If you're building production systems on Claude and your company is part of the Claude Partner Network, there's now an actual technical certification to show for it.
It's called CCAF: Claude Certified Architect Foundations. See study content here.
What Claude Certified Architect Exam actually is?
CCAF is a 301-level technical exam, meaning Anthropic positions it as applied, practitioner-grade knowledge.
The exam is 60 multiple-choice questions in a single 120-minute proctored session, scored on a 1,000-point scale, with no breaks and no external resources allowed.
The topics it covers are exactly what you'd expect to matter in a real Claude engagement: prompt engineering for tool use, context window management, multi-agent orchestration, and Human-in-the-Loop workflows.
But unfortunatly it's partner-only. To sit the exam, your company needs to be approved into the Claude Partner Network, get 10 colleagues through the CPN Learning Path, and submit the official completion form. The process takes roughly a week once you're rolling. Personal email addresses won't get you in, it's all domain-gated.
Once you're through, the credential is digital, Anthropic-backed, and recognised by companies already running Claude in production. It's also the first technical milestone on the CPN path, so if your company is serious about the partnership, someone needs to hold this cert.
The free mock exam
Here's the useful bit if you're prepping.
A developer who passed CCAF — Early Adopter badge and everything — built and published a free mock exam that mirrors the real thing. Same question count, same timing, same no-break structure.
It even tracks focus-loss events if you switch tabs, which is exactly how a proctored exam works.
The pass benchmark used in the mock is 700/1000. The real threshold isn't public, but that's the working number the community has settled on.
There's also an untimed practice mode if you just want to work through the material without a clock running.
The community mock is free, ad-free, and maintained by the person who passed it. That's the right kind of resource.
Who should take this exam?
If you're at a company that's building seriously on Claude, and you're the person who does the architecture work, then 100% yes you should.
The exam covers the things that actually break in production: context management, tool use patterns, when and how to put a human in the loop. Getting certified forces you to have answers to those questions.
The mock exam is the right starting point.
