Claude Certified Architect - Foundations (CCA-F) 2026

The Claude Certified Architect – Foundations (CCA-F) is Anthropic's first official technical credential — a closed-book, scenario-based exam that tests whether you can make the right architectural decisions when designing and shipping production-grade Claude systems at enterprise scale. It's not a recall test. Every question places you inside a real design situation and asks you to choose the best architectural response, which is exactly why practicing with realistic, scenario-driven questions matters more here than for a typical multiple-choice exam.

This course gives you full-length practice tests built around the CCA-F exam blueprint, covering every domain candidates are expected to master:

• Agentic Architecture & Orchestration — multi-agent orchestration patterns, hub-and-spoke coordination, agent lifecycle hooks, and designing systems that scale beyond a single agent

• Tool Design & MCP Integration — building and configuring MCP servers, setting tool boundaries and resources, structured error handling, and designing interoperable tool interfaces across agents

• Claude Code Configuration & Workflows — CLAUDE .md project configuration, Agent Skills, plan mode, slash commands, and integrating Claude Code into CI/CD pipelines

• Prompt Engineering & Structured Output — context engineering for production systems, JSON schema design, and reliable structured extraction patterns

• Context Management & Reliability — managing context windows at scale, avoiding context degradation in long-running agentic systems, and designing for reliability under real-world conditions

Each practice question comes with a full explanation of the correct answer and why the other options fall short architecturally, not just factually. That distinction matters: CCA-F is graded on architectural judgment, so this course is built to train that judgment through repetition, not memorization.

By the end of this course, you'll have worked through enough realistic scenarios to walk into the real CCA-F exam with a clear sense of how the questions are framed, where the architectural trade-offs typically lie, and which domains need more of your attention before exam day.