Claude Certified Architect – Professional (CCAR-P) Exam Prep
Prepare for the Claude Certified Architect – Professional (CCAR-P) exam (63 questions, 120 minutes, pass at 720 of 1,000). Forty hours cover all seven exam domains, weighted the way the exam weights them.
- 20 two-hour modules: solution design (17% of the exam), models and prompting (13%), integration (19%), evaluation (16%), governance (14%), stakeholder communication (14%) and developer productivity (7%), then a capstone, the mock final and a score review.
- 37 labs on one case study. You design, build, evaluate and defend a Claude support and document-intelligence platform for Meridian Mutual, a financial-services firm. Incident labs hand you a broken system to fix: an over-privileged agent, a cost-bleeding uncached prompt, a RAG index that turns confidently wrong after a refresh.
- 342 exam-style questions, each with a rationale for the right answer and every distractor: a 21-item diagnostic, 7 domain pre-checks, 17 module quizzes, 7 domain exams, a timed 63-item mock final and four 15-item sets for the 30 days before your exam.
- Role-plays for the soft domains: a discovery interview with a COO, an architecture decision defended to a skeptical CISO, an SLA negotiated with a CFO.
- A portfolio you keep: Architecture Decision Records, architecture diagrams, an evaluation report and a capstone presented to a mock architecture review board.
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M00 · Kickoff, Environment Setup & Diagnostic
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slides Slide Deck: Kickoff, Environment Setup & Diagnostic locked
quiz Day-One Diagnostic: Find Your Weak Domains (21 questions, 40 min) locked
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lab Hands-On Lab: Environment Check locked
quiz Knowledge Check: Kickoff, Environment Setup & Diagnostic (3 questions) locked
M01 · Translating Business Problems & Choosing Architecture Patterns
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quiz Warm-Up: Solution Design & Architecture Pre-Check (ungraded) locked
lab Hands-On Lab: Discovery Brief → End-to-End Architecture locked
lab Hands-On Lab: Pattern-Selection Decision Matrix locked
quiz Knowledge Check: Translating Business Problems & Choosing Architecture Patterns (5 questions) locked
M02 · Multi-Agent Systems & Orchestration
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slides Slide Deck: Multi-Agent Systems & Orchestration locked
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lab Hands-On Lab: Designing the Triage Orchestration locked
quiz Knowledge Check: Multi-Agent Systems & Orchestration (5 questions) locked
M03 · Decomposition & Business Value
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lab Hands-On Lab: Decomposing the Document-Intelligence Pipeline locked
lab Hands-On Lab: Value-Pillar Map & SLAs locked
quiz Knowledge Check: Decomposition & Business Value (5 questions) locked
exam Domain Exam: Solution Design & Architecture (13 questions, 22 min) locked
M04 · Models, Prompting & Guardrails
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quiz Warm-Up: Models, Prompting & Context Engineering Pre-Check (ungraded) locked
lab Hands-On Lab: Route Meridian Workloads Across Model Tiers locked
lab Hands-On Lab: Build the Meridian Support-Agent System Prompt locked
quiz Knowledge Check: Models, Prompting & Guardrails (5 questions) locked
M05 · Context Engineering, Caching & Prompt Reuse
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lab Hands-On Lab: M05 Incident Lab · The Cost-Bleeding Hot-Path Prompt locked
lab Hands-On Lab: Token-Budget Audit of Your Meridian Prompt locked
quiz Knowledge Check: Context Engineering, Caching & Prompt Reuse (5 questions) locked
exam Domain Exam: Claude Models, Prompting & Context Engineering (12 questions, 25 min) locked
M06 · Tool Configuration, Authorization & Trade-Offs
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slides Slide Deck: Tool Configuration, Authorization & Trade-Offs locked
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quiz Warm-Up: Integration Pre-Check (ungraded) locked
lab Hands-On Lab: M06 Incident Lab · The Over-Privileged Agent locked
lab Hands-On Lab: Auth-Gap Review of the CRM Integration locked
lab Hands-On Lab: ADR-001: The Policy-Q&A Latency Decision locked
quiz Knowledge Check: Tool Configuration, Authorization & Trade-Offs (5 questions) locked
M07 · RAG Pipeline Design & Retrieval Strategy
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slides Slide Deck: RAG Pipeline Design & Retrieval Strategy locked
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lab Hands-On Lab: Build Meridian RAG Over the Policy Corpus locked
lab Hands-On Lab: Match Retrieval Strategy to Data Shape & Query Pattern locked
quiz Knowledge Check: RAG Pipeline Design & Retrieval Strategy (5 questions) locked
M08 · Protocols, Progressive Discovery & Observability
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lab Hands-On Lab: Connect Claude Code to the Meridian MCP Server locked
lab Hands-On Lab: Protocol Matrix + Progressive-Discovery Redesign locked
lab Hands-On Lab: Observability Design for Compass at Scale locked
quiz Knowledge Check: Protocols, Progressive Discovery & Observability (5 questions) locked
exam Domain Exam: Integration (15 questions, 30 min) locked
M09 · Evaluation Metrics & Datasets
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slides Slide Deck: Evaluation Metrics & Datasets locked
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quiz Warm-Up: Evaluation, Testing & Optimization Pre-Check (ungraded) locked
lab Hands-On Lab: Build a Graded Eval Set and Run the Harness (hands-on, 30 min) locked
lab Hands-On Lab: Metric-Definition Workshop (tabletop, 20 min) locked
quiz Knowledge Check: Evaluation Metrics & Datasets (4 questions) locked
M10 · A/B Testing & System Diagnosis
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slides Slide Deck: A/B Testing & System Diagnosis locked
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lab Hands-On Lab: A/B Test Two Prompt Variants (hands-on, 30 min) locked
lab Hands-On Lab: Incident Lab: Confidently Wrong After a Refresh (hands-on, 30 min) locked
quiz Knowledge Check: A/B Testing & System Diagnosis (4 questions) locked
M11 · Optimization & Monitoring (+ Domain 4 Exam)
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lab Hands-On Lab: Cost-Latency Optimization Pass (hands-on, 25 min) locked
lab Hands-On Lab: Instrument the Harness (hands-on, 15 min) locked
quiz Knowledge Check: Optimization & Monitoring (+ Domain 4 Exam) (4 questions) locked
exam Domain Exam: Evaluation, Testing & Optimization (14 questions, 20 min) locked
M12 · Guardrails, Failure Modes & Human-in-the-Loop
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slides Slide Deck: Guardrails, Failure Modes & Human-in-the-Loop locked
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quiz Warm-Up: Governance, Safety & Risk Management Pre-Check (ungraded) locked
lab Hands-On Lab: FMEA-Lite: The Compass Risk Register (tabletop, 15 min) locked
lab Hands-On Lab: Layered Guardrails for Refund Authority (design, 20 min) locked
lab Hands-On Lab: Place the Human Checkpoints (design, 15 min) locked
quiz Knowledge Check: Guardrails, Failure Modes & Human-in-the-Loop (4 questions) locked
M13 · Compliance & Ethical AI (+ Domain 5 Exam)
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slides Slide Deck: Compliance & Ethical AI (+ Domain 5 Exam) locked
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lab Hands-On Lab: The Bias Finding (role-play, 20 min) locked
lab Hands-On Lab: Compliance Mapping: Two Deals, One Morning (design, 25 min) locked
quiz Knowledge Check: Compliance & Ethical AI (+ Domain 5 Exam) (4 questions) locked
exam Domain Exam: Governance, Safety & Risk Management (13 questions, 15 min) locked
M14 · Structured Discovery & Communicating Architecture
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quiz Warm-Up: Stakeholder Communication & Lifecycle Management Pre-Check (ungraded) locked
lab Hands-On Lab: Discovery Interview: COO Dana Okafor locked
lab Hands-On Lab: Present Your ADR to CISO Marcus Webb locked
quiz Knowledge Check: Structured Discovery & Communicating Architecture (4 questions) locked
M15 · SLAs, Documentation & Lifecycle
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lab Hands-On Lab: SLA Negotiation with CFO Tom Alvarez locked
lab Hands-On Lab: ADR & Handoff-Document Workshop locked
lab Hands-On Lab: Lifecycle Mapping (rapid) locked
quiz Knowledge Check: SLAs, Documentation & Lifecycle (4 questions) locked
exam Domain Exam: Stakeholder Communication & Lifecycle Management (13 questions, 20 min) locked
M16 · Developer Productivity & Operational Enablement
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quiz Warm-Up: Developer Productivity & Operational Enablement Pre-Check (ungraded) locked
lab Hands-On Lab: Team Configuration for Meridian's Platform Team locked
lab Hands-On Lab: M16 Lab 2 ★ — Build Your Personal Study Agent locked
lab Hands-On Lab: Debug the Failing Meridian Script (guided) locked
quiz Knowledge Check: Developer Productivity & Operational Enablement (4 questions) locked
exam Domain Exam: Developer Productivity & Operational Enablement (8 questions, 12 min) locked
M17 · Capstone: The Meridian Architecture Review Board
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doc M17 Capstone Briefing — Team Instructions, Rubric & Portfolio Checklist locked
M18 · Mock Final Exam (Administration)
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doc M18 Proctoring Checklist locked
exam Mock Final Exam: Full 63-Question Simulation (120 min) locked
M19 · Mock-Final Review, Score Interpretation & Study Planning
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doc Personal Study Plan — CCAR-P locked
Exam Runway (post-course, weeks 1–4)
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exam Runway Week 1: Exam Runway — Week 1 (15 questions) locked
exam Runway Week 2: Exam Runway — Week 2 (15 questions) locked
exam Runway Week 3: Exam Runway — Week 3 (15 questions) locked
exam Runway Week 4: Exam Runway — Week 4 (15 questions) locked