Claude Certified Architect – Foundations
Practice Exam

The Claude Certified Architect – Foundations exam has 60 scored questions, with a time limit of 120 minutes.

The passing score is 720 (scaled 100–1,000). Anthropic publishes a scaled score, not a percentage cut score. Certifyforce's readiness score weights your practice results by the official section weights so you can see which sections still need work.

Registration is USD $125 plus applicable taxes, and retakes cost USD $125. Quality practice is the cheapest way to avoid paying for a retake.

The Claude Certified Architect – Foundations exam has no prerequisite certification. Registration is restricted to people who work at Claude Partner Network organizations; check the official eligibility requirements before booking.

Only people who work at Claude Partner Network organizations. You register with a company email on a domain listed in your organization's partner record (personal email addresses are refused), and you must be 18 or older with a government-issued ID. Check your eligibility at https://anthropic-partners.skilljar.com/page/certification-eligibility before you buy practice material.

60 multiple-choice and multiple-response items in 120 minutes, and each item says how many responses to select. Every exam uses 4 scenarios drawn at random from 6 published ones. The exam is delivered by Pearson VUE, online proctored or at a test center, in English or Japanese.

12 months from the date it is awarded. On-time renewal is free: a review of changes plus a non-proctored assessment on Anthropic Partner Academy. A lapsed credential needs the full exam at the full fee.

You can retake it after 14 days following a first fail, 30 days after a second and 90 days after a third, with up to 4 attempts in any rolling 12 months. Each retake costs the full exam fee.

No. Anthropic retired the previous platform's practice exam; the official exam guide includes sample questions.

300 reviewed questions across all 5 sections of the current official exam outline. Every question is checked against Anthropic documentation before it is published. A timed practice exam draws 60 questions and gives you 120 minutes, with the same mix of topics as the real exam.

No. Certifyforce writes original practice questions aligned to the official exam outline. Using leaked exam questions (dumps) violates Anthropic's certification exam policy and can get your credentials revoked — original scenario practice builds the same skills without the risk.

The exam covers 5 sections: Agentic Architecture & Orchestration (27%), Tool Design & MCP Integration (18%), Claude Code Configuration & Workflows (20%), Prompt Engineering & Structured Output (20%), Context Management & Reliability (15%).

The Claude Certified Architect – Foundations questions follow the current official exam outline. Every question is reviewed by an independent AI reviewer and checked against Anthropic documentation. You can see your score by section and practice the topics you missed without taking the full exam again.