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AWS Certified Developer – Associate Exam Cheat Sheet (2026)
A free, printable AWS Certified Developer – Associate exam cheat sheet: the 21 highest-yield points to know, grouped into 5 sections that follow the exam's content areas, each section with its published weight.
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- 22 free AWS Certified Developer – Associate practice questions on the same material, every one explained.
- Last updated: August 2026.
Development with AWS Services
30% of the exam- AWS Lambda fundamentals
- Event-driven integration
- Using the AWS SDK
- Idempotency and retries
- Configuration and secrets
Security
24% of the exam- IAM roles for application code
- Encryption with AWS KMS
- End-user authentication with Cognito
- Protecting API access
Deployment
22% of the exam- CI/CD with the code services
- Infrastructure as code
- Safe deployment strategies
- Versioning and rollback
Troubleshooting and Optimization
14% of the exam- Logging and metrics
- Distributed tracing with X-Ray
- Caching for performance
- Diagnosing common failures
Data Stores and APIs
10% of the exam- DynamoDB data modeling
- Capacity, indexes, and streams
- Building APIs with API Gateway
- Consistency and transactions
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