Claude Certifications
One place to prepare for every Anthropic Claude certification.
Official exam guides, blueprints, policies, courses, and study notes, collected and organized so you can spend your time studying, not searching.
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Download the companion (PDF) · the whole guide in one printable file
Built and maintained by Amey Thakur after completing the program's curriculum. This is a community resource, not an official Anthropic repository: the official program lives on Anthropic Partner Academy, and exams are delivered by Pearson VUE.
[!NOTE] I worked through every course and collected all of this while preparing myself. None of it required anything you do not already have: the official material is free, the blueprints tell you exactly what is tested, and the rest is steady work. I put it in one place so your time goes into learning rather than looking. If it helps you get certified, it did its job.
— Amey Thakur
The certifications
Each certification has its own folder containing the study guide, the official exam guide PDF, the maintainer's study notes, and original practice questions.
Every exam: 120 minutes, closed book, proctored by Pearson VUE online or at a test center, passing score 720 of 1,000, credential valid 12 months with free renewal, badge via Credly. Fees are list prices in USD; partner tiers receive automatic discounts. Registration requires a Claude Partner Network company email.
[!TIP] Every course in the program is free on the public Claude Academy, no partner account needed. Only the proctored exams require Claude Partner Network membership, so you can learn the whole syllabus before deciding whether to certify.
Prefer one file? The whole guide is a printable companion: claude-certifications-companion.pdf, thirty-three pages in five parts: choose your exam, know it, prepare, sit it, and keep going.
[!IMPORTANT] The study material in one document: Claude Certifications Study Guide
An independent study archive for the four certifications: the four study guides, the mock exams, the cheat sheets and the program guide gathered into a single file. It is a different document from the printable companion above, which flows this guide into five parts for printing; the archive is the study material itself, collected.
Start here
flowchart TD
Q{What do you do?}
Q -->|Advise customers and run engagements| A[Associate - Foundations<br/>CCAO-F]
Q -->|Build with the API, Claude Code, or MCP| D[Developer - Foundations<br/>CCDV-F]
Q -->|Design solutions end to end| RF[Architect - Foundations<br/>CCAR-F]
RF -. then .-> RP[Architect - Professional<br/>CCAR-P]
1. Pick your exam
Not sure which fits? Read how the certifications connect.
2. Study
- Your exam's own study guide and notes, linked in the table above
- Study strategy, for a working plan rather than a reading list
- The 26 official courses, with per-course notes and official resources
- The practice engine: shuffled, timed and scored, drawn from 320 original questions
Clone the repository and open Claude Code inside it, and the built-in exam coach skill quizzes you straight from the blueprints.
3. Book and sit
- Registration guide, covering partner email problems and the proctoring network allowlist
- Policies, for retakes, validity and appeals
- FAQ, for the short answers
Flashcards
Every fact, domain weight, rule, and glossary term in this repository, as a deck of 110 cards. Turn them in the browser on the flashcards page, filtered by exam or by topic, or take flashcards.tsv and import the whole deck into Anki, Quizlet, or RemNote.
Credentials behind this guide
All 27 of the Claude Academy courses and tutorials behind the certification program, completed and independently verifiable. Not every one issues something to show: 22 carry a Skilljar verification record with a completion date, and 25 were issued a digital completion badge on Claude Academy, Anthropic's own domain, 26 badges in all because one course issued twice.
This is here so you can check the material rather than trust it. Every claim in this repository traces to an official source; these show the curriculum behind it was worked through rather than summarized from the outside. Every badge below links to its own verification page.
[!NOTE] Two badges, one course. AI Fluency for Creative Work was issued a completion badge on 22 August 2026 and again on 27 August 2026. Both verify on Anthropic's own domain, so both are shown: twenty-six badges across twenty-five courses.
All 22 certificates and 26 badges, with their PDFs, Skilljar records and verification links
[!NOTE] A course certificate is not a certification credential, and this section claims only the first. The 22 courses above are free, self-paced, and open to anyone on the public Claude Academy. The four certifications are separate: each requires a proctored Pearson VUE exam, a passing score of 720 of 1,000, and Claude Partner Network membership to register, and each is issued as a Credly badge that is valid for 12 months. The two are verified on different systems and should never be presented as the same thing.
What is where
Questions and community
Ask questions, share how your exam went, and compare preparation notes in Discussions. Found a broken link or an outdated fact? Open an issue.
[!IMPORTANT] Every candidate accepts a non-disclosure agreement covering exam questions, answer options, and scenarios. It forbids publishing or posting that content anywhere, which includes forums like this one. Never post or request real exam content here. Blueprints, official sample questions, and the practice material in this repository are all fair game.
Preparing someone else? The share kit has the links, ready-to-use copy, and images.
Contributions that keep facts current are welcome; see CONTRIBUTING.md.
Not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic. Claude and Anthropic are trademarks of Anthropic PBC. Repository text is MIT licensed; mirrored documents and logo artwork keep their own provenance (sources, logos).
Facts last verified against the official sources on 2026-10-27.