Cultivating AI Expertise
Plant a Claude Certified Associate, Developer, or Architect exam, tend it daily with study guides and mock tests, and harvest the pass. Cred Farmer turns Claude certification prep into something you can watch grow.
A free timed mock exam and a study guide for each of the four certifications, no account needed. A free account adds the full mock set and readiness tracking, also free. Try the CCAO-F mock or open the study guides.
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The Methodology
A systematic framework to conquer technical exams without the burnout.
Select a certification from our curated catalog. Review the syllabus, lock in your goal, and plant it on your personal dashboard.
Cultivate your knowledge. As you conquer study guides and master mock exams, watch your readiness climb into the green zone.
Walk into the exam room fully prepared. Pass the test, log your victory, and proudly display your brand new credential.
The Toolkit
No more juggling PDFs, bookmarks, and forum posts. Cred Farmer brings the entire study stack into one focused environment.
The Catalog
Every track ships a complete study guide, timed practice forms, flashcard drills, and exam-prep playbooks. Start with the Foundations, elevate to Architect.
The Blog
Four groups: whether the credential is worth it, how to study for it, what the questions actually test, and how to get a team through. Every post is free, and nothing sits behind a login.
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The ledger
Learner totals as of , rounded down. Not affiliated with, or endorsed by, Anthropic or Pearson VUE.
The practice data
The ledger above counts what we have built. This is what happened when people sat down and used it. 223 learners, 386 timed papers and 16,028 answers from our practice bank (what survives the filters we publish rather than everything we hold), with the sample size and both intervals attached to every figure. Almost every gap you can see in it is smaller than the uncertainty around it, and we would rather draw the uncertainty than sort the table until one gap looks convincing.
| Row | Accuracy | Per-item interval | Learner-clustered interval | Correct of answered | Learners |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security and Safety | 53.3% | 50.45% to 56.15% | 49.14% to 57.49% | 628 of 1,178 | 196 |
| Claude Code | 62.8% | 58.79% to 66.65% | 58.29% to 67.32% | 363 of 578 | 185 |
| Tools and MCPs | 62.9% | 60.54% to 65.14% | 59.3% to 66.44% | 1,065 of 1,694 | 199 |
| Prompt and Context Engineering | 63.9% | 61.63% to 66.17% | 60.22% to 67.64% | 1,099 of 1,719 | 209 |
| Eval, Testing, and Debugging | 68.3% | 63.63% to 72.61% | 62.87% to 73.72% | 280 of 410 | 187 |
| Applications and Integration | 71.3% | 70.04% to 72.49% | 68.97% to 73.59% | 3,743 of 5,251 | 215 |
| Agents and Workflows | 72.7% | 70.8% to 74.44% | 69.88% to 75.43% | 1,682 of 2,315 | 200 |
| Model Selection and Optimization | 73.0% | 71.39% to 74.64% | 70.51% to 75.59% | 2,106 of 2,883 | 223 |
Each band is a 95% interval, drawn on a truncated axis. Where two of them overlap, this data cannot tell those domains apart.
Every pairwise contrast. 28 contrasts between the 8 published rows. 16 of them separates after correction; the other 12 sit inside the noise, which means the measurement cannot tell those rows apart.
One cell per pair, keyed to the domain numbers beside the bands. Filled survives correction for testing them all; open is inside the noise. The filled cells pair Applications and Integration with Security and Safety; Model Selection and Optimization with Security and Safety; Agents and Workflows with Security and Safety; Agents and Workflows with Tools and MCPs; Model Selection and Optimization with Tools and MCPs; Agents and Workflows with Prompt and Context Engineering; Applications and Integration with Tools and MCPs; Model Selection and Optimization with Prompt and Context Engineering; Prompt and Context Engineering with Security and Safety; Tools and MCPs with Security and Safety; Applications and Integration with Prompt and Context Engineering; Eval, Testing, and Debugging with Security and Safety; Model Selection and Optimization with Claude Code; Agents and Workflows with Claude Code; Applications and Integration with Claude Code; Claude Code with Security and Safety.
Our own practice questions, marked against our own answer key, answered by people who chose a preparation site. Nothing here is a pass rate and nothing here measures the certification exams themselves. How we decide what may be published at all is on our methodology page. The page also reports what people do under the clock, on samples several times larger than these tables: 31.3% of 1,561 timed papers are abandoned, the median one 16.6 minutes in with 4 of 60 answered. Not affiliated with, or endorsed by, Anthropic or Pearson VUE.
The competition
There are 32 places to prepare for a Claude certification, and we scored all of them, including ourselves, against 10 criteria fixed before anything was rated. Every figure links to the provider's own page with the date we checked it. Cred Farmer comes top of 6 of the 7 reader profiles. For the other 1 the table sends you to theCRUX instead.
| Platform | Exams | Questions | Timed mocks | Price | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 Cred Farmerus | All four | 1,180, every option explained. | 20 full-length timed forms: | $0 while in open beta. | 90 |
| 2 ClaudeArchitectCertification.com | All four | 532 questions in the CCA-F (C… | A mock of 30 or 60 questions… | $0. | 76 |
| 3 CCAFPreparation | CCAR-F | 408 in the full bank. | One full-length timed mock, o… | Nothing is sold and no price… | 70 |
| 4 ClaudeArchitectGuide.com | CCAR-F, CCAR-P, CCDV-F | 200 original CCAR-F questions… | A 65-item timed mock on a 120… | $0. | 69 |
| 5 ClaudeTestPrep | All four | 1,439 questions. | One full-length timed mock pe… | $0, pay what you want. | 67 |
Balanced weighting, 32 platforms, Cred Farmer ranked 1 with 90/100. The full table is re-rankable: tell it what you actually need and the order changes.
For teams
Certification budgets get spent on whoever asks first. Cred Farmer shows you who is actually ready, so you can fund the people who will clear the exam and give everyone else the time to get there.
A score from 0 to 100 per person per certification. Their first sitting of each full mock form sets the band it can reach. Study and streaks move it only within that band, so activity alone never makes anyone look ready. You also see the gate state, how many mocks they have taken, and the pass or fail of any real exam they record.
Nobody appears on your dashboard until they have read exactly what is shared and agreed to it. You never see their answers, their confidence ratings, their drill results or their scaled score. They can leave whenever they like, and your view of them ends on the spot.
Set the readiness score you are willing to fund at, see who has crossed it, and record an offer against a certification. The candidate accepts or declines it in their own account, and you both get a record of what was agreed.
We are onboarding a small number of partners by hand so we can fix what breaks before it is anybody's problem. Tell us about your team and we will set you up.
One thing to be plain about: Cred Farmer does not take payment for exams or issue invoices. Sponsorship here is a recorded offer and a candidate's answer. You and they settle the money directly.
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