3-Week CCDV-F Study Plan
A day-by-day plan mapping your prep to this site's guides, mock exams, and exam-trap review — adjust the pace to however much runway you actually have.
Built around the blueprint weighting: the first week is almost entirely Applications & Integration, Model Selection, and Agents & Workflows — the three domains that are two-thirds of the exam. Compress this into 10 days if you're short on time; don't skip the mocks to save time instead.
Week 1 — the heavy domains
| Day | Focus | Do this |
|---|---|---|
| 1–2 | Applications & Integration (33.1%) | Read the domain guide; build a small app that streams a response and calls one tool |
| 3 | Model Selection & Optimization (16.8%) | Read the domain guide; work through its cost-modeling example by hand |
| 4–5 | Agents & Workflows (14.7%) | Read the domain guide; identify which of the five workflow patterns fits a task you've actually built |
| 6 | Review | Re-read anything you flagged; skim the Exam-Day Cheat Sheet once |
| 7 | Mock 1 | Take Mock 1 (28 Qs, all domains) untimed; review every explanation, including options you didn't pick |
Week 2 — the remaining domains
| Day | Focus | Do this |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | Prompt & Context Engineering (11.0%) | Read the domain guide |
| 9 | Tools & MCPs (10.6%) | Read the domain guide — pay special attention to the 2026-07-28 MCP spec changes |
| 10 | Security & Safety (8.1%) | Read the domain guide; internalize the prompted-instruction-vs-enforcement distinction |
| 11 | Claude Code + Eval/Debugging (5.7% combined) | Read both guides — small domains, but easy points |
| 12 | Top Mistakes + Confused Concepts | Read both guides start to finish |
| 13 | Mock 2 | Take Mock 2 (22 Qs) under light time pressure; log every miss by domain |
| 14 | Targeted review | Re-read the guide behind your weakest domain from Mock 2 |
Week 3 — simulate the real thing
| Day | Focus | Do this |
|---|---|---|
| 15–16 | Weak-area drilling | Re-read flagged sections; drill the flashcard set for terms you keep missing |
| 17 | Mock 3 | Take Mock 3 (22 Qs) timed — treat it like the real exam |
| 18 | Review + rest | Review Mock 3 misses; do not cram new material |
| 19 | Mock 4 · Level 3 Advanced | Take the hardest attempt (53 Qs, high-criticality scenarios) — this is the closest simulation on the site |
| 20 | Final review | Re-skim the Exam-Day Cheat Sheet and the flashcard set once |
| 21 | Exam day | Light review only — trust the prep |
If you only have one week
Do Week 1 in full, skim the other five domain guides once each, then take Mock 1 and Mock 4 back to back — the widest coverage in the least time.
Independent, unofficial study material from Claude Cert Prep. Not affiliated with Anthropic.