What is the purpose of an AWS CloudFormation template?

To monitor application performance.

To write application code for Lambda functions.

To provision and manage AWS resources as infrastructure as code.

A developer is writing a Lambda function that processes S3 object creation events. They want to test the function locally using the AWS SAM CLI before deploying. Which action should they take to simulate an S3 event?

Create a test event in the Lambda console with a JSON payload containing only the S3 bucket name

Deploy the function to a test alias and invoke it with a test event

Run `sam local generate-event s3 put` and pipe the output to `sam local invoke`

Use `sam local start-api` and send a POST request to the function's endpoint

A frontend developer is using AWS Amplify to host a React application. They want to create a separate environment for integration testing of a new feature branch before merging to main. What should they do?

Enable branch auto-detection and connect the feature branch to Amplify

Create a new Amplify app for the feature branch

Deploy the feature branch to the main environment

Use AWS CodeCommit to create a separate repository for the feature branch

What is the primary use case for Amazon Q Developer in the context of testing?

To automatically generate unit and integration tests for application code.

To deploy applications to production.

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Domain 3Objective 3

Task 3: Automate Deployment Testing DVA-C02 Practice Questions (Page 5)

Part of the Content Domain 3: Deployment domain, which accounts for 24% of the DVA-C02 exam. AWS does not publish an official question count, but from its 130-minute exam (~50–85 total, ~12–20 in this domain), expect 3–5 from this objective — we provide 34 practice questions to prepare you well beyond it. (estimate)

34questions here

7free pages

12concepts

24%of the exam

12 Concepts in This Objective

Creating Lambda test events
Creating API Gateway test events
Creating AWS SAM test events
Deploying API resources to environments
Using Lambda aliases for environment testing
Using container image tags for environment testing
Using AWS Amplify branches for environment testing
Using AWS Copilot environments for testing
Implementing AWS SAM templates
Implementing AWS CloudFormation templates
Managing API Gateway environments
Using Amazon Q Developer for test generation

Questions 21–25

21foundation · easy
Which file format can be used to author a CloudFormation template?
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22foundation · easy
What is the purpose of an AWS CloudFormation template?
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23application · medium
A developer is writing a Lambda function that processes S3 object creation events. They want to test the function locally using the AWS SAM CLI before deploying. Which action should they take to simulate an S3 event?
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24application · medium
A frontend developer is using AWS Amplify to host a React application. They want to create a separate environment for integration testing of a new feature branch before merging to main. What should they do?
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25foundation · easy
What is the primary use case for Amazon Q Developer in the context of testing?
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