Claude Developer Foundations Exam FAQs

Anthropic offers the Claude Certified Developer – Foundations (CCDV-F) certification. This guide answers the questions candidates most often ask about the Anthropic CCDV-F exam: what it is and who it is for, how it is structured, what makes it demanding, what score it takes to pass, and how to prepare for it.

The Anthropic CCDV-F exam contains 53 questions with a time limit of 120 minutes, and its content is organized into eight domains: Agents and Workflows, Applications and Integration, Claude Code, Eval, Testing, and Debugging, Model Selection and Optimization, Prompt and Context Engineering, Security and Safety, and Tools and MCPs. Each answer below is based on Anthropic’s published exam information.

Anthropic CCDV-F — Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

SECTION A: Anthropic CCDV-F Certification Overview

Q1. What is the Anthropic CCDV-F exam?

The Anthropic CCDV-F exam is the Claude Certified Developer – Foundations certification, which tests whether you can build, integrate, and ship production applications on the Claude platform. Anthropic sets it at the Foundations level for the developer role and delivers it as a closed-book, proctored test of 53 questions. Its content is organized into eight weighted domains, the largest being Applications and Integration, and spans the Claude API, agent construction, model selection, prompting, security, and tooling with MCP.

Q2. Who should take the Anthropic CCDV-F exam?