120 cards
This deck is designed to help you prepare for the AWS Developer Associate certification by drilling down on the core services and concepts that show up most often on the exam. The cards walk you through foundational topics like the shared responsibility model, IAM users and roles, policies, and STS temporary credentials, then move into monitoring and observability with CloudWatch and CloudTrail. You'll also revisit practical developer scenarios such as granting an EC2 instance or Lambda function permission to call AWS APIs without hard-coding keys.
It's a great fit if you're a developer or cloud practitioner who already has some hands-on experience with AWS and wants a focused way to check your knowledge before sitting the exam. The questions are phrased in an exam-style format, so you'll get used to recognizing the kinds of prompts and distractor answers you'll face on test day. Even if you're not pursuing certification, anyone building applications on AWS will benefit from a sharper understanding of identity, permissions, and monitoring.
To get the most out of these flashcards, try to explain each answer to yourself in your own words before moving to the next card, rather than just reading and flipping. Spacing your review sessions across several days, instead of cramming, will help the distinctions between similar services, such as the difference between managed and inline policies or between CloudTrail and CloudWatch, really stick. Pay extra attention to the "why" behind each recommendation, since the exam often rewards understanding AWS best practices over rote memorization.