CCA-F Exam Study Guide
The Claude Certified Architect – Foundations exam tests your ability to design, build, and deploy effective AI systems using Claude. This guide covers all 5 domains with their official exam weights.
Practice with 1000+ Questions →Agentic Architecture
Design patterns for multi-agent systems, orchestration strategies, memory management, and error recovery in agentic workflows.
- ·Orchestrator vs. subagent patterns
- ·Memory types: in-context, external, procedural
- ·Tool use and parallel execution
- ·Error handling and fallback strategies
- ·Human-in-the-loop integration
Tool Design & MCP
Building effective tools for Claude, Model Context Protocol (MCP) server design, and integrating external APIs and resources.
- ·Tool schema design best practices
- ·MCP server architecture
- ·Resource exposure and prompts in MCP
- ·Input validation and error responses
- ·Tool selection and disambiguation
Claude Code
Using Claude Code effectively for software engineering tasks, multi-file operations, testing, and CI/CD integration.
- ·Claude Code CLI capabilities and limitations
- ·CLAUDE.md configuration
- ·Multi-file editing and refactoring
- ·Test-driven development with Claude
- ·Hooks and automation
Prompt Engineering
Advanced prompting techniques, chain-of-thought, few-shot learning, system prompt design, and output formatting.
- ·XML tags and structured prompting
- ·Chain-of-thought and extended thinking
- ·Few-shot example selection
- ·System prompt architecture
- ·Reducing hallucination and improving accuracy
Context Management
Managing context windows efficiently, prompt caching, conversation design, and token optimization strategies.
- ·Context window limits and strategies
- ·Prompt caching and cache invalidation
- ·Conversation history management
- ·Summarization and compression techniques
- ·Token counting and cost optimization
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