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CCCA Prep

Claude Certified Architect: Foundations

Learn it, then prove it

A hands-on course of 20 learn-by-doing lessons plus 155 practice questions across all five competency domains, weighted to the real blueprint. Work through the course, drill a domain, then take a full timed mock exam.

Questions

60 multiple-choice

Time limit

120 minutes

Format

Closed-book, proctored

Scoring

0 to 1000 scale

Exam blueprint & your progress

Agentic Architecture & Orchestration

Multi-agent systems, orchestration patterns, fallback loop design, and error recovery.

27%

16 of 60

No attempts yet in this domain.

Claude Code Configuration & Workflows

CLAUDE.md configuration, hooks, skills, plugins, and MCP server setup inside Claude Code.

20%

12 of 60

No attempts yet in this domain.

Prompt Engineering & Structured Output

System prompts, prefilling, XML-tagged inputs, chain-of-thought steering, and structured output.

20%

12 of 60

No attempts yet in this domain.

Tool Design & MCP Integration

Designing tool schemas, building MCP servers, and client-server communication patterns.

18%

11 of 60

No attempts yet in this domain.

Context Management & Reliability

Context window management, token budgeting, RAG architectures, and prompt caching.

15%

9 of 60

No attempts yet in this domain.