Independent preparation · Claude Certified Architect – Foundations
Everything the exam guide asks for, built.
Anthropic publishes 30 task statements, six production scenarios and four preparation exercises. There is no official practice exam and no official question bank. This course fills that gap.
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Why this course exists
“I built this course to study for the CCAR‑F exam, and to pass it.”
I study from it myself, so I keep it current. When Anthropic changes Claude, the lessons change with it.
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What one purchase gets
Everything, for as long as this exam version runsLessons
One per official task statement. All 30 covered, none skipped, weighted the way the exam weights them.
Practice questions
Every one written for this course from the syllabus, each set inside one of the six production scenarios.
Reference tabs
The exact names, values, defaults and limits, pulled out of the lessons to look up while working.
Hands-on labs
The exam guide's four preparation exercises, run in Claude Code on the web, with what each step shows and what it means.
Recorded audio tracks
Every lesson and every Revision sheet is recorded, in two different voices, so the whole course can be studied by listening. The page and its audio are one text.
Scenarios per mock exam
Each sitting draws four of the six scenarios, as the real exam does, at the real domain weighting.
Go deeper lists
Every lesson ends with where to read further: Anthropic's documentation, articles, talks, courses and code on that topic.
Resources, by exam domain
A Resources page maps the official courses, documentation, videos, audio and code to the five exam domains.
Why study from this course
What it gives beyond the exam guideMock exams set the way the real exam is set
A full mock is 60 questions in 120 minutes, drawn from four of the six production scenarios at the exam's domain weighting, and scored on its 100 to 1,000 scale against the 720 pass mark. The result is broken down by domain, so the next hour of study goes where the score is weakest.
Every answer explains every option
Each of the 331 questions explains why the right answer is right and why each wrong option is wrong. A wrong answer shows which idea was misread, not only that it was wrong.
Current Claude, not the Claude the guide was written for
The pages each lesson cites are checked again on a schedule, and when Anthropic changes one, the lesson changes with it. Where the exam guide and the current product disagree, the lesson teaches the current behaviour and marks the answer the exam guide expects.
Every fact leads back to Anthropic's own page
Each fact in a lesson carries a numbered source that links to the Anthropic page it comes from, and every drill answer agrees with that documentation. Any sentence can be checked against the original in one click.
Study by reading or by listening
Every lesson and Revision sheet is recorded, 60 tracks in two voices. While a track plays, the page keeps the paragraph being read on screen and marks it, so reading and listening run together.
Errors are found, fixed and dated in public
Each lesson was checked separately from its writing, and the four labs were run, not only written. A lab run showed a lesson was wrong about what stops a subagent starting. That fix, and every other, is dated in What changed.
The latest corrections
Read all 38 in What changed →defer_loading with cache_control on one tool: the tool search page says the API returns a 400, the tool reference page says the properties compose. The Reference tab now says so.Written from two sources
- The Claude Certified Architect – Foundations Exam Guide v1.0, which Anthropic publishes openly.
- Anthropic's public documentation: the API, Agent SDK, Claude Code and MCP references, and the engineering blog.
Every linked resource is Anthropic's own or openly licensed. Nothing is recommended because of an affiliate arrangement.
And never from
- The exam itself. No question here came from a real exam, and none ever will.
- Any other question bank, free or paid, official or otherwise.
- Anthropic's Academy course material. Not adapted, not summarised, not consulted.
- Exam brain-dump sites. That material is stolen, and using it puts a credential at risk.
Up to date when you renew
- The credential lasts 12 months. Keeping it means passing an assessment again each year, and Claude will have moved on by then.
- The course is updated often. When Anthropic changes the product, the lessons, Revision sheets, drills and audio are updated to match.
- Every update is dated in What changed. A returning reader can read only what is new since their last visit, instead of the whole course again.
One payment
US$79, yours permanently
Not a subscription. Free updates for the life of this exam version. A 30-day refund with no conditions. The exam itself costs US$125.