CCAR-F resources
Everything worth reading for Foundations.
The official material first, then training, documentation, and one independent guide worth your time. Nothing here is ranked by who paid for placement — there isn't anyone to pay.
Last reviewed: September 2026.
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Claude Certified Architect – Foundations (Anthropic Academy)
The official certification page — this is where the exam guide PDF and registration actually live. If you need Partner Network access, it starts here, not with us.
Anthropic Certification FAQ
Current, official details on eligibility, Pearson VUE scheduling, pricing, retakes, accommodations, badges, and how long a certification stays valid.
Anthropic raised the exam fee and extended certification validity on June 30, 2026 — the figures below are current as of that change, not the earlier $99/6-month terms you may see referenced in older posts.
- Format
- 60 questions, multiple choice and scenario-based multiple response
- Time
- 120 minutes, plus ~15 minutes for check-in and survey
- Fee
- $125 per attempt
- Passing score
- 720 out of 1000
- Validity
- 12 months from the date you pass
- Delivery
- Pearson VUE — online-proctored (OnVUE) or at a test center
Official Anthropic training
Free courses Anthropic publishes alongside the certification. If you want to stay as close as possible to Anthropic's own material, start here.
Claude 101 (Anthropic Academy)
Fundamentals of prompting and using Claude responsibly. Free, no API key or payment required, ends in an official certificate.
AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations (Anthropic Academy)
Anthropic's own framework for collaborating with AI tools effectively — the judgment-and-communication side the exam's stakeholder-facing scenarios draw on.
Building with the Claude API (Anthropic Academy)
Integration basics, hands-on. Free.
Introduction to Model Context Protocol (Anthropic Academy)
Build MCP servers and clients from scratch — tools, resources, and prompts. Directly relevant to the exam's MCP task statements.
Documentation
Claude Platform Docs
CCAR-F tests knowledge of Claude Code, the Agent SDK, the API, and MCP. This is the primary source all four are documented in — worth having open while you study, not just once.
Introducing the Model Context Protocol
Anthropic's own announcement of MCP, in plain terms. Read this before the deeper connector docs if MCP hasn't clicked yet.
Claude Cookbooks (Anthropic, GitHub)
Official, runnable examples for tool use and agent basics. Reading code that works beats reading a description of code that would work.
Study guides
Where this course fits alongside all of that
The guide above is worth reading. What it can't do is put you in a scenario and make you commit to an answer under the same trade-offs the real exam uses — that's what CCAR Prep does, task statement by task statement, with a free first domain before you pay for anything.