CCDV-F · blueprint
Claude Certified Developer — Foundations publishes 24 objectives across 8 domains. This is all of them, with the weight each carries and roughly how many of the 53 questions that weight buys.
The weights are the exam's own, not ours. They matter because study time spent proportionally to interest rather than to weight is the most common way a well-prepared candidate still fails: a full mark on the lightest objective here is worth less than a single question in the heaviest.
The question counts are the weight applied to a 53-item sitting. Treat them as the shape of the exam rather than a guarantee: a given sitting varies, and an objective worth 2.4 questions will sometimes ask two and sometimes three.
14.7% of the exam · about 8 of 53 questions · 3 objectives
| Objective | Weight | Questions |
|---|---|---|
| Agent Construction with Claude | 5.3% | 2.8 |
| Agent Patterns and Frameworks | 4.9% | 2.6 |
| Agent Architecture | 4.5% | 2.4 |
33.1% of the exam · about 18 of 53 questions · 6 objectives
| Objective | Weight | Questions |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Application Design | 8.6% | 4.6 |
| Software Engineering Foundations | 7.4% | 3.9 |
| Claude API Mechanics | 6.8% | 3.6 |
| Configuration Management | 4.1% | 2.2 |
| Understanding Requirements | 3.4% | 1.8 |
| Systems Life Cycle | 2.8% | 1.5 |
3.1% of the exam · about 2 of 53 questions · 1 objective
| Objective | Weight | Questions |
|---|---|---|
| Claude Code Operation | 3.1% | 1.6 |
2.6% of the exam · about 1 of 53 questions · 1 objective
| Objective | Weight | Questions |
|---|---|---|
| Debugging and Error Handling | 2.6% | 1.4 |
16.8% of the exam · about 9 of 53 questions · 3 objectives
| Objective | Weight | Questions |
|---|---|---|
| Technical Fundamentals | 7.3% | 3.9 |
| LLM Fundamentals | 6.2% | 3.3 |
| Model Selection and Tradeoffs | 3.2% | 1.7 |
11.0% of the exam · about 6 of 53 questions · 3 objectives
| Objective | Weight | Questions |
|---|---|---|
| Prompt Engineering | 4.6% | 2.4 |
| Context Engineering | 3.8% | 2.0 |
| Output Handling | 2.6% | 1.4 |
8.1% of the exam · about 4 of 53 questions · 4 objectives
| Objective | Weight | Questions |
|---|---|---|
| AI Application Security | 3.2% | 1.7 |
| Guardrails and Safe Deployment | 2.3% | 1.2 |
| Identity, Secrets, and Key Management | 1.6% | 0.8 |
| Claude Hooks | 1.0% | 0.5 |
10.6% of the exam · about 6 of 53 questions · 3 objectives
| Objective | Weight | Questions |
|---|---|---|
| Tool Implementation | 4.4% | 2.3 |
| Agentic Customization | 4.1% | 2.2 |
| MCP Server Development | 2.1% | 1.1 |
Claude Application Design is the single heaviest objective at 8.6% — about 4.6 questions. Being weak there costs more than being weak anywhere else on this page, and it is worth knowing before you plan a revision week.
Knowing the weights is not the same as knowing where you stand against them. Our CCDV-F bank draws items in these proportions and re-estimates each objective after every sitting, so a scaled estimate accounts for what the exam actually asks rather than for what you happened to practise.