Preparation for the Claude certifications
A real score from someone who sat the exam, and the study sequence used to get there — written as a standalone guide that works whether or not you care about anyone’s testimonial.
Anthropic’s policy is one attempt per registration, and if you don’t pass, your next attempt isn’t available for six months. That’s the reality: one sitting, six months on the line. I built this app to make sure I walked in knowing every gap — not the gaps I thought I had, but the ones my performance data actually showed. The diagnostic told me where I was weak. Working through realistic situations forced me to reason under time pressure rather than recall definitions. The full practice run, calibrated harder than the official one, showed me I was ready before I paid for the real sitting.
“One shot for the next 6 months. This app made sure I nailed it on the first try.”
Keith Bourne · AI Architect & Memriq Founder · May 2026
How to use this app
A structured path from first login to exam day. It works whether or not you care about anyone’s testimonial — this is just the sequence that gets you to a reliable score.
Start here. It maps what you currently know across every area your exam covers and surfaces your weakest spots. You get a per-area breakdown rather than a single number — and that breakdown is what makes every step after it more efficient.
Go through all of them, not just the ones you like. Each puts you in a real decision under exam-like conditions. The goal is exposure and calibration, not a perfect score the first time.
Filter to the questions you got wrong or skipped and read the explanations. For each miss, work out whether it was a knowledge gap — a wrong mental model — or an application gap, where the model was right and you misread the situation. The two need different fixes.
Go back to anything below your target. Wait at least a day first: the point is to rebuild the reasoning, not to recognise a question you now remember.
Under real conditions, start to finish. It is deliberately harder than the official practice material, so a comfortable result here means a comfortable result there.
Your readiness breakdown will name one area as the worst. That is the one to work on, and it is almost never the one you feel like doing.
Keep the short review sessions going while you drill. Material you covered three weeks ago is the material most likely to fall over on the day, and it comes back when it is about to slip.
Readiness moves on what you have demonstrated. When it stops moving and your weakest area is no longer weak, book it.