CCA-F
Claude Certified Architect, Foundations (CCA-F)
Anthropic's first official Claude certification (Partner Network)
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Skills
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Prep Links
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Practice Quiz
Cost
First 5,000 Partner Network seats free, then approximately $99/attempt (CONFIRM with Anthropic)
Validity
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Quick Facts
Issuer
Anthropic (official)
Audience
Technical exam for solution architects building production applications with Claude
Status
Live via Claude Partner Network; additional certs planned
Cost
First 5,000 Partner Network seats free, then approximately $99/attempt (CONFIRM with Anthropic)
Format
Proctored exam, approximately 60 questions, approximately 120 minutes via Skilljar (CONFIRM)
Languages
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Validity
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Where to register
Through the Claude Partner Network at anthropic.com/partners
Skills You'll Learn
Design production-grade applications on the Claude API for real enterprise workloads.
Select the right Claude model tier (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku) for cost, latency, and capability trade-offs.
Apply system prompts, role-setting, few-shot, and chain-of-thought prompt engineering.
Build tool use and agent loops with function calling and multi-step reasoning.
Integrate the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to give Claude access to external tools and data.
Architect retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) pipelines with effective chunking and retrieval.
Choose between direct Anthropic API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Vertex AI deployment patterns.
Optimize Claude apps with streaming, prompt caching, and batching for cost and latency.
Apply Anthropic's Responsible AI safeguards and evaluation patterns in production.
Earn Anthropic's first official certification - a strong signal for Claude Partner Network and solution architect roles.
Exam Logistics
- Partner-focused technical certification for solution architects building production apps on Claude.
- Part of Anthropic's $100M Claude Partner Network investment including training, technical support, and joint market development.
- Partners get priority access to new certifications as they roll out.
- Specific exam mechanics should be verified against the live Anthropic Partner Network portal.
Prerequisites & Recommended Experience
- Intended for solution architects building production applications with Claude.
- Partner Network membership recommended for priority access.
- Hands-on experience with the Claude API, prompt engineering, tool use, RAG, and agent patterns is expected.
Topic Areas (verify against Anthropic when scheduling)
Claude API and model selection
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- Authentication, requests, responses.
- Model tiers (Opus, Sonnet, Haiku) and selection trade-offs.
- Tokenization and context windows.
Prompt engineering
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- System prompts and role-setting.
- Few-shot, chain-of-thought, structured output.
- Production prompting best practices.
Tool use and agents
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- Tool definitions and function calling.
- Multi-step reasoning and agent loops.
- MCP integration patterns.
Architecture and integration
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- Direct API vs Bedrock vs Vertex AI deployment.
- Retrieval-augmented generation.
- Streaming, caching, batching, cost optimization.
Safety, evaluation, observability
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- Responsible AI safeguards.
- Output evaluation and red-teaming.
- Production logging, metrics, monitoring.
Official Prep Resources
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Additional Helpful Details
- Per Anthropic: the Claude Certified Architect, Foundations certification was introduced for partners.
- Additional certifications for sellers, architects, and developers are planned to follow.
- Verify all exam mechanics against Anthropic before scheduling.