CCA-F Study Pack

Goal: pass the Anthropic Claude Certified Architect — Foundations exam.

How to use this pack:

1. Read exam/ first. It tells you how questions work.
2. Then read scenarios/. The exam is built from these 6 scenarios.
3. Then read patterns/. These are the answer patterns that repeat.
4. Use claude-code/, mcp/, api/ as fact reference. Memorize the tables.

Map

flowchart LR
    A[exam/<br/>How the exam works] --> B[scenarios/<br/>The 6 exam stories]
    B --> C[patterns/<br/>Repeating answer logic]
    C --> D[claude-code/<br/>Facts: CLI, config, tools]
    C --> E[mcp/<br/>Facts: MCP]
    C --> F[api/<br/>Facts: API]

All lessons

exam/ — read first. Short pages about the exam itself.

• exam/format.mdx — 60 Q / 120 min / 720 pass, official domain weights
• exam/question-anatomy.mdx — the last-sentence rule, distractor styles
• exam/answer-patterns.mdx — the 10 patterns that break 50/50 ties
• exam/exam-day.mdx — two-pass strategy, OnVUE, proctoring
• exam/study-plan.mdx — what to study, honest source ratings
• exam/cheat-sheet.mdx — one-page last-hour review

scenarios/ — the 6 exam stories (4 appear on your sitting). Each file is one complete lesson: the story, what gets tested, traps, recap.

• scenarios/customer-support.mdx · scenarios/code-generation.mdx · scenarios/multi-agent-research.mdx
• scenarios/developer-productivity.mdx · scenarios/ci-cd.mdx · scenarios/data-extraction.mdx

One complete lesson per topic — full picture first, recap at the end:

• patterns/patterns.mdx — the 5 answer patterns behind most questions
• claude-code/claude-code.mdx — tools, CLI, sessions, plan mode, memory, permissions, hooks, skills, subagents
• mcp/mcp.mdx — servers, scopes, tool design, error handling
• api/api.mdx — the agentic loop, structured output, caching & batch

The 3 most important facts

1. Read the last sentence of each question first. It decides the answer ("primary reason" ≠ "best fix" ≠ "first step").
2. When a customer asks for a human → escalate. Do not over-engineer.
3. When output format is wrong → add few-shot examples.