Claude Certified Architect — Foundations

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About this app

A free study guide for Anthropic's Claude Certified Architect – Foundations exam. Covers five exam domains with deep lessons, exam-style scenario questions, sprint quizzes (10 Q / 20 min), full mock exams (60 Q / 120 min), and reference material. No sign-up.

Five exam domains covered

  1. Agentic Architecture & Orchestration (27%) — agentic loops, stop_reason, orchestration patterns, multi-agent systems, subagents, guardrails, failure modes.
  2. Claude Code Configuration & Workflows (20%) — CLAUDE.md hierarchy, .claudeignore, skills, slash commands, subagents, hooks, CI/CD.
  3. Prompt Engineering & Structured Output (20%) — prompt fundamentals, few-shot, chain-of-thought, extended thinking, structured output via tool use, evaluation, prompt caching.
  4. Tool Design & MCP Integration (18%) — tool design principles, MCP architecture (host/client/server), transports, production patterns.
  5. Context Management & Reliability (15%) — context window management, RAG, hybrid retrieval, independent review, cost, latency, escalation.

What's inside

  • Deep lesson content with numbered subsections, worked examples, analogies, and key concept summaries
  • Exam Traps and Practice Scenarios at the end of every lesson
  • Sprint quiz mode (10 questions in 20 minutes)
  • Full mock exam mode (60 questions in 120 minutes, scaled 100–1000)
  • Six production scenarios that all exam questions anchor to
  • Eight strategy principles for distractor elimination
  • Glossary of exam-critical terms
  • Foundations section for anyone new to Claude, LLMs, tools, agents, and MCP