Exam Domains
Domains 1 through 6 are in the guide. The other two domains are listed here and in the sidebar until their topics are written. The mock exam samples all eight blueprint domains.
The exam is 53 items in 120 minutes. The pass mark is 720 on a 100–1,000 scale.
14.7%
of exam
Agents and Workflows
Decide when a task is a workflow or an agent, construct the loop with the Claude Agent SDK or a harness you own, and apply isolation, memory, and orchestration frameworks only when they earn their cost.
33.1%
of exam
Applications and Integration
Turn a business need into requirements, carry it through the life cycle, and build the Claude application: API mechanics, engineering practice, product design, and configuration.
3.1%
of exam
Claude Code
Operate Claude Code: rules, skills, commands, agents, and memory; sessions and slash commands; headless, streaming, and auto mode; the CLAUDE.md hierarchy; repository initialization; and settings.json.
2.6%
of exam
Eval, Testing, and Debugging
Identify API errors and stop reasons, choose a recovery that matches the failure, read a trace, and separate an integration-layer bug from model output.
16.8%
of exam
Model Selection and Optimization
Choose how a call is generated, how it reaches the API, which family serves it, and what the tokens cost: fundamentals, the REST client, Opus versus Sonnet versus Haiku, and caching.
11.0%
of exam
Prompt and Context Engineering
Decide what stays in the window, how the instruction and the case are placed, and how a program checks the text that comes back.
9.0%
of exam
Security and Safety
Build Claude applications with secure data handling, layered guardrails, safe tool execution, and controlled identity, secrets, and access management.
10.6%
of exam
Tools and MCPs
Design reliable Claude tool integrations, build MCP servers, and choose appropriately among built-in tools, custom tools, Skills, and MCPs.