Claude Certified Developer – Foundations (CCDV-F): Free 12-Hour Exam Prep Course

Nearly 12 hours of exam prep for Claude Certified Developer – Foundations (CCDV-F), Anthropic's certification for developers who build, integrate and ship applications, agents and workflows with Claude. This video plays the course in order: the trailer, then 54 full lessons, from how the exam works up to Module 7 (production engineering, evals and cost). A short card announces each lesson before it starts. Use the chapters below to jump to any lesson. 👉 Get the full course: https://www.udemy.com/course/pass-the-ccdv-f-exam-2026-claude-certified-developer-course/?referralCode=5C89B3A93EAAE94204FE The full course is the most complete version, with: - All 73 video lessons (15 hours of video), including Module 8 (security and safety), Module 9 (shipping and reuse) and the exam-readiness section - Quick checks and a quiz for every module - 9 hands-on labs with starter code, a solution and self-check tests - 9 one-page cheat sheets with the exam traps - 3 full practice exams (53 questions, 120 minutes each, weighted like the official blueprint), with every option explained - A complete exam simulation What you build along the way: Quiz Forge, one real app, start to finish. It covers tool use, an agent with a checker subagent, a Claude Code plugin with hooks, an MCP server, evals with a calibrated judge, guardrails and a release check. Good to know: right now the exam is open to people at Claude Partner Network organizations (Anthropic's certification FAQ). This course is independent preparation material. It isn't the exam, and it doesn't guarantee a score. Chapters 0:00:00 Course trailer 0:02:35 Lesson 0.1: How CCDV-F works 0:15:03 Lesson 0.3: The developer workbench 0:34:07 Lesson 1.1: How an LLM produces text 0:44:15 Lesson 1.2: Sampling and non-determinism 0:55:55 Lesson 1.3: REST, JSON and the Messages API 1:11:49 Lesson 1.4: Reading the response, and conversations 1:26:17 Lesson 1.5: Streaming, async and WebSockets 1:42:29 Lesson 1.6: Choosing a model 1:57:28 Lesson 1.7: Reasoning controls 2:12:31 Lesson 1.8: Tokens and money 2:27:55 Lesson 1.9: Module 1 exam traps and recap 2:34:59 Lesson 2.1: Production prompts 2:51:08 Lesson 2.2: Where instructions live 3:09:43 Lesson 2.3: Zero-, one- and multi-shot 3:29:02 Lesson 2.4: Structured output by design 3:51:08 Lesson 2.5: Trust but verify 4:14:18 Lesson 2.6: Iterating on a prompt 4:30:53 Lesson 2.7: Module 2 exam traps and recap 4:39:00 Lesson 3.1: Tool use from first principles 4:55:29 Lesson 3.2: Multi-turn and parallel tools 5:11:42 Lesson 3.3: Tool Runner and server tools 5:25:26 Lesson 3.4: Images, PDFs, citations and files 5:39:50 Lesson 3.5: Realtime vs batch 5:51:36 Lesson 3.6: Module 3 exam traps and recap 6:00:41 Lesson 4.1: Workflow or agent? 6:12:39 Lesson 4.2: Building the agent loop 6:26:45 Lesson 4.3: Context engineering 6:36:08 Lesson 4.4: Getting knowledge into context 6:48:42 Lesson 4.5: Subagents and supervisors 7:00:04 Lesson 4.6: Agent memory 7:11:24 Lesson 4.7: Four ways to build an agent 7:23:21 Lesson 4.8: Agent frameworks 7:35:37 Lesson 4.9: Module 4 exam traps and recap 7:45:39 Lesson 5.1: Operating Claude Code 7:58:48 Lesson 5.2: Durable project context 8:10:55 Lesson 5.3: Skills, commands and subagents 8:23:12 Lesson 5.4: Hooks: deterministic actions 8:36:05 Lesson 5.5: Plugins 8:46:23 Lesson 5.6: Claude Code in the pipeline 8:59:41 Lesson 5.7: The Claude Agent SDK 9:10:48 Lesson 5.8: One app, many interfaces 9:20:08 Lesson 5.9: Module 5 exam traps and recap 9:30:15 Lesson 6.1: MCP from zero 9:40:41 Lesson 6.2: Build an MCP server in Python 9:53:39 Lesson 6.3: Transports and deployment 10:06:57 Lesson 6.4: Built-in tool, custom tool, Skill or MCP? 10:16:08 Lesson 6.5: Connecting enterprise systems 10:28:51 Lesson 6.6: Module 6 exam traps and recap 10:37:55 Lesson 7.1: Errors that will happen 10:49:10 Lesson 7.2: Tracing and debugging 11:00:43 Lesson 7.3: Evals 11:13:31 Lesson 7.4: Testing layers 11:27:20 Lesson 7.5: Prompt caching in depth 11:38:42 Lesson 7.6: Staying within budget 11:52:32 The full course Music Opening and closing music: "Biohazard" by Lesion X Lesion X - Biohazard is under a YouTube Free license. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwMU7NiWvoN6qPp1uMh3YAA Music powered by BreakingCopyright: https://youtu.be/vDNi_P_B3ow Trailer and closing music: "Defense Matrix" by Vyra Vyra - Defense Matrix is under a YouTube Free license. https://soundcloud.com/vyramusic Music powered by BreakingCopyright: https://youtu.be/8Qx9zZhx8-I 🔎 Find more music here: https://breakingcopyright.com Background music: relaxing jazzy solo piano mix by FreeSoundMusic (pieces by Howard Ramy and Lila Ardeen) royalty free Music by FreeSoundMusic https://freesoundmusic.eu / freemusicforyoutube / freesoundmusic original video: https://youtu.be/DQt2rL-OFmY Sound effects: Pixabay (Pixabay Content License).