Technologies and Concepts That Might Appear on the DVA-C02 Exam

Comprehensive overview of the key technologies and AWS services that might appear on the DVA-C02 exam including analytics, compute, database, and security.

• 06 June 2024
• Analytics,
• Application Integration,
• Compute,
• Containers,
• Database,
• Developer Tools,
• Management,
• Governance,
• Networking,
• Content Delivery,
• Security,
• Identity,
• Compliance,
• Storage

The following list contains technologies and concepts that might appear on the exam. This list is non-exhaustive and is subject to change. The order and placement of the items in this list is no indication of their relative weight or importance on the exam:
• Analytics
• Application integration
• Compute
• Containers
• Cost and capacity management
• Database
• Developer tools
• Management and governance
• Networking and content delivery
• Security, identity, and compliance
• Storage

In-scope AWS services and features #

The following list contains AWS services and features that are in scope for the exam. This list is non-exhaustive and is subject to change. AWS offerings appear in categories that align with the offerings’ primary functions:

Analytics #

1. Amazon Athena

An interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon S3 using standard SQL.
Documentation

1. Amazon Kinesis

A platform for real-time processing of streaming data at a massive scale.
Documentation

3. Amazon OpenSearch Service

A fully managed service that makes it easy to deploy, secure, and run OpenSearch cost-effectively at scale.
Documentation

Application Integration #

1. AWS AppSync

A fully managed service that makes it easy to develop GraphQL APIs by handling the heavy lifting of securely connecting to data sources.
Documentation

2. Amazon EventBridge

A serverless event bus service that makes it easy to connect applications using data from your own applications, SaaS, and AWS services.
Documentation

3. Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS)

A fully managed messaging service for both system-to-system and app-to-person communication.
Documentation

4. Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS)

A fully managed message queuing service that enables you to decouple and scale microservices, distributed systems, and serverless applications.
Documentation

5. AWS Step Functions

A serverless orchestration service that lets you combine AWS Lambda functions and other AWS services to build business-critical applications.
Documentation

Compute #

1. Amazon EC2

Provides scalable computing capacity in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud.
Documentation

2. AWS Elastic Beanstalk

An easy-to-use service for deploying and scaling web applications and services developed with Java, . NET, PHP, Node.js, Python, Ruby, Go, and Docker.
Documentation

3. AWS Lambda

A serverless compute service that lets you run code without provisioning or managing servers.
Documentation

4. AWS Serverless Application Model (AWS SAM)

An open-source framework for building serverless applications.
Documentation

Containers #

1. AWS Copilot

A command-line interface that makes it easy to develop, release, and operate production-ready containerized applications on Amazon ECS and AWS Fargate.
Documentation

2. Amazon Elastic Container Registry (Amazon ECR)

A fully managed container registry that makes it easy to store, share, and deploy your container software.
Documentation

3. Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS)

A fully managed container orchestration service that helps you deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications.
Documentation

4. Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS)

A fully managed Kubernetes service that makes it easy to run Kubernetes on AWS without needing to install and operate your own Kubernetes control plane or nodes.
Documentation

Database #

1. Amazon Aurora

A MySQL and PostgreSQL-compatible relational database built for the cloud, that combines the performance and availability of high-end commercial databases with the simplicity and cost-effectiveness of open source databases.
Documentation

2. Amazon DynamoDB

A key-value and document database that delivers single-digit millisecond performance at any scale.
Documentation

3. Amazon ElastiCache

A web service that makes it easy to deploy, operate, and scale an in-memory cache in the cloud.
Documentation

4. Amazon MemoryDB for Redis

A Redis-compatible, in-memory database service that delivers ultra-fast performance for modern applications.
Documentation

5. Amazon RDS

A web service that makes it easier to set up, operate, and scale a relational database in the cloud.
Documentation

Developer Tools #

1. AWS Amplify

A set of tools and services that can be used together or on their own to help front-end web and mobile developers build scalable full-stack applications, powered by AWS.
Documentation

2. AWS Cloud9

A cloud-based integrated development environment (IDE) that lets you write, run, and debug your code with just a browser.
Documentation

3. AWS CloudShell

A browser-based shell that makes it easy to securely manage, explore, and interact with your AWS resources.
Documentation

4. AWS CodeArtifact

A fully managed artifact repository service that makes it easy for organizations to securely store, publish, and share software packages used in their software development process.
Documentation

5. AWS CodeBuild

A fully managed continuous integration service that compiles source code, runs tests, and produces software packages that are ready to deploy.
Documentation

6. AWS CodeCommit

A fully managed source control service that makes it easy for teams to host secure and scalable Git repositories.
Documentation

7. AWS CodeDeploy

A fully managed deployment service that automates software deployments to a variety of compute services such as Amazon EC2, AWS Fargate, AWS Lambda, and your on-premises servers.
Documentation

8. Amazon CodeGuru

A developer tool powered by machine learning that provides intelligent recommendations for improving code quality and identifying an application’s most expensive lines of code.
Documentation

9. AWS CodePipeline

A fully managed continuous delivery service that helps you automate your release pipelines for fast and reliable application and infrastructure updates.
Documentation

10. AWS CodeStar

    A unified user interface, enabling you to easily manage your software development activities in one place.

    • Documentation

11. Amazon CodeWhisperer

    A machine learning-powered service that helps developers write code by providing recommendations based on their natural language comments and existing code.

    • Documentation

12. AWS X-Ray Helps developers analyze and debug production, distributed applications, such as those built using a microservices architecture.

    • Documentation

Management and Governance #

1. AWS AppConfig

Helps you deploy application configurations in a managed and predictable way.
[Documentation](https://docs.aws.amazon

.com/appconfig)

2. AWS CLI

A unified tool to manage your AWS services.
Documentation

3. AWS Cloud Development Kit (AWS CDK)

An open-source software development framework to define your cloud application resources using familiar programming languages.
Documentation

4. AWS CloudFormation

Gives developers and businesses an easy way to create a collection of related AWS and third-party resources, and provision and manage them in an orderly and predictable fashion.
Documentation

5. AWS CloudTrail

Enables governance, compliance, and operational and risk auditing of your AWS account.
Documentation

6. Amazon CloudWatch

A monitoring and management service built for developers, system operators, site reliability engineers (SRE), and IT managers.
Documentation

7. Amazon CloudWatch Logs

A capability of Amazon CloudWatch that you can use to monitor, store, and access your log files from Amazon EC2 instances, AWS CloudTrail, and other sources.
Documentation

8. AWS Systems Manager

Provides a unified user interface so you can view operational data from multiple AWS services and automate operational tasks across your AWS resources.
Documentation

Networking and Content Delivery #

1. Amazon API Gateway

A fully managed service that makes it easy for developers to create, publish, maintain, monitor, and secure APIs at any scale.
Documentation

2. Amazon CloudFront

A fast content delivery network (CDN) service that securely delivers data, videos, applications, and APIs to customers globally with low latency and high transfer speeds.
Documentation

3. Elastic Load Balancing (ELB)

Automatically distributes incoming application traffic across multiple targets, such as Amazon EC2 instances, containers, and IP addresses.
Documentation

4. Amazon Route 53

A highly available and scalable cloud Domain Name System (DNS) web service designed to give developers and businesses an extremely reliable and cost-effective way to route end users to Internet applications.
Documentation

5. Amazon VPC

Lets you provision a logically isolated section of the AWS cloud where you can launch AWS resources in a virtual network that you define.
Documentation

Security, Identity, and Compliance #

1. AWS Certificate Manager (ACM)

Lets you easily provision, manage, and deploy public and private SSL/TLS certificates for use with AWS services and your internal connected resources.
Documentation

2. Amazon Cognito

Lets you add user sign-up, sign-in, and access control to your web and mobile apps quickly and easily.
Documentation

3. AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Enables you to manage access to AWS services and resources securely.
Documentation

4. AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS)

Makes it easy to create and control the encryption keys used to encrypt your data.
Documentation

5. AWS Private Certificate Authority

A managed private CA service that helps you easily and securely manage the lifecycle of your private certificates.
Documentation

6. AWS Secrets Manager

Helps you protect access to your applications, services, and IT resources without the upfront cost and complexity of managing your own hardware security module (HSM) infrastructure.
Documentation

7. AWS Security Token Service (AWS STS)

Enables you to request temporary, limited-privilege credentials for AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) users or for users that you authenticate (federated users).
Documentation

8. AWS WAF

Helps protect your web applications from common web exploits that could affect application availability, compromise security, or consume excessive resources.
Documentation

Storage #

1. Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS)

Provides persistent block storage volumes for use with Amazon EC2 instances in the AWS Cloud.
Documentation

2. Amazon Elastic File System (Amazon EFS)

Provides a simple, scalable, elastic file system for Linux-based workloads for use with AWS Cloud services and on-premises resources.
Documentation

3. Amazon S3

An object storage service that offers industry-leading scalability, data availability, security, and performance.
Documentation

4. Amazon S3 Glacier

A secure, durable, and extremely low-cost Amazon S3 cloud storage class for data archiving and long-term backup.
Documentation

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