Anthropic Official Certification

    Claude Certified Architect

    Foundations — solution architects building production applications with Claude

    A free, open-source 42-video course that takes you from zero to passing the Claude Certified Architect — Foundations exam. Every video maps 1:1 to an official exam task statement, with runnable demo code you can commit to your own portfolio.

    Exam at a glance

    Format
    Scenario MCQ
    Pass score
    720 / 1000
    Series
    42 videos
    Time
    ~12 hours

    You'll sit 4 scenarios drawn at random from 6. No penalty for guessing. Free for the first 5,000 Anthropic partner employees.

    Five domains, 30 task statements

    Every video maps to one or more of these.

    27%

    Agentic Architecture & Orchestration

    Agentic loops, subagents, hooks, sessions.

    20%

    Claude Code Configuration & Workflows

    CLAUDE.md, rules, skills, plan mode, CI/CD.

    20%

    Prompt Engineering & Structured Output

    Few-shot, JSON schemas, validation loops, batches.

    18%

    Tool Design & MCP Integration

    Tool descriptions, scopes, MCP servers, built-in tools.

    15%

    Context Management & Reliability

    Case facts, escalation, provenance, confidence.

    Eight modules

    Click any module to open it in the GitHub repo.

    0
    Module 0
    2 videos

    Orientation

    1
    Module 1
    8 videos

    Agentic Architecture

    2
    Module 2
    6 videos

    Tool Design & MCP

    3
    Module 3
    6 videos

    Claude Code Configuration

    4
    Module 4
    6 videos

    Prompt Engineering

    5
    Module 5
    5 videos

    Context & Reliability

    6
    Module 6
    6 videos

    Scenario Capstones

    7
    Module 7
    3 videos

    Exam Strategy & Mock

    What you'll master

    • Build correct agentic loops using stop_reason, not assistant text
    • Design coordinator–subagent multi-agent systems
    • Write MCP tools with structured error responses
    • Configure CLAUDE.md, .claude/rules/, skills, and slash commands
    • Extract structured data with JSON schemas and validation-retry loops
    • Manage context and preserve provenance across long sessions
    • Integrate Claude Code into CI/CD pipelines with -p and JSON output
    • Recognise the four exam distractor shapes on sight

    Six exam scenarios

    On exam day, 4 of these 6 will be drawn at random. Module 6 has a capstone for each.

    1. 1Customer Support Resolution Agent
    2. 2Code Generation with Claude Code
    3. 3Multi-Agent Research System
    4. 4Developer Productivity with Claude
    5. 5Claude Code for CI/CD
    6. 6Structured Data Extraction

    Ready to start?

    All code is MIT-licensed. All scripts are CC BY 4.0. Fork it, run it, ship it.

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    How our prep works

    1

    Learn

    Short, focused videos mapped 1:1 to each exam task statement.

    2

    Build

    Every module ends with a hands-on project you can commit to your portfolio.

    3

    Rehearse

    Sit a 60-question mock built in the same format as the real exam.

    4

    Pass

    Walk into the exam confident — and have a GitHub-public portfolio to show.