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Claude certification prep

Practice exams and blueprint reference for the Claude certifications, built from Anthropic's published exam guides. 357 original practice items for CCAR-F, CCDV-F, CCAR-P; the full transcribed blueprint for 4 credentials. CCAR-F is the one to sit.

Unofficial, and not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic. Every exam fact here is transcribed from the official exam guide, which remains the authoritative reference — read it in full before scheduling.

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Sit CCAR-F

Claude Certified Architect – Foundations is the credential Gnar is working toward. It earns Services Track credit and it is the shortest step from the four CPN courses everyone is already expected to complete. If you are picking one exam, this is the one — the others on this page are context for that decision rather than alternatives to weigh equally.

CCAR-F

Claude Certified Architect – Foundations

the one to sit

The ideal candidate for this certification is a solution architect who designs and implements production applications with Claude.

Exam: 60 items · 120 min
Fee: $125
Passing score: 720 of 1000
Blueprint: 5 domains · 30 task statements · 6 scenarios
Practice: 120 items

Practice CCAR-F Exam blueprint

Also earn credit, and are not the target

CCDV-F and CCAR-P count toward the same Services Track headcount, so a pass here is not wasted. They are the right choice when someone's role genuinely points at them, and the wrong default: CCAR-F is the target, and spreading a small group across three exams is how a headcount target gets missed.

CCDV-F

Claude Certified Developer – Foundations

also earns credit

The certification is intended for technical professionals who build, integrate, and ship production-grade AI solutions using large language models (LLMs), particularly Anthropic's Claude platform.

Exam: 53 items · 120 min
Fee: $125
Passing score: 720 of 1000
Blueprint: 8 domains
Practice: 110 items

Practice CCDV-F Exam blueprint

CCAR-P

Claude Certified Architect – Professional

also earns credit

The certification is intended for mid- to senior-level technical professionals who design, build, and deliver production-grade AI solutions using large language models, particularly Claude.

Exam: 63 items · 120 min
Fee: $175
Passing score: 720 of 1000
Blueprint: 7 domains
Practice: 127 items

Practice CCAR-P Exam blueprint

Not to be sat

Anthropic publishes 4 Claude credentials. CCAO-F is a real certification but earns no Services Track credit, so it does nothing for Gnar's partner tier. The full blueprint is here so the comparison can be made against the facts — but there is no practice bank and no study guide, and that is deliberate.

CCAO-F

Claude Certified Associate – Foundations

no tier credit

The certification is intended for professionals who use Claude as a productivity tool and build Claude Projects in their day-to-day roles.

Exam: 60 items · 120 min
Fee: $99
Passing score: 720 of 1000
Blueprint: 7 domains

CCAO-F does not count toward Gnar's certified-individual headcount. Not one to sit.

Exam blueprint

How practice runs work

Drill: 20 items · untimed · marked as you answer Each answer is graded immediately, with the correct option, the reason it is correct, and the named reasoning error behind the option you chose.
Simulation: 60 items · 120 min · graded at the end The published exam form and time limit. Nothing is marked until you finish, then you get percent-correct by domain and by task statement, and an item-by-item review.

Every incorrect option in the bank is tagged with one of five recurring reasoning errors, so a run reports which one you make most often and can drill it. See the five categories — that taxonomy is ours, not Anthropic's.

Scoring and sourcing

Practice runs report percent-correct on original items. The passing score is scaled from a standard-setting study against the real item pool, so no practice percentage converts into it, and nothing here predicts a pass.

Every practice item is written against the objectives published in the exam guides. None is transcribed or reconstructed from a real exam, which would breach the certification agreement.

Exam guides are subject to change without notice. Re-verify each exam cycle; the guide is the authority over anything shown here.