
AWS Developer Associate Certification Training
Enhance your proficiency with the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud platform to develop and deploy robust cloud applications with an AWS Developer Associate Certification. This course helps you implement cloud security best practices and understand what it takes to become an AWS Developer Associate.
AWS Developer Associate Certification Training
AWS Developer training builds upon the skills learned from the AWS Technical Essentials course. This course will teach you how to write code and design scalable applications, implement application security and testing, and develop expertise with key AWS components such as S3, Dynamo DB, Elastic Beanstalk, and CloudFormation.
Training Key Features
- 8X higher interaction in live online classes conducted by industry experts
- 3 simulation exams (60 questions each)
- 45+ Assisted Practices in the course
- 3 hands-on course end projects, with AWS console
- 10 Lesson End Projects after every lesson
- AWS select technology partner
Skills Covered
- Deploy elastic cloud solutions
- Deploy elastic cloud solutions
- Cloud security best practices
- Working with S3 EC2 IAM
- Using DB services and DynamoDB
- AWS application services
- Lambda and Kinesis mgt tools
- VPC Route 53 SDK CLI
Benefits
Recent research shows that almost 83% of enterprise workloads would be transferred to the cloud. This means there will be ample opportunities for AWS Developer Associate certification holders.The average salary of AWS certified associates is almost USD 113,932.

Training Options
ONLINE BOOTCAMP +
- 90 days of flexible access to online classes
- Lifetime access to high-quality self-paced e-learning content and live class recordings
- 24x7 learner assistance and support
Exam voucher included.
Course Curriculum
- 1.1 Welcome to the Course
- 1.2 Overview of AWS Services
- 1.1 Overview of the course
- 1.2 Overview of the CDA Exams
- 1.3 Setting up free tier AWS account
- 1.4 Getting Familiar with AWS Console
- 1.1 Introduction to IAM
- 1.2 Getting started with IAM
- 1.3 IAM Users, and Groups
- 1.4 IAM Policies
- 1.5 IAM Roles
- 1.6 IAM Best Practices
- 1.7 Summary, and Exam Tips
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Fundamentals of S3
- 2.3 Object storage vs Block storage
- 2.4 Getting started with S3
- 2.5 Versioning
- 2.6 Encryption
- 2.7 Tags, Transfer Acceleration, and Multipart Upload
- 2.8 Events
- 2.9 Permissions Bucket Policy, and ACL
- 2.10 Object Lifecycle Management
- 2.11 Cross Region Replication
- 2.12 Storage Classes
- 2.13 Static Website Hosting
- 2.14 Analytics Metrics, And Inventory
- 2.15 Server Access Logging, And Object Level Logging
- 2.16 Select From
- 2.17 Summary
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Creating an EC2: Part One
- 3.3 Creating an EC2: Part Two
- 3.4 Creating an EC2: Part Three
- 3.5 Managing the EC2 Instance
- 3.6 AMI - Image, and Bundle Task
- 3.7 EBS Volume Snapshots
- 3.8 Instance, Store, and Placement Groups
- 3.9 Summary
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Application Load Balancing Demo
- 4.3 Network Load Balancing Demo
- 4.4 Autoscaling Launch Configuration, and Autoscaling Group
- 4.5 Autoscaling: Demo
- 4.6 Autoscaling Scheduled Scaling: Demo
- 4.7 Autoscaling Lifecycle of EC2 Instance, and Lifecycle Hooks
- 4.8 Autoscaling EC2 Instance Termination Logic
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Setting up the VPC Demo
- 5.3 VPC Wizard
- 5.4 NAT Instance Vs NAT Gateway
- 5.5 VPC Peering, and VPC Endpoints
- 5.6 VPC Flow Logs
- 5.7 Direct Connect
- 6.1 Redshift
- 6.2 DynamoDB SQL vs NoSQL
- 6.3 DynamoDB Tables, Item Attributes, and Indexes
- 6.4 DynamoDB, Global Secondary Index, vs Local Secondary Index
- 6.5 DynamoDB Read Consistency, and Throughput Capacity
- 6.6 DynamoDB Autoscaling
- 6.7 DynamoDB Encryption
- 6.8 DynamoDB Query vs Scan
- 6.9 DynamoDB Streams
- 6.10 DynamoDB Accelerator
- 7.1 Basics
- 7.2 Registering a Domain
- 7.3 Simple Routing Policy: Demo
- 7.4 Weighted Routing Policy: Demo
- 7.5 Latency Routing Policy: Demo
- 7.6 Geographical Routing Policy: Demo
- 7.7 Failover Routing Policy: Demo
- 7.8 Multivalue Answer Routing Policy: Demo
- 1.1 AWS CLI Installation, and Configuration
- 1.2 AWS SDK Introduction
- 1.3 S3 CLI
- 1.4 EC2, and EBS CLI
- 1.1 AWS Lambda in Details
- 1.2 AWS Lambda Advanced
- 1.3 AWS Athena
- 1.4 AWS API Gateway: Part One
- 1.5 AWS API Gateway: Part Two
- 1.6 AWS API Gateway: Part Three
- 1.1 Elastic Beanstalk in Details
- 1.2 AWS Developer Tools Overview
- 1.3 Code Commit
- 1.4 Code Build
- 1.5 Code Deploy
- 1.6 Code Deploy: Lab
- 1.7 Code Pipeline
- 1.8 Code Pipeline: Lab
- 1.9 AWS Cloud9
- 1.1 KMS in Details
- 1.2 Cognito: Part One
- 1.3 Cognito: Part Two
- 1.1 Basic Understanding of Docker
- 1.2 ECS Cluster
- 1.3 EC2 Task Definition
- 1.4 ECS Services
- 1.5 ECS Load Balancer
- 1.6 ECS Auto Scaling
- 1.7 ECS Task Placement Strategy, and Constraints
- 1.8 ECR
- 1.9 Fargate
- 1.1 Overview
- 1.2 Dashboards, and Alarms
- 1.3 ELB Monitoring
- 1.4 EBS Monitoring
- 1.5 EC2 Custom Metrics Monitoring
- 1.6 Kinesis
- 1.7 Trusted Advisor
- 1.8 CloudFront
- 1.9 CloudFront: Lab
- 1.10 CloudTrail
- 1.11 Understanding X-Ray
- 1.12 X-Ray: Lab
- 1.13 X-Ray Jargonns
- 1.14 Elasticache
- 1.15 CloudFormation
- 1.16 SQS, SNS, and SWF
- 1.1 AWS Serverless WebApp
- 1.1 Introduction
- 2.1 Section Introduction
- 2.2 Introduction to AWS
- 2.3 Core AWS Services
- 2.4 Accessing AWS Services
- 2.5 Assisted Practice: Set up the AWS Command Line Interface
- 2.6 AWS SDKs
- 2.7 Assisted Practice: Set Up AWS SDK
- Create S3 Bucket via Console and AWS CLI
- 3.1 Section Introduction
- 3.2 Amazon Elastic Cloud Computing
- 3.3 Amazon Machine Image
- 3.4 Amazon EC2 instance IP addressing
- 3.5 EC2 Instance Metadata
- 3.6 Assisted Practice: Create a Linux Based EC2 Instance
- 3.7 Assisted Practice: Create a Windows Based EC2 Instance
- 3.8 Assisted Practice: Launch an EC2 Linux Instance and install a webserver using user data
- 3.9 Assisted Practice: EC2 instance Connect
- 3.10 Assisted Practice: Create Custom AMI
- 3.11 Assisted Practice: Launch an Instance Using a Custom AMI
- 3.12 Introduction to Amazon EBS
- 3.13 EBS Snapshot
- 3.14 Assisted Practice: Create and Attach an EBS Volume to a Linux Instance
- 3.15 Assisted Practice: Create a Snapshot of an Existing EBS Instance
- 3.16 Elastic File System
- 3.17 Difference between EFS and EBS
- 3.18 Auto Scaling
- 3.19 Amazon Elastic Load Balancer
- 3.20 Types of Amazon Load Balancers
- 3.21 Assisted Practice: Set Up an Autoscaled Environment
- Host your Website Inside your EC2 Instance
- 4.1 Section Introduction
- 4.2 Introduction to Amazon S3
- 4.3 Assisted Practice: Creating an S3 bucket
- 4.4 Version Control in Amazon S3
- 4.5 Assisted Practice: Configure an S3 Bucket for versioning
- 4.6 Static Web Hosting
- 4.7 Amazon S3 Policies
- 4.8 Assisted Practice: Configure an S3 Bucket for Static Website Hosting
- 4.9 Amazon S3 Storage Classes
- 4.10 Amazon S3 pricing tiers
- 4.11 S3 Select and S3 Glacier Select
- 4.12 Sharing an S3 bucket between multiple accounts
- 4.13 Backup and DataSync
- 4.14 Amazon CloudFront
- 4.15 Assisted Practice: Configure a new CloudFront distribution with an S3 bucket
- Hosting a Static Website on Amazon S3
- 5.1 Section Introduction
- 5.2 Introduction to Databases
- 5.3 Amazon RDS
- 5.4 Assisted Practice: Create an RDS Database Instance
- 5.5 Amazon DynamoDB
- 5.6 Assisted Practice: Create a Table Using the DynamoDB Console
- 5.7 DynamoDB concepts
- 5.8 Amazon ElastiCache
- Storing Application Data in MySQL DB using Amazon RDS
- 6.1 Section Introduction
- 6.2 Introduction to Amazon VPC
- 6.3 Assisted Practice: Create a Custom VPC
- 6.4 Amazon VPC Components
- 6.5 IP Addresses
- 6.6 Elastic Network Interface
- 6.7 VPCs and Subnets
- 6.8 Internet Gateways
- 6.9 Network Address Translation (NAT) Gateway
- 6.10 Controlling Traffic in Amazon VPC
- 6.11 VPC Peering
- 6.12 Assisted Practice: Create and Accept a VPC Peering Connection
- 6.13 Virtual Private Network (VPN) Connections
- 6.14 Assisted Practice: Demonstrate a VPN connection
- Connect to an application hosted in different account VPC through a private link
- 7.1 Section Introduction
- 7.2 Domain Name System (DNS)
- 7.3 Introduction to Amazon Route53
- 7.4 Amazon Route53 Concepts and Terminologies
- 7.5 Amazon Route53 Policies
- 7.6 Assisted Practice: Register a New Domain name
- 7.7 Assisted Practice: Create a Public Hosted Zone
- 7.8 Route53 Best Practices
- 7.9 Amazon Route53 Costs
- 7.10 Limitations of Amazon Route53
- Register New Domain, Create Public Hosted Zone and a Record Set
- 8.1 Section Introduction
- 8.2 Introduction to Identity and Access Management
- 8.3 Terminologies in AWS IAM
- 8.4 IAM Users
- 8.5 Assisted Practice: Create an IAM user
- 8.6 IAM Groups
- 8.7 Assisted Practice: Creating and Adding IAM user to an IAM group
- 8.8 IAM Roles
- 8.9 Assisted Practice: Creating an IAM role for an IAM user
- 8.10 IAM Policies
- 8.11 Assigning role to AWS Services
- 8.12 Assisted Practice: Use IAM roles with EC2
- 8.13 AWS Cognito
- 8.14 AWS Single Sing-On
- 8.15 Assisted Practice: Enable AWS Single Sign-On for a user
- 8.16 AWS Multi Factor Authentication
- 8.17 Assisted Practice: AWS Multi Factor Authentication
- 8.18 AWS Key Management Service
- Security Using IAM
- 9.1 Section Introduction
- 9.2 Introduction to Amazon Application Services
- 9.3 Amazon Simple Queue Service
- 9.4 Assisted Practice: Demonstrate SQS
- 9.5 Amazon SNS
- 9.6 Assisted Practice: Demonstrate SNS
- 9.7 Amazon SNS vs. Amazon SQS
- 9.8 Amazon API Gateway
- 9.9 Amazon Kinesis
- 9.10 Event Processing
- 9.11 Introduction to AWS Serverless Services
- 9.12 Assisted Practice: Create a Serverless Webpage
- 9.13 Lambda concepts
- 9.14 Elastic Container Service
- Send Email Notification using SNS
- 10.1 Section Introduction
- 10.2 Types of monitoring services in AWS
- 10.3 Introduction to CloudWatch
- 10.4 Assisted Practice: Creating Cloud Watch Alarms
- 10.5 AWS Billing Metrics
- 10.6 Introduction to AWS CloudTrail
- 10.7 Cloudwatch vs CloudTrail
- 10.8 AWS Monitoring Best Practices
- Audit IAM User Access Via CloudTrail Service
- 11.1 Section Introduction
- 11.2 Introduction to CI/CD
- 11.3 Assisted Practice: Develop sample java program and access AWS resources
- 11.4 Assisted Practice: CodeCommit
- 11.5 CodeDeploy
- 11.6 Assisted Practice: CodeDeploy
- 11.7 Docker and CodeBuild
- 11.8 Assisted Practice: Docker and CodeBuild
- 11.9 Introduction to CLoudFormation
- 11.10 Assisted Practice: CloudFormation
- 11.11 Deploying using ElasticBeanstalk
- Deploy AWS Resources Using CloudFormation Stack
- 1.1 CompTIA LX0-101 and LX0-102 CompTIA Linux+
Exams and Certifications
To become an AWS developer associate, you need to register for the certification exam at any Kryterion testing center from over 750 locations around the globe.
The registration fee for the AWS Developer Associate exam is $150.
To apply for AWS Developer Associate certification, you must have fulfilled the following prerequisites:
- Completed AWS Technical Essentials course or significant hands-on professional experience with various AWS services.
- Understanding of stateless and loosely coupled distributed applications.
- Familiarity developing API interfaces.
- Basic understanding of relational and non-relational databases.
- Familiarity with messaging and queuing services.
Online Classroom:
- Complete batch.
- Complete one project and one simulation test with a minimum score of 60 percent.
Yes, we provide 1 practice test as part of our course to help you prepare for the actual certification exam. You can try this AWS Developer Associate Exam Questions - Free Practice Test to understand the type of tests that are part of the course curriculum.
The AWS Developer Associate certification validates your expertise in building, deploying, and debugging applications using AWS. It is more intended for professionals who know to program, using AWS service APIs, AWS CLI, and SDKs for writing applications. On the other hand, the AWS Solutions Architect Associate demonstrates your knowledge of how to architect and deploy secure applications on AWS technologies and provide implementation guidance throughout the life cycle of the project. It is intended for those who have the ability to identify and define technical requirements for an AWS-based application.

Training FAQ
All of our highly qualified trainers are AWS certified, with more than 15 years of experience in training and working in their domain. Each of them has gone through a rigorous selection process, which includes profile screening, technical evaluation and a training demo before they qualify as Simplilearn trainers. We also ensure that only those trainers who maintain a high alumni rating continue to train for us.
No. The exam fee is not included in the course fee.
The AWS Certified Developer Associate exam is a combination of multiple-choice and multiple-answer questions.
The courses are conducted via live virtual classrooms (LVC). They are interactive sessions that enable you to ask questions and participate in discussions during class time. We do, however, provide recordings of each session you attend for your future reference. Classes are attended by a global audience to enrich your learning experience.
The tools you’ll need to attend training are:
- Windows: Windows XP SP3 or higher
- Mac: OSX 10.6 or higher
- Internet speed: Preferably 512 Kbps or higher
- Headset, speakers and microphone: You’ll need headphones or speakers to hear instruction clearly, as well as a microphone to talk to others. You can use a headset with a built-in microphone, or separate speakers and microphone.
Our teaching assistants are a dedicated team of subject matter experts here to help you get certified in your first attempt. They engage students proactively to ensure the course path is being followed and help you enrich your learning experience, from class onboarding to project mentoring and job assistance. Teaching Assistance is available during business hours.
We offer 24/7 support through email, chat and calls. We also have a dedicated team that provides on-demand assistance through our community forum. What’s more, you will have lifetime access to the community forum, even after completion of your course with us.
Yes, you can cancel your enrollment if necessary. We will refund the course price after deducting an administration fee. To learn more, please read our Refund Policy.
Yes. We do offer a money-back guarantee for many of our training programs. Refer to our Refund Policy and submit refund requests via our Help and Support portal.
Contact us using the form on the right of any page on the Simplilearn website, or select the Live Chat link. Our customer service representatives can provide you with more details.
Industry-recognized certifications are usually difficult and require your consistent effort to achieve them, and so is the AWS developer associate certification. This AWS developer associate training program helps you understand all the concepts clearly, prepare for the exam and finally pass it in a single attempt.
As AWS certifications are role-based, you can make a choice between AWS developer associate and AWS solutions architect as per your interest. Both certifications are highly regarded by organizations. Also, you may require more experience for the AWS solutions architect certification than the developer associate credential.
As professionals are already occupied with their job, they prefer preparing for any certification by taking an online training course. Though self-study is also an option, with Simplilearn’s AWS developer associate certification training, you will get guidance from industry experts and become more confident of facing the exam.
Entry-level professionals who have achieved the AWS developer associate certification can earn around INR 4 Lakhs in India and $68K in the US. According to Payscale, the average annual salary for professionals with this credential is INR 929,608.