AWS Certified Developer Official Study Guide: Associate (DVA-C01) Exam (Sybex Study Guide) 1st Edition

Like the other reviewers said, there are errors here. It's not too big of a deal if you know what you're doing. The git folder can be found in the course questions on testbanks.wiley.com under RESOURCES. It wasn't easy to find, but it does exist.I passed the Cloud Practitioner, Solutions Architect Associate, and SysOps Associate tests with ease, but didn't pass the Developer test (not required with SysOps passed, but I'm taking all of the tests.For my Developer Associate studies, I started out with A Cloud Guru, Cloud Academy, and Linux Academy resources, watched the videos, and took every practice test I can find.This book covers the material that was on the exam - that's all I'll say. I have yet to take it again, but everything that was covered in detail in the questions I missed is here. The third-party training is not sufficient without a lot of supplemental study in anything you don't use religiously on your own.Finally, the test questions here are decent because they mirror the Amazon certification goals nicely. Taking exam sims you find on the web will just give you false confidence, although I hear that the Stephane Maarek ones on Udemy are good. I *highly recommend* highlighting anything you don't know, and making your own questions using test software. This is the best strategy, because you need to retain knowledge, not just memorize poorly-written questions that will ruin you for the exam.=== This advice is current as of October 2019 - the longer this book is out, the less relevant it will be ===AWS changes the exams so much, I don't know how long this will be true. I recommend digesting this book and taking the exam as soon as possible. The Advanced Networking book is several years old, and while it helps, it seems like the best way to handle AWS content is to use the newest study materials, and stay ahead of the changes.

Although there were some broken links, and typos. It is a huge amount of knowledge packed in a book with online practice questions (answered with explains)IMO for self learners this is the best resource for preparing this test!

This book was very helpful for review before the exam. Reason each chapter, finishing the exercises and the review questions (in the book and on line ) plus the sample exams were vital for me learning the material and passing the exam

It’s a good book to prepare for the dev associate exam. Didn’t expect it to be 900+ pages. Now that I am done with the exam I use it as a good reference book.

It was a huge book so yeah worth the price. Just too difficult I can hardly go through 1/3, will come back to finish up at some time

Yes, there are a few typos in some of the code samples in this book. Overall though this is a great resource and presents all the information you'd need for the CDA exam. The sections on DynamoDB, Lambda, and CloudFormation are great, and in addition this hits book hits the main topics for the exam.

I will update my review if I find an errata page, but so far the URL for the git repo for code downloads is invalid and there are many typos and I'm only in Chapter 3. I'm able to work around some things, but without the code, I can't do many of the exercises, which I was excited about. It is a very large book and I'm looking forward to using it as a tool to help me pass the exam.**EDIT** the publisher emailed me the code right away, and now they've included it online (although the link is hard to find once logged in). As I'm going through it, I'm finding that the questions are very good. I'm finding more and more errors in the text; but when I combine this with acloud.guru and AWS docs online, I'm able to realize the mistakes and move on. If something doesn't make sense, or contradicts itself when reading, check another source to verify. But I like this book still.** ANOTHER EDIT **There are just too many typos. I haven't been able to do virtually any of the exercises. For example, in exercise 6.1, Deploy Your Application (the topic is Elastic Beanstalk), it states "In this exercise you will sign up for an AWS account"? Huh? That's not what we're doing here. Step one says "Verify that your source code is packaged as a .zip and is ready to be retrieved.." What? I don't have any source code, this is step 1...and I thought were were creating an AWS account? What a mess.**FINAL EDIT**I passed the test today. I did not use this book exclusively but it does cover the content on the exam. I just wasn't able to do any of the exercises.

Provides great introduction and ramps up from there. Written with technical audience in mind. Provides code examples in CLI, Python, Java. I'm only 18% done as of now, liking it so far