Associate track · Issued by Anthropic
Claude Certified Associate – Foundations
The entry track. No coding required. Study on your own schedule, fit the work around your job, and leave ready to sit the CCAO-F exam.
What the exam tests
Model family, tiers, context windows, and when each model is the defensible choice.
Structure, examples, role framing, output formats, and iterating on a weak prompt.
Working with long inputs, attachments, and grounding answers in supplied material.
Repeatable workflows, reusable instructions, and Claude in day-to-day team processes.
Spotting hallucination, checking claims, and building review into the loop.
Sensitive data handling, refusal behaviour, and acceptable-use boundaries.
Knowing what Claude should not be trusted with, and when to hand back to a human.
Action plan
Lessons drop on Monday, the guided lab opens Wednesday, optional office hours run Friday and are recorded. Build challenges are self-paced, so you can fit the work around your job and still be ready for the exam.
Week 1
Foundations
Lessons
Lab
Rebuild three weak prompts into structured, testable ones.
Practice
Daily: 15 blueprint-mapped practice questions.
Week 2
Prompting depth
Lessons
Lab
Build a grounded document Q&A workflow and test it against traps.
Practice
Daily: flashcard drill on prompting and context terms.
Week 3
Workflows
Lessons
Lab
Design a reviewed, repeatable workflow for one of your own tasks.
Practice
Daily: 20 questions across workflow and verification domains.
Week 4
Safety and judgement
Lessons
Lab
Run a safety and verification review over a real workflow.
Practice
First full timed mock exam, 60 items in 120 minutes.
Week 5
Exam prep
Lessons
Lab
Group practice exam with live debrief on every missed item.
Practice
Readiness check, then book your CCAO-F seat.
What you get
Who it's for
Prerequisites — None. Comfort with everyday software is enough.
Support
One optional hour every Friday with a certified instructor: lab walkthroughs, CCAO-F blueprint questions and exam strategy. Every session is recorded and posted the same day, so attendance is never required.
A private CCAO-F channel for your cohort-free group. Post any question or doubt, share code and screenshots, and get a reply from an instructor within one working day — usually much sooner.
Every guided lab ships with a starter repo, a worked solution and a review thread. Stuck on an exercise or a mock exam item? Drop it in the channel and we walk through the reasoning, not just the answer.
FAQs
All 7 domains of the Anthropic CCAO-F blueprint, across five weeks: Claude fundamentals; Prompting for reliable output; Context and documents; Projects and workflows; Verification and quality; Safety, privacy, and policy; Limits and escalation. Lessons drop on Monday each week and stay available on demand, so you can move faster or slower than the suggested pace and fit studying around your job.
One guided lab opens every Wednesday with a starter repo, a worked solution and a review thread. Build challenges are fully self-paced. Labs run in your own environment and mirror the scenarios the CCAO-F exam tests, so hands-on practice maps directly to exam items.
One optional hour every Friday with a certified instructor: lab walkthroughs, blueprint questions and exam strategy for CCAO-F. Every session is recorded and posted the same day, so attendance is never required.
A private CCAO-F support channel is open around the clock. Post any question or doubt — with code, screenshots or mock exam items — and an instructor replies within one working day, usually much sooner.
The five-week training and certification prep is $99, covering all lessons, labs, timed mock exams, flashcards, office hours, channel support and lifetime access with free blueprint refreshes. Bundles bring it down: $149 for any two courses or $249 for all four together. Applying is free — you're only invoiced if your application is approved.
No. The CCAO-F exam fee of $99 is paid by you directly to Anthropic when you book the exam. The 720 to pass / 1000 passing score earns you the credential, valid for 12-mo validity.
Fees
Covers the full five-week CCAO-F training and certification prep — all lessons, labs, mock exams, office hours and channel support, with lifetime access and free refreshes.
The CCAO-F exam fee of $99 is not included and is paid by the candidate directly to Anthropic when booking the exam.
Bundles: $149 for any two courses, or $249 for all four tracks together.
Applying is free. You're only invoiced if your application is approved.
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