📅 30-Day DVA-C02 Study Plan

A balanced four-week study plan covering all DVA-C02 domains with daily practice questions and weekly mock exams.

About This Study Plan

This 30-day study plan breaks the DVA-C02 (AWS Developer Associate) exam preparation into 10 focused study sessions with a total of 38 actionable tasks. The plan covers all 4 exam domains — Development with AWS Services, Security, Deployment, Troubleshooting and Optimization — ensuring complete coverage of the exam blueprint. A balanced four-week study plan covering all DVA-C02 domains with daily practice questions and weekly mock exams.

10Study Sessions
38Total Tasks
4Domains Covered

Prerequisites

  • Basic understanding of AWS services (Cloud Practitioner level)
  • Some programming experience in any language
  • 2–3 hours of study time per day

Study Schedule

Days 1–2Lambda Fundamentals & Advanced
  • Function creation, runtimes, memory, timeout, environment variables
  • Concurrency (reserved, provisioned), cold starts, versions, aliases
  • Layers, destinations, DLQs, and traffic shifting
  • Practice: 30 Lambda questions
Days 3–5DynamoDB & S3
  • Tables, partition keys, sort keys, capacity modes
  • GSI, LSI, DynamoDB Streams, transactions, DAX, TTL
  • S3 bucket policies, pre-signed URLs, encryption, lifecycle policies
  • Practice: 30 storage questions
Days 6–7Week 1 Review
  • Review Lambda, DynamoDB, S3 cheat sheets
  • Practice: 30 mixed development questions
  • Identify weak areas for extra review
Days 8–10API Gateway & Messaging
  • REST vs HTTP APIs, authorizers, stages, caching, throttling
  • SQS Standard vs FIFO, visibility timeout, DLQ, long polling
  • SNS topics, fan-out, message filtering
  • Practice: 30 mixed questions
Days 11–14Containers, Streaming & Week 2 Review
  • Step Functions, EventBridge, ECS/ECR, Kinesis Data Streams
  • ElastiCache (Redis vs Memcached), CloudFront, Lambda@Edge
  • Mini mock: 30 development questions
  • Review API Gateway, SQS/SNS cheat sheets
Days 15–18Security Domain
  • Cognito User Pools, Identity Pools, hosted UI, Lambda triggers
  • IAM policies, roles, STS AssumeRole, permission boundaries
  • KMS envelope encryption, Secrets Manager rotation vs Parameter Store
  • Practice: 30 security questions
Days 19–21CI/CD & Week 3 Review
  • CodePipeline, CodeBuild (buildspec), CodeDeploy (appspec, lifecycle hooks)
  • Deployment strategies: in-place, blue/green, canary, linear
  • Mini mock: 30 mixed security and deployment questions
Days 22–23IaC & Deployment Tools
  • CloudFormation templates, stacks, change sets, nested stacks
  • SAM templates, CDK constructs (L1/L2/L3)
  • Elastic Beanstalk deployment policies, .ebextensions
  • Practice: 30 deployment questions
Days 24–27Troubleshooting & Optimization
  • X-Ray: traces, segments, subsegments, annotations, sampling
  • CloudWatch metrics, alarms, Logs Insights, embedded metric format
  • Lambda errors, timeouts, memory tuning, API Gateway troubleshooting
  • Practice: 30 troubleshooting questions
Days 28–30Full Mock Exams & Final Review
  • Take two full 65-question mock exams (130 min each)
  • Review all incorrect answers and weak areas
  • Final pass through all cheat sheets and flashcards
  • Exam logistics: ID, scheduling, time management tips

Study Tips

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Complete at least 15 practice questions daily to reinforce learning

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Use weekly mini-mocks to track progress across domains

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Review incorrect answers the same day — spaced repetition helps retention

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