Claude Certified Architect - Foundations (CCA-F) 2026

About this course

The Claude Certified Architect – Foundations (CCA-F) is Anthropic's first official technical credential — a closed-book, scenario-based exam that tests whether you can make the right architectural decisions when designing and shipping production-grade Claude systems at enterprise scale. It's not a recall test. Every question places you inside a real design situation and asks you to choose the best architectural response, which is exactly why practicing with realistic, scenario-driven questions matters more here than for a typical multiple-choice exam.

This course gives you full-length practice tests built around the CCA-F exam blueprint, covering every domain candidates are expected to master:

Agentic Architecture & Orchestration — multi-agent orchestration patterns, hub-and-spoke coordination, agent lifecycle hooks, and designing systems that scale beyond a single agent

Tool Design & MCP Integration — building and configuring MCP servers, setting tool boundaries and resources, structured error handling, and designing interoperable tool interfaces across agents

Claude Code Configuration & Workflows — CLAUDE .md project configuration, Agent Skills, plan mode, slash commands, and integrating Claude Code into CI/CD pipelines

Prompt Engineering & Structured Output — context engineering for production systems, JSON schema design, and reliable structured extraction patterns

Context Management & Reliability — managing context windows at scale, avoiding context degradation in long-running agentic systems, and designing for reliability under real-world conditions

Each practice question comes with a full explanation of the correct answer and why the other options fall short architecturally, not just factually.

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