Exam Title: Claude Certified Developer (Foundations)
Certification Name: Claude Certified Developer (Foundations)
Exam Code: CCDV-F
Total Questions:103
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Most developers can call an API. The CCDV-F by Anthropic asks whether you can design, integrate, and ship a Claude-powered application that holds up in the real world. That means agents and workflows, API mechanics, model selection, prompt and context engineering, security, and MCP servers, all tested against one of the most granular blueprints Anthropic has published.
Here is the part that shapes how you should prepare: 53 questions, 120 minutes, 8 domains, and 25 individually weighted sub-skills. A full third of your score sits in Applications and Integration alone. Dumpsgate’s CCDV-F practice questions are built around the official exam guide, so every session you put in points straight at what this exam actually measures.
The Claude Certified Developer (Foundations), or CCDV-F, is Anthropic’s foundations-level certification for engineers who build with Claude. It is a hands-on credential. Rather than testing whether you can talk about large language models, it tests whether you can construct agents, wire up integrations, handle tools and MCP servers, manage cost and token usage, and deploy safely.
Here is what the CCDV-F looks like before you start preparing:
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Exam Detail |
Information |
| Exam Code |
CCDV-F |
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Certification |
Claude Certified Developer (Foundations) |
| Exam Guide Version |
1.0, effective July 2026 |
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Exam Format |
Multiple Choice and Multiple Response |
| Number of Questions |
53 |
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Exam Duration |
120 Minutes |
| Passing Score |
720 (Scaled, 100 to 1,000) |
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Exam Fee |
$125 USD per attempt |
| Exam Delivery |
Pearson VUE (Online Proctored or Testing Center) |
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Certification Validity |
12 Months |
| Result Reporting |
Pass or Fail with scaled score and percent correct by domain |
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Retake Policy |
14, 30, and 90-day waiting periods; up to four attempts per rolling 12 months |
Eight domains make up the CCDV-F, and the weighting tells you exactly where to focus:
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Exam Domain |
Weightage |
| Applications and Integration |
33.1% |
|
Model Selection and Optimisation |
16.8% |
| Agents and Workflows |
14.7% |
|
Prompt and Context Engineering |
11% |
| Tools and MCPs |
10.6% |
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Security and Safety |
8.1% |
| Claude Code |
3.1% |
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Eval, Testing, and Debugging |
2.6% |
Here is what each domain actually covers:
The single heaviest area by a wide margin. It spans understanding requirements, systems life cycle, Claude API mechanics, software engineering foundations, Claude application design, and configuration management. This is where the exam checks whether you can turn a requirement into a working, maintainable Claude application rather than a demo.
LLM fundamentals, technical fundamentals, model selection and trade-offs, and cost and token management. You are expected to pick the right model for a workload and defend that choice against latency, quality, and budget constraints.
Agent architecture, agent construction with Claude, and agent patterns and frameworks. The questions test how you design an agentic loop, when to reach for a particular pattern, and how to build reliable multi-step workflows.
Context engineering, prompt engineering, and output handling. This goes beyond writing a good prompt into managing context windows, structuring reliable outputs, and engineering prompts that behave predictably inside a larger system.
Tool implementation, MCP server development, and agentic customisation. You need to know how to give Claude working tools, build MCP servers, and customise agent behaviour for a specific job.
AI application security, guardrails and safe deployment, Claude hooks, and identity, secrets, and key management. The scenarios here ask you to deploy responsibly and protect the application and its data.
Claude Code operation. Small in weight, but it still expects you to know how to work productively inside the tool.
Debugging and error handling. Lightly weighted, yet the skills overlap with the heavier domains, so it rarely stands alone in practice.
The CCDV-F is built for AI engineers and software developers who build, integrate, and ship Claude-powered applications, agents, and workflows. If you translate requirements into working systems, wire Claude into real codebases, and take responsibility for how those systems behave in production, this exam validates exactly that scope.
Before sitting the exam, you should be comfortable with:
There is no formal prerequisite certification. Anthropic recommends one to five years of engineering experience and at least six months of hands-on work with Claude or comparable LLM systems. You should be proficient in Python and/or TypeScript and fluent with REST APIs and CLI tools. The credential is awarded on exam performance alone, so these are recommendations rather than gates, but candidates without that background will find several domains considerably more demanding.
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The exam fee for the Claude Certified Developer (Foundations) exam is $125 USD per attempt, with waiting periods of 14, 30, and 90 days after failed attempts and up to four attempts in a rolling 12 months.
A third of the CCDV-F sits in Applications and Integration. Dumpsgate’s CCDV-F practice questions mirror that distribution, so you spend the most time where the most marks live rather than dividing effort evenly across eight domains that carry very different weight. The 25 sub-skills in the blueprint are treated as the real map of the exam.
Understanding requirements, systems life cycle, API mechanics, software engineering foundations, application design, and configuration management all appear in the heaviest domain. Dumpsgate builds scenarios around the decisions a working developer actually makes, such as structuring an application around Claude’s API behaviour and keeping a build maintainable, rather than surface recall of what an endpoint returns.
Agent architecture, construction with the Agent SDK, and pattern selection only make sense once you have built an agentic loop. Dumpsgate’s CCDV-F mock questions frame these as design decisions: which pattern fits this task, where an agent breaks down, and how to construct a workflow that holds together across steps.
At 16.8%, this domain rewards judgment. Dumpsgate covers LLM and technical fundamentals, model selection trade-offs, and cost and token management through scenarios that ask you to justify a choice under latency, quality, and budget pressure, which is how the exam frames it.
Tool implementation, MCP server development, and agentic customisation are hands-on skills. Dumpsgate’s practice exam material asks you to reason about how a tool should be built and how an MCP server behaves in context, rather than just naming what MCP stands for.
AI application security, guardrails, Claude hooks, and identity, secrets, and key management all appear in scenario form. Dumpsgate’s sample questions push you to make the safe-deployment call for a specific situation rather than recognising a list of security terms.
The CCDV-F score report shows percent correct by domain. Every timed run with Dumpsgate’s mock questions gives you the same domain-level signal, so you find your weak spots before exam day, not after.
Sprints, releases, and on-call weeks do not create predictable study windows. Dumpsgate’s practice test material works in whatever time opens up, whether that is a focused session on one domain or a full timed run when a longer gap appears.
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Real engineering experience gets you to the starting line. Preparation that matches the blueprint gets you across it. Here is what that looks like:
Open the official CCDV-F exam guide and go through all 25 sub-skills. Connect each one to something you have actually built. Where an objective maps to a real decision you have made, you are probably solid. Where it feels abstract, that is where your preparation needs to go first.
At 33.1%, this domain is bigger than the bottom five domains combined. API mechanics, application design, software engineering foundations, and configuration management all deserve concentrated time. Give this area more preparation than an even split would suggest, because it decides most of your result.
Do not assume experience covers this. Practice choosing models against specific trade-offs and reasoning through token and cost management for a given workload. The exam wants a defended choice, not a default one.
Agents, tools, and MCP servers overlap constantly in real builds and on the exam. Work through them together so you can reason about an agent that calls a tool exposed through an MCP server, rather than studying each topic in isolation.
Claude Code and Eval, Testing, and Debugging are light in weight, but the skills feed directly into the heavier domains. A few marks here can be the difference at a 720 passing bar, so cover them rather than skipping them.
53 questions in 120 minutes across eight domains requires steady pacing. Do at least one complete timed run before you book. Watch how your thinking holds up in the domains where you have the least hands-on experience, because that is where time pressure exposes gaps fastest.
Finding practice material that genuinely reflects the CCDV-F blueprint is harder than it should be. Most LLM practice content stays high-level and ignores how skewed the real weighting is. Here is an honest comparison:
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Feature |
Dumpsgate | What you’ll find elsewhere |
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Exam coverage |
✅ All eight domains | ❌ Often only a few topics |
| Weighted to the blueprint | ✅ Mirrors sub-skill weighting |
❌ Usually an even split |
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Applications and Integration depth |
✅ Covered as the 33.1% priority | ⚠️ Often surface level |
| Tools and MCP scenarios | ✅ Implementation-level |
⚠️ Frequently conceptual only |
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Security and safe deployment |
✅ Scenario-based | ⚠️ Usually basic |
| Practice feedback | ✅ Domain-level feedback |
❌ Often just an overall score |
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Format match |
✅ Multiple choice and multiple response | ⚠️ Varies |
| Access | ✅ One-time purchase, instant access |
⚠️ Depends on the platform |
There is a real difference between knowing about Claude and being able to build with it under real constraints. The CCDV-F tests the second thing, across eight domains that together describe what foundations-level Claude development actually demands in 2026.
Dumpsgate’s Claude Certified Developer (Foundations) practice questions, mock questions, and sample questions are built to match that scope. Work through the heavy Applications and Integration domain with genuine depth, use the mock questions to find where your experience has left gaps, and go into exam day knowing your preparation covered everything this credential represents. Start practicing today.
The CCDV-F is Anthropic’s foundations-level credential for AI engineers and software developers who build, integrate, and ship Claude-powered applications, agents, and workflows. It tests hands-on building across eight domains, including API mechanics, agents and workflows, model selection, prompt and context engineering, security, and tools and MCP servers.
The exam fee is $125 USD per attempt. Retakes carry the same fee with waiting periods of 14, 30, and 90 days after failed attempts, up to four attempts in a rolling 12 months. Annual on-time renewal is free through a non-proctored assessment on the Anthropic Partner Academy.
53 questions in 120 minutes across eight domains: Applications and Integration (33.1%), Model Selection and Optimisation (16.8%), Agents and Workflows (14.7%), Prompt and Context Engineering (11%), Tools and MCPs (10.6%), Security and Safety (8.1%), Claude Code (3.1%), and Eval, Testing, and Debugging (2.6%). Scoring is scaled from 100 to 1,000, with 720 needed to pass.
At 33.1%, it covers the widest range of practical development work on the exam, spanning requirements, systems life cycle, API mechanics, software engineering foundations, application design, and configuration management. It rewards genuine build experience rather than conceptual awareness, which is why it deserves the most preparation time.
There is no formal prerequisite. Anthropic recommends one to five years of engineering experience and at least six months of hands-on work with Claude or comparable LLM systems, along with Python and/or TypeScript proficiency and fluency with REST APIs and CLI tools. The credential is awarded on exam performance alone.
12 months from the date the credential is awarded. Free on-time renewal is available through a non-proctored assessment on the Anthropic Partner Academy. A lapsed credential requires sitting the full exam again at the full fee.
Most candidates with the recommended experience spend several focused weeks preparing across all eight domains. Developers who are strong in application development but lighter on model selection, security, or MCP work should concentrate time there. The domain-level score report makes it easy to see exactly where preparation needs to go deepest.
Dumpsgate offers CCDV-F practice questions and mock questions built around the official exam guide version 1.0, effective July 2026. All eight domains are covered proportionally to their weighting, in the same multiple-choice and multiple-response format as the exam, and every answer includes a clear explanation that walks through the reasoning behind the correct choice.
Disclaimer: Dumpsgate is an independent exam preparation platform with no affiliation with or endorsement from Anthropic. “CCDV-F,” “Claude Certified Developer (Foundations),” and related marks are the intellectual property of Anthropic PBC and are referenced here for identification purposes only. All practice questions are original content based on publicly available exam guide information and do not represent actual exam questions. Always verify current certification details on the official certification page before registering.
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