Architect — Foundations · CCAR-F
Ten checks before you book the slot.
You sit this as an Anthropic partner: register through Partner Academy, and your tier’s discount comes off at checkout. Retakes wait 14, then 30, then 90 days — four attempts a year, $125 list each. Tick what is true and see what is left.
This checklist is for Architect — Foundations only. Architect — Professional and Developer — Foundations are separate exams with their own blueprints, so the domains and prep courses below do not carry over.
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LeftExam blueprint
CodeCCAR-F
Questions60
Time120 min
Pass720 / 1000
Fee$125
Valid12 months
Multiple-choice and multiple-response. 4 scenarios drawn from a bank of 6. Delivered by Pearson VUE — OnVUE at home or a test centre.
01Agentic Architecture & Orchestration 27%
02Tool Design & MCP Integration 18%
03Claude Code Configuration & Workflows 20%
04Prompt Engineering & Structured Output 20%
05Context Management & Reliability 15%
ResourcesPractice mocks and study materials
Ravn materials
Study guide
The full Foundations guide, about a 2-hour read. Also in Spanish and Portuguese, and as a print-ready PDF in EN, ES and PT.
Practice exam
60 questions drawn fresh on every attempt from a bank of 600+ in English, scored per domain to 1000 — full length on purpose, because the real exam is 60 questions in 120 minutes. A domain selector drills a single domain’s whole bank instead. Also in Spanish and Portuguese, which draw from 136 questions each.
Question bank
The same 600+ questions as a browsable list, filtered by domain and searched by text, with the explanation on every item. Also in Spanish and Portuguese.
Cheatsheet
One-page recap of the five domains. Also in Spanish and Portuguese.
Before you trust a question bank
Drill them for recall; settle arguments against the official guide →
Some community banks encode reasoning that contradicts Anthropic’s own guidance. Where a bank and the official guide disagree, the guide wins — it is what the exam is written against.
Drill after you have read the guide
claudecertificationguide.com — diagnostic →
Short. Use it to gauge where you stand before spending time on full-length mocks.
claudecertificationguide.com — mock exam →
Full-length, and its questions rotate between attempts, so it stays useful after the first run.
krog.app →
113 questions organised by the five domains, built by a Ravn engineer.
Video
CCAF study playlist →
Community-curated audiovisual material.