Claude Certified Architect (CCA-F) is Anthropic’s certification for professionals who design and ship production-grade applications with Claude — covering agentic systems, the Model Context Protocol (MCP), Claude Code, and reliable prompt engineering. The exam is scenario-based: instead of testing trivia, it places you inside real production situations and asks you to make the same architectural judgment calls a working Claude solutions architect faces every day.
This course is a complete, hands-on preparation program built domain by domain against the official exam blueprint. Every concept is explained first, then applied through code walkthroughs, real configuration examples, and worked exam-style scenario questions, so you finish each section able to both explain the concept and apply it.
You will start with the fundamentals of the agentic loop and the stop reason field, then move into multi-agent coordinator architectures, subagent context passing, and session management. From there the course covers tool design and MCP integration in depth — writing tool descriptions that avoid misrouting, handling tool and agent errors correctly, and configuring MCP servers so they work consistently across a team. A full module is dedicated to Claude Code itself: the CLAUDE hierarchy, custom slash commands and skills, Plan Mode versus direct execution, and integrating Claude Code into CI/CD pipelines.
