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Architectural patterns (for example, event-driven, microservices, monolithic, choreography, orchestration, fanout)

Idempotency

Differences between stateful and stateless concepts

Differences between tightly coupled and loosely coupled components

Fault-tolerant design patterns (for example, retries with exponential backoff and jitter, dead-letter queues)

Differences between synchronous and asynchronous patterns

Creating fault-tolerant and resilient applications in a programming language (for example, Java, C#, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, Go)

Creating, extending, and maintaining APIs (for example, response/request transformations, enforcing validation rules, overriding status codes)

Writing and running unit tests in development environments (for example, using AWS Serverless Application Model [AWS SAM])

Writing code to use messaging services

Writing code that interacts with AWS services by using APIs and AWS SDKs

Handling data streaming by using AWS services

Event source mapping

Stateless applications

Unit testing

Event-driven architecture

Scalability

The access of private resources in VPCs from Lambda code

Configuring Lambda functions by defining environment variables and parameters (for example, memory, concurrency, timeout, runtime, handler, layers, extensions, triggers, destinations)

Handling the event lifecycle and errors by using code (for example, Lambda Destinations, dead-letter queues)

Writing and running test code by using AWS services and tools

Integrating Lambda functions with AWS services

Tuning Lambda functions for optimal performance

Relational and non-relational databases

Create, read, update, and delete (CRUD) operations

High-cardinality partition keys for balanced partition access

Cloud storage options (for example, file, object, databases)

Database consistency models (for example, strongly consistent, eventually consistent)

Differences between query and scan operations

Amazon DynamoDB keys and indexing

Caching strategies (for example, write-through, read-through, lazy loading, TTL)

Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) tiers and lifecycle management

Differences between ephemeral and persistent data storage patterns

Serializing and deserializing data to provide persistence to a data store

Using, managing, and maintaining data stores

Managing data lifecycles

Using data caching services

Identity federation (for example, Security Assertion Markup Language [SAML], OpenID Connect [OIDC], Amazon Cognito)

Bearer tokens (for example, JSON Web Token [JWT], OAuth, AWS Security Token Service [AWS STS])

The comparison of user pools and identity pools in Amazon Cognito

Resource-based policies, service policies, and principal policies

Role-based access control (RBAC)

Application authorization that uses ACLs

The principle of least privilege

Differences between AWS managed policies and customer-managed policies

Identity and access management

Using an identity provider to implement federated access (for example, Amazon Cognito, AWS Identity and Access Management [IAM])

Securing applications by using bearer tokens

Configuring programmatic access to AWS

Making authenticated calls to AWS services

Assuming an IAM role

Defining permissions for principals

Encryption at rest and in transit

Certificate management (for example, AWS Private Certificate Authority)

Key protection (for example, key rotation)

Differences between client-side encryption and server-side encryption

Differences between AWS managed and customer managed AWS Key Management Service (AWS KMS) keys

Using encryption keys to encrypt or decrypt data

Generating certificates and SSH keys for development purposes

Using encryption across account boundaries

Enabling and disabling key rotation

Data classification (for example, personally identifiable information [PII], protected health information [PHI])

Environment variables

Secrets management (for example, AWS Secrets Manager, AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store)

Secure credential handling

Encrypting environment variables that contain sensitive data

Using secret management services to secure sensitive data

Sanitizing sensitive data

Ways to access application configuration data (for example, AWS AppConfig, Secrets Manager, Parameter Store)

Lambda deployment packaging, layers, and configuration options

Git-based version control tools (for example, Git)

Container images

Managing the dependencies of the code module (for example, environment variables, configuration files, container images) within the package

Organizing files and a directory structure for application deployment

Using code repositories in deployment environments

Applying application requirements for resources (for example, memory, cores)

Features in AWS services that perform application deployment

Integration testing that uses mock endpoints

Lambda versions and aliases

Testing deployed code by using AWS services and tools

Performing mock integration for APIs and resolving integration dependencies

Testing applications by using development endpoints (for example, configuring stages in Amazon API Gateway)

Deploying application stack updates to existing environments (for example, deploying an AWS SAM template to a different staging environment)

API Gateway stages

Branches and actions in the continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) workflow

Automated software testing (for example, unit testing, mock testing)

Creating application test events (for example, JSON payloads for testing Lambda, API Gateway, AWS SAM resources)

Deploying API resources to various environments

Creating application environments that use approved versions for integration testing (for example, Lambda aliases, container image tags, AWS Amplify branches, AWS Copilot environments)

Implementing and deploying infrastructure as code (IaC) templates (for example, AWS SAM templates, AWS CloudFormation templates)

Managing environments in individual AWS services (for example, differentiating between development, test and production in API Gateway)

Git-based version control tools (for example, Git)

Manual and automated approvals in AWS CodePipeline

Access application configurations from AWS AppConfig and Secrets Manager

CI/CD workflows that use AWS services

Application deployment that uses AWS services and tools (for example, CloudFormation, AWS Cloud Development Kit [AWS CDK], AWS SAM, AWS CodeArtifact, AWS Copilot, Amplify, Lambda)

Lambda deployment packaging options

API Gateway stages and custom domains

Deployment strategies (for example, canary, blue/green, rolling)

Updating existing IaC templates (for example, AWS SAM templates, CloudFormation templates)

Managing application environments by using AWS services

Deploying an application version by using deployment strategies

Committing code to a repository to invoke build, test, and deployment actions

Using orchestrated workflows to deploy code to different environments

Performing application rollbacks by using existing deployment strategies

Using labels and branches for version and release management

Using existing runtime configurations to create dynamic deployments (for example, using staging variables from API Gateway in Lambda functions)

Logging and monitoring systems

Languages for log queries (for example, Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights)

Data visualizations

Code analysis tools

Common HTTP error codes

Common exceptions generated by SDKs

Service maps in AWS X-Ray

Debugging code to identify defects

Interpreting application metrics, logs, and traces

Querying logs to find relevant data

Implementing custom metrics (for example, CloudWatch embedded metric format [EMF])

Reviewing application health by using dashboards and insights

Troubleshooting deployment failures by using service output logs

Distributed tracing

Differences between logging, monitoring, and observability

Structured logging

Application metrics (for example, custom, embedded, built-in)

Implementing an effective logging strategy to record application behavior and state

Implementing code that emits custom metrics

Adding annotations for tracing services

Implementing notification alerts for specific actions (for example, notifications about quota limits or deployment completions)

Implementing tracing by using AWS services and tools

Caching

Concurrency

Messaging services (for example, Amazon Simple Queue Service [Amazon SQS], Amazon Simple Notification Service [Amazon SNS])

Profiling application performance

Determining minimum memory and compute power for an application

Using subscription filter policies to optimize messaging

Caching content based on request headers