Claude for Developers 4-Session Course (Sign Up)

​Four Saturdays to get you ready for the Claude Certified Developer - Foundations (CCDF) exam.

​The CCDF exam is 53 questions in 120 minutes, and you need 720 out of 1000 to pass. Anthropic's blueprint breaks the exam into 8 domains and 25 individually weighted sub-skills, and this course is timed against those weights - not against what is most fun to teach. Applications and Integration alone is a third of the paper.

​Sponsored by the Claude Singapore Community. The four sessions are free to attend.

​WHO THIS IS FOR

​For engineers who build with the Claude API, Claude Code and Model Context Protocol — from first integration to production agents.

​Building on Claude — Messages API, Agent SDK, tool use, MCP.

​You will get the most out of the four weeks if you are comfortable in Python and/or TypeScript. The exam's scenarios assume it.

​COURSE OUTLINE

​Week 1 - Sat 24 Oct, 10am to 12pm - Baseline and fundamentals (11.3% of the exam) A timed in-class diagnostic so you leave knowing your two weakest domains. Then Technical Fundamentals and LLM Fundamentals - tokenisation, context windows, latency and throughput. These sit under a domain called "Model Selection" but they are the base layer everything else assumes. You also submit your partner-network email application on the day.

​Week 2 - Sat 31 Oct, 10am to 12pm - Applications and Integration (33.1%) The biggest domain, a full session: Claude Application Design, Software Engineering Foundations, Claude API Mechanics, Configuration Management, Understanding Requirements, Systems Life Cycle. Exam booking opens from this week.

​Week 3 - Sat 7 Nov, 10am to 12pm - Prompting, tools and agents (30.1%) Prompt Engineering, Context Engineering and Output Handling, then Tool Implementation, and finally Agent Architecture, Agent Construction and Agent Patterns. Tools before agents, deliberately.

​Week 4 - Sat 14 Nov, 10am to 12pm - Operating it, then exam craft (25.5%) Agentic Customisation, AI Application Security, Claude Code Operation, Cost and Token Management, Model Selection trade-offs, Debugging, Guardrails, MCP Server Development, Secrets and Key Management, Claude Hooks. Then exam technique and a final drill at real exam pace.

​BETWEEN SESSIONS

​About Two hours a week - one full timed mock plus targeted drilling. Free practice material, 731 CCDF questions each with a written explanation, at claudearchitects.org. Use Mock mode, not Practice mode: Mock samples to the official weights.

​WHAT YOU ARE COMMITTING TO

​All four Saturdays. Places are capped at 25 and the sessions build on each other. Booking your exam from week 2, to sit between mid-November and mid-December 2026. If you can no longer attend, tell us early so the seat can go to someone on the waitlist.

​GOOD TO KNOW BEFORE YOU BOOK

​Retakes carry waiting periods of 14, 30 and 90 days, capped at four attempts in a rolling twelve months, at full fee each time. Your score report gives percent-correct by domain, which is what you use to target a retake. The credential is valid 12 months and renews free via a non-proctored assessment if you do it before it lapses.

​WHAT IS SPONSORED, AND WHAT IS NOT

​The four sessions are sponsored by the Claude Singapore Community - free to attend.
The @claudecode.sg partner-network email is free. You need one because Anthropic Partner Academy will not accept a personal email address at registration.
The exam fee is USD 125, set by Anthropic and paid directly to them. The community does not pay for your exam.

​WHERE

​WeWork, Suntec Tower 5, Level 17 - 5 Temasek Boulevard.