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Claude Certified Associate Boot Camp

For consultants, analysts, project and operations people who use Claude daily and want the credential plus a repeatable way of working.

Verified for 2026 CCAO-F Exam
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7 Domains

Weighted to the Blueprint

Full Mock Exam

Per-Domain Readiness

Independent Exam Preparation · Since 1999

Two Days. No Code Required. For People Who Use Claude.

For consultants, analysts, project and operations people who use Claude daily and want the credential plus a repeatable way of working.

Program Abstract

REF: CCAO-F 7
Curriculum aligned to the latest Exam Outline.
Format Live, Instructor-Led
Duration 2

Using Claude Well Is A Skill.

CCAO-F is the business-user credential, and it is not a prompt-writing quiz. The largest domain is Output Evaluation and Validation at 21% – knowing when Claude is wrong, and what to do about it. Then workflow design, governance and responsible use. Two days, no coding, taught around work you actually do.

Built From the Blueprint.

We build to Anthropic’s published exam domains and weightings, not to a guess. Class time is allocated in proportion to what the exam actually tests.

Exam Prep Built From 25 Years.

We have been getting people through certification exams since 1999. The certification is new. Knowing how people pass exams is not.

250,000 Certified Since 1999.

ISC2, ISACA, CompTIA, Microsoft, Cisco, AWS, EC-Council. We have run exam prep through a lot of vendor launches, and we know what a first-generation exam looks like.

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Training materials including official courseware and study guides
Practitioner Led
Instructors are working security professionals, not just trainers.

"I don't teach from a textbook. I teach what happens in the SOC when the alert fires."

Jeff Porch

VP Ed. Services • CISSP, CISM CISSP: Certified Information Systems Security Professional. CISM: Certified Information Security Manager.

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Built From the Exam Blueprint

Training Camp has certified more than 250,000 professionals since 1999. This course is built domain by domain against Anthropic’s published CCAO-F exam guide.

All seven domains covered

All Seven Domains, Two Days

Output evaluation, workflow integration, governance and responsible use, prompting, product and model selection, configuration and troubleshooting. Exam weighted.

Practice on your own work

Practice on Your Own Work

Bring tasks you already use Claude for and we build the class around them rather than generic examples, closing with a full mock exam and readiness review.

No coding required

No Coding Required Anywhere

Built for consultants, analysts, project managers and operations people whose work now involves Claude. The largest domain is output evaluation, not prompting.

Live online or in person

Live Online or In Person

Join a live online cohort from anywhere, or attend in a classroom. Same instructor, same exercises and the same full-length mock exam either way.

Partner tier note

One Thing Before You Book

CCAO-F is the only one of the four Claude certifications that does not count toward Claude Partner Network tier eligibility. Developer and Architect both do.

Claude Certified Associate – Foundations (CCAO-F) Prep Boot Camp

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    COURSE STRUCTURE

    Claude Certified Associate – Foundations
    Syllabus

    A structured path designed for working professionals.
    Each day builds on the last—momentum is everything.

    MODULE_ID: PREP

    Live Training QS: ~5
    BEFORE CLASS
    Critical Path

    Bring Your Workflows

    Bring two or three tasks you already use Claude for
    L.prep.1
    Pre-read on the current Claude product line-up
    L.prep.2
    Account access and workspace set up ahead of day one
    L.prep.3
    Short intake so the class is built on your own work
    L.prep.4
    You use Claude in a real working context already
    L.prep.5
    No coding experience is required anywhere in this course
    L.prep.6
    Familiarity with your own team’s AI policy helps
    L.prep.7
    Bring examples where Claude got something wrong
    L.prep.8

    MODULE_ID: CCAO-F-01

    Live Training QS: ~5
    DAY ONE
    Critical Path

    Evaluation, Workflow Design and Governance

    Judging Claude output for accuracy and completeness
    L.01.1
    Spotting hallucinations, inconsistencies and bias
    L.01.2
    Fact-checking and validation technique
    L.01.3
    Deciding when human review is genuinely required
    L.01.4
    Analysing requirements and use cases with Claude
    L.01.5
    Integrating Claude into an existing business process
    L.01.6
    Appropriate and inappropriate use cases
    L.01.7
    Data sensitivity, privacy and organisational AI policy
    L.01.8

    MODULE_ID: CCAO-F-02

    Live Training QS: ~6
    DAY TWO
    Critical Path

    Prompting, Model Choice, Configuration and Review

    Structuring prompts and decomposing complex requests
    L.02.1
    Adapting technique to analysis, research or drafting
    L.02.2
    Projects, research mode and artifacts
    L.02.3
    Haiku, Sonnet and Opus, and managing context limits
    L.02.4
    Claude Projects with instructions and knowledge sources
    L.02.5
    Connectors, uploaded knowledge and system-level instructions
    L.02.6
    Diagnosing underperforming prompts and poor output
    L.02.7
    Full-length mock exam and per-domain readiness review
    L.02.8

    MODULE_ID: CCAO-F-03

    Live Training QS: ~6
    AFTER CLASS
    Critical Path

    Book It While It Is Fresh

    Per-domain readiness score against the published blueprint
    L.03.1
    Confirm your exam eligibility with Anthropic
    L.03.2
    Register and schedule through the Anthropic Partner Academy
    L.03.3
    Sit it while the material is still fresh
    L.03.4
    Roughly 135 minutes of total seat time once check-in is done
    L.03.5
    Delivered by Pearson VUE, test centre or online-proctored
    L.03.6
    A failed first attempt carries a 14-day wait, then 30, then 90
    L.03.7
    Maximum four attempts per exam in a rolling 12 months
    L.03.8
    COURSE PROGRESS Day 0 of 3
    DoD Cyber Workforce Framework

    All the Claude Working Knowledge. Half the Time to Certification.

    Accelerated, instructor-led preparation for the CCAO-F exam, built from the published blueprint.

    Business Continuity Identity & Access Management Governance & Compliance Incident Response Security & Risk Management Risk Assessment Access Control Models Security Assessment & Testing Business Continuity Identity & Access Management Governance & Compliance Incident Response Security & Risk Management Risk Assessment Access Control Models Security Assessment & Testing
    Software Development Security Vulnerability Management Security Architecture Asset Security Communication & Network Security Network Protocols Cryptography Security Operations Software Development Security Vulnerability Management Security Architecture Asset Security Communication & Network Security Network Protocols Cryptography Security Operations
    DoD 8140 Requirements

    Beyond the Cert: Built for the Job

    Foundational qualification The certification you earn with us
    Residential qualification Hands-on labs prep you for the on-the-job readiness DoD 8140 requires within 12 months
    Continuous professional development CPE-eligible training to maintain qualification long after

    The credential, the capability, and the continued readiness — all in one boot camp.

    FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

    Claude Certified Associate – Foundations
    Questions

    Real questions from real professionals who passed.
    Here's how we answer them.

    Directly from Anthropic, and only from Anthropic. They sell the Claude Certified Associate – Foundations exam themselves at $99 USD through the Anthropic Partner Academy, and that is where you register, pay and schedule it. Training Camp does not sell, resell or bundle the exam, and no voucher is included in this course. Anthropic owns the exam; we teach the preparation. The course price is instruction only, which is why it sits below what a bundled boot camp costs.

    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. We have no part in that process: we cannot register you, sponsor you, or influence the decision either way. You are welcome to take this course regardless – the material stands on its own as Claude skills training – but confirm your eligibility with Anthropic first if sitting the exam is the point of attending.

    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 experience working out how people actually pass certification exams.

    Anthropic uses a scaled score from 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, and scaled scoring accounts for question difficulty. Treat the number as a threshold, not a percentage.

    60 questions, 120 minutes, multiple choice and multiple response. Plan for roughly 135 minutes of total seat time once check-in, ID verification and instructions are accounted for. It is delivered through Pearson VUE, either at a testing centre or online-proctored. It is a business-user exam – Output Evaluation and Validation is the largest domain at 21%, and no coding is required.

    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. If you let it lapse, you generally re-sit the full proctored exam and pay the fee again. Diary the date.

    That is exactly the problem this course exists to solve. Claude ships new models, new API surfaces and new 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.

    It is the reason to take a class rather than self-study. These exams launched in 2026, so there is no back catalogue of books, no decade of forum threads, and a lot of what is circulating online is guesswork. We work from Anthropic’s published domain weightings and build the class around them. When we do not know something, we say so rather than filling the gap.

    See the audience section above for the specific expectation. In general these are not beginner AI courses – Anthropic pitches them at working professionals, and the exams assume you have used Claude in a real context. If you are unsure whether you are ready, talk to us before you book.

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    CCAO-F Exam Guide

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    Articles and Certification Resources

    Claude Certified Associate – Foundations
    & Resources

    The Claude certifications launched in 2026, so there is no back catalogue of study guides yet. These cover the ground around the exam: the AI certification landscape, governance, and how to work from a published blueprint.

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