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Claude Certified Associate – Foundations (CCAO-F) Prep Boot Camp
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Anthropic launched its Claude certification programme in 2026, which means there is no back catalogue of study guides and a lot of what circulates online is guesswork. We build to the published exam blueprint, domain by domain, and teach it live. Anthropic sells and administers the exams directly; what we sell is the preparation.
For people whose job now involves Claude but who are not writing code against the API: consultants, analysts, project and operations people, marketers. The largest domain on this exam is not prompting, it is Output Evaluation and Validation at 21% - knowing when Claude is wrong and what to do about it.
Claude Certified Associate – Foundations (CCAO-F) Prep Boot Camp
For people building on the Claude API, the Agent SDK, Claude Code and MCP. Applications and Integration alone is 33.1% of this exam, so it tests whether you can build, operate and debug a production Claude application rather than describe one.
Claude Certified Developer – Foundations (CCDV-F) Prep Boot Camp
Two separate credentials rather than a ladder: you can sit Professional without holding Foundations first. Foundations is weighted toward agentic architecture and orchestration at 27%. Professional moves up to enterprise scope, where roughly 28% of the exam is governance, stakeholder communication and lifecycle ownership.
Claude Certified Architect – Foundations (CCAR-F) Prep Boot Camp
Claude Certified Architect – Professional (CCAR-P) Prep Boot Camp
Start from your role rather than a ladder. If you use Claude in your work but do not write code, that is Associate - Foundations. If you build on the API, Agent SDK or MCP, that is Developer - Foundations. If you design the systems other people build, that is Architect. The two Architect credentials are separate: you can sit Professional without holding Foundations first.
Directly from Anthropic, and only from Anthropic. They sell the exams themselves through the Anthropic Partner Academy, and that is where you register, pay and schedule. Training Camp does not sell, resell or bundle the exam, and no voucher is included in any of these courses. Anthropic owns the exam; we teach the preparation, which is why the course price is instruction only.
No. This is independent exam preparation built by Training Camp. Anthropic publishes its own preparation curriculum through the Partner Academy, and we recommend using both. What we add is the classroom: a live instructor, a compressed schedule, and 25 years of working out how people pass certification exams.
Currently, yes. Anthropic restricts certification registration to eligible individuals at organizations participating in the Claude Partner Network, and requires a company-domain email address. Final eligibility is determined by Anthropic, not by us, and we have no part in that process. You are welcome to take the course regardless, but confirm your eligibility with Anthropic first if sitting the exam is the point of attending.
Associate is $99, Developer and Architect - Foundations are $125 each, and Architect - Professional is $175, all paid to Anthropic. Every exam runs 120 minutes and is scored on a scaled range of 100 to 1,000 with 720 required to pass. A 720 scaled score does not mean 72% of questions correct; Anthropic does not publish a raw-score conversion.
Anthropic enforces escalating waiting periods: 14 days after a first failed attempt, 30 days after a second, and 90 days after a third, with a maximum of four attempts per exam in a rolling 12-month period. Retakes are charged at the applicable exam fee. That waiting period is the real cost of an unprepared attempt, and it is the main reason structured preparation is worth the time.
Twelve months from the date you earn it. Anthropic currently offers a renewal path for candidates who renew before expiry, which may include reviewing what has changed in Claude and completing a free non-proctored renewal assessment. Let it lapse and you generally re-sit the full proctored exam and pay again.
That is exactly the problem these courses exist to solve. Claude ships new models, API surfaces and tooling on a cadence no printed study guide keeps up with. We maintain the courseware against Anthropic's published exam blueprint and the current API, and we teach the parts that are stable - architecture, evaluation, context handling, security - separately from the parts that move. You will be told which is which.
Exam domains, weightings and who the business-user credential is written for.
The developer credential: API, Agent SDK, MCP and the 33.1% integration domain.
Agentic architecture, orchestration and the Foundations exam blueprint.
Enterprise scope: integration, governance, lifecycle and stakeholder work.