Claude Certified Architect — Foundations

Study for the CCA exam, and pick up where you left off.

A full study guide, 100 practice questions, 51 flashcards, and a timed 60-question mock exam — all tied to an account, so a half-finished exam is still waiting for you tomorrow.

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Questions: 60
Time limit: 120 min
Passing score: 720/1000
Domains: 5

Study tools

Study guide

5 domains

A domain-by-domain walkthrough of everything the blueprint covers, written to be read start to finish.

Scenario quizzes

100 questions

Practice by domain with immediate feedback, explanations, and a link to the docs for anything you miss.

Mock exam

120 minutes

A 60-question timed simulation with domain-weighted sampling, a question palette, and a scored breakdown.

Flashcards

51 cards

Fast recall drilling on the facts that decide close questions. Filter by domain; the deck remembers what you know.

Cheat sheet

29 entries · 27 anti-patterns

The parameters, limits, and code shapes worth memorising, plus the anti-patterns that show up as distractors.

Exam overview

5 minutes

Format, scoring, domain weights, and who the exam is aimed at — read this before you plan your study.

Exam domains

D1
Agentic Architecture & Orchestration
Choosing between a single call, a workflow, and an agent; the tool-use loop; sub-agents; session and state design.
27%
D2
Tool Design & MCP Integration
Writing tool schemas and descriptions, scoping the tool surface, server vs client tools, and wiring MCP servers.
18%
D3
Claude Code Configuration & Workflows
CLAUDE.md, settings and permissions, hooks, skills, sub-agents, and putting Claude Code into CI.
20%
D4
Prompt Engineering & Structured Output
System prompts, examples, structured outputs, strict tool schemas, effort and thinking, and the Batch API.
20%
D5
Context Management & Reliability
Prompt caching, compaction, context editing, memory, error handling, stop reasons, and retries.
15%