Two supervised exams, an internship, and the route to Anthropic's official certification.
Two supervised Panaversity exams open the FDE Internship Program. What you earn is a proctored credential an employer can verify without reading your code or taking your word for it.
From there you go on to Anthropic's official Claude exams. Registration for those requires an eligible organisational account — personal email addresses are not accepted, and there is currently no individual sign-up route — and Panaversity assists qualifying internship participants with it.
Can you judge what Claude gives you? Its biggest section is evaluating output and spotting the problems — not writing prompts. Online and supervised, 720 out of 1,000 to pass. Panaversity students get two free attempts. Registration opens soon.
See what PCAO-F coversCan you design agent systems? Same format, same passing score. Take it after step 1 — judgment first, then design: you have to be able to tell good output from bad before you can architect a system that produces it.
See what PCAR-F coversPassing both exams gets you in, at no extra cost. The internship is where the exams turn into deployment experience — and where Panaversity assists qualifying participants with registration for Anthropic's exams, which individuals cannot book on their own.
$99 then $125 at list prices, 120 minutes each, online or at a test centre. Pass and your credential lasts 12 months, and renewing on time is free.
See what CCAO-F coversThe world is about to be run by AI workers, and very few people can build them safely. You can be one of them.
An AI worker is software that does real jobs inside a company — issuing a refund, updating a customer record, placing an order — not just answering questions.
You would not hand a new accounts clerk the bank password and say “pay whatever looks right.” You would set limits, have someone sign off on anything large, and keep a record of what they did.
AI workers need the same care. Almost nobody builds that part. That is DSoR — the Data System of Record.
DSoR is the checkpoint an AI worker has to pass through before it can touch anything real — a payment, a customer record, an order.
The AI asks. DSoR decides.
It is the governed layer between an AI worker and a company’s real systems.
Sarah works in Billing. An AI worker — an AI agent — handles refunds for her. Here is one of its requests, moving through DSoR.
AI worker
“Refund customer #4471 — $5,000”
DSoR
Four checks, every time
1Who is asking?
PassThe AI worker, acting for Sarah in Billing — using her authority, not its own.
Checks who is asking, and under whose authority
2Does a human need to approve this?
PausedRefunds over $1,000 do. Paused until Sarah’s manager signs off.
Waits for a human’s approval when the rules demand it
3Has this already happened?
PassNo. This is what stops a glitch refunding the same customer twice.
Makes sure nothing happens twice
4Write down what happened
PassWho, what, when, and which rule allowed it.
Keeps the evidence
Your real systems
Payments · Customer records · Orders
Result: Refund issued — once Sarah’s manager approved it. Every step recorded, and you can see which rule allowed it.
KSoR
Knowledge System of Record
what it may KNOW
The rulebook.
DSoR
Data System of Record
what it may DO
The checkpoint.
You write the rule once in KSoR. DSoR makes sure every action followed it — and can show you which version of the rule it followed.
DSoR is the twin of KSoR, our Knowledge System of Record. KSoR governs what an AI worker may know; DSoR governs what it may do. A policy lives in KSoR, DSoR enforces it, and every action traces back to the exact policy version behind it.
From the day you pass PCAO-F — the first exam on the path — you build alongside your study. Our team has started building and the open specification is ready. You build DSoR with us in 52 baby steps, one new idea at a time, using Claude Code, Anthropic’s AI coding tool.
Step 00 is live, and it assumes you know none of this. Clone the repo and begin today.
Companies will not pay for people who can only chat with AI. They will pay for people who can put AI to work inside real systems, safely, and prove it. A Claude certification tells an employer you understand. DSoR shows them you can build. Very few people in the world will have both.
Neither is required for the FDE Internship Program. Take them if you want proof beyond the gate.
Our two exams
Free
For Panaversity students — two attempts each. External candidates pay only the proctoring fee; you do not have to study with us to sit them.
Anthropic's two exams
$224 total
$99 for CCAO-F and $125 for CCAR-F at list prices, paid directly to Anthropic.
Study material
Free
The Agent Factory book, practice tests, and Anthropic's own courses.
Step 1 is PCAO-F. Read what it covers, then try a free practice test — practice tests cost nothing and never count against you.
PCAO-F registration opens soon. PCAR-F is open now, so you can start preparing for both — and DSoR Step 00 is live today, whichever exam you sit first.
5–8 hours a week, from a standing start to the Panaversity gate
A guide, not a rule. Move slower if you are new to building — the exams are scenario-based, and time spent shipping something small pays back more than extra reading.
The ones that cost people money or time on this pathway
Anthropic registration needs an eligible organisational account. Clear PCAO-F and PCAR-F and enter the internship first.
The weights are uneven. One domain can be 27% of an exam and another 3%. Study by weight.
A free Academy badge says you took training. A proctored exam says you passed one.
Both exams are scenario-based. Build something small and real before you sit them.
Sample tests are free and unlimited. A failed Anthropic attempt costs the full fee and a 14-day wait.
On-time renewal is free. Miss it and you retake the full proctored exam at full price.
Retakes, renewal, and exam day for CCAO-F and CCAR-F
These rules apply to Anthropic's exams. Panaversity's own exams work differently: you register through Panaversity, students get two free attempts per exam, and a third or later attempt is charged at a fee to be announced.
Anthropic Academy courses are free, self-paced, and can earn you a completion badge — no proctor, no fee, no identity check. Anthropic's Claude certifications are different: proctored exams with a government photo ID check and a Credly credential. Both are useful, but do not write “Claude Certified” on your CV until you have passed the Pearson VUE exam.
The book, practice tests, and Anthropic's own courses — all free
The full curriculum behind this pathway, free to read.
Read the guidePractice tests with explanations. Take them before you spend a real attempt.
Start practisingFree, self-paced courses from Anthropic — the Claude API, MCP, Claude Code, and more.
Browse coursesThe sample tests are independent practice materials and are not affiliated with Anthropic. Anthropic's official exam guides are the authority on what is tested — download the current guide before you book.
Explore the courses that take you from Claude Code through deploying Agent Factories — then sit PCAO-F when you are ready.
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