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Claude Certified Developer — Foundations

Eight domains, weighted to the official blueprint, so a 53-item drill has the same shape as the real exam.

53questions on the real exam
8domains
720scaled score to pass
400practice items here

What the exam covers

CCDV-F reports on a scaled range of 100–1000 with a cut at 720, and its questions are distributed across 8 domains by published weight rather than evenly. Those weights are the single most useful thing in the exam guide: they tell you where the marks are, and they rarely match where candidates spend their time.

DomainShare of examApprox. questions
Domain 1 — Agents and Workflows 14.7% 8
Domain 2 — Applications and Integration 33.1% 18
Domain 3 — Claude Code 3.1% 2
Domain 4 — Eval, Testing, and Debugging 2.6% 1
Domain 5 — Model Selection and Optimization 16.8% 9
Domain 6 — Prompt and Context Engineering 11.0% 6
Domain 7 — Security and Safety 8.1% 4
Domain 8 — Tools and MCPs 10.6% 6

Applications and Integration is the heaviest at 33.1% — roughly 18 of the 53 questions. Weakness there costs more than weakness anywhere else, which is exactly what a flat percentage score hides and what a blueprint-weighted estimate surfaces.

How we practise it

Our CCDV-F bank holds 400 original items across 24 objectives, each with an explanation and a note on every option — why the right answer is right, and why each distractor fails. Items are written against the published objectives. None is recalled or reproduced from a live exam.

A drill allocates questions by the published domain weights, multiplied by how far your measured mastery sits below standard. So a domain worth 33% of the exam that you are weak in dominates your next sitting, while one you have already mastered drops back to an exposure floor that keeps its estimate current.

What you get for free

A 20-item diagnostic for CCDV-F, spread across objectives rather than taken off the top, so the sample reflects the shape of the exam. It produces a first readiness estimate and full explanations, whether or not you go on to buy.