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Claude Certified Developer (Foundations)
Who it is for: Developers building applications with Claude in Python or TypeScript.
53 questions · 120 minutes
26 lessons · 8 domains
Take a practice examHow do I take the exam?
- Your company must be part of the Claude Partner Network. Joining is free.
- On the Anthropic Partner Academy, open the certification page, read the guide and the terms, and register. The list price is USD 125; checkout shows the final price, with any discount for your company's partner tier.
- After confirming, create your Pearson VUE account and pick a date: online proctored or at a Pearson test centre.
- You can cancel or reschedule up to 24 hours before. After that, the fee is forfeited.
- The credential lasts 12 months. Renewing on time is free: a short, non-proctored assessment on what has changed.
Domains
Agents and Workflows 14.7%
- How to build the agent, with your own loop, the Agent SDK or Managed Agents
- Workflow or agent, if the steps are fixed the path goes in code
- Supervisor and subagents, when to split and what each one returns
- Parallel tool loops, memory and agentic frameworks
Applications and Integration 33.1%
- What Claude receives in each interface and how to ask for reliable JSON
- Retries, idempotency and bounded concurrency; refactor and review in small steps
- Real time or Message Batches, streaming, caching and Claude through third parties
- Pinned model, versioned prompts and plugin dependencies
- Functional and infrastructure requirements; a prompt or model change is a release
Claude Code 3.1%
- Where each instruction goes in Claude Code, CLAUDE.md and settings.json
- Headless in CI, sessions, commands and skills
Eval, Testing, and Debugging 2.6%
- Which error it is and what to do, retry, fix or reroute
- Read the trace, is the integration failing or the model's output?
Model Selection and Optimisation 16.8%
- Inside the SDK, REST, streaming with SSE, timeouts and retries
- Tokens, non-determinism, thinking and effort, fast mode and few-shot
- Measure tokens, model costs and cache well
- Haiku, Sonnet or Opus based on evidence, and migrating without breaking things
Prompt and Context Engineering 11%
- How to build a prompt, what goes in each part and in what order
- Context drift and bloat: prune, compact and isolate
- Guaranteed format is not correct content: validate and stay skeptical
Security and Safety 8.1%
- External input is data, not instructions
- Layered guardrails, least privilege and hooks that stop destructive actions
- One key per environment, never in the client
Tools and MCPs 10.6%
- How to implement tools, who runs them, how they fail and how many to give
- Built-in tool, custom tool, Skill or MCP server
- MCP servers: tools, resources, prompts and transport