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Exam was unfortunately only around two topics: CI pipeline and document extraction/parsing. Unlike as CertSafari where you have plethora of topics which feels fun. Aim ~90% completion here

Heavy on the exam

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Moderately difficult. I prepared with certsafari and the official Anthropic guide, and that was enough to cover most of the material. The actual test is a bit harder than the practice questions: the wording is more complex and the English is slightly trickier, though there are some easy questions too. My advice: go through the official Anthropic guide carefully, use this site for practice, and don’t panic over the harder questions. Read each question slowly, since the wording is where most of the difficulty is.

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In the questions passage last line is important in that they have mentioned what you need to focus because one situations can achieve from different two approaches you need to select based on mentioned in questions

Heavy on the exam

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Exam was more demanding than the certSafari tests. There were some ambiguous questions and you had to choose between 2 answers that were stated in a certain way that was confusing. I would say to give more time and be absolutely sure you are ready

Heavy on the exam

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Same concept as in here, was pretty straight forward. I recommend having 100% coverage here with 90%+ score on average before taking the actual exam.

Heavy on the exam

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I did the Anthropic study course and then taking practice quizzes daily until I was consistently passing the 53 question weighted exam. The questions on the real exam are easier but they are also different enough you have to keep your eyes open.

Heavy on the exam

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52 questions rather than 45. If you work with databricks and SQL and do the certsefari practice questions it is very doable. It helped me to read up on the theory behind the questions I got wrong.

Heavy on the exam

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The tests where close to the actual questions' level but there was a big difference in complexity for both the questions and the answer options. The wording and the specificity of the ones I came across were far more challenging than was is provided here and the answers where more confusing. All in all I appreciate what is offered here for free but it's good for people to know that a consistent 80-90/100 here doesn't remotely guarantee a smooth exam

Heavy on the exam

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I found the exam easy compared to the Databricks Data Engineer Associate exam. The materials I used were Certsafari and the Udemy preparation course by Derar Alhussein. Most of the questions I encountered on the exam were similar or identical to those on Certsafari.

Heavy on the exam

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Remember you can take a break: the timer will be paused. Clarify that before starting the exam.

Heavy on the exam

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passed it with good score 827 , few question in exam are identical to certsafari. please check on time duration flag for review directly which seems length or hard take them at last . first complete the easy one then aim for lengthy and hard ones. practice on certsafari and see your week areas and improve .2 weeks is enough.

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practicing quiz in this site helps a lot to gain confidence. aim for more than 50% coverage and accuracy 85 to 90% to pass. best source i have come across than any other available

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I'm new to fairly new to Claude and just last month (September 2026) I completed the CCAO-F exam after preparing it for 2 weeks. Right after that without any gap, I started preparing for CCAF. The exam is fairly difficult, I almost gave up on passing because the questions were quite confusing given that i dont actually have any hands on with Claude cause it costs for API, and i was mentally preparing for a retake. To my surprise, I did clear it with 781 score, not that great but good enough. I went through an course that my organisation has prepared, writing notes all along. My advice, please complete all the certsafari practice questions, they will DEFINITELY help you. Other resources are some good playlists on Youtube to brush up. GL!!!

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I havent encountered with CI/CD question, it really was difficult. There I have spent lots of times, I didnt known about bare, append system promt, how to pass context, it is real gap. Actually a real exam contains the similar question like here but more vague answers, real hard tochoise one of them, in cersafari the answers more clear

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The exam questions are very similar to the Certsafari practice mock tests. My suggestion is to focus on learning the concepts in each domain and complete the domain-wise mock exams separately. This approach helps build a stronger understanding of the topics and makes it easier to crack the exam

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It was hard. Some questions were harder than here, some were at the same level. Several ones were about digging into quite details, like what exact configuration parameter, or number, or model. Since it is still Beta version of the exam, not sure if such detailed questions will be present in general exam after January. Take as much questions from this resource as possible, Use copy to LLM AI (ChatGPT/Geminy) option (loved this much) to get detailed explanation of your wrong, guessed and even correct one answers. Use Pro/payed accounts for LLM to get useful explanations, as Lite/Free AI LLM models usually miss important for exam details. Open all the links the AI suggests and read, read, read.

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It was not too tough. The questions were mostly about the decisions that we would make in a scenario. I got no technical questions realted to code or schema. Two choices were really close to choose from in atleast 15 questions. Rest of the questions were easy to decide. CertSafari practise really helped. I had 58% coverage and 75%+ Performance. Dont practise exams which gives really easy answers to choose from. Questions themselves aren't tough but to choose the correct option you need to know all the basics at a good level.

Heavy on the exam

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The exam questions were pretty similar to the practice questions on CertSafari. So you can really prepare for the exam by doing quizzes here, studying answers and memorizing patterns. I'd also recommend to separately study claude cli flags and usage.

Heavy on the exam

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Not sure about the weightage of different sections as there were multiple from the same concept. If you get the concept right, you have better chances. Practice questions do help but they were less than 10 out of 100 questions in the exam. So, concepts are important. i practiced 550 Certsafari questions and that helped.

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CertSafari mock exams were really helpful for me getting this certification. In the actual examination, options were more confusing and multiple options seems like correct than in the CertSafari exams. But reading questions few times and understanding the scenario will eventually lead you to the right answer if you are prepared good. I recommend to attempt CertSafari exams multiple times until you consistently hit 90% or above, which will make your fundamentals strong and build enough confidence.