Study guides, flashcards, coding exercises, diagrams, and practice tests — everything you need to pass the Claude Certified Architect — Foundations exam.
The Claude Certified Architect — Foundations certification validates that practitioners can make informed decisions about tradeoffs when implementing real-world solutions with Claude. This exam tests foundational knowledge across Claude Code, the Claude Agent SDK, the Claude API, and Model Context Protocol (MCP) — the core technologies used to build production-grade applications with Claude.
Questions are grounded in realistic scenarios drawn from actual customer use cases, including building agentic systems for customer support, designing multi-agent research pipelines, integrating Claude Code into CI/CD workflows, building developer productivity tools, and extracting structured data from unstructured documents. Candidates must demonstrate not only conceptual knowledge but practical judgment about architecture, configuration, and tradeoffs in production deployments.
The ideal candidate is a solution architect who designs and implements production applications with Claude. The candidate typically has 6+ months of practical experience building with Claude APIs, Agent SDK, Claude Code, and MCP, understanding both the capabilities and limitations of large language models in production environments.
Use the resources above — the Study Guide covers every domain in depth, Flashcards help with retention via spaced repetition, Visual Diagrams illustrate key architecture patterns, and the Course Catalog maps Anthropic Academy courses to exam domains. Combine these with hands-on experience building with Claude to prepare effectively.
All questions are multiple choice with one correct response and three distractors. Select the single response that best completes the statement or answers the question. Distractors are options that a candidate with incomplete knowledge or experience might choose.
Unanswered questions are scored as incorrect; there is no penalty for guessing.
The exam has a pass or fail designation, scored against a minimum standard established by subject matter experts. Results are reported as a scaled score of 100–1,000. The minimum passing score is 720. Scaled scoring models help equate scores across multiple exam forms that might have slightly different difficulty levels.
I built this site to help myself and others prepare for the Claude Certified Architect exam. It's a collection of the resources, exercises, and study materials I found most useful along the way.