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Claude Certified Architect - Professional

Own the full lifecycle of secure, observable, production-grade Claude systems from discovery to iteration.

Mid- to senior-level solution architects, AI engineers, technical leads, and senior software engineers responsible for end-to-end production systems and cross-functional decisions.

63
Questions
120 min
Time limit
$175
Exam fee
720 / 1000
Passing score
Multiple-choice and multiple-response
Format
Proctored online or at a test center
Delivery
12 months
Validity
v1.0 · July 2026
Guide
Official exam guide (PDF) ↗

Exam domains

Weighted objectives straight from the exam guide.

Solution Design and Architecture

17%
  • Translate business problems into Claude solutions
  • Design input, processing, output, and feedback loops
  • Choose workflow, agentic, or augmented-LLM patterns
  • Design multi-agent orchestration
  • Decompose complex problems
  • Align designs to value, cost, performance, and SLAs

Claude Models, Prompting and Context Engineering

13%
  • Select models from explicit tradeoffs
  • Design prompts, templates, and guardrails
  • Apply zero-shot, few-shot, and reasoning techniques
  • Manage context windows and token use
  • Reuse stable prompts with caching, modular prompts, and Skills

Integration

19%
  • Reduce capability bloat
  • Find authentication and authorization gaps
  • Balance accuracy and latency
  • Select observability at scale
  • Design RAG chunking and indexing
  • Match retrieval to data shape and query pattern
  • Choose MCP, API, CLI, or agent-to-agent integration
  • Use progressive discovery instead of monolithic context where appropriate

Evaluation, Testing and Optimization

16%
  • Define accuracy, latency, cost, safety, and security metrics
  • Build representative datasets and mixed-method test frameworks
  • Run A/B tests and iterative improvements
  • Diagnose prompt, hallucination, retrieval, and model failures
  • Optimize tokens, latency, and cost-performance
  • Monitor with logs, traces, and observability

Governance, Safety and Risk Management

14%
  • Layer guardrails and safety controls
  • Identify LLM failure modes
  • Design human-in-the-loop validation
  • Account for GDPR, HIPAA, FedRAMP, and applicable regulation
  • Address bias, fairness, and transparency

Stakeholder Communication and Lifecycle Management

14%
  • Run structured discovery
  • Communicate decisions and tradeoffs
  • Manage feedback, expectations, and SLAs
  • Document architectures and implementation guidance
  • Support discovery, design, handoff, monitoring, and iteration

Developer Productivity and Operational Enablement

7%
  • Configure Claude tools and team environments
  • Improve engineering workflows with AI-assisted tooling
  • Support debugging and operational incident resolution

Study path · 25 lessons

01
Certification Strategy
orientation · required
02
Business Discovery Requirements And Slas
core · required
03
End To End Architecture And Value Tradeoffs
core · required
04
Claude Product And Model Landscape
core · required
05
Model Selection And Token Economics
core · required
06
Prompting And Task Decomposition
core · required
07
Context Knowledge Memory And Caching
core · required
08
Output Evaluation And Validation
core · required
09
Governance Safety And Responsible Use
core · required
10
Messages Api And Application Lifecycle
core · required
11
Structured Output And Defensive Parsing
core · required
12
Tool Use And Agentic Loops
core · required
13
Mcp Server Design And Integration
core · required
14
Claude Agent Sdk And Hooks
core · required
15
Application Security And Secrets
core · required
16
Evals Testing Debugging And Observability
core · required
17
Claude Code For Development Teams
core · required
18
Multi Agent Orchestration And Delegation
core · required
19
Tool Contracts Errors And Progressive Discovery
core · required
20
Rag Retrieval And Data Pipelines
core · required
21
Integration Protocols Identity And Least Privilege
core · required
22
Production Observability Latency And Cost
core · required
23
Enterprise Governance Compliance And Hitl
core · required
24
Stakeholder Communication Adrs And Lifecycle
core · required
25
Architect Professional System Capstone
capstone · required

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