# Cert Made Easy (remote · certmadeeasy.com)

Look up certification exams and practise free exam-style questions with explanations.

- Trust score: 74/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +4
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-11-05

## Components

- remote · `certmadeeasy.com`: 74/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-certmadeeasy-exam-practice/certmadeeasy.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-certmadeeasy-exam-practice/certmadeeasy)

## Channel facts

- Endpoint: `https://certmadeeasy.com/mcp`
- Transports: `streamable-http`
- Auth: `none`
- Version: `1.0.0`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically against the live server, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-11-05.

- **Endpoint Security**: 80/100
  - The endpoint's TLS certificate is valid, in date, and uses a strong key.
  - No authorisation is required to call this server. Every tool declares its destructiveHint and none is destructive, so open access doesn't expose one.
  - HTTPS is enforced; there's no plaintext access path.
  - The HSTS (Strict-Transport-Security) header is present.
  - DNSSEC check failed: this domain isn't protected by DNSSEC.
- **Transport & Reachability**: 100/100
  - Verified streamable-http transport via a live MCP handshake.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 70/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (good).
  - Context-footprint check failed: tool/resource definitions use about 769 tokens (~128/item across 6 items; 6 tools + 0 resources), over budget; trim descriptions and params.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 23/100
  - Stability observed for 7 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 71/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 0% of tool parameters carry a description.
  - Structured output schemas are declared (100% of tools); any adoption earns full credit.
- **Tool Safety**: 100/100
  - No prompt-injection markers were found in the server instructions, tool names or descriptions we captured.
  - We read all 6 captured tool definition(s), and no name or description among them implies an irreversible operation.
  - An AI judge read all 7 captured unit(s) of tool text and found none that tries to manipulate the model reading it.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a current MCP spec version (2026-07-28).

## Install

### How do I install the Cert Made Easy MCP server?

Cert Made Easy is a hosted endpoint at https://certmadeeasy.com/mcp, so there is nothing to install locally. Ready-made configuration for Claude, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and 5 more is on this page, copied from each client's own documentation.

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add --transport http com-certmadeeasy-exam-practice 'https://certmadeeasy.com/mcp'
```

### Cursor

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-certmadeeasy-exam-practice": {
      "url": "https://certmadeeasy.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### VS Code

```json
{
  "servers": {
    "com-certmadeeasy-exam-practice": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://certmadeeasy.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Codex

```toml
[mcp_servers.com-certmadeeasy-exam-practice]
url = "https://certmadeeasy.com/mcp"
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "com-certmadeeasy-exam-practice": {
      "type": "remote",
      "url": "https://certmadeeasy.com/mcp",
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add com-certmadeeasy-exam-practice --url 'https://certmadeeasy.com/mcp' --transport streamable-http
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  com-certmadeeasy-exam-practice:
    url: "https://certmadeeasy.com/mcp"
```

### Netclaw

```json
{
  "McpServers": {
    "com-certmadeeasy-exam-practice": {
      "Transport": "http",
      "Url": "https://certmadeeasy.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

### Vellum

```bash
assistant mcp add com-certmadeeasy-exam-practice -t streamable-http -u 'https://certmadeeasy.com/mcp'
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "com-certmadeeasy-exam-practice": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://certmadeeasy.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
```

The mcpServers block is a cross-client convention. Remote transports vary, so check your client's docs.

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-11-05 (score 74, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 20 to 23. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 6 days of observed history at the previous scan, 7 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-03 (score 73, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 13 to 17. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 4 days of observed history at the previous scan, 5 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-11-01 (score 72, +1)

No change was recorded against any check on this day. Stability & Change Management went from 7 to 10. That category is still filling its 30-day observation window: 2 days of observed history at the previous scan, 3 at this one. The score rises as the window fills, whether or not the server changes.

### 2026-10-31 (score 71, 0)

- [security] The server rewrote its instructions, which are the text every model session reads
- [security] Tool “check_answer” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [security] Tool “get_exam_details” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [security] Tool “get_practice_questions” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [security] Tool “get_study_paths” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [security] Tool “list_exams” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [security] Tool “search_exams” rewrote its description, which is the text the model reads
- [functional regression] Schema quality: pass → fail

### 2026-10-30 (score 71, +1)

- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.03

### 2026-10-29 (score 70)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (6)

### `search_exams` (~100 tokens)

Search certification exams

Find certification exams by official code (e.g. "SAA-C03", "CIPP/E"), name (e.g. "Azure Administrator") or topic (e.g. "GDPR"). Returns the matching practice sets with their size, free questions and price. Use it when the user names an exam or certification, to see whether it is covered and get its set_id.

Input parameters:

- `limit` (integer)
- `query` (string, required)

Output parameters:

- `catalog_url` (string)
- `query` (string)
- `results` (array)

### `list_exams` (~77 tokens)

List exams by vendor

Without a vendor, list the certification vendors covered and how many exams each has. With a vendor (a name such as "Microsoft Azure" or a code such as "aws", "iapp", "isc2"), list that vendor's exams. Use it when the user asks which vendors or exams are covered.

Input parameters:

- `vendor`

Output parameters:

- `catalog_url` (string)
- `exams` (array)
- `vendor`
- `vendors` (array)

### `get_exam_details` (~100 tokens)

Get exam details

Describe one exam: the vendor's real exam (official code, question count, fee, domains and their weights) and our practice set for it (size, free questions, price, timed mock exam). `exam` is a set_id from search_exams or an official exam code. Use it when the user asks about an exam's format, length, fee or domains, or about our practice set for it.

Input parameters:

- `exam` (string, required)

Output parameters:

- `description`
- `domains` (array)
- `mock_exam`
- `official_exam`
- `practice_set`
- `try_free_url` (string)

### `get_study_paths` (~65 tokens)

Get certification study paths

Recommended exam order for each career role at one vendor (e.g. "aws", "Microsoft Azure"), from first exam to last. Use it when the user asks which exam to take first, or in what order, for a role.

Input parameters:

- `vendor` (string, required)

Output parameters:

- `paths` (array)
- `vendor` (string)

### `get_practice_questions` (~96 tokens)

Get free practice questions

Return up to five free sample multiple-choice questions for one certification exam, each with its correct option letters and a written explanation. Use it when the user wants to practise, be quizzed or test themselves on an exam this server covers. `exam` is a set_id from search_exams or an official exam code such as "SAA-C03".

Input parameters:

- `count` (integer)
- `exam` (string, required)

Output parameters:

- `exam_code`
- `how_to_use` (string)
- `more_questions_url` (string)
- `questions` (array)
- `title` (string)

### `check_answer` (~91 tokens)

Check an answer

Check the user's answer to a question from get_practice_questions. Use it when the user answers one of those questions. `selected` is the option letters the user chose, e.g. ["B"] or ["A", "D"]. Returns whether it is right, the correct letters and the explanation.

Input parameters:

- `exam` (string, required)
- `question_id` (string, required)
- `selected` (array, required)

Output parameters:

- `correct` (boolean)
- `correct_options` (array)
- `explanation`
- `more_questions_url` (string)
- `question_id` (string)
- `selected` (array)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: TLS, DNSSEC, Authorisation, Transports. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-certmadeeasy-exam-practice/certmadeeasy#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-11-05: 74
- 2026-11-04: 73
- 2026-11-03: 73
- 2026-11-02: 72
- 2026-11-01: 72
- 2026-10-31: 71
- 2026-10-30: 71
- 2026-10-29: 70

## Common questions

### What is the Cert Made Easy MCP server?

Cert Made Easy is an MCP server listed in the public MCP registry as com.certmadeeasy/exam-practice. Look up certification exams and practise free exam-style questions with explanations. This page covers its hosted endpoint (https://certmadeeasy.com/mcp).

### Is the Cert Made Easy MCP server safe to use?

Cert Made Easy scores 74 out of 100 on VerifyMCP. That is a record of what we were able to check automatically, not an endorsement. The category breakdown on this page shows every signal behind the number, including the ones we could not confirm.

### What tools does the Cert Made Easy MCP server expose?

Cert Made Easy exposes 6 tools: search_exams, list_exams, get_exam_details, get_study_paths, get_practice_questions, check_answer. Their descriptions and schemas cost roughly 529 tokens of context every time the server is loaded.

### Does the Cert Made Easy MCP server require authentication?

No. We connected to Cert Made Easy without credentials and it answered, so anything it exposes is reachable by anyone who knows the address.

### Is the Cert Made Easy MCP server still maintained?

Cert Made Easy is still listed as active in the MCP registry. We last reached this channel on 5 November 2026. Those dates come from our own scans of the registry and the channel itself, not from anything the publisher announced.

## Links

- Remote endpoint: https://certmadeeasy.com/mcp
- Website: https://certmadeeasy.com/ai
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-certmadeeasy-exam-practice/certmadeeasy.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-certmadeeasy-exam-practice/certmadeeasy.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/com-certmadeeasy-exam-practice/certmadeeasy