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Claude Certified Architect — Professional

CCAR-P38 of 38 lessons written · about 485 minutes of reading

Solution design, integration, evaluation, governance and stakeholders.

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Domain 1Solution Design & Architecture17%

  1. 1.1From business problem to solution16 min
  2. 1.2End-to-end architecture12 min
  3. 1.3Workflow, agent or augmented LLM12 min
  4. 1.4Multi-agent systems and orchestration15 min
  5. 1.5Decomposing complex problems14 min
  6. 1.6Aligning solutions to business value15 min

Domain 2Claude Models, Prompting & Context Engineering13%

  1. 2.1Choosing a Claude model10 min
  2. 2.2System prompts, templates and guardrails11 min
  3. 2.3Zero-shot, few-shot and chain-of-thought12 min
  4. 2.4Context windows and token budgets12 min
  5. 2.5Prompt reuse: caching, modules, Skills14 min

Domain 3Integration19%

  1. 3.1Auditing agents for capability bloat16 min
  2. 3.2Finding authentication and authorization gaps14 min
  3. 3.3Accuracy versus latency13 min
  4. 3.4Observability at scale13 min
  5. 3.5Designing a RAG pipeline13 min
  6. 3.6Matching retrieval to data and queries12 min
  7. 3.7Choosing MCP, API/CLI or agent-to-agent14 min
  8. 3.8Progressive discovery vs. monolithic context13 min

Domain 4Evaluation, Testing & Optimization16%

  1. 4.1Defining evaluation metrics15 min
  2. 4.2Evaluation datasets and test frameworks16 min
  3. 4.3A/B testing and iterative improvement11 min
  4. 4.4Diagnosing prompt, hallucination and model issues14 min
  5. 4.5Optimising tokens, latency and cost13 min
  6. 4.6Monitoring with logs and usage data14 min

Domain 5Governance, Safety & Risk Management14%

  1. 5.1Guardrails and safety controls12 min
  2. 5.2Risks, limits and failure modes12 min
  3. 5.3Human-in-the-loop validation12 min
  4. 5.4Regulatory compliance by design13 min
  5. 5.5Bias, fairness and transparency12 min

Domain 6Stakeholder Communication & Lifecycle Management14%

  1. 6.1Structured discovery and requirements10 min
  2. 6.2Communicating decisions and trade-offs10 min
  3. 6.3Feedback loops, expectations and SLAs10 min
  4. 6.4Architecture docs and implementation guidance10 min
  5. 6.5Supporting the solution lifecycle10 min

Domain 7Developer Productivity & Operational Enablement7%

  1. 7.1Configuring Claude Code for teams13 min
  2. 7.2Improving developer workflows with AI13 min
  3. 7.3Debugging and operational support13 min