No course is required. That is not the same as open registration.
No course or prior credential is required, and Professional does not require Foundations. This is about content, not eligibility — see who may register.
“There are no mandatory prerequisites or courses required to sit this exam. The experience above is recommended, not required. The credential is awarded based on exam performance alone.”
Certification is open to people at Claude Partner Network organizations, and registration rejects personal email addresses. This is not stated in the exam guide.
“Yes. Certification is available to people at Claude Partner Network organizations. Registration requires a partner email address on a recognized company domain — personal email addresses will not work.”Anthropic Partner Academy FAQ
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Claude Certified Developer – Foundations
For people who build with the Claude API and Claude Code — agents, tool use, evaluation and the mechanics of shipping an application.
- Items
- 53
- Time
- 120 min
- Fee
- $125
- Pass
- 720 / 1000
8 domains · 25 weighted sub-domains
- Study content
- Coached drillsnot yet
- Simulated examnot yet
- Audio lessonsnot yet
Claude Certified Architect – Foundations
For people who design Claude solutions — agentic architecture, tool and context design, configuration, prompting and reliability.
- Items
- 60
- Time
- 120 min
- Fee
- $125
- Pass
- 720 / 1000
5 domains · 30 numbered task statements
- Study content
- Coached drills
- Simulated exam
- Audio lessons
Claude Certified Architect – Professional
The only exam in the program that tests governance, stakeholder communication and developer enablement — 35% of it sits outside anything a Foundations blueprint covers.
- Items
- 63
- Time
- 120 min
- Fee
- $175
- Pass
- 720 / 1000
7 domains · 38 unnumbered bullet objectives
- Study content
- Coached drillsnot yet
- Simulated examnot yet
- Audio lessonsnot yet
Anthropic's program has a fourth exam, CCAO-F Claude Certified Associate – Foundations. The non-technical entry exam. Koko has no study surface for it yet; Anthropic's own Partner Academy path is the place to start. Partner Academy certifications.
What the exam guides do not tell you
Every rule below is published by Anthropic or Pearson VUE, and none of it appears in an exam guide. Links confirmed 2026-08-24.
Certification is open to people at Claude Partner Network organizations, and registration rejects personal email addresses. This is not stated in the exam guide.
SourceThere is no second gate once your organization is in the network — every partner can register. The gate is membership itself, not seniority or an invitation.
SourcePearson VUE administers the exams, and a test-center appointment is managed through your own Pearson account.
SourceYou may sit Professional without holding Foundations, and Foundations never upgrades into it.
SourceThese are free, blueprint-aligned study guides from KokoAI Academy. They are not an official Anthropic exam, not affiliated with Anthropic, and not a replica of one. No official exam question is reproduced; every scenario is fictional and every figure in a practice item is synthetic. Koko does not implement Anthropic's scoring model, which is undisclosed — any 100–1,000 number a Koko practice sitting reports is a Koko Practice Index, not an exam score. Exam figures on this page are quoted from the official guides (v1.0, effective July 2026), which state they are subject to change without notice.
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The executive cockpit — KPIs, scenarios, and an agent operating model.
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