ANTHROPIC-CCAO-F: Claude Certified Associate - Foundations (CCAO-F)
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About the CCAO-F Exam
Practise everyday decisions about prompting, checking outputs, choosing Claude features, and using them responsibly at work.
This independent bank contains 250 original practice questions mapped to Anthropic’s Claude Certified Associate - Foundations Exam Guide, version 1.0, July 2026. It is not official Anthropic exam material, endorsed training, or an exam voucher.
The questions focus on Claude’s user-facing products and business workflows. API development and advanced system architecture are outside this Associate bank’s scope.
Who Should Take This Exam?
The guide describes business and knowledge-work professionals with limited-to-moderate technical experience. There are no mandatory prerequisites or required courses.
Exam Quick Facts
These figures come from the July 2026 guide. Check the current official guide before booking; the practice-bank price is separate from the exam fee.
| Detail | Value |
|---|---|
| Credential | Claude Certified Associate - Foundations (CCAO-F) |
| Questions | 60 multiple-choice and multiple-response items; each item states how many responses to select |
| Time | 120 minutes |
| Pass Score | Scaled score of 720 on a 100-1,000 scale |
| Exam Fee | USD $99 |
| Delivery | Proctored online and/or at a test centre, per program policy |
| Validity | 12 months after award |
| Official Guide | Anthropic’s July 2026 CCAO-F exam guide |
Exam Domains & Weights
The official weights total 100%. The practice allocation rounds the two half-question results to keep exactly 250 questions: Domain 2 receives 53 and Domain 6 receives 37.
| Domain | Official Weight | Practice Questions |
|---|---|---|
| Prompting and Task Execution | 14% | 35 |
| Output Evaluation and Validation | 21% | 53 |
| Product and Model Selection | 12% | 30 |
| Workflow Integration and Solution Design | 16% | 40 |
| Configuration and Knowledge Management | 12% | 30 |
| Governance, Risk, and Responsible Use | 15% | 37 |
| Troubleshooting and Optimization | 10% | 25 |
| Total | 100% | 250 |
Practice Questions - 250 Original Scenarios
Try 20 questions free, with no account needed. Full access costs US$9 for one year and includes explanations, wrong-answer reasoning, public-source references, and progress tracking.
This bank uses single-answer and multiple-response questions. Its question mix is an independent study choice, not a claim about the official exam’s undisclosed proportions. A practice score does not predict an official exam result.
Study Tips
- Start with output evaluation, the highest-weighted domain at 21%.
- Practise in Claude, using non-sensitive material to try the product behaviors discussed in explanations.
- Read why the alternatives are wrong, not just the correct answer.
- Separate an organization’s rules from a product’s capabilities; neither grants access to data you are not authorized to use.
- Check the current official guide and product documentation. This bank retains the July 2026 syllabus until a replacement syllabus is published.