable server side encryption on the S3 bucket for data protection against the non-paying website visitors

   When a Simple Queue Service message triggers a task that takes 5 minutes to complete, which process below will result in successful processing of the message and remove it from the queue while minimizing the chances of duplicate processing?

   A. Retrieve the message with an increased visibility timeout, process the message, delete the message from the queue
   B. Retrieve the message with an increased visibility timeout, delete the message from the queue, process the message
   C. Retrieve the message with increased DelaySeconds, process the message, delete the message from the queue
   D. Retrieve the message with increased DelaySeconds, delete the message from the queue, process the message

   Which DynamoDB limits can be raised by contacting AWS support? (Choose two.)

   A. The number of hash keys per account
   B. The maximum storage used per account
   C. The number of tables per account
   D. The number of local secondary indexes per account
   E. The number of provisioned throughput units per account

   Company C has recently launched an online commerce site for bicycles on AWS. They have a “Product”
   DynamoDB table that stores details for each bicycle, such as, manufacturer, color, price, quantity and size to display in the online store. Due to customer demand, they want to include an image for each bicycle along with the existing details. Which approach below provides the least impact to provisioned throughput on the “Product” table?

   A. Serialize the image and store it in multiple DynamoDB tables
   B. Create an “Images” DynamoDB table to store the Image with a foreign key constraint to the “Product” table
   C. Add an image data type to the “Product” table to store the images in binary format
   D. Store the images in Amazon S3 and add an S3 URL pointer to the “Product” table item for each image

   In DynamoDB, what type of HTTP response codes indicate that a problem was found with the client request sent to the service?

   A. A 5xx HTTP response code
   B. 200 HTTP response code
   C. 306 HTTP response code
   D. 4xx HTTP response code

   A meteorological system monitors 600 temperature gauges, obtaining temperature samples every minute and saving each sample to a DynamoDB table. Each sample involves writing 1K of data and the writes are evenly distributed over time.

   How much write throughput is required for the target table?

   A. 1 write capacity unit
   B. 10 write capacity units
   C. 60 write capacity units
   D. 600 write capacity units
   E. 3600 write capacity units

   Which of the following programming languages have an officially supported AWS SDK? (Choose two.)

   A. Perl
   B. PHP
   C. Pascal
   D. Java
   E. SQL

   Games-R-Us is launching a new game app for mobile devices. Users will log into the game using their existing Facebook account and the game will record player data and scoring information directly to a DynamoDB table. What is the most secure approach for signing requests to the DynamoDB API?

   A. Create an IAM user with access credentials that are distributed with the mobile app to sign the requests
   B. Distribute the AWS root account access credentials with the mobile app to sign the requests
   F. Request temporary security credentials using web identity federation to sign the requests
   C. Establish cross account access between the mobile app and the DynamoDB table to sign the requests

   What AWS products and features can be deployed by Elastic Beanstalk? (Choose three.)

   A. Auto scaling groups
   B. Route 53 hosted zones
   C. Elastic Load Balancers
   D. RDS Instances
   E. Elastic IP addresses SQS Queues

   Your application is trying to upload a 6 GB file to Simple Storage Service and receive a “Your proposed upload exceeds the maximum allowed object size.” error message. What is a possible solution for this?

   A. None, Simple Storage Service objects are limited to 5 GB
   B. Use the multi-part upload API for this object
   C. Use the large object upload API for this object
   D. Contact support to increase your object size limit
   E. Upload to a different region

   Which of the following services are included at no additional cost with the use of the AWS platform? (Choose two.)

   A. Simple Storage Service
   B. Elastic Compute Cloud
   C. Auto Scaling
   D. Elastic Load Balancing
   E. CloudFormation
   F. Simple Workflow Service

   You are writing to a DynamoDB table and receive the following exception:”
   ProvisionedThroughputExceededException”. Though according to your Cloudwatch metrics for the table, you are not exceeding your provisioned throughput.What could be an explanation for this?

   A. You haven’t provisioned enough DynamoDB storage instances
   B. You’re exceeding your capacity on a particular Range Key
   C. You’re exceeding your capacity on a particular Hash Key
   D. You’re exceeding your capacity on a particular Sort Key
   E. You haven’t configured DynamoDB Auto Scaling triggers

   You are providing AWS consulting services for a company developing a new mobile application that will be leveraging Amazon SNS Mobile Push for push notifications. In order to send direct notification messages to individual devices each device registration identifier or token needs to be registered with SNS; however the developers are not sure of the best way to do this.
   You advise them to:

   A. Bulk upload the device tokens contained in a CSV file via the AWS Management Console.
   B. Let the push notification service (e.g. Amazon Device Messaging) handle the registration.
   C. Implement a token vending service to handle the registration.
   D. Call the CreatePlatformEndPoint API function to register multiple device tokens.

   Which statements about DynamoDB are true? (Choose two.)

   A. DynamoDB uses a pessimistic locking model
   B. DynamoDB uses optimistic concurrency control
   C. DynamoDB uses conditional writes for consistency
   D. DynamoDB restricts item access during reads
   E. DynamoDB restricts item access during writes

   You run an ad-supported photo sharing website using S3 to serve photos to visitors of your site. At some point you find out that other sites have been linking to the photos on your site, causing loss to your business.

   What is an effective method to mitigate this?

   A. Store photos on an EBS volume of the web server
   B. Remove public read access and use signed URLs with expiry dates.
   C. Use CloudFront distributions for static content.
   D. Block the IPs of the offending websites in Security Groups.

   You have written an application that uses the Elastic Load Balancing service to spread traffic to several web servers. Your users complain that they are sometimes forced to login again in the middle of using your application, after they have already logged in. This is not behavior you have designed. What is a possible solution to prevent this happening?

   A. Use instance memory to save session state.
   B. Use instance storage to save session state.
   C. Use EBS to save session state
   D. Use ElastiCache to save session state.
   E. Use Glacier to save session slate.

   You are inserting 1000 new items every second in a DynamoDB table. Once an hour these items are analyzed and then are no longer needed. You need to minimize provisioned throughput, storage, and API calls. Given these requirements, what is the most efficient way to manage these Items after the analysis?

   A. Retain the items in a single table
   B. Delete items individually over a 24 hour period
   F. Delete the table and create a new table per hour
   C. Create a new table per hour

   An Amazon S3 bucket, “myawsbucket” is configured with website hosting in Tokyo region, what is the regionspecific website endpoint?

   A. http://www.myawsbucket.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com
   B. myawsbucket.s3-website-ap-northeast-1.amazonawscom
   C. myawsbucket.amazonaws.com
   D. myawsbucket.tokyo.amazonaws.com

   Company B provides an online image recognition service and utilizes SQS to decouple system components for scalability The SQS consumers poll the imaging queue as often as possible to keep end-to-end throughput as high as possible. However, Company B is realizing that polling in tight loops is burning CPU cycles and increasing costs with empty responses. How can Company B reduce the number of empty responses?

   A. Set the imaging queue visibility Timeout attribute to 20 seconds
   B. Set the Imaging queue ReceiveMessageWaitTimeSeconds attribute to 20 seconds
   C. Set the imaging queue MessageRetentionPeriod attribute to 20 seconds
   D. Set the DelaySeconds parameter of a message to 20 seconds

   A corporate web application is deployed within an Amazon VPC, and is connected to the corporate data center via IPSec VPN. The application must authenticate against the on-premise LDAP server. Once authenticated, logged-in users can only access an S3 keyspace specific to the user. Which two approaches can satisfy the objectives? (Choose two.)

   A. The application authenticates against LDAP. The application then calls the IAM Security Service to login to IAM using the LDAP credentials. The application can use the IAM temporary credentials to access the
   appropriate S3 bucket.
   B. The application authenticates against LDAP, and retrieves the name of an IAM role associated with the user. The application then calls the IAM Security Token Service to assume that IAM Role. The application can use the temporary credentials to access the appropriate S3 bucket.
   C. The application authenticates against IAM Security Token Service using the LDAP credentials. The application uses those temporary AWS security credentials to access the appropriate S3 bucket.
   D. Develop an identity broker which authenticates against LDAP, and then calls IAM Security Token Service to get IAM federated user credentials. The application calls the identity broker to get IAM federated user credentials with access to the appropriate S3 bucket.
   E. Develop an identity broker which authenticates against IAM Security Token Service to assume an IAM Role to get temporary AWS security credentials. The application calls the identity broker to get AWS temporary security credentials with access to the appropriate S3 bucket.

   Which of the following statements about SQS is true?

   A. Messages will be delivered exactly once and messages will be delivered in First in, First out order
   B. Messages will be delivered exactly once and message delivery order is indeterminate
   C. Messages will be delivered one or more times and messages will be delivered in First in, First out order
   D. Messages will be delivered one or more times and message delivery order is indeterminate

   If an application is storing hourly log files from thousands of instances from a high traffic web site, which
   naming scheme would give optimal performance on S3?

   A. Sequential
   B. instanceID_log-HH-DD-MM-YYYY
   C. instanceID_log-YYYY-MM-DD-HH
   D. HH-DD-MM-YYYY-log_instanceID
   E. YYYY-MM-DD-HH-log_instanceID

   What type of block cipher does Amazon S3 offer for server side encryption?

   A. Triple DES
   B. Advanced Encryption Standard
   C. Blowfish
   D. RC5

   Company C is currently hosting their corporate site in an Amazon S3 bucket with Static Website Hosting
   enabled. Currently, when visitors go to http://www.companyc.com the index.html page is returned. Company C now would like a new page welcome.html to be returned when a visitor enters http://www.companyc.com in the browser. Which of the following steps will allow Company C to meet this requirement? (Choose two.)

   A. Upload an html page named welcome.html to their S3 bucket
   B. Create a welcome subfolder in their S3 bucket
   C. Set the Index Document property to welcome.html
   D. Move the index.html page to a welcome subfolder
   E. Set the Error Document property to welcome.html

   1. Thanks for this man

   2. Thanks for this Qazi! Do you have the answers for us to check ourselves om?

   3. Here are the answers!!

      1) D, E
      2) C
      3) A
      4) C
      5) B
      6) D
      7) A, C, E
      8) E
      9) D
      10) A, C
      11) B
      12) B, D
      13) A
      14) A, B
      15) D
      16) A
      17) A, C, D, F
      18) C
      19) C
      20) D
      21) A, B, E
      22) B
      23) A, C
      24) B, C
      25) A, C, E
      26) C
      27) C
      28) B
      29) B
      30) A
      31) B
      32) A
      33) C, E
      34) D
      35) D
      36) B
      37) B, D
      38) F
      39) A, C, D
      40) B
      41) C, E
      42) C
      43) D
      44) B, C
      45) B
      46) D
      47) F
      48) B
      49) B
      50) B, D
      51) D
      52) D
      53) B
      54) A, C

   4. Answers!

      1) D, E
      2) C
      3) A
      4) C
      5) B
      6) D
      7) A, C, E
      8) E
      9) D
      10) A, C
      11) B
      12) B, D
      13) A
      14) A, B
      15) D
      16) A
      17) A, C, D, F
      18) C
      19) C
      20) D
      21) A, B, E
      22) B
      23) A, C
      24) B, C
      25) A, C, E
      26) C
      27) C
      28) B
      29) B
      30) A
      31) B
      32) A
      33) C, E
      34) D
      35) D
      36) B
      37) B, D
      38) F
      39) A, C, D
      40) B
      41) C, E
      42) C
      43) D
      44) B, C
      45) B
      46) D
      47) F
      48) B
      49) B
      50) B, D
      51) D
      52) D
      53) B
      54) A, C

      1. Note about the first question in this list – It is now possible to attach an IAM role to a running instance, so depending on your use case, B or D could be suitable alongside E, correct?

         I believe this feature was added around a year ago, but I’m not sure if the certification exams have caught up to it. I’ve linked the relevant AWS doc below. I know best practices indicate that you should re-hydrate your instances frequently and not stack multiple applications on the same compute resources, but B is completely feasible. Or is there another reason why it is incorrect?

         https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/security/easily-replace-or-attach-an-iam-role-to-an-existing-ec2-instance-by-using-the-ec2-console/

      2. My wife took aws associate developer exam on Nov 19th. she cleared with 98% marks. Got most of the dumps. Thanks 🙂

         1. Congrats Arjunan ..

7. Hi Jayendra,
   I am planning to write AWS Certified Developer – Associate Exam .
   I would like to know if AWS had made any changes to questions like old ones are replaced with new questions in aws cda exam.

   1. Hi Uday, AWS keeps on updating topics and questions once in a while.

8. Today cleared the exam and just wanted to thank Jayendra for his useful blog here. Some of the tips mentioned here certainly helped. Some of these questions also did come up. I strongly recommend aspirants to go thru each and every question as well as the justification for the answers (where given). Go thru the FAQs from AWS for each of the components. Abhishek’s post also does help (http://www.cloudforest.in/2016/09/pass-aws-certification-exam-in-10-days.html).

   1. Of the many resources i hopped on (on various topics) here is one i found extremely helpful on understanding VPC concepts. It made a whole world of difference in terms of clarity on VPC. Sharing here so others can benefit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpxDGU2KdkA.

      Also, take a look at re:invent sessions (even some of the ones from re:Invent 2016, 2015 are helpful). Watch out for latest updates and make note of which limits are invalid now.

      All the best!

   2. thats great GMan, congrats …..

9. Hi Guys ,

   I am planning to write Developer associate in this month end .Anybody appeared for the same in 2018 ? Please let me know any changes if any .

10. Hey! Thanks for sharing.

11. Hi Jayendra,
    Good Day!
    I’m planning to write AWS certified developer associate next month, I heard that exam pattern will change in August(with new Vendor) is that correct.
    Regards,
    Arun

    1. Thats right Arun, a new exam has been launched from June. You can take the old till November.
       More details @ https://aws.amazon.com/certification/certified-developer-associate/

    2. Here you go for the latest Developer Associate Exam – refer https://jayendrapatil.com/aws-certified-developer-associate-june-2018-exam-learning-path/

12. I just passed Developer associate with 98%. Thanks a lot Jayendra for the effort you put in here, its really making the differences.

    1. congrats Somenath, Thats a great score.

13. Hi Somenath, first of all Congratulations on securing such a great score. i wanted to give the developer exam in july, as you have given recently.. are the questions same as the old ones or did you find any surprises?

    1. Hi Nailusha, Thanks & sorry for the late response. No didn’t find any surprise in that sense. Go with current pattern and you will be good. Remember the API names for important ones, that will get you 5 or 6 straightway marks, good understanding of cloudFormation, S3 & dynamoDB are very important. Best of luck !!

14. Hi Jayendra,

    I passed my AWS CSAA feb 2018 exam by using your Cheatcode. First of all, a big thanks to you and your hard work, and keeping everything up to date. Thanks a lot.

    Now, I am planning to go for AWS CDA exam but I am little skeptical to either go for latest version or old version of exam. Can you help me suggesting something? and Have you also updated your notes according to the latest version as well. If do, please tell me the link.

    Thanks a lot.

15. Hi Jayendra,

    I have cleared my AWS CSAA exam by reading your Cheat code and I would like to say A BIG THANKS to you for making that. It really saves a lot of time. Thank you

    Now, I was planning to go for AWS CDA exam and I am confused to which version should I go for as new version is also released and I am not sure how much pattern is different from the older version. Can you guide me with that to which version to go for. And if you have any link for the latest version of that exam as well, that will be very helpful.
    Thanks

    1. Great Robin Congrats and Thanks ….
       Planning to check on the new CDA next week, so expect an update soon.

16. Hi Jayendra – i am also waiting for CDA- June 2018 version contents

    1. planning to update it by next week …

17. Hello Jayendra – Your cheat sheet was so helpful. I completed the CSAA exam. Thank you so much. Is there a separate cheat sheet for the developer exam. I’m planning to take the old version.

    1. Hi Prabhakar, there is no separate cheat sheet specific to Developer, but would recommend to cover the topics mentioned in the learning path.

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