Claude Certified Architect Foundations: Complete Course

Send your first Claude API request and interpret its essential parameters and response fields.

Maintain conversational context by sending previous messages with each new API request.

Create reusable helper functions and a continuous chat loop for managing Claude conversations.

Control Claude’s behavior using system prompts, clear rules, and application-level safeguards.

Configure models and generation settings to produce more predictable and task-appropriate responses.

Build a repeatable workflow for testing prompts against representative inputs and expected results.

Evaluate Claude outputs using automated checks, model-based grading, and human review.

Improve response quality with direct instructions, explicit constraints, and structured XML prompts.

Learn how retrieval-augmented generation supplies relevant information before Claude produces an answer.

Guide Claude with clear success criteria and carefully selected examples of expected outputs.

Define tool schemas, control tool selection, and implement your first tool-calling workflow.

Generate consistent structured data using tool calls, JSON schemas, and explicit tool selection.

Improve reliability with validation rules, retry logic, confidence checks, and human oversight.

Process multiple inputs efficiently and improve results through staged generation and review.

Build a ShopAssist workflow that converts customer return messages into validated structured data.

Implement the complete loop for receiving tool requests, executing functions, and returning results to Claude.

Create focused tools with clear schemas and structured errors that Claude can interpret and recover from.

Configure tool permissions, built-in capabilities, and MCP servers for secure system access.

Connect ShopAssist to backend tools and MCP services for real-world task execution.

Create a coordinator that assigns tasks to specialized subagents and provides the required context.

Break complex goals into smaller tasks and control execution with hooks, gates, and handoff rules.

Manage persistent state, parallel branches, temporary notes, and workflows with large context requirements.

Transform ShopAssist into an agentic system that delegates, coordinates, and completes multi-step tasks.

Configure project instructions, reusable rules, and memory to guide Claude Code across development tasks.

Manage long coding sessions using resume, compact, forks, and scratchpads.

Use commands, reusable skills, plan mode, and iterative refinement to improve coding workflows.

Integrate Claude Code into CI/CD pipelines and use independent review to detect issues before deployment.

Review the core reliability patterns and connect them to the exam domains and production scenarios.