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Study material for Claude certifications

Structured courses, original practice exams and condensed references for all four published Claude credentials — with progress tracking, lifetime access and updates when the material changes.

Credentials covered
4
Products
13
Practice questions
120
Money-back
14 days
  • Prompting and task execution
  • Output evaluation and validation
  • Product and model selection
  • Workflow integration and solution design
  • Configuration and knowledge management
  • Governance, risk and responsible use
  • Troubleshooting and optimisation
  • Agentic architecture and orchestration
  • Tool design and MCP integration
  • Claude Code configuration and workflows
  • Prompt engineering and structured output
  • Context management and reliability
  • Agents and workflows
  • Applications and integration
  • Claude Code
  • Evaluation, testing and debugging
  • Model selection and optimisation
  • Prompt and context engineering
  • Security and safety
  • Tools and MCPs
  • Solution design and architecture
  • Models, prompting and context engineering
  • Integration
  • Evaluation, testing and optimisation
  • Governance, safety and risk
  • Stakeholder communication and lifecycle
  • Developer productivity and operational enablement

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CCAO-FAssociate

Associate – Foundations

Claude Certified Associate – Foundations

For professionals who use Claude day to day and need to show they can apply it productively, safely and accurately.

Est. study time
14h
Products
3

Study material from $15

CCAR-FFoundations

Architect – Foundations

Claude Certified Architect – Foundations

For solution architects building production applications on Claude: APIs, tool use, context management, evaluation and guardrails.

Est. study time
32h
Products
4

Study material from $19

CCDV-FFoundations

Developer – Foundations

Claude Certified Developer – Foundations

For developers integrating Claude into applications and workflows with SDKs, structured output, streaming and tooling.

Est. study time
26h
Products
3

Study material from $15

CCAR-PProfessional

Architect – Professional

Claude Certified Architect – Professional

The senior architect credential: multi-agent systems, enterprise integration, security, compliance and reliability at scale.

Est. study time
40h
Products
3

Study material from $25

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Where most people start

Courses build the mental model; practice exams tell you whether it stuck.

CourseVideoCCAR-F

Architect Foundations: the complete course

Six modules covering the architecture decisions the exam tests: API design, prompts in production, tool use and MCP, context budgets, evaluation and operations.

Lessons
25
Duration
9h 54m
Version
v1

$149

$199

One-time purchase
CourseVideoCCDV-F

Developer Foundations: integrating Claude

Code-first course on SDK usage, structured output, streaming, tool definitions, testing and CI for non-deterministic systems.

Lessons
12
Duration
4h 28m
Version
v1

$129

$169

One-time purchase
CourseVideoCCAO-F

Associate Foundations: working with Claude

The practical course for non-engineers: prompting that reproduces, documents at scale, accuracy review and team conventions.

Lessons
12
Duration
3h 40m
Version
v1

$99

$129

One-time purchase

Recommended path

Four steps, in this order

Reading alone does not prepare you for decision-shaped questions. Build the map, then rehearse retrieval, then perform under time.

  1. 01

    Learn the material

    Work through the course once without trying to memorise. Aim for a map of the decisions, not recall.

  2. 02

    Drill the vocabulary

    Flashcards build the durable recall that makes scenario questions readable at speed.

  3. 03

    Condense it

    Use the cheat sheet to compress trade-offs into decision tables you can reason from.

  4. 04

    Rehearse under time

    Sit a full timed practice exam, then review every question — including the ones you got right.

Bundles

Complete kits, priced below the sum of their parts

Bundle savings are calculated from the real standalone prices of the included products — never an invented “was” price.

Best value

Architect Foundations — complete kit

Course, practice exam, cheat sheet and flashcards for CCAR-F.

$199$246

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Every course, practice exam, cheat sheet and flashcard set, across all four certifications.

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· 6 min read

Which Claude certification should you take first?

Four credentials exist: two foundations-level technical exams, an associate exam for non-engineers, and a professional architect exam. Here is how to pick between them in five minutes.

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