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Claude CCAR-F Boot Camp – CCAR-F: agents don't solve everything.

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Work through the trade-offs in 3 days.

Our 3-day Claude Certified Architect – Foundations (CCAR-F) training boot camp includes our courseware, hands-on labs and a full mock exam. Train live online or in person.

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5 Domains

Weighted to the Blueprint

Full Mock Exam

Per-Domain Readiness

Live online or in person. Same instructors.

Three Days. Architecture Decisions. Hands-on labs. 180-day support.

Three days of live, hands-on prep for CCAR-F, live online or in person with the same instructors, with our own courseware, lab environment and a full-length mock exam.

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 judgment 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.

Prerequisite

REQUIRES: Partner Approval for the Exam
Class Open to Anyone
Exam Partner Approval

Anyone Can Take the Class. The Exam Needs Approval.

You can take this class to learn Claude whether or not you plan to certify, and most people take it for the skills rather than the certificate. To sit the CCAR-F exam, you must be able to register through the official Anthropic Partner Academy portal using an approved partner work email. Anthropic sells and schedules the exam and decides who is eligible. No exam voucher is included.

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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.

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Built From the Exam Blueprint

Training Camp courseware built domain by domain on Anthropic’s CCAR-F exam guide, and kept current as Claude ships changes.

All five domains covered

All Five Domains, Three Days

Agentic architecture, Claude Code configuration, prompt architecture, tool design and MCP, and context management, exam weighted.

Scenario work and mock exam

Online or In Person

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

Architecture judgment

Scenarios and Mock

CCAR-F draws four scenarios from a bank of six, so class runs the same way and closes with a full-length mock and readiness review.

Live online or in person

Design Decisions

The exam tests judgment, such as when an agent loop earns its cost, where a tool boundary belongs and how to size context.

Courseware kept current

180 Days of Support

Every class includes 180 days of post-class support, so questions that come up while you prepare still get answered.

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 behavior
    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: POST
    Live Training QS: ~7
    AFTER CLASS
    Critical Path

    Book It While It Is Fresh

    Per-domain readiness score against the published blueprint
    L.post.1
    Confirm your exam eligibility with Anthropic
    L.post.2
    Register and schedule through the Anthropic Partner Academy
    L.post.3
    Sit it while the material is still fresh
    L.post.4
    Roughly 135 minutes of total seat time once check-in is done
    L.post.5
    Delivered by Pearson VUE, test center or online-proctored
    L.post.6
    A failed first attempt carries a 14-day wait, then 30, then 90
    L.post.7
    Maximum four attempts per exam in a rolling 12 months
    L.post.8
    COURSE PROGRESS Day 0 of 3
    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.

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

    You should have an architecture background and around 6 months of hands-on experience building with Claude, including exposure to the Agent SDK or Claude Code. 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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    The Claude certifications launched in 2026, so there is no back catalog 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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