The Complete Claude Certified Architect (CCAR-F) Course - All 12 Lessons in One Video
UPDATE (July 2026): Anthropic renamed this certification. CCA-F is now CCAR-F (Claude Certified Architect - Foundations), one of four Claude certifications. Proctoring moved to Pearson VUE, the fee is $125, retakes are now allowed (14/30/90-day waits, up to 4 per year), and the credential is valid for 12 months with a free on-time renewal. The five domains and their weights are unchanged, so everything taught in this course still applies.
This course covers the Foundations architect exam (now called CCAR-F). Going for the Professional tier? There's a full free CCAR-P course here: • CCAR-P Exam Prep: Claude Certified Archite...
It covers what Foundations never tests: RAG pipeline design, governance and compliance, eval engineering, and defending your architecture to the people who sign off on it.
The entire Claude Certified Architect – Foundations (CCA-F) prep course in one video — all 12 lessons, ~1h50m. Watch start to finish, or jump to a domain with the chapters below. Same 12-part series, combined for one-sitting study.
What's inside — the 5 exam domains, the 6 scenarios, and exam-day strategy:
• Domain 1 (27%) — Agentic architecture & orchestration: the agentic loop, coordinators & subagents, hooks/enforcement/session state
• Domain 2 (18%) — Tool design & MCP integration
• Domain 3 (20%) — Configuring Claude Code (CLAUDE.md, commands, permissions) + plan mode and Claude Code in CI
• Domain 4 (20%) — Prompt engineering (explicit criteria + few-shot) + structured output (JSON schemas, validation, retry)
• Domain 5 (15%) — Context management & reliability
• All 6 exam scenarios, dissected — one worked question each
• Exam strategy — distractor anatomy, time budget, the 900 practice target
⏱ Chapters
0:00 Intro — the CCA-F exam, decoded
8:51 Domain 1a — The Agentic Loop
17:20 Domain 1b — Coordinators & Subagents (Multi-Agent)
27:12 Domain 1c — Hooks, Enforcement & Session State
37:06 Domain 2 — Tool Design & MCP Integration
48:18 Domain 3a — Configuring Claude Code (CLAUDE.md, commands, permissions)
58:56 Domain 3b — Plan Mode & Claude Code in CI
1:09:52 Domain 4a — Prompt Engineering (criteria + few-shot)
1:18:56 Domain 4b — Structured Output (schemas, validation, retry)
1:27:38 Domain 5 — Context Management & Reliability
1:37:26 All 6 Exam Scenarios, Dissected
1:44:56 Exam Strategy & Finale
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Honesty note: the public exam guide details Domain 1 only; Domains 2–5 are mapped from official Anthropic / Claude Code docs (kept to what they actually say). The exam is currently partner-gated ($99, one attempt); Anthropic has announced broader developer certifications later in 2026. This course gets you ready for day one.
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