Claude Certified Developer – Foundations
Exam code CCDV-F. Everything below comes from the official exam guide v1.0, effective July 2026.
Exam format
- Questions
- 53
- Time limit
- 120 minutes
- Scoring
- 100–1000, scaled
- Pass mark
- 720
- Exam fee
- $125
- 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
8 domains. The proportions below are what the exam actually tests, so practice should mirror them.
- Applications and Integration33.1%
- Model Selection and Optimization16.8%
- Agents and Workflows14.7%
- Prompt and Context Engineering11%
- Tools and MCPs10.6%
- Security and Safety8.1%
- Claude Code3.1%
- Eval, Testing, and Debugging2.6%
This guide is the only one of the four with a two-tier blueprint — each domain is further split into named sub-skills with their own weights.
Who it's for
Technical professionals who build, integrate and ship production-grade AI solutions on Claude.
- AI and machine learning engineers
- Technical leads
- Senior software engineers
Not for: Non-technical or casual users of Claude-based applications, anyone without hands-on software development experience, and roles limited to prompt writing without broader application development responsibility.
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