Cloud Computing AWS Certification

AWS Certified Developer Associate Prep

Build, deploy, secure, and troubleshoot AWS applications with exam-focused developer training

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Quick Course Facts
20
Self-paced, Online, Lessons
20
Videos and/or Narrated Presentations
6.9
Approximate Hours of Course Media
About the AWS Certified Developer Associate Prep Course

Prepare for the AWS Certified Developer Associate exam with a practical, exam-aligned course built for developers who want stronger Cloud Computing skills in real AWS environments. You will learn how to build, deploy, secure, and troubleshoot AWS applications with exam-focused developer training while gaining the confidence to work with core services, automation workflows, and modern application architectures.

Build Cloud Computing Skills for AWS Developer Certification

  • Learn the AWS services, patterns, and developer workflows most relevant to the certification exam
  • Strengthen your ability to build, deploy, secure, and troubleshoot AWS applications with exam-focused developer training
  • Practice working with compute, storage, databases, serverless tools, monitoring, and CI/CD services in a developer context
  • Improve exam readiness with scenario-based review, resilient design concepts, and AWS Certified Developer Associate Prep strategies

A focused Cloud Computing course that prepares developers for AWS certification and day-to-day application delivery.

This AWS Certified Developer Associate Prep course gives you a structured path through the services, security models, and development practices covered on the exam. Starting with the exam blueprint and AWS global infrastructure, you will build a clear understanding of how AWS is organized and how developers interact with its core service categories.

As the course progresses, you will work through essential security foundations such as IAM, credentials, roles, policies, and secure access patterns. You will also study developer tooling with the AWS CLI and SDKs, then move into key application platforms including EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, and Lambda. This makes the training useful not only for AWS Certified Developer Associate Prep, but also for improving how you design and maintain Cloud Computing solutions.

You will also cover storage, databases, and serverless development with lessons on S3, DynamoDB, RDS, ElastiCache, Lambda, and API Gateway. Messaging and integration topics such as SQS, SNS, and EventBridge help you understand event-driven application design, while configuration management with Parameter Store and Secrets Manager supports secure and reliable deployments. These lessons show you how to build, deploy, secure, and troubleshoot AWS applications with exam-focused developer training that stays tied to practical developer responsibilities.

The course also emphasizes observability, resilience, and release management. You will learn to monitor applications with CloudWatch, X-Ray, and CloudTrail, handle failures with retries and idempotency, and automate delivery with CodeCommit, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, pipelines, and CloudFormation. By the end, you will have a stronger grasp of Cloud Computing concepts, sharper AWS development judgment, and the preparation needed to approach the certification exam and real-world AWS projects with far more confidence.

Course Lessons

Full lesson breakdown

Lessons are organized by topic area and each includes descriptive copy for search visibility and student clarity.

Getting Started

2 lessons

This lesson orients learners to the AWS Certified Developer Associate journey by explaining what the exam is designed to measure, how developer-focused AWS thinking differs from general cloud awarenes…

Lesson 2: AWS Global Infrastructure and Core Service Categories

19 min
This lesson introduces the AWS global infrastructure concepts that appear throughout the AWS Certified Developer Associate exam: Regions, Availability Zones, edge locations, and how those choices affe…

Security Foundations

2 lessons

Lesson 3: IAM Basics for Developers

21 min
This lesson introduces the IAM concepts every AWS developer needs before writing, deploying, or debugging cloud applications. You will learn how AWS identifies principals, how permissions are granted …

Lesson 4: Credentials, Roles, Policies, and Secure Access Patterns

20 min
This lesson explains how AWS applications authenticate, receive permissions, and access services without exposing long-term secrets. You will distinguish IAM users, roles, and policies, understand how…

Developer Workflow

1 lesson

Lesson 5: Working with the AWS CLI, SDKs, and Developer Tooling

19 min
This lesson covers the day-to-day developer workflow tools you use before code reaches production: the AWS CLI, SDKs, local credential management, and the core tooling that supports build, test, and d…

Application Platforms

1 lesson

Lesson 6: Compute Choices: EC2, Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, and Lambda

22 min
This lesson compares the main AWS compute platforms a developer is expected to recognize for the AWS Certified Developer Associate exam: Amazon EC2, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, Amazon ECS, and AWS Lambda. …

Storage and Delivery

1 lesson

Lesson 7: S3 for Application Storage, Static Assets, and Secure Access

20 min
This lesson explains how developers use Amazon S3 for application storage, static asset hosting, and controlled access. It focuses on bucket and object basics, upload and retrieval patterns, encryptio…

Data Services

2 lessons

Lesson 8: Databases for Developers: DynamoDB, RDS, and ElastiCache

23 min
This lesson gives developers a practical decision framework for choosing between Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon RDS, and Amazon ElastiCache in application architectures. It focuses on the patterns most likel…

Lesson 9: DynamoDB Data Modeling, Capacity, and Access Patterns

22 min
This lesson focuses on how developers design DynamoDB tables around access patterns, choose partition and sort keys, and use secondary indexes without creating unnecessary complexity. You will learn h…

Serverless Development

1 lesson

Lesson 10: Building Serverless APIs with Lambda and API Gateway

24 min
This lesson explains how to design and deliver a practical serverless API on AWS using Amazon API Gateway and AWS Lambda. You will learn how requests move from an HTTP endpoint into Lambda, how to sha…

Messaging and Integration

1 lesson

Lesson 11: Event-Driven Architecture with SQS, SNS, and EventBridge

21 min
This lesson explains how AWS event-driven integration works in practice using Amazon SQS, Amazon SNS, and Amazon EventBridge. You will learn when to choose queues, topics, or event buses, how messages…

Configuration and Security

1 lesson

Lesson 12: Environment Variables, Parameter Store, and Secrets Manager

18 min
This lesson explains when to use plain environment variables, AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store, and AWS Secrets Manager for application configuration. You will learn the tradeoffs around sensitivit…

Monitoring and Troubleshooting

2 lessons

Lesson 13: Observability with CloudWatch, X-Ray, and CloudTrail

22 min
This lesson explains how AWS developers observe application behavior, diagnose failures, and verify account activity using Amazon CloudWatch, AWS X-Ray, and AWS CloudTrail. You will learn what each se…

Lesson 14: Error Handling, Retries, Idempotency, and Resilient Design

20 min
This lesson focuses on how AWS developers build applications that keep working when requests fail, dependencies slow down, or duplicate events appear. You will learn how to classify errors, apply safe…

CI/CD and Release Management

2 lessons

Lesson 15: Deployment Automation with CodeCommit, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy

23 min
This lesson explains how to automate application releases with AWS CodeCommit, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy in a developer-focused CI/CD workflow. You will learn how source changes move from repository t…

Lesson 16: Pipelines, Versioning, and Safe Release Strategies

19 min
This lesson explains how AWS developers move code from commit to production using practical CI/CD patterns, versioned artifacts, and low-risk release techniques. You will learn how CodePipeline, CodeB…

Infrastructure as Code

1 lesson

Lesson 17: CloudFormation Fundamentals for Developers

21 min
This lesson introduces AWS CloudFormation as the core infrastructure as code service developers use to define, version, deploy, and update AWS resources consistently. The focus is on the developer-fac…

Advanced Security Topics

1 lesson

Lesson 18: Encryption, Network Controls, and Application Protection

20 min
This lesson focuses on how AWS developers protect application data and traffic beyond basic identity controls. You will connect encryption choices to real implementation decisions, including when to u…

Operational Readiness

1 lesson

Lesson 19: Cost-Aware Architecture and Performance Optimization

18 min
This lesson explains how developers make AWS applications cheaper to run without degrading user experience. The focus is operational readiness: choosing the right pricing and scaling model, identifyin…

Final Preparation

1 lesson

Lesson 20: Scenario Practice and Exam Strategy Review

22 min
This lesson closes the course by shifting from learning AWS services to applying them under exam pressure. Students work through realistic AWS Certified Developer Associate style scenarios, practice i…
About Your Instructor
Professor Victoria Okafor

Professor Victoria Okafor

Professor Victoria Okafor guides this AI-built Virversity course with a clear, practical teaching style.