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Claude Certified Architect — Foundations: Exam Prep
Duration
1 Day
Course
AICL-300
Available Formats
Classroom Training, Online Training
Course Description
Overview
This Claude Certified Architect — Foundations Exam Prep course is designed as the final preparation day for candidates who have completed hands-on practitioner training, spent time applying what they learned to real work, and are ready to sit for the certification exam. The day is built around the exam itself: its scenario-based format, its five weighted domains, and the specific judgment calls that distinguish a passing score from a near-miss. Rather than re-teaching material, this course delivers exam strategy, domain-weighted review targeted at the patterns most frequently tested, extensive scenario-based practice questions, a personal gap analysis, and a targeted study plan for the remaining days before the exam attempt.Candidates who have had two to four weeks of applied practice between the Practitioner course and this day consistently outperform candidates who attempt the exam immediately after training. The scenario-based questions on the exam are testing applied judgment — the kind of production instinct that forms only when patterns have been used in real work. This course is designed around that premise: you will arrive with real experience to draw on, and the day will sharpen that experience into exam-ready judgment.
Objectives
Upon completion of the Claude Certified Architect — Foundations Exam Prep course, students will be able to:
- Describe the exam format, scoring model, and scenario selection structure, and apply time-management and elimination strategies appropriate to scenario-based multiple choice
- Identify personal preparation gaps across all five exam domains using a structured scored gap analysis
- Apply exam-level judgment to scenario-based questions across all five domains, weighted to reflect their relative exam contribution
- Recognize the architectural patterns tested in each of the six certification exam scenarios and match the correct pattern to the scenario
- Develop a targeted personal study plan for the period between the course and the exam attempt
- Apply proven test-taking strategies for the CCA-F scenario-based question format under time pressure
Audience
Candidates preparing to sit for the Claude Certified Architect — Foundations certification exam who have completed hands-on practitioner training and applied that training to real work. The recommended path is Claude Practitioner for Developers followed by two to four weeks of applied practice before attending this course.
Prerequisites
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Completion of Claude Practitioner for Developers or equivalent hands-on experience with the Claude API, agentic architecture, MCP, Claude Code, and context management patterns. Candidates should have applied these patterns in real project or production work before attempting this course — this course assumes and builds on that applied experience rather than substituting for it.
Topics
- Exam Structure, Format, and Strategy
- Exam format: four scenarios selected from six, multiple choice, scaled scoring with 720 to pass
- How to read scenario-based questions for what is actually being asked
- Time management across scenarios and answer elimination strategies
- How domain weights translate into question distribution on the exam
- Personal Gap Analysis
- Scored diagnostic across all five exam domains
- Identifying strong domains, weak domains, and pattern-level blind spots
- Using the diagnostic to target the remainder of the day and post-course study
- How applied practice experience shapes gap analysis results differently than fresh-training experience
- Domain 1 Scenario Practice: Agentic Architecture and Orchestration (27%)
- Pattern recognition: agentic loop correctness, coordinator-subagent delegation, hook-based enforcement
- Scenario practice: Customer Support Resolution Agent
- Scenario practice: Multi-Agent Research System
- Debrief: the judgment calls that distinguish correct from plausible-but-wrong answers
- Domain 4 Scenario Practice: Prompt Engineering and Structured Output (20%)
- Pattern recognition: explicit criteria, few-shot design, schema design for edge cases, validation loops
- Scenario practice: Structured Data Extraction
- Debrief: recognizing when retry, escalation, or schema redesign is the right answer
- Domain 3 Scenario Practice: Claude Code Configuration and Workflows (20%)
- Pattern recognition: CLAUDE.md hierarchy, commands and skills, path rules, plan mode, CI/CD integration
- Scenario practice: Code Generation with Claude Code
- Scenario practice: Claude Code for Continuous Integration
- Debrief: configuration decisions that show up in the answer key
- Domain 2 Scenario Practice: Tool Design and MCP Integration (18%)
- Pattern recognition: tool interface design, structured error responses, tool distribution, tool_choice
- Scenario practice: Developer Productivity with Claude
- Debrief: diagnosing over-tooled and ambiguously-described tool sets under time pressure
- Domain 5 Integrated Review: Context Management and Reliability (15%)
- The five production failure patterns and how they appear in exam scenarios
- Integrated review across all six certification scenarios — context, escalation, and error propagation appear everywhere
- Debrief: why Domain 5 is the smallest weight but the most frequently overlooked
- Targeted Study Plan and Exam Logistics
- Building a personal study plan based on gap analysis results and remaining time before exam attempt
- Recommended practice resources for the final days before the exam
- Exam scheduling, environment, and final preparation strategy
- Day-of-exam strategy: what to do the morning of, during, and after
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