Claude Certified Associate – Foundations
Exam code CCAO-F. Everything below comes from the official exam guide v1.0, effective July 2026.
Exam format
- Questions
- 60
- Time limit
- 120 minutes
- Scoring
- 100–1000, scaled
- Pass mark
- 720
- Exam fee
- $99
- Valid for
- 12 months
- Attempts
- 4 per rolling year
- Retake waits
- 14, 30, 90 days
Scoring is criterion-referenced and scaled. Anthropic publishes no raw-percentage conversion, so no percentage pass mark exists.
Domain weighting
7 domains. The proportions below are what the exam actually tests, so practice should mirror them.
- Output Evaluation and Validation21%
- Workflow Integration and Solution Design16%
- Governance, Risk, and Responsible Use15%
- Prompting and Task Execution14%
- Product and Model Selection12%
- Configuration and Knowledge Management12%
- Troubleshooting and Optimization10%
Who it's for
Professionals who use Claude as a productivity tool, rather than building with it.
- Operations
- Marketing
- Project management
- Education
- Communications
Not for: Software developers building against APIs or designing agentic systems, and specialists in machine learning or advanced AI system design — that scope belongs to the Developer and Architect credentials.
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