CAD knowledge assessments for Archicad, Revit & AutoCAD.
The CFAeX Knowledge Assessment measures knowledge of Revit, AutoCAD, AutoCAD Architecture, and Graphisoft Archicad office workflows. From CFA, the original architecture referral registry, since 1984.
Graphisoft Archicad knowledge assessment.
The CFAeX Archicad 29 Knowledge Assessment covers Basic, Intermediate, Advanced, and CAD Management topics. Take 32 multiple-choice questions in 40 minutes, with two attempts available.
Applicant assessment
For talent in the CFA network. Use the assessment password provided by your CFA matchmaker.
Start Archicad 29 →Purchased assessment
Verify your email to receive your personal password, then pay securely through ClassMarker. Use the same password for both attempts.
Buy Archicad 29 →Archicad scoring: 80 available points; passing requires at least 56 points (70% threshold). Grades: 56–63 Pass, 64–71 High Pass, 72–80 Distinction. Results show your score and pass outcome; a certificate is available on passing. Knowledge bands remain provisional and do not establish professional competence, advanced practitioner status, or CAD-management mastery. This independent CFA assessment is not affiliated with or endorsed by Graphisoft.
Three paths.
Get certified, free
Prove your skills on your own terms and share verified results with the firms you choose. Free for talent in the CFA network. →
Take an assessment
Online knowledge assessments for Archicad 29, Revit, AutoCAD, and AutoCAD Architecture. →
Assess your team
Custom assessments on your firm’s own standards, firm-wide and multi-office — plus vetted-trainer referrals. →
Which path is yours?
CFA’s own client-driven CAD assessments.
The CFAeX Knowledge Assessment is CFA’s own set of objective, leveled CAD assessments — Revit, AutoCAD, and AutoCAD Architecture (2025/2026), plus Graphisoft Archicad 29. Multiple-choice, auto-graded, no software to install.
It adds structured evidence of software knowledge and office/project judgment to a hiring discussion. A CFAeX result complements a résumé, portfolio, interview and practical work sample; it does not by itself establish who can perform the work.
The two work together. A client-driven assessment confirms software knowledge when a firm asks for one; CFA Match Intelligence, used on every opening after our matchmakers’ review, finds whose project experience actually fits the role.
Generic exams test what the software can do. CFAeX assesses what the work should be.
The placement loop. CFA is a 40-year NYC architecture referral registry. Certify with CFAeX and you don’t just earn a badge — you get seen by the firms actually hiring. No exam vendor places architects & designers.
The review process. The revised banks received documentation-based and AI-assisted content review. Independent practitioner validation, hands-on software testing and representative human pilots have not been completed. CFA’s portfolio-review history is not evidence of empirical calibration of these questions.
The office and project judgment section. Eight of the 32 questions cover CAD Management, contributing 32 of the 80 available points. These questions address standards, collaboration, deliverable quality and software-specific project decisions. The result provides evidence of knowledge and judgment on the assessment; it does not independently verify practical performance in a live project.
CFAeX, briefly
Is CFAeX an Autodesk certification?
No. CFAeX is Consulting for Architects’ independent knowledge assessment, not a certification sanctioned by Autodesk, Graphisoft or Certiport. CFA’s historical training-center credentials do not establish instructor authorship or validation of the revised banks. The result is one input to a hiring or development decision.
What does CFAeX cost?
Free for talent in the CFA network. Retail assessments are $279 for Archicad 29, $279 per release for Revit, $229 for AutoCAD, and $249 for AutoCAD Architecture, and every seat includes two attempts. The price reflects what the credential opens: not a paper certificate, but a foot in the door at the firms that hire through us, the referral registry that has matched architects and designers since 1984. Custom firm assessments are scoped per engagement.
How do the assessments work?
32 questions in 40 minutes, with eight questions each from Basic, Intermediate, Advanced and CAD Management. Questions carry 1, 2, 3 and 4 points by tier, for 80 points overall. Multiple choice, auto-graded online, nothing to install. The passing threshold is 70% (56 of 80 points); 80% and 90% begin the High Pass and Distinction ranges. These describe assessment performance, not professional competence. Every seat includes two attempts.
Which software and releases are covered?
Autodesk Revit, AutoCAD, and AutoCAD Architecture (2025 and 2026), plus Graphisoft Archicad 29.
The pedigree behind the assessment.
We are not sanctioned by Autodesk, Inc. or Certiport. We are not an Authorized Autodesk Training Center, Reseller, or Partner. AutoCAD® and Revit® are registered trademarks of Autodesk, Inc. CFAeX certifications are issued by Consulting for Architects, Inc. and are CFA’s own credential.
Read the full story
The deep-dive on why we built our own CAD assessment, what it measures, and how it changes a hiring director’s shortlist: The only referral registry that offers client-driven assessments: inside CFAeX, the CAD assessment built by CFA. About a 10-minute read.