Claude Certified Associate – Foundations

Preparation for the CCAO-F exam, built on the official exam guide: one section per blueprint domain, a decision exercise that proves each one, and exam-style recall that brings every domain back until test day.

30 lessons · 37 exercises

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Start here: the exam

2 lessons · locked

What the CCAO-F exam actually is

How this course works (and how to not waste it)

Domain 1 · Prompting and Task Execution (14%)

4 lessons · locked

The anatomy of a prompt that worksprompt lab

Breaking a big ask into stepsprompt lab

Iterating instead of rerollinghands-on

Adapting the prompt to the task typehands-on

Domain 2 · Output Evaluation and Validation (21%)

5 lessons · locked

Accuracy and completeness: confidence is not evidenceprompt lab

Hallucination, inconsistency, bias: three different flawshands-on

Fact-checking, and when a human has to lookhands-on

Editing, adapting, and comparing outputs for the audienceprompt lab

Organizing information and choosing the output formathands-on

Domain 3 · Product and Model Selection (12%)

4 lessons · locked

Chat, Projects, artifacts, research modehands-on

Haiku, Sonnet, Opus — what the three models arehands-on

Aligning model choice with cost, speed, and qualityhands-on

Context limits: restart, summarize, or persistprompt lab

Domain 4 · Workflow Integration and Solution Design (16%)

4 lessons · locked

Finding the Opportunity in a Processhands-on

The Autonomy Decisionhands-on

Research, Planning, and Iterating on a Solutionhands-on

Telling Stakeholders the Truth, and Knowing When to Escalateprompt lab

Domain 5 · Configuration and Knowledge Management (12%)

4 lessons · locked

What a Claude Project is, and what goes in ithands-on

Writing instructions a stranger could gradehands-on

Uploads, connectors, and where knowledge liveshands-on

Keeping a Project currentprompt lab

Domain 6 · Governance, Risk, and Responsible Use (15%)

4 lessons · locked

Appropriate use: Claude informs, humans decidehands-on

Data sensitivity, privacy, and the screening rubrichands-on

Organizational AI policy: permits, forbids, silenthands-on

Ethics: disclosure, accountability, and bias where it countshands-on

Domain 7 · Troubleshooting and Optimization (10%)

3 lessons · locked

Diagnose before you fixhands-on

What the last change told youhands-on

Cheaper without spending qualityhands-on

Challenges

9 challenges

Bigger, standalone proofs — one per domain. Passing one is what marks the skill proven.

Friday, 4pm: the board requestcapstonePrompting and Task Execution

Prompt lab: brief the model for realprompt labPrompting and Task Execution

Friday review: one queue, the whole rubriccapstoneOutput Evaluation and Validation

Capstone: plan the week's queuecapstoneProduct and Model Selection

Design the Contract Renewal WorkflowcapstoneWorkflow Integration and Solution Design

Review the whole Project configurationcapstoneConfiguration and Knowledge Management

The Friday request queuecapstoneGovernance, Risk, and Responsible Use

Friday triage: the whole diagnosis loopcapstoneTroubleshooting and Optimization

Prompt lab: fix the underperforming promptprompt labTroubleshooting and Optimization