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Claude Certified Architect Foundations Exam Prep

Published by O'Reilly Media, Inc.

Intermediate content levelIntermediate

Architecture patterns and exam strategy for Anthropic's first certification

What you’ll learn and how you can apply it

  • Design production-grade Claude integrations using the five-domain CCA-F exam blueprint
  • Apply context-management and tool-use patterns to enterprise architecture scenarios
  • Differentiate Claude Code, API, and Agent SDK deployment paths for production workloads
  • Demonstrate exam-day strategy for the CCA-F multiple-choice format

Course description

Anthropic launched the Claude Certified Architect – Foundations exam in March 2026 as its first official technical certification. The exam validates a candidate’s ability to design and deploy production Claude integrations across five domains: Foundations, Tools and MCP, Claude Code, Prompt Engineering, and Context Management. As this certification approaches general availability, professionals working with Claude in production need an exam-aligned preparation pathway that doesn’t exist anywhere else in the live training market.

Jacob Bushong distills the complete CCA-F exam blueprint into architectural patterns, exam-strategy technique, and live coaching. You’ll engage in hands-on exercises for real production scenarios: context-window management at enterprise scale, MCP server design, tool-use orchestration, prompt engineering trade-offs, and Claude Code workflow architecture. Finish ready to sit for the CCA-F exam with confidence and apply Claude architecturally in your own production environments.

This live event is for you because...

  • You’re a solutions architect or technical lead deploying Claude in production environments.
  • You work with LLM-based applications and want a recognized Anthropic credential.
  • You want to become CCA-F-certified before general-availability competition arrives.

Prerequisites

  • An Anthropic API account with available credits (free tier is sufficient, pro tier ideal)
  • A recent version of Claude Code installed (optional, used for demo)
  • Two months working with the Claude API or basic LLM application development
  • General software architecture experience (REST APIs, deployment patterns)
  • No prior CCA-F study required

Recommended preparation:

Read the CCA-F exam blueprint (publicly available)

Course Follow-Up:

Schedule

The time frames are only estimates and may vary according to how the class is progressing.

CCA-F exam overview and Domain 1—foundations (60 minutes)

  • Presentation: Exam structure; Anthropic certification roadmap; Claude model family; context windows; model trade-offs
  • Group discussion: Pricing versus capability decision framework
  • Hands-on exercise: Match scenarios to model choices
  • Q&A
  • Break

Tools, MCP, and Claude Code (65 minutes)

  • Presentation: Tool-use orchestration patterns and trade-offs; MCP server architecture and security considerations
  • Hands-on exercise: Design a tool-use flow for a multistep task
  • Group discussion: Claude Code in agentic workflows
  • Q&A
  • Break

Prompt engineering and context management (65 minutes)

  • Presentation: Prompt engineering for production reliability; context preservation patterns at scale
  • Hands-on exercise: Refactor a brittle prompt for production
  • Group discussion: Caching strategies and cost optimization
  • Q&A
  • Break

Exam strategy (50 minutes)

  • Presentation: Multiple-choice technique, time management, distractors; live exam-style practice questions with full explanations; final exam-day preparation
  • Q&A

Your Instructor

  • Jacob Bushong

    Jacob Bushong is a Claude practitioner and certification training specialist who has spent the last two years applying Claude to solve real production problems at enterprise scale. He architected and operates an end-to-end Claude-powered production system that assists in building complete certification courses, orchestrating fleets of AI agents through complex multistage pipelines that compress into days work that is normally measured in months. He’s the creator of the first complete Claude Certified Architect — Foundations exam prep course on the market. His independent catalog spans 18 certification training programs across the ISACA family (CISA, CRISC, CISM, CDPSE, CGEIT), foundational technology certs (IT Audit, IT Risk, Cybersecurity Fundamentals), and the newly launched AI certification cluster (AAIA, AAIR, AAISM, AIGP).

Skill covered

QA / Testing