The Claude Certified Developer – Foundations (CCDV-F) certification is a foundational technical credential for professionals who build, integrate, and deliver Claude-powered applications, agents, and workflows. It validates a developer’s ability to construct agents and workflows, integrate Claude through APIs and SDKs, implement custom tools, develop Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers, configure Claude Code, evaluate and debug application behavior, select and optimize Claude models, engineer prompts and context, and apply security and safety controls. Rather than focusing primarily on Claude as a business productivity assistant, the certification emphasizes the practical development skills and technical judgment required to build reliable Claude-powered solutions.
This video training course provides a structured and comprehensive path to mastering the CCDV-F exam objectives through practical, developer-focused lessons. The course explores agent and workflow design, Claude Agent SDK implementation, custom agent loops, API and client SDK integration, function calling, tool implementation, error handling, structured outputs, MCP server development, and Claude Code configuration. It also examines evaluation strategies, testing and debugging techniques, prompt and context engineering, model selection, token and cost optimization, prompt caching, application security, prompt injection defenses, and the secure management of credentials and sensitive information.
Throughout the course, learners gain practical knowledge of agents and workflows, application integration, Claude Code, evaluation, testing, debugging, model optimization, prompt and context engineering, security, custom tools, and MCP development. The training explores how developers can use Claude models, APIs, SDKs, Skills, tools, and MCP servers to create dependable applications and agentic systems. It also emphasizes designing clear tool schemas, managing context effectively, validating structured outputs, analyzing application traces, handling API and tool errors, controlling costs and latency, applying least-privilege access, protecting sensitive data, and resolving common issues across the model, integration, and application layers.
This course contains the following sections:
- Agents and Workflows – Covers agent vs. workflow design, the Hub-and-Spoke model, agentic loops, and choosing the right agent framework.
- Requirements and Life Cycle – Covers gathering functional and infrastructure requirements and managing a Claude app across the systems life cycle.
- The Claude Messages API – Covers the Claude Messages API, streaming, vision, and extended thinking.
- Delivery, Cost, and Access Paths – Covers prompt caching, third-party vendor access, and choosing between the Batch and Synchronous APIs.
- Software Engineering Foundations – Covers version control, code review, refactoring, and core web development concepts like REST APIs and JSON.
- Claude Application Design – Covers content boundaries, schema design, session hygiene, and designing Claude applications across interfaces.
- Configuration Management – Covers CLAUDE.md files, settings.json, and model and prompt versioning.
- Claude Code – Covers Claude Code’s core components, slash commands, operating modes, and the CLAUDE.md hierarchy.
- Eval, Testing, and Debugging – Covers designing and running evals, common error types, trace analysis, and error-recovery strategies.
- LLM and Technical Fundamentals – Covers tokens, context windows, sampling, and model options.
- Model Selection and Tradeoffs – Covers choosing between Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku, and handling breaking changes across model releases.
- Cost and Token Management – Covers token usage tracking, cost modeling, and prompt caching.
- Context Engineering – Covers tool output pruning, compaction, and context isolation.
- Prompt Engineering – Covers output constraints, input sanitization, and writing and iterating effective prompts.
- Output Handling – Covers structured output, response validation, and defensive parsing.
- Application Security – Covers prompt injection defenses, PII protection, and core security principles like authentication and authorization.
- Guardrails, Hooks, and Secrets – Covers content policy, secure-by-design practices, and managing secrets and API keys.
- Tools and MCPs – Covers tool descriptions, approval patterns, Claude Skills, and MCP server development.
All lectures include professionally created subtitles to enhance understanding.
Claude Certified Associate Foundations CCDV-F Resources
For complete preparation, it is recommended to pair this video course with the Claude Certified Developer – Foundations Practice Exams to simulate the actual exam environment and thoroughly cover all eight domains.
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