Claude Certified Developer (CCDV-F): Complete Exam Prep

This course contains the use of artificial intelligence.

Be among the first to earn Anthropic's new Claude Certified Developer - Foundations (CCDV-F) credential. The exam opened in July 2026, and this course is aligned to the official Exam Guide v1.0 - all eight domains at their official weights, led by Applications and Integration at 33%.

Exam facts, covered precisely: 53 questions, 120 minutes, 720/1000 passing score, delivered via Pearson VUE. Open to individuals - no partner membership required (partner tiers only affect the fee). Recommended background: 1-5 years of software engineering and hands-on LLM experience.

What you get:

• All 8 official domains with study time budgeted by weight: Applications & Integration (33%), Model Selection & Optimization (17%), Agents & Workflows (15%), Prompt & Context Engineering (11%), Tools & MCPs (10%), Security & Safety (8%), Claude Code (3%), Eval/Testing/Debugging (3%)

• 100 scenario-based practice questions across two full-length tests - tradeoff judgment questions in the exam's real style (batch vs realtime, Opus vs Haiku, workflow vs agent, tool vs MCP server)

• Hands-on labs: design a caching strategy for a cost scenario, split a use case across tools and MCP servers, sketch an agent loop with verification, write XML-structured prompts with structured output, threat-model prompt injection

• A full 53-question exam simulation with 120-minute pacing strategy

Pairs perfectly with Anthropic's free Academy courses - this is the structured exam-prep layer turns that training into exam-day readiness. The credential is valid 12 months with free on-time renewal

AI content disclosure: This course was produced with the assistance of artificial intelligence tools. Lecture narration is AI-voice generated, and lecture scripts, slides, and practice questions were drafted with AI assistance, then reviewed and curated by the instructor for technical accuracy and alignment with the official CCDV-F Exam Guide.