CCAR-F

Claude Certified Architect, Foundations: free exam guide

Solution architects designing production systems with the Claude API, Agent SDK, Claude Code, and MCP. Recommended: six or more months of practical experience across those surfaces.

Scenario based. Each sitting presents 4 scenarios randomly selected from a published bank of 6, with multiple choice questions per scenario. Delivered by Pearson VUE online proctoring or at test centres.

The six published exam scenarios

Each sitting of this exam presents four of these six scenario contexts. Our practice questions are anchored in the same six, so the mock exam feels like the real thing.

1. 1Customer support resolution agent built with the Agent SDK, MCP tools, and human escalation
2. 2Team adoption of Claude Code with slash commands, CLAUDE.md configuration, and plan mode
3. 3Multi-agent research system with a coordinator and specialized subagents
4. 4Developer productivity tooling using built-in tools (Read, Write, Bash, Grep, Glob) and MCP servers
5. 5Claude Code in CI/CD pipelines for automated review and test generation
6. 6Structured data extraction from unstructured documents with JSON schema validation

Study modules

One module per exam domain, graded by official blueprint weight. Every module ends with how to think through the question and the traps the exam loves, then lets you drill that domain with instant feedback.

Not an official source. This is a free, independent study resource from siasola, built by an engineer who sat these exams and wanted better prep material to exist. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Anthropic. Claude is a trademark of Anthropic, PBC. Exam facts follow the official exam guides; registration for the real exams happens through the Anthropic Partner Academy and Pearson VUE, not here.