A curated list of resources for the Claude Certified Architect – Foundations (CCA-F) exam — study guides, practice questions, the official domains, and tooling.
The CCA-F exam validates your ability to design, build, and operate production systems with Claude: agentic architectures, Claude Code workflows, prompt engineering, tool/MCP integration, and reliable context management.
This list is community-maintained and not affiliated with Anthropic. Contributions welcome — see Contributing.
- Exam Overview
- The Five Domains
- Practice & Mock Exams
- Study Guides
- Official Anthropic Docs
- Tooling
- Communities
- Contributing
The CCA-F is the foundations-level certification for architecting solutions with Claude. It is scenario-driven — questions present a setup and ask for the right design decision, not rote recall. The exam draws from five weighted domains.
| # | Domain | Weight | What it covers |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Agentic Architecture & Orchestration (AAO) | 27% | Designing agent loops, multi-agent orchestration, tool-use control flow, when to fan out vs. keep a single context |
| 2 | Claude Code Configuration & Workflows (CCW) | 20% | Configuring Claude Code, hooks, slash commands, MCP servers, settings, agent SDK |
| 3 | Prompt Engineering & Structured Output (PESO) | 20% | System prompts, structured/JSON output, schemas, few-shot, output reliability |
| 4 | Tool Design & MCP Integration (TDMI) | 18% | Designing tools, the Model Context Protocol, tool schemas, integration patterns |
| 5 | Context Management & Reliability (CMR) | 15% | Context windows, caching, retries, graceful degradation, cost/latency control |
AAO alone is more than a quarter of the exam — but every domain is tested, so don't skip any.
- Brevyn — 200+ free scenario questions across all five
domains and 2 full mock exams (no card required). Pro tier adds unlimited mock
runs, adaptive practice, analytics, and AI-generated questions on demand.
- Free exam guide — domain breakdown and weights
- Sample questions — one per domain, with explanations
Building a CCA-F practice resource? Open a PR to add it here.
- Brevyn Exam Guide — free, covers each domain and its weight, plus how to allocate study time.
These map directly to the exam domains — read them alongside any practice resource.
- Claude Docs — the canonical reference
- Building with the Claude API
- Tool use (TDMI)
- Model Context Protocol (TDMI)
- Claude Code (CCW)
- Prompt engineering (PESO)
- Context windows & prompt caching (CMR)
- Agent SDK (AAO)
- Claude Code — Anthropic's agentic CLI (heavily featured in the CCW domain)
- MCP servers — reference Model Context Protocol servers
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