My Developer Associate Certification Journey and Resources to Certify With Confidence

Short summary

The author shares their journey to AWS Certified Developer Associate, emphasizing hands-on building over passive reading. Key recommendations include building REST APIs with Lambda/API Gateway/DynamoDB, deploying with SAM, creating CI/CD pipelines, and debugging IAM issues. AI-powered adaptive practice exams are highlighted as a way to identify knowledge gaps that traditional practice tests miss.

• •Build projects rather than just reading docs to retain AWS knowledge for the Developer Associate exam
• •AWS Skill Builder now offers maintenance-based renewal for select certifications without retaking the full exam
• •AI-powered practice exams adapt to individual knowledge gaps, offering targeted study beyond traditional fixed-question tests

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