Registration is the highest-friction step.

Step 1: confirm your employer is in the Anthropic Partner Network

The CCA-F is gated through the Anthropic Partner Network, which Anthropic announced 2026-03-12 alongside a $100M commitment to partner-led delivery. The named launch partners are global systems integrators. If your employer is listed, your work email triggers an attestation flow on Skilljar. If your employer is not listed, you cannot register today and the path is to wait for general access. We do not publish workarounds; bypassing the eligibility gate violates the Partner Agreement.

Step 2: complete the Skilljar attestation form

Skilljar is Anthropic Academy's LMS at anthropic.skilljar.com. The attestation is a short form gating access to the CCA-F enrollment. Field-by-field:

• Email — must be a corporate domain (see the trap below). Personal addresses are rejected.
• Full name — appears on the certificate. Use your professional name as you want it cited on LinkedIn.
• Company name — must match the email domain. company.com address with Other Inc. in the company field flags a manual review and slows you down.
• Role / title — free-text. Anthropic does not require a specific title; ==Solutions Architect, Senior Engineer, or AI Lead== are all fine.
• Country — informational; affects nothing on the exam itself but appears on the verified certificate.
• Acknowledgement of partner agreement — checkbox. Do not skip; submission fails silently if unchecked in some browsers.

Submission triggers an entitlement email within 1-3 business hours typically; allow up to 1 business day. If it does not arrive, check spam, then contact Skilljar support via the in-app chat.

Step 3: avoid the corporate-domain trap

The single most common rejection reason during the beta cohort. Skilljar matches the email domain literally against an allowlist. The trap is not configurable and the support workaround is slow.

• Personal addresses (@gmail.com, @outlook.com, @yahoo.com) are systematically rejected by Skilljar attestation as `not a valid company`.
• Aliases that forward to a corporate inbox still need the canonical corporate domain on the form. Skilljar matches the literal domain string against an allowlist.
• Contractor / consultant arrangements: use the contracting employer's corporate domain if they're a partner. Otherwise wait for general access.
• Domain spoofing (registering a lookalike) is a violation of the Anthropic Partner Agreement. Don't do it.

Step 4: schedule within the 30-day window

Once you receive entitlement, the actual exam-scheduling link has a finite window. Beta-cohort reports converge on 30 days. Treat this as your scheduling deadline; rebooking after expiry requires a support contact and the cycle adds a week.

🟠Window

30 days from entitlementBeta-cohort reports; not formally documented.

🟠Reschedule

Within the 30-day window

🟠Re-issue if expired

Possible, requires Skilljar support contact

🟡Proctoring slots

Self-scheduled within the window

Step 5: cost structure

Pricing is tagged 🟠 Community-Reported because there is no fetchable Anthropic pricing page. Synthesized across the beta cohort and partner-network announcement:

• 🟠 $99 per attempt post general-launch.
• 🟠 First 5,000 partner-employee seats free. If your employer was an early-cohort partner, your seat may be subsidized.
• 🟠 Recertification is reportedly free for the first attempt; subsequent recerts likely $99. Not officially confirmed.
• 🟢 Standard certificate validity is 6 months (not 2 years; the 2-year claim is LLM-hallucinated and widespread on competitor sites). The Early Adopter badge for the beta cohort has no expiration.

Step 6: what to expect after submit

Two timelines collide here. Anthropic's guide says certificates land in 2 business days. The community-reported reality is consistently 7-10 business days. The scaled score itself is visible at submit; it's the credential PDF and verifiable URL that take longer.

🟠Anthropic guide promise

2 business days to certificate

🟠Community-reported reality

7-10 business days in practiceu/AardvarkDue3212 in r/ClaudeAI/1sgn0cf reported being told this directly by Anthropic Support.

🟢Immediate result

Scaled score visible at submit (passed / not passed)

🟢Certificate format

Skilljar credential PDF + verifiable URL

Pre-submit checklist

1. I confirmed my employer is in the Anthropic Partner Network (named partner OR corporate-internal confirmation).
2. I am submitting from a corporate-domain email, not personal.
3. My company name on the form matches the email domain.
4. I checked the partner-agreement acknowledgement box.
5. I have a 30-day window cleared on my calendar to sit the exam after entitlement arrives.
6. I have read the day-of checklist and confirmed my room + browser meet proctoring requirements.

After registration