The AWS Certified Developer – Associate exam is 65 questions in 130 minutes, and you need 720 out of 1000 to pass. Set how you’re scoring on practice questions in each of its 4 domains and get an estimated scaled score, weighted the way AWS weights DVA-C02. Free, no signup.
How are you scoring on practice questions, per domain?
Estimated scaled score
700 / 1000
Pass mark: 720
-20 points vs pass
Borderline — could go either way
You're inside the noise band around the pass mark, and exam-day pressure usually costs a few points. Don't reschedule yet: the lever list below shows where a week of targeted drilling buys the most points.
These sliders are your guess about yourself. The free 10-question diagnostic measures it — per domain, against the same blueprint weights, no signup. Then drill the gaps with the free Developer practice questions and schedule the rest with the study plan generator.
Measure it with the free diagnostic| Domain | Weight | ≈ Scored Qs | Pts per +10% |
|---|---|---|---|
| Development with AWS Services | 32% | 16 | 32 |
| Security | 26% | 13 | 26 |
| Deployment | 24% | 12 | 24 |
| Troubleshooting & Optimization | 18% | 9 | 18 |
On DVA-C02, Development with AWS Services is worth the most: 32% of the score, so lifting your accuracy there by 10% adds about 32 scaled points, while the same effort in Troubleshooting & Optimization (18%) adds about 18. That's 1.8× the return, so if two domains are equally weak, fix Development with AWS Services first. The pass mark of 720 works out to roughly 72% blueprint-weighted accuracy on this estimate.
720 out of 1000 on AWS's scaled score. The exam has 65 questions in 130 minutes; 15 are unscored pretest items you can't identify, so 50 count. Scoring is compensatory: there is no per-domain minimum, only the overall score.
Development with AWS Services, at 32% of the exam (about 16 scored questions). Each 10% of accuracy there is worth roughly 32 scaled points, against 18 in Troubleshooting & Optimization (18%).
Both are associate-level: 720 to pass, 65 questions, 130 minutes. The difference is the blueprint. DVA-C02 puts 32% on Development with AWS Services and 18% on Troubleshooting & Optimization, so the questions are about writing and debugging code against Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway and the SDKs, where SAA-C03 asks you to choose between architectures.