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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- 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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