About This Domain
Domain 3 — Deployment — accounts for 24% of the DVA-C02 certification exam. This domain evaluates your understanding of building ci/cd pipelines with codepipeline, codebuild, and codedeploy, infrastructure as code with cloudformation, sam, and cdk, deployment strategies: all-at-once, rolling, immutable, blue/green, canary, and related concepts. Domain 3 evaluates your knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, deployment strategies, and artifact management for AWS applications. To pass this section you need practical knowledge of how these services and patterns work together in real-world architectures.
What You'll Be Tested On
- Building CI/CD pipelines with CodePipeline, CodeBuild, and CodeDeploy
- Infrastructure as code with CloudFormation, SAM, and CDK
- Deployment strategies: all-at-once, rolling, immutable, blue/green, canary
- Managing container images with ECR and deploying to ECS
- Elastic Beanstalk deployment policies and environment management
- Artifact management and build caching
Key AWS Services in This Domain
Study Strategy for Domain 3
This domain represents 24% of the total exam, making it a significant scoring area. Balance theoretical study with hands-on practice. Use practice quizzes to identify weak spots and review the topics where you score below 75%.
Exam Tips for Domain 3
SAM is a CloudFormation extension — sam deploy generates a CloudFormation stack.
CodeDeploy blue/green for Lambda shifts traffic using aliases; for EC2 it creates a new Auto Scaling group.
Know the Elastic Beanstalk deployment policies and their impact on capacity and downtime.
CDK constructs come in 3 levels: L1 (CFN), L2 (curated defaults), L3 (patterns/solutions).
Frequently Asked Questions
How many questions on the DVA-C02 exam come from Domain 3?
Domain 3 (Deployment) makes up 24% of the DVA-C02 exam. The exam has 65 scored questions, so approximately 16 questions will come from this domain.
What services should I focus on for Domain 3?
The key services for this domain include CodePipeline, CodeBuild, CodeDeploy, CloudFormation, SAM, CDK, Elastic Beanstalk, ECS, ECR. Make sure you understand how each service works, its use cases, and how they integrate with one another.
How should I prepare for Deployment questions?
Start by reviewing the key topics listed above, then practice with domain-specific questions. Focus on understanding real-world scenarios rather than memorizing facts. Use our practice quizzes to test your knowledge and review explanations for any questions you get wrong.
What's the best order to study the DVA-C02 domains?
Many candidates start with the highest-weighted domains first. For the DVA-C02 exam, the domains in order of weight are: Development with AWS Services (32%), Security (26%), Deployment (24%), Troubleshooting and Optimization (18%). However, start with whichever domain aligns best with your existing experience.
Practice Domain 3 Questions
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