Claude Certified Developer Foundations Exam Guide

A comprehensive, exam-aligned study guide preparing developers for the Anthropic Claude Certified Developer – Foundations (CCDV-F) exam across all eight content domains.

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Chapter Guides

  1. 1 Introduction: The Claude Platform and the CCDV-F Exam
  2. 2 LLM Fundamentals for Claude Developers
  3. 3 Claude Model Selection and Tradeoffs
  4. 4 Cost, Tokens, Caching, and Batch Processing
  5. 5 Claude API Mechanics
  6. 6 Software Engineering Foundations for Claude Integration
  7. 7 Designing Claude Applications
  8. 8 Configuration Management and Claude Code
  9. 9 Prompt Engineering
  10. 10 Context Engineering, Output Handling, and Debugging
  11. 11 Agent Architecture, Patterns, and Frameworks
  12. 12 Building Agents with Claude: SDK, Loops, and Hooks
  13. 13 Tools and MCP Servers
  14. 14 Security, Safety, and Guardrails