Claude Certified Developer – Foundations (CCDV-F) Practice Test

What best describes the relationship between Skills and MCP?

Skills and MCP are identical concepts.

Skills provide reusable expertise or workflows, while MCP provides standardized access to tools and resources.

Skills are reusable knowledge and workflows you can apply to different tasks, encapsulating what to do and the sequence to follow, often with built-in decision rules so the same pattern fits various inputs. MCP, on the other hand, provides a standardized way to access tools and resources—the interfaces, permissions, and provisioning that let those tools be used consistently and securely.

So they serve different purposes that complement each other: a Skill tells you how to accomplish a task, while MCP ensures you can reliably obtain and use the tools and resources needed to carry out that task. That’s why this description is the best fit. It isn’t that they’re identical, MCP doesn’t replace Skills, and Skills aren’t restricted to a single platform like Haiku.

MCP replaces Skills.

Skills can only be used with Haiku.