Course 1 of 3
Verify Contact Data
Check the email addresses, phone numbers, street addresses and names people type into forms, and decide whether to accept, review or reject each one.
4 lessons2 hours
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APIVerve Certified: Verifications
Check emails, phone numbers, addresses, IP addresses, cards, bank details and sanctions lists, and combine the results into fraud and risk decisions.
- Courses3 · 12 lessons
- Study timeabout 7 hours
- Exam30 questions · 60 min
- Passing score700 / 1000
- ValidityValid 3 years, free renewal
- PriceFree
The path to APV-200
Developers building signup, checkout, onboarding and fraud checks. Three courses, taken in order; finish one and its badge is yours, finish all three and the exam is waiting at the end. New to APIs? Start with APV-100.
- Course 2 of 3
Network and Fraud Signals
Learn what an IP address and browser reveal: where the visitor is, whether they use a VPN, proxy or Tor, whether the address or its links have a bad history, and whether it's a bot.
4 lessons2.2 hours0 of 4 lessonsStart course - Course 3 of 3
Payments and Compliance
Check cards, bank details and names before money moves: BIN lookups, IBAN, SWIFT and routing number validation, sanctions screening, and a fraud risk score that records its reasons.
4 lessons2.3 hours0 of 4 lessonsStart course - Exam APV-200
APIVerve Certified Developer: Verifications
30 questions in 60 minutes, some of them hands-on with real API requests. Pass with 700 out of 1000 and get a credential anyone can verify.
Skills measured
Three skill areas, weighted equally
Each course is one skill area, 10 questions each, drawn fresh for every attempt.
Verify Contact Data
33%- Read every email validation signal, from null MX to normalised duplicates, and map it to accept, review or reject
- Normalise phone numbers to E.164 and screen line type and disposable numbers before sending an SMS
- Parse free-text US addresses, cross-check them against ZIP data and build a dedupe key
- Split human names safely and catch gibberish and offensive usernames at signup without insulting real people
- Recognise the false positives and false negatives each check produces and design around them
Study: Verify Contact Data · 4 lessons
Network and Fraud Signals
33%- Geolocate an IP and identify the network that owns it, knowing where the data stops being reliable
- Detect VPN, datacenter and Tor traffic and answer it with step-up checks instead of hard blocks
- Screen IPs against blocklists and scan user-submitted links for known phishing domains
- Parse user agents, detect bots and verify crawlers that claim to be Google or Bing
- Combine network and client signals into one risk score with a clear action per route
Study: Network and Fraud Signals · 4 lessons
Payments and Compliance
33%- Run Luhn checks locally and use BIN lookups for card facts without handling full card numbers
- Validate IBANs, SWIFT/BIC codes and US routing numbers with field-level errors before a payout
- Screen people and companies against sanctions lists, route fuzzy matches to review and keep an audit record
- Combine contact, network, card and sanctions signals into a weighted risk score with reasons
- Tune allow, review and block thresholds from logged outcomes instead of guesses
Study: Payments and Compliance · 4 lessons
What to expect
How exam APV-200 works
Two kinds of question
Most are multiple choice: a scenario, a snippet of code or a response, and four options. A few are hands-on: the exam shows you a real API request, you run it, and type the value from the live response. Those runs are free and don't use your credits.
Hands-on answers need a real run
A hands-on answer counts only if you ran its request during the exam. Running the call is the skill being measured.
Timed, open book
You have 60 minutes from the moment you start. The lessons and the docs are fair game, which is how you'll work on the job anyway.
A score report, pass or fail
Scores are out of 1000 and 700 passes. Pass or fail, you get a report of how you did in each skill area, saved to your account to print or keep as a PDF.
Retakes
If you don't pass, you can retake the exam after 24 hours. After two attempts in a row without a pass, the next one opens after 7 days.
Your credential
Pass and you're issued a credential ID with a public verification page, one-click LinkedIn and a shareable transcript. It's valid for three years, and renewal is free.
Is the exam proctored?
No. It's an open-book online exam. The hands-on questions keep it honest: an answer only counts if you ran its request during the exam.
Does the certification expire?
Yes. Associate certifications are valid for three years from the date you pass, so the credential reflects the platform as it is now. Renewal is free: from six months before the expiry date until six months after it, pass a 15-question, 30-minute assessment and the same credential ID is valid for another three years. Renewing early doesn't cost you any time.
Does it cost anything?
No. The courses, the exam and the credential are free, and the exam's hands-on requests don't use your credits.
Do I need another certification first?
No, but APV-100 covers the HTTP, JSON, error handling and key safety that this path assumes. If any of that is new, start there.
Can I change the name on my certificate?
You set the name when you start the exam. If it needs correcting after you've passed, contact us from the account that holds the credential.
Other certifications
Each one is its own three-course path and exam.
APV-100API FundamentalsAPIVerve Certified DeveloperLearn to call, read, secure and build with REST APIs. The starting point for students and developers new to APIs.APV-210Web DataAPIVerve Certified DeveloperTurn websites into structured data: extract text, Markdown, metadata and screenshots, run SEO and domain checks, and build pipelines that crawl responsibly at scale.APV-220AI AgentsAPIVerve Certified DeveloperConnect AI agents to real tools and live data with the APIVerve MCP server, handle errors and costs, and build agent workflows you can test and trust.APV-230Document AutomationAPIVerve Certified DeveloperGenerate and process documents and images: PDFs from HTML and Office files, image conversion and OCR, QR codes, barcodes, invoices and charts.APV-300Production IntegrationsAPIVerve Certified EngineerRun API integrations in production: handle errors and retries, stay inside rate limits and credit budgets, cache and batch calls, manage keys, verify webhooks, monitor and test.APV-400Solutions ArchitectureAPIVerve Certified ArchitectDesign systems built on many APIs: choose and combine APIs into workflows and pipelines, architect agent and MCP platforms, plan for outages and scale, and handle personal data.