We gave Claude the published exam guides and asked it to generate structured study guides broken down by objective, along with sample test questions modeled on the style and difficulty of what the real exam would ask. It wasn't a replacement for understanding the material, but it was a genuinely good way to turn a dense guide into something you could actually study from, and to get a sense of how a question might be phrased before you saw one for real.
We'd treat this as a starting point rather than gospel. The value wasn't that Claude produced a perfect mock exam, but that it gave us a fast, cost-efficient way to generate practice material at whatever depth or angle we needed, which meant we could iterate instead of settling for whatever study resources already existed.
Practice Exams, Out Loud, Together
The last piece is the one we'd most encourage other teams to do: group practice exam sessions where people took turns answering questions out loud.
The format was simple: someone would read a practice question, someone else would answer it, and instead of just giving the answer, they'd narrate their thinking as they worked through it. Why they ruled out one option, what detail in the question tipped them toward another, where they were genuinely unsure and made an educated guess.
This turned out to be more valuable than either studying alone or just checking answers against a key. Hearing a colleague reason through a question, including the wrong turns, showed everyone in the room both good and bad ways to approach a problem. You'd see someone confidently pick the wrong answer for a reason that sounded plausible, and that was often more instructive than seeing the right answer in isolation. It also meant the group caught shared misconceptions early, before a dozen people carried the same wrong mental model into the actual exam.
What We Take From This
We don't think any single one of these approaches explains passing 100 certifications. It was the combination: structured group reading to build a shared foundation, formal courses to standardize vocabulary, genuine daily use of the tool to build real intuition, Claude itself used to generate study material at scale, and group practice sessions that made everyone's reasoning visible instead of private.
All this required was treating certification prep as a team activity instead of a personal errand, and being willing to use the tool we were studying to help us study it. If there's one thing we'd pass along to another team starting this same process, it's that the studying works better out loud, in a room, with people willing to show their work, including the parts where they get it wrong.
We're proud of the milestone, but more interested in the habits that got us there, because those are the ones we'll keep using for whatever Anthropic certifies next.
For organizations looking to build with Claude, having the right expertise can make all the difference. The same expertise that helped our team earn more than 100 Claude certifications is the expertise we bring to every customer engagement. As an Anthropic Preferred Services Partner and charter member of the Claude Partner Network, Caylent's Anthropic Consulting & Engineering (ACE) practice helps customers design, build, and scale AI solutions with confidence. Whether you're developing agentic AI systems, modernizing applications, or enabling your teams to get more from Claude, our certified experts can help you accelerate adoption and deliver measurable business outcomes. Reach out to us today to get started.
Brian Tarbox
