How I cleared AWS Certified Developer Associate Exam 2024 | Tricks & Tips

[phoneix]

Seems like youtube has a fantastic suggestion algorithm. I cleared the exam a month back and I just got this video suggestion somehow. All of your tips are to the point and it is exactly how I prepare for most certifications (be it azure, aws or gcp). For developer associate I did the following:

1. Stephen's course on Udemy (you get 1 free exam with the course itself)
2. 12 practice exams - first 2 non timed, and next 10 timed
3. I did not take pdf print out but I kept the pdf handy in my phone and laptop and whenever I had to revise something I just jumped to the section and read.
4. I maintained an excel where whatever I thought might cause trouble for me from the pdf, i wrote in that excel by topic (maintained sheets for it).
5. I prepared another excel and noted down the failed practice exam questions.
6. AWS has an exam guide which is very important. It gives you a solid overview of what you can expect. So if you are not under a time crunch or pressure you can go through it and based on the exam guide one can spend a week researching and noting down the findings about each topic.
7. A principal architect at my company (he actually acquired various certifications) told me that the best way to increase the probability of getting a right answer even when you are unsure or confused is to first start eliminating from the MCQ answers whatever you think is definitely wrong. Its a smart hack and I found it very useful.
8. Developer associate though covers all topics has a few which are of utmost importance - IAM, EC2, ASG, ELB, API gateway, S3, Lambda, ECS, RDS and Aurora, Networking (private public subnets, NAT, Internet gateways and typical architecture setups), Security (KMS, service policies, security rules).

[bhargava]

Thank you for the information brother.

[niharikamishra]

Amazing video..very helpful for the beginners