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AWS Certified Developer – Associate

DVA-C02 retires on . Get the team certified on the current exam, or plan the move to AWS training, with a CBT Nuggets demo.

AWS retires the required exam DVA-C02 on . After that, AWS Certified Developer – Associate can no longer be earned on the current exams. See current AWS training: all AWS certifications.

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Course
1
Practice exam
5
Core skills
$150
Exam fee (AWS)
AWS cloud engineering team reviewing architecture diagrams together
Difficulty
Difficulty: 3 of 5 (Moderate)
Moderate
Exam fee (AWS)
$150
Courses on path
1
Official source
AWS’s official exam page
Exam code
  • DVA-C02

Exam datasheet

Format
Multiple choice, multiple response
Prerequisites
None
Recommended experience
1+ years of hands-on experience developing and maintaining an AWS-based application
Recertification
3 years
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Exams

Exams for this certification

Exam fees per engineer, paid to the exam vendor$150

Exam — Required

Every engineer on the AWS Certified Developer – Associate path takes DVA-C02.

  1. DVA-C02AWS Certified Developer - AssociateRetiring Practice exam included on every Teams seat
    Exam fee
    $150
    Exam length
    130 minutes
    Questions
    65
    Passing score
    720/1000

Skills your team builds

AWS SDKAWS CLIAWS services integrationSecurity best practicesApplication deployment

Training path

Your team's training path

One CBT Nuggets course covers the full AWS Certified Developer – Associate path. Your team can start today and have admin reporting visible from day one.

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    AWS Certified Developer - Associate

    Advance your cloud career with this comprehensive AWS Certified Developer Associate course designed for modern software engineers. This training path provides the technical depth required to pass the DVA-C02 exam while equipping you with the hands-on skills to build, deploy, and debug applications on the world’s leading cloud platform. Led by AWS expert Knox Hutchinson, this AWS Certified Developer Associate course bridges the gap between exam theory and real-world implementation. You'll gain mastery over the core services that power modern architectures, including AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, and API Gateway.

    Knox Hutchinson
    243 videosPractice exam34h
    Open course

Every certification course includes

  • Expert-led video training
  • Certification practice exams
  • Per-team completion reporting

AWS career ladder

Where AWS Certified Developer – Associate sits in your team's AWS progression

The cert your team is on now, plus the levels above and below. Use this to map an engineer's next-step credential or to plan headcount coverage across tiers.

  1. Entry level

    2 certs

    AWS Certified AI Practitioner

    AIF-C01

    AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

    CLF-C02

  2. Associate level

    5 certs

    AWS Certified CloudOps Engineer – Associate

    SOA-C03

    AWS Certified Data Engineer – Associate

    DEA-C01

    AWS Certified Developer – Associate

    DVA-C02

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    AWS Certified Machine Learning Engineer - Associate

    MLA-C02

    AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate

    SAA-C03

  3. Professional level

    2 certs

    AWS Certified Generative AI Developer - Professional

    AIP-C01

    AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional

    SAP-C02

  4. Specialist level

    2 certs

    AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty

    ANS-C01

    AWS Certified Security – Specialty

    SCS-C03

Customer outcome

Build AWS capability across the whole team, not one engineer

Assign the AWS Certified Developer – Associate course to the engineers who need it, and the team report shows who has started, who has finished, and who has passed the practice exam — the view leadership uses to see AWS skills coverage across the team and where the gaps are.

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Team capability

Make AWS a number on your team capability sheet, not a single engineer’s certificate.

Standardizing your team on AWS gives leadership a clear picture of AWS skills coverage — who has completed the training, who is still on the path, and where the gaps are — so staffing and escalation plans rest on known capability instead of on one engineer.

Credential: AWS Certified Developer – Associate

Exam
  • DVA-C02

Frequently asked questions about AWS Certified Developer – Associate training

Common questions IT directors ask when evaluating AWS Certified Developer – Associate training for their team.

How does AWS Certified Developer – Associate fit into our internal compliance and governance program?

Teams often cite AWS Certified Developer – Associate when documenting that the engineers who build and deploy applications on AWS have validated skills, and CBT Nuggets team reporting adds per-learner progress, completion and completion exports as audit evidence. Your auditor's control crosswalk decides the formal mapping to whatever framework your organization follows.

Who on the team should hold AWS Certified Developer – Associate, and what can a certified team own?

It fits the application developers and cloud engineers who write and ship code on AWS. Drawing on the linked course lessons, a certified team can own serverless workloads built with AWS Lambda and SAM templates, REST and WebSocket APIs on API Gateway, messaging with SQS and SNS fanout patterns, and containerized services on ECR and ECS. It can also own the data and caching layers behind those applications, including DynamoDB, RDS and Lambda connections to private VPC resources.

What does CBT Nuggets AWS Certified Developer – Associate training include for a team?

CBT Nuggets AWS Certified Developer – Associate courses are built by named expert trainers. Where a course includes hands-on virtual labs or a practice exam mapped to AWS's published exam objectives, the course list on this page says so. Team admin reporting tracks assignment, completion and exam readiness per engineer — the view managers use to run a team training program.

How do I assign and track AWS Certified Developer – Associate training for my team?

From the admin console, managers assign the AWS Certified Developer – Associate courses directly to specific engineers or role groups and track completion and practice-exam scores per learner. Team-wide reporting rolls up to a single dashboard you can review or export for leadership reviews or compliance reporting.

How long does it take to certify a team on AWS Certified Developer – Associate?

The linked live courses add up to about 76 hours of video, which gives IT leaders a baseline for planning assigned training. Actual time to certify depends on each engineer's starting point with AWS development and how much time the team can commit each week.

What if AWS updates the AWS Certified Developer – Associate exam objectives?

CBT Nuggets updates AWS course content as exam objectives refresh, and this page shows the current exam's status and any retirement date the vendor has announced. When AWS restructures or renames a track, the assigned training stays aligned with the same team training plan, and the training stays current without anyone losing their progress mid-stream.

Certifying the team before 30 November 2026?

Get every engineer certified before DVA-C02 retires

Assign the AWS Certified Developer – Associate courses, see who has finished them in the team report, and plan the move to AWS training for the rest of the team.

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