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Claude Certified Architect Boot Camp

For architects who design Claude solutions and need the CCAR-F credential plus the reasoning behind the architecture choices.

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5 Domains

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Three Days. Design Decisions, Not Demos. New Exam. Proven Prep.

For architects who design Claude solutions and need the CCAR-F credential plus the reasoning behind the architecture choices.

Program Abstract

REF: CCAR-F 5
Curriculum aligned to the latest Exam Outline.
Format Live, Instructor-Led
Duration 3

Architecture Questions, Not Trivia.

CCAR-F tests whether you can choose between a workflow and an agent, size a context window, draw a tool boundary and design for failure recovery. Those are judgement calls, and they are hard to learn from a document. Three days of worked decisions, weighted to Anthropic’s published domains, with a full mock exam at the end.

Built From the Blueprint.

We build to Anthropic’s published exam domains and weightings, not to a guess. Class time is allocated in proportion to what the exam actually tests.

Exam Prep Built From 25 Years.

We have been getting people through certification exams since 1999. The certification is new. Knowing how people pass exams is not.

250,000 Certified Since 1999.

ISC2, ISACA, CompTIA, Microsoft, Cisco, AWS, EC-Council. We have run exam prep through a lot of vendor launches, and we know what a first-generation exam looks like.

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Certification specialists

Built From the Exam Blueprint

Training Camp has certified more than 250,000 professionals since 1999. This course is built domain by domain against Anthropic’s published CCAR-F exam guide.

All five domains covered

All Five Domains, Three Days

Agentic architecture and orchestration, Claude Code configuration, prompt architecture, tool design and MCP, and context management. Weighted as the exam weights them.

Scenario work and mock exam

Scenario Work, Then a Mock

CCAR-F is built as four scenarios drawn from a bank of six, so class runs the same way: extended situations, closing with a full-length mock and readiness review.

Architecture judgement

Design Decisions, Not Demos

The exam tests judgement: when an agent loop earns its cost, where a tool boundary belongs, how to size context, and what happens when a long agent run fails.

Live online or in person

Live Online or In Person

Join a live online cohort from anywhere, or attend in a classroom. Same instructor, same labs and the same full-length mock exam either way.

Courseware kept current

Current With a Moving Target

Claude’s agentic surfaces changed substantially this year, and patterns that were right eighteen months ago are not what the exam tests now. Courseware tracks it.

Claude Certified Architect – Foundations (CCAR-F) Prep Boot Camp

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    COURSE STRUCTURE

    Claude Certified Architect – Foundations
    Syllabus

    A structured path designed for working professionals.
    Each day builds on the last—momentum is everything.

    MODULE_ID: PREP

    Live Training QS: ~5
    BEFORE CLASS
    Critical Path

    Orient First

    Pre-read on Claude’s current model line-up and context behaviour
    L.prep.1
    Orientation on the agentic surfaces the exam assumes
    L.prep.2
    Lab environment and Claude Code access released on enrollment
    L.prep.3
    Skills check so day one starts at architecture
    L.prep.4
    Roughly six months building with Claude in a real context
    L.prep.5
    Hands-on time with the Agent SDK and Claude Code
    L.prep.6
    Familiarity with MCP tool and resource interfaces
    L.prep.7
    Comfort reading and designing system architecture
    L.prep.8

    MODULE_ID: CCAR-F-01

    Live Training QS: ~5
    DAY ONE
    Critical Path

    Agentic Architecture and Orchestration

    Loop lifecycle and stop_reason: tool_use versus end_turn
    L.01.1
    Appending tool results so the model can reason on them
    L.01.2
    Model-driven decisions versus pre-configured tool sequences
    L.01.3
    Anti-patterns: parsing prose or capping iterations to stop
    L.01.4
    Hub-and-spoke: the coordinator owns routing and error handling
    L.01.5
    Subagents run on isolated context and inherit nothing
    L.01.6
    Task decomposition, delegation and result aggregation
    L.01.7
    Spawning subagents in parallel from one coordinator turn
    L.01.8

    MODULE_ID: CCAR-F-02

    Live Training QS: ~6
    DAY TWO
    Critical Path

    Tools, MCP and Claude Code

    Where a tool boundary belongs, and designing for routing
    L.02.1
    Tool descriptions that steer selection correctly
    L.02.2
    Structured MCP errors and error scoping
    L.02.3
    MCP server configuration and backend integration
    L.02.4
    The CLAUDE.md hierarchy and project configuration
    L.02.5
    Agent Skills, slash commands and plan mode
    L.02.6
    MCP server integration inside Claude Code
    L.02.7
    Team development workflows and settings.json
    L.02.8

    MODULE_ID: CCAR-F-03

    Live Training QS: ~6
    DAY THREE
    Critical Path

    Prompt Architecture, Structured Output, Context and Review

    Precision prompting and prompt architecture
    L.03.1
    Schema compliance through tool use
    L.03.2
    JSON schemas, few-shot examples and extraction patterns
    L.03.3
    Batch processing and multi-pass review
    L.03.4
    Sizing context across long documents and multi-agent handoffs
    L.03.5
    Long-running agents, state and memory
    L.03.6
    Escalation, human-in-the-loop and failure recovery
    L.03.7
    Full-length mock exam and per-domain readiness review
    L.03.8

    MODULE_ID: CCAR-F-04

    Live Training QS: ~7
    AFTER CLASS
    Critical Path

    Book It While It Is Fresh

    Per-domain readiness score against the published blueprint
    L.04.1
    Confirm your exam eligibility with Anthropic
    L.04.2
    Register and schedule through the Anthropic Partner Academy
    L.04.3
    Sit it while the material is still fresh
    L.04.4
    Roughly 135 minutes of total seat time once check-in is done
    L.04.5
    Delivered by Pearson VUE, test centre or online-proctored
    L.04.6
    A failed first attempt carries a 14-day wait, then 30, then 90
    L.04.7
    Maximum four attempts per exam in a rolling 12 months
    L.04.8
    COURSE PROGRESS Day 0 of 4
    DoD Cyber Workforce Framework

    All the Claude Architect Knowledge. Half the Time to Certification.

    Accelerated, instructor-led preparation for the CCAR-F exam, built from the published blueprint.

    Vulnerability Management Risk Assessment Communication & Network Security Security Operations Cryptography Business Continuity Access Control Models Incident Response Vulnerability Management Risk Assessment Communication & Network Security Security Operations Cryptography Business Continuity Access Control Models Incident Response
    Security & Risk Management Security Architecture Identity & Access Management Asset Security Network Protocols Software Development Security Security Assessment & Testing Governance & Compliance Security & Risk Management Security Architecture Identity & Access Management Asset Security Network Protocols Software Development Security Security Assessment & Testing Governance & Compliance
    DoD 8140 Requirements

    Beyond the Cert: Built for the Job

    Foundational qualification The certification you earn with us
    Residential qualification Hands-on labs prep you for the on-the-job readiness DoD 8140 requires within 12 months
    Continuous professional development CPE-eligible training to maintain qualification long after

    The credential, the capability, and the continued readiness — all in one boot camp.

    FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS

    Claude Certified Architect – Foundations
    Questions

    Real questions from real professionals who passed.
    Here's how we answer them.

    Directly from Anthropic, and only from Anthropic. They sell the Claude Certified Architect – Foundations exam themselves at $125 USD through the Anthropic Partner Academy, and that is where you register, pay and schedule it. Training Camp does not sell, resell or bundle the exam, and no voucher is included in this course. Anthropic owns the exam; we teach the preparation. The course price is instruction only, which is why it sits below what a bundled boot camp costs.

    Currently, yes. Anthropic restricts certification registration to eligible individuals at organizations participating in the Claude Partner Network, and requires a company-domain email address. Final eligibility is determined by Anthropic, not by us. We have no part in that process: we cannot register you, sponsor you, or influence the decision either way. You are welcome to take this course regardless – the material stands on its own as Claude skills training – but confirm your eligibility with Anthropic first if sitting the exam is the point of attending.

    No. This is independent exam preparation built by Training Camp. Anthropic publishes its own preparation curriculum through the Partner Academy, and we recommend using both. What we add is the classroom: a live instructor, a compressed schedule, and 25 years of experience working out how people actually pass certification exams.

    Anthropic uses a scaled score from 100 to 1,000, with 720 required to pass. A 720 scaled score does not mean 72% of questions correct – Anthropic does not publish a raw-score conversion, and scaled scoring accounts for question difficulty. Treat the number as a threshold, not a percentage.

    60 questions, 120 minutes, multiple choice and multiple response. Anthropic builds it as 4 scenarios drawn from a bank of 6, so you are reasoning inside an extended situation rather than answering standalone questions. Plan for roughly 135 minutes of total seat time once check-in, ID verification and instructions are accounted for. It is delivered through Pearson VUE, either at a testing centre or online-proctored. Agentic Architecture and Orchestration is the heaviest domain at 27%, with Claude Code and Prompt Engineering at 20% each.

    Anthropic enforces escalating waiting periods: 14 days after a first failed attempt, 30 days after a second, and 90 days after a third, with a maximum of four attempts per exam in a rolling 12-month period. Retakes are charged at the applicable exam fee. That waiting period is the real cost of an unprepared attempt, and it is the main reason structured preparation is worth the time.

    Twelve months from the date you earn it. Anthropic currently offers a renewal path for candidates who renew before expiry, which may include reviewing what has changed in Claude and completing a free non-proctored renewal assessment. If you let it lapse, you generally re-sit the full proctored exam and pay the fee again. Diary the date.

    That is exactly the problem this course exists to solve. Claude ships new models, new API surfaces and new tooling on a cadence no printed study guide keeps up with. We maintain the courseware against Anthropic’s published exam blueprint and the current API, and we teach the parts that are stable – architecture, evaluation, context handling, security – separately from the parts that move. You will be told which is which.

    It is the reason to take a class rather than self-study. These exams launched in 2026, so there is no back catalogue of books, no decade of forum threads, and a lot of what is circulating online is guesswork. We work from Anthropic’s published domain weightings and build the class around them. When we do not know something, we say so rather than filling the gap.

    See the audience section above for the specific expectation. In general these are not beginner AI courses – Anthropic pitches them at working professionals, and the exams assume you have used Claude in a real context. If you are unsure whether you are ready, talk to us before you book.

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    Articles and Certification Resources

    Claude Certified Architect – Foundations
    & Resources

    The Claude certifications launched in 2026, so there is no back catalogue of study guides yet. These cover the ground around the exam: agentic application security, the AI certification landscape, and how to work from a published blueprint.

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