Official domains and our selected practice
Weights describe the exam’s scored content, not how much of a domain this site covers. Every domain below has gaps. Use the linked official guide to plan the rest of your study.
Development with AWS Services · 32%
Available here: Explore supported local integrations, key-based access and duplicate-safe processing concepts.
- Serverless compute — reading and selected guided console practice
- HTTP in front of your code — reading and selected guided console practice
- Key-value at any scale — reading and selected guided console practice
- Decoupling with queues and events — reading and selected guided console practice
- Retries, idempotency and backpressure — reading and visual concepts
Still needed beyond this path: Real SDK code, complete Lambda event-source behavior, Step Functions and the full developer-service portfolio are absent.
Security · 26%
Available here: Identify a workload role and the narrow action/resource scope for a request.
- Identity and permissions — reading and selected guided console practice
- Defence in depth — reading and visual concepts
Still needed beyond this path: Real credential issuance, application authentication, encryption and secret rotation need additional hands-on study; simulated secrets are not cryptography.
Deployment · 24%
Available here: Compare declarative infrastructure and supported local function configuration workflows.
- Infrastructure as code — reading and visual concepts
- Serverless compute — reading and selected guided console practice
Still needed beyond this path: There is no running CI/CD pipeline, full SAM/CDK deployment, application build or live canary traffic test.
Troubleshooting and Optimization · 18%
Available here: Use synthetic logs and failures to isolate a request, permission or key mismatch.
- Knowing what is happening — reading and visual concepts
- Retries, idempotency and backpressure — reading and visual concepts
- Key-value at any scale — reading and selected guided console practice
Still needed beyond this path: Real distributed tracing, profiling, runtime debugging and production optimization require real applications.
Build the concept before memorizing an answer
Read the explanation, predict a changed scenario, run an experiment and explain the outcome. Return to a topic after a gap. These local exercises supplement study; they do not replace experience using the real services.