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Claude Certified Architect – Foundations: Exam Prep

Prepare for the Claude Certified Architect – Foundations exam (CCAR-F) skill by skill. Each of the 19 lessons maps to the exam's domains and task statements, teaches the decisions the exam tests, and ends with key terms, flashcards and exam-style questions with explained answers: 203 questions in total. You learn to build agentic loops, coordinators and subagents, hooks and gates, MCP tools, Claude Code team setups, CI pipelines, structured output, batches, context management, escalation and provenance, with links to Anthropic's official docs in every lesson. About 6 hours of reading plus practice. You should already write code and have used Claude Code or the Claude API.

Curriculum

• 1 The exam in one page Create a free account
• 2 Two SDKs and your first agent Create a free account
• 3 The agentic loop Create a free account
• 4 Designing tools Claude can't misuse Create a free account
• 5 Coordinators and subagents Create a free account
• 6 Hooks, gates and handoffs Create a free account
• 7 Sessions: resume, fork, start fresh Create a free account
• 8 Configuring Claude Code for a team Create a free account
• 9 Working effectively: plan mode, iteration, built-in tools Create a free account
• 10 MCP: plugging in tools and data Create a free account
• 11 Claude Code in CI/CD Create a free account
• 12 Prompts with explicit criteria and examples Create a free account
• 13 Structured output and validation loops Create a free account
• 14 Batches and multi-pass review Create a free account
• 15 Keeping context sharp Create a free account
• 16 Escalation and human review Create a free account
• 17 Error propagation and provenance Create a free account
• 18 Scenario playbook Create a free account
• 19 Final review Create a free account