Claude Certified Architect Study Guide

Make the hard stuff stick.

Learn each idea visually, challenge your assumptions, then prove what you know. Every answer explains why it works—and why the tempting alternatives do not.

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Module 01

Claude Platform Foundations

~12% of exam · 45 min · 6 bank questions

Models, tokens, the context window, and every surface you can call Claude through.

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Module 02

Prompt Engineering & System Design

~14% of exam · 50 min · 6 bank questions

Structure, examples, reasoning, and prefill — turning instructions into reliable behaviour.

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Module 03

Context Engineering

~12% of exam · 40 min · 6 bank questions

Caching, compaction, memory, and citations — managing the scarcest resource in the system.

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Module 04

Tool Use & MCP

~14% of exam · 45 min · 6 bank questions

Giving Claude hands: tool schemas, the tool loop, and the Model Context Protocol.

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Module 05

Agents & Orchestration

~16% of exam · 50 min · 6 bank questions

Workflows vs. agents, subagents, and building loops that finish.

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Module 06

Retrieval & Knowledge Architecture

~12% of exam · 45 min · 6 bank questions

Chunking, hybrid search, reranking, contextual retrieval — and when not to use RAG at all.

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Module 07

Evaluation & Observability

~12% of exam · 40 min · 6 bank questions

Evals, LLM-as-judge, tracing, and shipping changes without guessing.

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Module 08

Safety, Security & Governance

~10% of exam · 40 min · 6 bank questions

Injection defence, guardrails, privacy, and the responsible-deployment posture.

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Module 09

Production Architecture: Cost, Latency & Reliability

~10% of exam · 40 min · 6 bank questions

Making it fast, cheap and resilient once real traffic arrives.

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