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AWS Certified Developer – Associate Exam Cram Sheet (2026)

The highest-yield points on the AWS Certified Developer – Associateexam, grouped by the exam's real content areas. Print it, review the ones you keep missing, then drill them with free practice questions.

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5content areas

Development with AWS Services

30% of the exam
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  • AWS Lambda fundamentals
  • Event-driven integration
  • Using the AWS SDK
  • Idempotency and retries
  • Configuration and secrets

Security

24% of the exam
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  • IAM roles for application code
  • Encryption with AWS KMS
  • End-user authentication with Cognito
  • Protecting API access

Deployment

22% of the exam
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  • CI/CD with the code services
  • Infrastructure as code
  • Safe deployment strategies
  • Versioning and rollback

Troubleshooting and Optimization

14% of the exam
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  • Logging and metrics
  • Distributed tracing with X-Ray
  • Caching for performance
  • Diagnosing common failures

Data Stores and APIs

10% of the exam
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  • DynamoDB data modeling
  • Capacity, indexes, and streams
  • Building APIs with API Gateway
  • Consistency and transactions

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