Claude certification study guides

No course or prior credential is required, and Professional does not require Foundations. This is about content, not eligibility — see who may register. Certification is open to people at Claude Partner Network organizations, and registration rejects personal email addresses. This is not stated in the exam guide.

CCDV-F (Claude Certified Developer – Foundations): 53 items in 120 minutes. CCAR-F (Claude Certified Architect – Foundations): 60 items in 120 minutes. CCAR-P (Claude Certified Architect – Professional): 63 items in 120 minutes. The program's fourth exam, CCAO-F, is 60 items in 120 minutes. All are delivered by Pearson VUE. What you pay depends on your Partner Network tier, so confirm it in the Partner Academy before booking.

Every exam passes at 720 on a 100–1000 scale. You are measured against a fixed standard, not against other candidates. 720 is a standard-set cut score on a 100–1,000 scale — it is not 72% correct. Your score report shows a percentage per domain, but no domain has its own pass line. Only the total scaled score decides the result.

CCDV-F — For people who build with the Claude API and Claude Code — agents, tool use, evaluation and the mechanics of shipping an application. CCAR-F — For people who design Claude solutions — agentic architecture, tool and context design, configuration, prompting and reliability. CCAR-P — The only exam in the program that tests governance, stakeholder communication and developer enablement — 35% of it sits outside anything a Foundations blueprint covers. You may sit Professional without holding Foundations, and Foundations never upgrades into it.

Each credential is valid for 12 months. On-time renewal is a free, non-proctored assessment. Let the credential lapse and you pay the full fee and sit the whole exam again — which is what makes the 12-month expiry a diary entry rather than a recurring cost. Waits lengthen with each failure — 14, then 30, then 90 days — capped at four attempts per exam per rolling year. Each attempt is charged in full, and the limit is per exam.

No. They are free, blueprint-aligned study guides and practice exams from KokoAI Academy, not affiliated with Anthropic. No official exam question is reproduced, every practice scenario is fictional, and a practice score is a Koko Practice Index, not an exam score.