Claude Certified Developer – Foundations Study Guide

About this book

The Claude Certified Developer – Foundations exam tests whether you can make sound engineering decisions when building Claude-powered applications, agents, workflows, tools and MCP integrations.

This study guide prepares you for the CCDV-F exam while teaching the architecture and engineering practices needed to build production-ready Claude systems. Rather than presenting isolated facts, it follows ReleaseGuard, a realistic Claude-powered release-readiness platform, from requirements and API integration through agents, tools, evaluation, security, deployment and operational control.

You will learn how to

• Design Claude applications using the Messages API and SDKs
• Choose between workflows, agents, supervisors and subagents
• Build reliable tool-use loops and MCP server integrations
• Engineer prompts, context, memory and structured outputs
• Select models and thinking modes using quality, latency and cost evidence
• Handle streaming, asynchronous execution, batch processing and multimodal inputs
• Evaluate, test and debug Claude applications systematically
• Defend against prompt injection, jailbreaks, unsafe tool use and sensitive-data exposure
• Govern Claude Code configuration, hooks, Skills, commands and agent behaviour
• Prepare for all eight CCDV-F exam domains with scenario-based decision practice

The exam-readiness section includes a blueprint-aligned 53-question mock exam, detailed rationales, a post-mock calibration set and a seven-day preparation plan. The ReleaseGuard Build-and-Verify companion pack adds RG01–RG18 exercises, fixtures, schemas, security tests, evaluation packs, debugging traces, validators and separate reference solutions.

An independent study guide, not affiliated with, endorsed by or approved by Anthropic.