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The Claude Certified Architect Foundations (CCA-F) exam tests whether you can make the right architectural call under pressure, not whether you can recite definitions. This guide is built for exactly that.

It covers all five exam domains, agentic architecture, tool design and MCP, Claude Code, prompt engineering, and context management, and teaches each one the way the exam asks about it: through realistic scenarios with plausible wrong answers.

Every chapter opens with a failure worth understanding, builds the theory behind it, and closes with a hands-on build and a scenario quiz. A recurring \"Why the Other Answer Fails\" section trains the one skill the exam really rewards, seeing which architectural principle a tempting distractor quietly breaks.

Inside you get two full practice exams with a complete answer key, an appendix that explains the reasoning behind every question, a domain-by-domain glossary and flashcards, and clean original figures for the ideas that are easier to see than to read.

Written by Thomas De Vos, an AI lead Architect at HCLTech AI Labs, the book is reconciled against Anthropic's official exam guide, so you study what is actually tested and skip what is not. It is an independent study guide and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Anthropic.

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