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Best Resources For Passing The AWS Developer Associate Exam

Pavle Djuric
4 min readMay 15, 2022

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Cloud certifications can boost your career significantly. Before I got AWS certified, I wasn’t getting contacted by many recruiters on LinkedIn. After getting three of them, my inbox hasn’t seen any rest. Out of all three, I think the Developer Associate certification is the one that benefited me the most.

In this article I will recommend some resources that I used for passing the exam.

It took me around 30 days of studying to pass the exam, but I already had some professional experience using AWS. If you are completely new to cloud computing, I wouldn’t suggest taking this exam as your first. Instead, try completing the AWS Certified Practitioner exam before. Even though that one probably won’t get you too far in the sense of job offers, it will give you an excellent foundational knowledge about the most important services that AWS offers. Only then will you be really ready for the more advanced topics that will appear on the Developer Associate exam.

If you do already have a solid knowledge of how the cloud works, then I would recommend using these 4 resources for passing the exam:

  1. Stephane Maarek’s Udemy Course

This one was by far the most useful for me. It covers extensively all of the topics that will appear on the exam. Most…

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Pavle Djuric
Pavle Djuric

Written by Pavle Djuric

Software developer. 3 x AWS certified. Writing mostly about Python, Golang, backend development and Cloud computing.

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