Architect track · Issued by Anthropic
Claude Certified Architect – Foundations
The architecture track. You learn to choose between patterns — RAG, tools, agents, workflows — and to justify the choice on cost, latency, reliability, and risk, exactly as the CCAR-F exam asks. Study async, around your job.
What the exam tests
System design at the prompt layer, structured output, and long-context strategy.
Chunking, embeddings, hybrid retrieval, grounding, and when not to use RAG.
Tool boundaries, schema quality, and MCP server architecture.
Agent SDK patterns, subagents, coordinators, and failure containment.
Repo-level configuration, skills, and automation as an architectural asset.
Eval design, tracing, and knowing when a system has regressed.
Injection defence, data boundaries, and cost/latency trade-offs.
Action plan
Lessons drop on Monday, the guided lab opens Wednesday, optional office hours run Friday and are recorded. Build challenges are self-paced, so you can fit the work around your job and still be ready for the exam.
Week 1
Foundations
Lessons
Lab
Draft a reference architecture for a document-heavy assistant.
Practice
Daily: 15 blueprint-mapped questions.
Week 2
Tools and MCP
Lessons
Lab
Design and review an MCP surface for a multi-team platform.
Practice
Daily: tools and MCP drill.
Week 3
Retrieval and Claude Code
Lessons
Lab
Build and measure a RAG pipeline, then argue against it.
Practice
Daily: 20 retrieval and Claude Code questions.
Week 4
Agents and evaluation
Lessons
Lab
Build a coordinator-agent system with an eval harness.
Practice
First full timed mock exam, 60 items in 120 minutes.
Week 5
Exam prep
Lessons
Lab
Group practice exam with live debrief on every missed item.
Practice
Readiness check, then book your CCAR-F seat.
What you get
Who it's for
Prerequisites — Solid engineering background; CCDV-F-level familiarity with the Claude API helps but is not required.
Support
One optional hour every Friday with a certified instructor: lab walkthroughs, CCAR-F blueprint questions and exam strategy. Every session is recorded and posted the same day, so attendance is never required.
A private CCAR-F channel for your cohort-free group. Post any question or doubt, share code and screenshots, and get a reply from an instructor within one working day — usually much sooner.
Every guided lab ships with a starter repo, a worked solution and a review thread. Stuck on an exercise or a mock exam item? Drop it in the channel and we walk through the reasoning, not just the answer.
FAQs
All 7 domains of the Anthropic CCAR-F blueprint, across five weeks: Claude API and prompt engineering; Retrieval and RAG; Tools and MCP design; Agents and orchestration; Claude Code and Agent Skills; Evaluation and observability; Security, safety, and cost. Lessons drop on Monday each week and stay available on demand, so you can move faster or slower than the suggested pace and fit studying around your job.
One guided lab opens every Wednesday with a starter repo, a worked solution and a review thread. Build challenges are fully self-paced. Labs run in your own environment and mirror the scenarios the CCAR-F exam tests, so hands-on practice maps directly to exam items.
One optional hour every Friday with a certified instructor: lab walkthroughs, blueprint questions and exam strategy for CCAR-F. Every session is recorded and posted the same day, so attendance is never required.
A private CCAR-F support channel is open around the clock. Post any question or doubt — with code, screenshots or mock exam items — and an instructor replies within one working day, usually much sooner.
The five-week training and certification prep is $99, covering all lessons, labs, timed mock exams, flashcards, office hours, channel support and lifetime access with free blueprint refreshes. Bundles bring it down: $149 for any two courses or $249 for all four together. Applying is free — you're only invoiced if your application is approved.
No. The CCAR-F exam fee of $125 is paid by you directly to Anthropic when you book the exam. The 720 to pass / 1000 passing score earns you the credential, valid for 12-mo validity.
Fees
Covers the full five-week CCAR-F training and certification prep — all lessons, labs, mock exams, office hours and channel support, with lifetime access and free refreshes.
The CCAR-F exam fee of $125 is not included and is paid by the candidate directly to Anthropic when booking the exam.
Bundles: $149 for any two courses, or $249 for all four tracks together.
Applying is free. You're only invoiced if your application is approved.
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