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Claude Certified Associate – Foundations

Validates that you can apply Claude to complete business and productivity tasks with minimal guidance: structured prompting, output evaluation, Projects and knowledge management, and responsible use.

Who it's for: Operations, marketing, project management, education, consulting — professionals who use Claude as a productivity tool.

60
Questions
120 min
Time limit
720 / 1000
Passing score
$99
Official fee

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We're building the full Associate question bank against the official blueprint below. Leave your email and get notified at launch (plus early free access).

Official exam blueprint

Domains and weights from the official Anthropic exam guide (v1.0). Your score report shows percent-correct per domain.

Prompting and Task Execution

14%

Effective prompts, task decomposition, iteration, and adapting strategy by task type.

Output Evaluation and Validation

21%

Detecting hallucinations and bias, fact-checking, knowing when human review is required, and choosing output formats.

Product and Model Selection

12%

Projects, research mode, artifacts; Haiku vs Sonnet vs Opus; aligning model choice with cost, speed, and quality.

Workflow Integration and Solution Design

16%

Applying Claude to analyze requirements, optimize processes, and integrate into existing workflows.

Configuration and Knowledge Management

12%

Configuring Projects with instructions and knowledge sources, connectors, and system-level instructions.

Governance, Risk, and Responsible Use

15%

Appropriate use cases, data sensitivity, privacy, organizational AI policies, and ethics.

Troubleshooting and Optimization

10%

Diagnosing underperforming prompts, adjusting based on feedback, and optimizing workflows.

Try 3 official-style questions

Same style and cognitive level as the real exam. Click an answer to see the rationale.

sample 1Output Evaluation and Validation

An associate asks Claude to summarize a new regulation, and Claude produces a confident summary citing a specific subsection number. Before sending the summary to the compliance team, what is the most appropriate action?

sample 2Product and Model Selection

An associate needs to generate a high volume of short customer-reply drafts where speed and cost matter more than deep reasoning. Which choice best fits the task?

sample 3Governance, Risk, and Responsible Use

A project manager wants to upload a spreadsheet containing customer names and account numbers so Claude can analyze trends. Organizational policy restricts sharing regulated personal data. What is the most appropriate action?

Meanwhile, the free Claude lessons cover a large part of this blueprint.