Contents — domains, guide and mocks CCAR-P Claude Certified Architect — Professional Domains
1 Solution Design & Architecture 17% 1.1 From business problem to solution 1.2 End-to-end architecture 1.3 Workflow, agent or augmented LLM 1.4 Multi-agent systems and orchestration 1.5 Decomposing complex problems 1.6 Aligning solutions to business value 6 of 6 lessons written
2 Claude Models, Prompting & Context Engineering 13% 2.1 Choosing a Claude model 2.2 System prompts, templates and guardrails 2.3 Zero-shot, few-shot and chain-of-thought 2.4 Context windows and token budgets 2.5 Prompt reuse: caching, modules, Skills 5 of 5 lessons written
3 Integration 19% 3.1 Auditing agents for capability bloat 3.2 Finding authentication and authorization gaps 3.3 Accuracy versus latency 3.4 Observability at scale 3.5 Designing a RAG pipeline 3.6 Matching retrieval to data and queries 3.7 Choosing MCP, API/CLI or agent-to-agent 3.8 Progressive discovery vs. monolithic context 8 of 8 lessons written
4 Evaluation, Testing & Optimization 16% 4.1 Defining evaluation metrics 4.2 Evaluation datasets and test frameworks 4.3 A/B testing and iterative improvement 4.4 Diagnosing prompt, hallucination and model issues 4.5 Optimising tokens, latency and cost 4.6 Monitoring with logs and usage data 6 of 6 lessons written
5 Governance, Safety & Risk Management 14% 5.1 Guardrails and safety controls 5.2 Risks, limits and failure modes 5.3 Human-in-the-loop validation 5.4 Regulatory compliance by design 5.5 Bias, fairness and transparency 5 of 5 lessons written
6 Stakeholder Communication & Lifecycle Management 14% 6.1 Structured discovery and requirements 6.2 Communicating decisions and trade-offs 6.3 Feedback loops, expectations and SLAs 6.4 Architecture docs and implementation guidance 6.5 Supporting the solution lifecycle 5 of 5 lessons written
7 Developer Productivity & Operational Enablement 7% 7.1 Configuring Claude Code for teams 7.2 Improving developer workflows with AI 7.3 Debugging and operational support 3 of 3 lessons written
Study · CCAR-P · Practice CCAR-P practice questions 144 questions across 7 domains, taken from the lessons and scored here in your browser. Every option is explained, and your misses link back to the objective to re-read.
These are practice questions, not mock exams. Their answers are published on the lesson pages, so treat them as teaching material — the timed mock exams are still to come.