Confluent Certified Administrator for Apache Kafka Exam Cost

The exam fee buys you one attempt at the Confluent Certified Administrator for Apache Kafka. Everything else on your path to certification, revision material included, sits outside this price, and that is where most of the budget of a certification actually goes.

Note from the vendor record: Issuer: Confluent, Inc. Status: active - "Confluent Certified Administrator for Apache Kafka® (CCAAK)" is currently listed on Confluent's official certification page alongside CCDAK and the Confluent Cloud Certified Operator, with an official Administrator Exam Preparation Guide (training course 1071). No official retirement or rename date for CCAAK (or for any predecessor such as an earlier CCAK-titled exam) is published on Confluent's official pages; the only official refresh notes are for other items ("Refreshed Developer Course", "Refreshed Confluent Cloud Certified Operator Exam") with no dates given. Validity: "The Certification expires after two years. You will be required to re-certify every 2 years." Retake policy: 7-day wait before repurchasing. Delivery: remotely proctored (Honorlock), Chrome + webcam + microphone + government ID, English only, immediate results. No prerequisites or training requirement; passing score threshold not disclosed. Caveat: third-party sites claim ~60 questions and a percentage pass mark - these are not published by Confluent.