Pass the CCDV-F exam in ~30 days — 620 pages, 700+ practice questions, 3 full mock exams, mapped and weighted to the official 8-domain blueprint.

Most study plans over-study the flashy features and under-study the plumbing the Claude Certified Developer – Foundations (CCDV-F) exam actually grades. This guide fixes that.

Every chapter and every question is mapped to one of the eight official exam domains and weighted to match the real paper — so your effort lands where the marks are, not spread evenly across topics that barely count.

WHAT'S INSIDE
• 28 focused chapters (~152,000 words) across all 8 CCDV-F domains
• 700+ practice questions with full explanations — including "why each wrong answer is wrong"
• 3 complete 53-question mock exams in the real format (multiple-choice + multiple-response), with answer keys and per-domain explanations
• 49 clean diagrams — request lifecycles, the agent loop, tool use, RAG, MCP, workflow patterns, security flows, and more
• Per-domain revision sheets + 10 printable cheat sheets
• A coverage matrix proving every graded sub-skill is covered at the right depth
• A realistic 30-day study plan for working developers

WHAT YOU'LL MASTER
• Applications & Integration — the exam's largest domain (API mechanics, app design, SDLC, config)
• Model selection, cost & token optimization
• Agents & workflows — architecture, patterns, memory, the agent loop
• Prompt & context engineering; structured outputs
• Tools & the Model Context Protocol (MCP)
• Security, guardrails, secrets & safe deployment
• Claude Code, evaluation & debugging

WHO IT'S FOR
Working engineers (comfortable in Python or TypeScript, with some hands-on Claude experience) who want to certify in about a month — and understand the machinery, not just the vocabulary.

Accurate to the current Claude platform at the time of writing; updates are issued as new versions.