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 staffing firm, since 1984.
Graphisoft Archicad knowledge assessment.
The CFAeX Archicad 29 Knowledge Assessment covers Basic, Intermediate, Advanced, and CAD Management topics. Take 30 multiple-choice questions in 40 minutes, with two attempts available.
Applicant assessment
For talent in the CFA network. Use the exam password provided by your CFA recruiter.
Start Archicad 29 →Purchased assessment
Pay through ClassMarker to access the assessment. No exam-access password is required.
Buy Archicad 29 →Archicad scoring: 75 available points; passing requires at least 53 points (70% threshold). Grades: 53–59 Pass, 60–67 High Pass, 68–75 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 and get presented to hiring firms as pre-vetted. Free for talent in the CFA network. →
Take an exam
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 CAD proficiency exams.
The CFAeX Knowledge Assessment is CFA’s own set of objective, leveled CAD exams — Revit, AutoCAD, and AutoCAD Architecture (2025/2026), plus Graphisoft Archicad 29. Multiple-choice, auto-graded, no software to install.
It exists for one reason: résumés and self-ratings don’t tell you who can actually do the work. CFAeX does — and because it’s issued by an architecture staffing firm, a CFAeX result means something to the people hiring.
Generic exams test what the software can do. CFAeX tests what the work should be.
The placement loop. CFA is a 40-year NYC architecture staffing firm. 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 calibration. Every question reflects real project work, because CFA has reviewed thousands of real CAD portfolios — actual buildings and interiors — across four decades. No exam vendor has reviewed the work.
The real-world section. Any candidate can memorize where a button is. Nearly a quarter of every CFAeX exam tests CAD management — following a firm’s layer and line-weight standards, sharing a model with a team, several drafters working one drawing, picking up redmarks. Can this person open your standards manual and produce sheets that plot right, without a babysitter? That’s the difference between a hire that works and one that doesn’t — and it’s exactly what the badge certifies.
CFAeX, briefly
Is CFAeX an Autodesk certification?
No. CFAeX is CFA’s own credential — built by a former Autodesk Authorized Training Center, authored by an Autodesk Certified Instructor, and not sanctioned by Autodesk or Certiport. What makes it count is who issues it: the staffing firm that architecture firms actually hire through.
What does CFAeX cost?
Free for talent in the CFA network. Retail exams 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 staffing firm that has placed architects and designers since 1984. Custom firm assessments are scoped per engagement.
How do the exams work?
Thirty questions in 40 minutes — multiple choice, auto-graded online, nothing to install. The passing threshold is 70%; 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 exam.
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 exam, what it measures, and how it changes a hiring director’s shortlist: The only staffing firm that tests: inside CFAeX, the CAD exam built by CFA. About a 10-minute read.