Exam Facts (verified)¶
Last verified: 2026-10-24, against the official exam guides v1.0 (effective July 2026) published on the Anthropic Partner Academy certifications page and the Pearson VUE Claude Certification Program page. The machine-readable version is
registry.yaml.Change ahead: Pearson VUE says updated exam guides arrive on 2026-11-17 and that CCAO-F, CCDV-F and CCAR-P carry updated content from 2026-12-07. If you sit an exam on or after 2026-12-07, use the updated guide. This page will be re-verified then; check the verification log for the latest review.
The program at a glance¶
| Program | Claude Certification Program (Anthropic) |
| Exams | Four, across three roles: Associate, Developer, Architect |
| Delivery | Pearson VUE, online proctored or at a test centre |
| Registration | Anthropic Partner Academy (Skilljar), then scheduling with Pearson VUE |
| Eligibility | Open to organisations in the Claude Partner Network |
| Item types | Multiple-choice and multiple-response; each item says how many responses to select |
| Scoring | Criterion-referenced; scaled score 100–1,000; cut score 720; score report shows percent-correct per domain |
| Validity | 12 months; on-time renewal is a free, non-proctored assessment; a lapsed credential means retaking the exam |
| Retakes | Wait 14 days after the 1st failed attempt, 30 after the 2nd, 90 after the 3rd; at most 4 attempts per exam in a rolling 12 months |
| Rescheduling | Plan on 48 hours. The v1.0 exam guides say 24 hours, but the Partner Academy FAQ and the Pearson VUE page (both checked 2026-10-24) say cancellations and reschedules must be made at least 48 hours ahead, or the fee is forfeited |
| Conduct | NDA covering all exam content; no AI tools, notes or second monitor during the exam |
| Registration email | A partner email address on a recognised company domain; personal addresses are rejected. Adding a new company domain takes 7–10 days |
| Minimum age | 18, checked against your ID at check-in |
| Partner pricing | Registered-tier partners pay list price; Select, Preferred and Global Premier partners get 50% off at checkout; Global Premier partners get 100% off through 2026-12-31 |
| Registration validity | 5 years; a retake costs the full fee (your partner discount still applies) |
| Where you can test | Holders of an ID from Belarus, Cuba, North Korea, Russia, Syria or restricted regions of Ukraine must use a test centre, not online proctoring. Pearson suspended delivery to residents of Iran from 2026-09-08 |
The free Claude Academy courses are open to anyone, but they award certificates of completion, not certifications.
Exam-by-exam¶
| Exam | Code | Items | Time | Fee (USD) | Status in this repo |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Certified Associate – Foundations | CCAO-F | 60 | 120 min | $99 | Full track: ccao-f |
| Claude Certified Architect – Professional | CCAR-P | 63 | 120 min | $175 | Full track: ccar-p |
| Claude Certified Architect – Foundations | CCAR-F | 60 (4 of 6 scenarios) | 120 min | $125 | Full track: ccar-f |
| Claude Certified Developer – Foundations | CCDV-F | 53 | 120 min | $125 | Facts recorded; track planned |
Fees are list prices from the exam guides; the checkout price can reflect a partner-tier discount.
Domain blueprints¶
CCAO-F — Claude Certified Associate – Foundations¶
For professionals who use Claude as a productivity tool (operations, marketing, project management, education, communications). No coding or API experience required.
| # | Domain | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Prompting and Task Execution | 14% |
| 2 | Output Evaluation and Validation | 21% |
| 3 | Product and Model Selection | 12% |
| 4 | Workflow Integration and Solution Design | 16% |
| 5 | Configuration and Knowledge Management | 12% |
| 6 | Governance, Risk, and Responsible Use | 15% |
| 7 | Troubleshooting and Optimization | 10% |
CCAR-P — Claude Certified Architect – Professional¶
For mid- to senior-level architects and engineers delivering production Claude systems. Recommended (not required): 3+ years in systems architecture or platform engineering and 6+ months hands-on with LLM systems in production.
| # | Domain | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Solution Design & Architecture | 17% |
| 2 | Claude Models, Prompting & Context Engineering | 13% |
| 3 | Integration | 19% |
| 4 | Evaluation, Testing & Optimization | 16% |
| 5 | Governance, Safety & Risk Management | 14% |
| 6 | Stakeholder Communication & Lifecycle Management | 14% |
| 7 | Developer Productivity & Operational Enablement | 7% |
CCAR-F — Claude Certified Architect – Foundations¶
For solution architects building production applications with the Claude Agent SDK, Claude Code and MCP. Recommended (not required): 6+ months of hands-on experience. The exam is scenario-based: each sitting presents 4 scenarios drawn at random from a published bank of 6 (customer support agent, code generation with Claude Code, multi-agent research, developer productivity, Claude Code in CI, structured data extraction).
| # | Domain | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Agentic Architecture & Orchestration | 27% |
| 2 | Tool Design & MCP Integration | 18% |
| 3 | Claude Code Configuration & Workflows | 20% |
| 4 | Prompt Engineering & Structured Output | 20% |
| 5 | Context Management & Reliability | 15% |
CCDV-F — Claude Certified Developer – Foundations (track planned)¶
| # | Domain | Weight |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Agents and Workflows | 14.7% |
| 2 | Applications and Integration | 33.1% |
| 3 | Claude Code | 3.1% |
| 4 | Eval, Testing, and Debugging | 2.6% |
| 5 | Model Selection and Optimization | 16.8% |
| 6 | Prompt and Context Engineering | 11.0% |
| 7 | Security and Safety | 8.1% |
| 8 | Tools and MCPs | 10.6% |
The detailed objectives for the supported tracks, with the IDs used throughout this repository, are in
registry.yaml.
What this repository does not know¶
- How the 100–1,000 scale is computed, or whether multiple-response items earn partial credit. The guides do not say. The mock-exam engine therefore reports raw percent-correct and scores multiple-response items all-or-nothing, as an explicit assumption.
- The content of any live exam item. Exam content is confidential under the exam policy, and nothing here is derived from it.
About third-party figures: several prep sites published different fees or domain lists before the v1.0 guides appeared. Where they conflict with the table above, the official guide wins.