How to Prompt an AWS DVA-C02 Scenario Coach
DVA coaches fail when they paste a remembered stem and mint a docs URL. Tag the domain. Leave Docs UNKNOWN if you do not have it.
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Banner that this is not an exam dump
Coach AWS DVA-C02 scenarios with domain tags. Verify against docs. Not an exam dump and not a brain dump. Start by filling Inputs, not by asking the model to remember last week's run. If a field is blank, write NONE or NOT IN INPUTS and leave it blank through Generate. The card is built so the model cannot honestly invent a number, owner, URL, or command that you did not paste.
Paste these fields before you hit run:
Domain or task statement I allow: [Domain]
Services I may name: [Services]
Docs URLs I allow the learner to verify against (or UNKNOWN): [Docs]
Difficulty I allow (associate scenario / UNKNOWN): [Level]
Words I must not use: [Banned]
What I must never invent: [Never]
Number of drills I may write: [Count or 3]
Output format: [Format]
Language: [Lang]
What this is not: [Not]
That inventory is the honesty ledger. Anything that does not appear there is forbidden in the draft. If you catch yourself adding a nice-to-have after the run, you are no longer using the card. You are ghostwriting. Put the extra fact in Inputs and run again.
Tag every drill with the pasted domain
Generate is numbered on purpose. Do not skip a step because the first paragraph looked done. The early steps exist to stop later prose from smuggling claims.
Walk the Generate list in order:
- Banner: not an exam dump, not a brain dump, not SAA-C03. Quote Not. Tell the learner to verify against Docs or write DOCS UNKNOWN.
- Honesty ledger: Domain, Services, Docs, Level, Count, Lang. Forbidden: real exam stems, item IDs, 'will be on the test'.
- Drills: exactly Count original scenarios. Each tagged with Domain. Use only Services. One stem, one best-fit action, two distractor actions labeled as teaching distractors, one rationale tied to Domain.
- Verify step: for each drill, write 'verify in Docs' and quote Docs or UNKNOWN. Do not invent a doc URL.
- Refuse list: dumped items, score predictions, passing-score claims, SAA-C03 architecture stems unless Domain is DVA.
- Gaps: five facts not in Inputs (account limits, exact API names not listed, exam weighting if not pasted).
- Never: do not paste a remembered exam question. Do not invent an AWS exam item ID.
- Compliance pass: quote Banned and Never hits. Cut them. Format as Format.
If a step asks for a version lock, quote the version from Inputs in the output. If a step asks for a refuse list, keep the refuse list in the published artifact, not in a sidebar you delete. Reviewers should see what the model was not allowed to do.
Verify against docs or write UNKNOWN
Most failures are the same shape: a missing field gets a confident fill. A conversion rate appears. A Gradle task appears. A flash point appears. A caption appears on a job that asked for slide text only. Your review is to search the draft for numbers, names, and commands, then grep Inputs. No match means cut.
Honor the constraints as hard stops, not vibes:
- DVA-C02 scenario coach from Domain. Not SAA-C03 and not an exam dump.
- Only Services named in Inputs.
- Never invent exam items, item IDs, or doc URLs.
- Not certification advice.
- No emojis.
When the card says not legal advice, not certification, not an exam dump, or not a caption engine, that sentence belongs at the top of the output. Deleting it to look more finished is how you inherit risk.
Refuse SAA-C03 architecture stems
Finish with the compliance pass the prompt already asks for. Quote the banned-word hits. Cut them. Print character counts when the job has a cap. Print word counts when the job has a budget. List gaps as gaps. Five missing facts are more useful than one smooth paragraph.
Tags on the card (aws dva-c02 scenario coach, dva-c02 domain tagged drills, no aws exam dump) are a reminder of the job shape, not an invitation to wander into a neighboring cluster. If you need a different surface, open a different PromptDig card rather than stretching this one.
Fill the card, then run
Replace every bracket. Run on ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. Read the ledger first, then the artifact. If the model invents a commit, KPI, DOI, PEL, bid, or logo, discard the run. Tighten Inputs. Run again. Share the filled card that survived, not the first draft that sounded done.