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Pass the Claude Certified Developer Foundations Exam (CCDV-F)

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How these questions were made. I have never seen the CCDV-F exam. I can’t, because Anthropic restricts registration to employees of partner companies with 10 or more staff, and I don’t qualify. Every question here was written from Anthropic’s published exam blueprint, which is free and public, and each one cites the domain and weight it maps to. No exam recall. No dumps. Ever.

CCDV-F is the developer exam, and it has the fewest questions of the four at 53. Fewer questions means each one carries more weight and there is less room to absorb a weak domain. It is also the only Claude exam that publishes sub-domain weights to one decimal place, which makes study allocation unusually precise.

Practice questions are the fastest way to get ready. They show you how concepts get tested, surface your gaps, and make exam day feel familiar.

What is on the CCDV-F exam

Exam	CCDV-F: Claude Certified Developer: Foundations
Questions	53, multiple choice and multiple response
Time	120 minutes
Passing score	720 on a scaled range of 100 to 1,000
Price	$125 USD, 50% off for Select tier partners and above
Prerequisites	None
Validity	12 months, then a free open-book renewal
Who can register	Partner company employees only

Our question set is weighted to the official blueprint:

Domain	Weight	What it covers
Applications and Integration	33.1%	Claude application design across interfaces, software engineering foundations, API mechanics, configuration management, requirements, systems lifecycle.
Model Selection and Optimization	16.8%	LLM fundamentals, model options and effort levels, Opus versus Sonnet versus Haiku trade-offs, token and cost management, caching.
Agents and Workflows	14.7%	Workflow versus agent decision criteria, manager hierarchies, the Agent SDK, custom loops, hooks, agent patterns and frameworks.
Prompt and Context Engineering	11.0%	Instruction clarity, few-shot, input sanitization, context drift and compaction, structured output and defensive parsing.
Tools and MCPs	10.6%	Tool use and function calling, tool descriptions, client versus server tools, MCP server development, built-in versus custom versus Skills versus MCP.
Security and Safety	8.1%	Prompt injection, jailbreak defense, untrusted input, PII, guardrail layering, secrets and key management, hooks as guardrails.
Claude Code	3.1%	Rules, skills, commands, session management, headless mode, the CLAUDE.md hierarchy, settings.json.
Eval, Testing, and Debugging	2.6%	Error identification, recovery strategy, trace analysis, isolating integration-layer versus model-output problems.

Worth knowing. One third of this exam is a single domain. If you study nothing else, study Applications and Integration. At the other end, Claude Code and Eval together are about three questions, so do not spend a week on them.

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Free CCDV-F study guide & cheat sheet

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How to prepare

Read Anthropic’s official CCDV-F exam guide PDF first, since it carries the complete blueprint plus sample questions with answer rationales. Take a practice set above, then focus your studying on the domains where you missed questions. The free courses at academy.claude.com cover the Claude API, Claude Code, MCP and agent skills at no cost.

Not sure this is the right exam for you? Compare all four: Claude certification explained. Weighing the two architect exams? CCAR-F vs CCAR-P.

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