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Claude Certified Architect — Foundations

CCAR-F30 of 30 lessons written · about 350 minutes of reading

Agent SDK, Claude Code, MCP, structured output, context management.

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Domain 1Agentic Architecture & Orchestration27%

  1. 1.1Agentic loops9 min
  2. 1.2Coordinator–subagent orchestration11 min
  3. 1.3Subagent invocation and context passing10 min
  4. 1.4Enforcement and handoff in multi-step workflows9 min
  5. 1.5Agent SDK hooks10 min
  6. 1.6Task decomposition strategies9 min
  7. 1.7Session state, resumption and forking9 min

Domain 2Tool Design & MCP Integration18%

  1. 2.1Tool descriptions and boundaries16 min
  2. 2.2Structured errors for MCP tools11 min
  3. 2.3Tool distribution and tool choice12 min
  4. 2.4MCP servers in Claude Code10 min
  5. 2.5Choosing Claude Code’s built-in tools10 min

Domain 3Claude Code Configuration & Workflows20%

  1. 3.1CLAUDE.md hierarchy and organisation11 min
  2. 3.2Custom slash commands and skills11 min
  3. 3.3Path-specific rules12 min
  4. 3.4Plan mode vs direct execution12 min
  5. 3.5Iterative refinement12 min
  6. 3.6Claude Code in CI/CD pipelines14 min

Domain 4Prompt Engineering & Structured Output20%

  1. 4.1Explicit criteria for precise prompts14 min
  2. 4.2Few-shot examples for consistency14 min
  3. 4.3Structured output with schemas16 min
  4. 4.4Validation and retry loops11 min
  5. 4.5Efficient batch processing12 min
  6. 4.6Multi-instance and multi-pass review14 min

Domain 5Context Management & Reliability15%

  1. 5.1Preserving facts in long conversations11 min
  2. 5.2Escalation and ambiguity12 min
  3. 5.3Error propagation across agents13 min
  4. 5.4Context in large codebase exploration12 min
  5. 5.5Human review and confidence calibration13 min
  6. 5.6Provenance in multi-source synthesis12 min