Claude Certified Architect Exam Prep
Pass the CCA-F exam on your first try. 34 lessons, all 5 domains, 100 practice questions. The only prep program built lesson-by-lesson from the official Anthropic exam guide.
What You'll Learn
- Design and implement agentic loops with proper stop_reason handling and tool execution
- Architect multi-agent systems using coordinator-subagent patterns with appropriate tool boundaries
- Configure CLAUDE.md hierarchies, custom skills, and path-specific rules for team workflows
- Enforce structured output using tool_use, JSON schemas, and validation-retry loops
- Design MCP tool interfaces with clear descriptions, structured errors, and scoped access
- Make sound escalation and reliability decisions in production Claude deployments
- Integrate Claude Code into CI/CD pipelines with proper flags and review criteria
- Design a complete production-grade Claude architecture for a given business scenario
Curriculum
Exam Overview & Study Strategy
Understand the exam format, domain weights, and build your personalized study plan.
- The CCA-F Exam: What You're Up Against
- Your 5-Week Study Plan
Agentic Architecture & Orchestration (27%)
The heaviest domain. Agentic loops, multi-agent systems, subagent config, workflow enforcement, SDK hooks, task decomposition, session management.
- Agentic Loops: stop_reason and Control Flow
- Multi-Agent Systems: Coordinator-Subagent Patterns
- Subagent Invocation, Context Passing, and Spawning
- Multi-Step Workflows: Enforcement and Handoff
- Agent SDK Hooks: Tool Interception and Normalization
- Task Decomposition for Complex Workflows
- Session State, Resumption, and Forking
Tool Design & MCP Integration (18%)
Tool interfaces, MCP error handling, tool distribution, MCP server integration, built-in tools.
- Designing Tool Interfaces AI Uses Correctly
- Structured Error Responses for MCP Tools
- Distributing Tools and Configuring tool_choice
- MCP Servers in Claude Code and Agent Workflows
- Built-in Tools: Read, Write, Edit, Bash, Grep, Glob
Claude Code Configuration & Workflows (20%)
CLAUDE.md hierarchy, custom commands/skills, path rules, plan mode, iterative refinement, CI/CD.
- CLAUDE.md: Hierarchy, Scoping, Organization
- Custom Slash Commands and Skills
- Path-Specific Rules for Conditional Loading
- Plan Mode vs Direct Execution
- Iterative Refinement Techniques
- Claude Code in CI/CD Pipelines
Prompt Engineering & Structured Output (20%)
Explicit criteria, few-shot prompting, JSON schemas, validation loops, batch processing, multi-pass review.
- Explicit Criteria Over Vague Instructions
- Few-Shot Prompting for Consistency
- Structured Output with tool_use and JSON Schemas
- Validation, Retry, and Feedback Loops
- Batch Processing with Message Batches API
- Multi-Instance and Multi-Pass Review
Context Management & Reliability (15%)
Context preservation, escalation patterns, error propagation, codebase exploration, human review, provenance.
- Preserving Critical Info Across Long Interactions
- Escalation and Ambiguity Resolution
- Error Propagation Across Multi-Agent Systems
- Context in Large Codebase Exploration
- Human Review and Confidence Calibration
- Information Provenance and Multi-Source Synthesis
Practice Exam & Final Review
Walk through all 6 exam scenarios with decoded answer strategies. Exam day tips and common traps.
- All 6 Exam Scenarios Decoded
- Exam Day: Strategy, Time Management, Common Traps
