Study for the Claude Certified Architect exam — the fun way
The Claude Certified Architect – Foundations (CCAR-F) exam tests how you design production AI systems: agentic loops, tool use, prompt engineering, and reliability. Use the Mock exam for coached practice, then take a blueprint-aligned Simulated exam with 60 questions, a 120-minute strict mode, and 4 fictional scenarios drawn from Koko's synthetic pool of 6.
Independently authored practice content. It does not reproduce official exam questions, imply Anthropic endorsement, or reproduce Anthropic's undisclosed scoring model.
A timed, proctored sitting. Koko's strict simulation uses the same published count and clock.
The guide states multiple-choice and multiple-response items, with each item stating how many responses to select. Koko forms use 48 single-select and 12 multiple-response (9 select-two, 3 select-three); Anthropic does not publish a fixed live-exam ratio.
Criterion-referenced: you are measured against a fixed standard set by subject matter experts, not against other candidates.
You get a scaled score plus the percentage you answered correctly in each domain. The domain percentages are diagnostic — the pass decision is the total scaled score.
Registration goes through the Anthropic Partner Academy; the sitting is online-proctored or at a test centre, per program policy.
Shown at checkout, where partner-tier discounts are applied.
Renew on time with a free, non-proctored assessment on the Partner Academy. Let it lapse and you retake the full exam at full fee.
Koko draws four fictional, synthetic case studies from its six-scenario pool and groups questions under each scenario.
Koko's reading, not a quoted rule: the current guide states no rule about guessing either way, and under criterion-referenced scaled scoring with no stated penalty a blank cannot score better than an attempt. Confirm against the current exam guide.
Tests documented Claude mechanics and architecture judgment under realistic trade-offs, including configuration and tool-use details.
Aimed at people who have shipped production systems with Claude.
720 is Koko's study target on the same scale. It is not an official score prediction or certification outcome.
Format facts are based on public information and may change — always confirm against Anthropic's official materials before you sit the exam.
Agentic support, side-effect controls, and reliable recovery
Multi-agent research, evidence reconciliation, and controlled alerts
Claude Code configuration, codebase exploration, and CI review
Schema-governed extraction, semantic validation, batch processing, and human review
Claude Code workflows for a large, safety-sensitive legacy migration
A secure, efficient developer-productivity integration
Brought to you by KokoAI Academy — we build production AI systems like the ones this exam is about. This guide is free, and distills the exam's five domains into the design instincts that actually matter in production.
The exam is closed-book, but you study from the primary sources. These are the canonical Anthropic docs behind each domain — read these, not any paraphrase, when in doubt.
- Claude Certified Architect — community study guide
An open, community-maintained guide that maps the same five domains, with long-form notes and flashcards in many languages.