CCAF Certification Prep

intermediate 8 hours

Claude Certified Architect Foundations exam prep — 5 modules, 24 lessons across agentic architecture, tool design, Claude Code, prompt engineering, and reliability. Module quizzes plus a 30-question final exam. 192 practice questions. Earn the 'CCAF Study Complete' badge.

Course Modules

Module 1: Agentic Architecture & Orchestration

Domain 1 (27% of CCAF exam). The agentic loop, multi-agent orchestration, subagent context, programmatic enforcement, hooks, decomposition strategies, and session management.

Module 2: Tool Design & MCP Integration

Domain 2 (18% of CCAF exam). Effective tool descriptions, structured error responses, tool distribution and tool_choice, MCP server configuration, and built-in tools.

Module 3: Claude Code Configuration & Workflows

Domain 3 (20% of CCAF exam). CLAUDE.md hierarchy, custom slash commands and skills, path-specific rules, plan mode vs direct execution, and Claude Code in CI/CD.

Module 4: Prompt Engineering & Structured Output

Domain 4 (20% of CCAF exam). Explicit criteria over vague instructions, few-shot prompting, structured output via tool_use, validation and retry feedback loops, batch processing, and multi-pass review.

Module 5: Prompt Engineering & Structured Output

Domain 4 (20% of CCAF exam). Explicit criteria over vague instructions, few-shot prompting, structured output via tool_use, validation and retry feedback loops, batch processing, and multi-pass review.

Module 6: Context Management & Reliability

Domain 5 (15% of CCAF exam). Conversation context management, escalation decision making, error propagation in multi-agent systems, large codebase exploration, human review workflows, and information provenance.