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Claude Certified Architect - Foundations (CCAR-F) Exam Prep

Course Information

  • Sessions 2 days
  • Duration 15 hrs
  • Level Beginner
  • Assessment NA

Venue

12 Woodlands Square #07-85/86/87 Woods Square Tower 1, Singapore 737715. 5 mins walk from Woodlands (NS9) MRT station.

The venue is disabled-friendly.

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Certification

  • Certificate of Achievement from Tertiary Infotech Academy Pte Ltd - Upon meeting at least 75% attendance and passing the assessment(s), participants will receive a Certificate of Achievement from Tertiary Infotech Academy Pte Ltd.

Claude Partner Network

We are a member of the Claude Partner Network. Our Claude certification exam prep courses prepare you for the official Claude certification exams from Anthropic.

Certification Exam

Once you are prepared, you can register for the Claude Certified Architect - Foundations (CCAR-F) exam on the Anthropic Partner Academy. Claude certification exams are open to people who work at organisations in the Claude Partner Network, and registration requires a company email address on the organisation’s partner record; if your organisation is not a member, you can register with our Claude Partner Network. The exam is delivered by Pearson VUE, online proctored or at a test centre, and the certification is valid for 12 months. Note that the course fee does not include the certification exam fee.

Claude Certified Architect - Foundations (CCAR-F) Exam Prep

Course Code: C437

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What's This Course About

Claude Certified Architect - Foundations (CCAR-F) Exam Prep prepares you for the Claude Certified Architect - Foundations exam from Anthropic, which validates that you can make informed decisions about tradeoffs when implementing real-world solutions with Claude. The exam tests foundational knowledge across Claude Code, the Claude Agent SDK, the Claude API and Model Context Protocol (MCP), the core technologies used to build production-grade applications with Claude. It is aimed at solution architects, AI engineers and senior developers who design and build production applications, agents and workflows with Claude.

The course follows the five official exam domains and their weightings. You will start with agentic architecture and orchestration (27%), covering agentic loops, coordinator-subagent patterns, subagent context passing, workflow enforcement and handoff, Agent SDK hooks, task decomposition and session state. Next you will study tool design and MCP integration (18%), including clear tool interfaces, structured error responses, distributing tools across agents, integrating MCP servers and choosing the right built-in tools. You will then cover Claude Code configuration and workflows (20%), such as the CLAUDE.md hierarchy, custom slash commands and skills, path-specific rules, plan mode versus direct execution, iterative refinement and CI/CD integration.

The course continues with prompt engineering and structured output (20%), including explicit criteria, few-shot prompting, structured output with tool use and JSON schemas, validation and retry loops, batch processing and multi-pass review, and closes with context management and reliability (15%), covering context preservation, escalation and ambiguity resolution, error propagation across multi-agent systems, large codebase exploration, human review and confidence calibration, and information provenance. Each domain combines explanation, hands-on practice with Claude Code and the Agent SDK, and scenario-based questions modelled on the exam’s customer use cases, such as customer support agents, multi-agent research pipelines and Claude Code in CI/CD.

The CCAR-F exam has 60 multiple-choice and multiple-response questions in 120 minutes, built around 4 scenarios drawn from a bank of 6, and is delivered by Pearson VUE online or at a test centre, with a passing scaled score of 720 out of 1,000. By the end, you will be able to design robust Claude-based systems with confidence and be well prepared to pass the exam.

Why Take This Course?

  • Free Practice ExamTest yourself on realistic scenario questions across all 5 CCAR-F exam domains before you book the real exam. Start the free practice exam →
  • Register with Our Claude Partner NetworkOfficial Claude exams are open only through the Claude Partner Network. Register with our partner network to access the Anthropic Partner Academy and book your CCAR-F exam.
  • Hands-On Learning Learn by doing. Every topic is practised hands-on, so you leave with skills you can use at work straight away.
  • Live Coaching Experienced instructors coach you live, answer your questions and guide you step by step.
  • Free Post-Course Consultation Stuck after class? Message your trainer any time for guidance as you apply what you have learned.
  • Always-Updated Materials Materials are refreshed to stay relevant. Log in to our LMS any time to get the latest version.

Funding Options

No funding is available for this course

For WSQ funding, please checkout the details at WSQ - Claude Certified Architect Foundation

Course Fee

$700.00 (GST-exclusive)
$763.00 (GST-inclusive)

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Additional Note

Please bring your own laptop for hands-on training. If you don't have laptop, we can provide spare laptop for training use.

Post-Course Support

  • We provide free consultation related to the subject matter after the course.
  • Please email your queries to enquiry@tertiaryinfotech.com and we will forward your queries to the subject matter experts.

Cancellation & Reschedule Policy

  • You can register your interest without upfront payment. There is no penalty for withdrawal of the course before the class commences.
  • We reserve the right to cancel or re-schedule the course due to unforeseen circumstances. If the course is cancelled, we will refund 100% for any paid amount.
  • Note the venue of the training is subject to changes due to availability of the classroom.

Course Details

Course Details

What You'll Learn

Topic 1: Agentic Architecture and Orchestration

Topic 2: Tool Design and MCP Integration

Topic 3: Claude Code Configuration and Workflows

Topic 4: Prompt Engineering and Structured Output

Topic 5: Context Management and Reliability

Course Info

Minimum Entry Requirement

Knowledge and Skills

  • Able to operate using computer functions
  • Minimum 3 GCE ‘O’ Levels Passes including English or WPL Level 5 (Average of Reading, Listening, Speaking & Writing Scores)

Attitude

  • Positive Learning Attitude
  • Enthusiastic Learner

Experience

  • Minimum of 1 year of working experience.

Target Age Group: 18-65 years old

Minimum Software/Hardware Requirement

Software:

You will need the following for this course:

Hardware: Windows PC or Mac laptop

Job Roles

Job Roles

  • Solution Architect
  • AI Solutions Architect
  • Cloud Solutions Architect
  • Enterprise Architect
  • AI Engineer
  • Machine Learning Engineer
  • Software Engineer
  • Senior Software Developer
  • Full-Stack Developer
  • Backend Developer
  • DevOps Engineer
  • Platform Engineer
  • Solutions Engineer
  • Forward Deployed Engineer
  • Technical Lead
  • Engineering Manager
  • AI Technical Consultant
  • AI Product Manager

Trainers

Trainers

Dr. Alfred Ang designs and ships production systems on Anthropic's platform, which is exactly the kind of experience the Claude Certified Architect - Foundations exam sets out to test. He is a full-stack AI developer and Agentic AI solution architect specialising in multi-agent system design, and serves as Managing Director, CIO, CTO and Chief Instructional Designer of Tertiary Infotech Academy Pte Ltd. His agent toolkit spans n8n, Langflow, Flowise, the OpenAI Agents SDK, the Google Gemini Agent SDK, Microsoft AutoGen and CrewAI, but much of his recent public work is built with the Claude Agent SDK and Claude Code. Among his 300+ GitHub repositories are ai-pei, an AI-powered Next.js CMS whose chatbot, auto-blog scheduler and SEO features are powered by the Claude Agent SDK; a WSQ courseware generation platform built with the Claude Agent SDK and Streamlit; Tapcard, a business card and CRM platform; and published Claude Code skill collections covering app start-up, README generation, Docker Hub pushes, secret scanning and courseware production. His architecture credentials include AWS Certified Solutions Architect, AI Practitioner and Cloud Practitioner, Microsoft Certified AI Engineer Associate (AI-102), CompTIA Security+ and a Certificate in AI Ethics and Governance (Senior Professional) from NTU. He also holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from NUS and has co-invented more than 20 US patents. He also holds an MSc in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from NTU and a Graduate Diploma in Intelligent Robotics Systems from NUS-ISS, and he is a Neo4j Certified Professional.

This exam prep course follows the five official CCAR-F exam domains, and Dr. Ang teaches each one through the design decisions he faces when building real Claude applications. Learners start with agentic architecture and orchestration, comparing single-agent and multi-agent patterns and deciding when a workflow needs an agent at all. Tool design and MCP integration come next, covering how to define tools with clear contracts and connect Claude to external systems safely. The third domain examines Claude Code configuration and workflows, where his own published skills serve as concrete examples of how reusable instructions and project settings shape an agent's behaviour. Prompt engineering and structured output follow, with attention to reliable JSON and schema-driven responses, and the course closes with context management and reliability, including how to keep long-running agents within their context budget and how to design for failure and recovery. Throughout, he frames questions the way the exam does, asking learners to weigh trade-offs in cost, latency, security and maintainability rather than memorise features. As an ACTA-certified trainer and DACE-certified curriculum developer, he blends exam-style scenario practice with hands-on labs, so learners prepare for the credential while also gaining skills they can apply in their next Claude project. He also explains how the exam's scenario questions map to everyday engineering choices, so revision feels practical rather than abstract. To see the Claude-based systems he builds, visit his GitHub portfolio at https://github.com/alfredang and connect with him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/angchewhoe/

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