Claude Certified Architect — Foundations
This repository contains study materials for the Claude Certified Architect — Foundations certification.
Certificate Example
Course Access
- To request access to the official course/exam portal, use this link: https://anthropic.skilljar.com/claude-certified-architect-foundations-access-request
Study Guide
- English guide:
guide_en.md - Spanish guide:
guide_es.md - Russian guide:
guide_ru.md - Chinese guide:
guide_zh.md - Japanese guide:
guide_ja.md - Urdu guide:
guide_ur.md - Arabic guide:
guide_ar.md - Hebrew guide:
guide_he.md - Korean guide:
guide_ko.md - Italian guide:
guide_it.md - Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) guide:
guide_zh-tw.md - Vietnamese guide:
guide_vi.md - Turkish guide:
guide_tr.md - French guide:
guide_fr.md - Portuguese (Brazil) guide:
guide_pt-br.md
PDF Version
- English guide:
guide_en.pdf - Spanish guide:
guide_es.pdf - Russian guide:
guide_ru.pdf - Chinese guide:
guide_zh.pdf - Japanese guide:
guide_ja.pdf - Urdu guide:
guide_ur.pdf - Arabic guide:
guide_ar.pdf - Hebrew guide:
guide_he.pdf - Korean guide:
guide_ko.pdf - Italian guide:
guide_it.pdf - Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) guide:
guide_zh-tw.pdf - Vietnamese guide:
guide_vi.pdf - Turkish guide:
guide_tr.pdf - French guide:
guide_fr.pdf - Portuguese (Brazil) guide:
guide_pt-br.pdf
EPUB Version
- English guide:
guide_en.epub - Spanish guide:
guide_es.epub - Russian guide:
guide_ru.epub - Chinese guide:
guide_zh.epub - Japanese guide:
guide_ja.epub - Urdu guide:
guide_ur.epub - Arabic guide:
guide_ar.epub - Hebrew guide:
guide_he.epub - Korean guide:
guide_ko.epub - Italian guide:
guide_it.epub - Traditional Chinese (Taiwan) guide:
guide_zh-tw.epub - Vietnamese guide:
guide_vi.epub - Turkish guide:
guide_tr.epub - French guide:
guide_fr.epub - Portuguese (Brazil) guide:
guide_pt-br.epub
Anki Deck (Practical Test)
- English:
practical_test_en.apkg - French:
practical_test_fr.apkg - Japanese:
practical_test_ja.apkg - Korean:
practical_test_ko.apkg - Russian:
practical_test_ru.apkg - Chinese:
practical_test_zh.apkg - Portuguese (Brazil):
practical_test_pt-br.apkg - Spanish:
practical_test_es.apkg
Video Materials
- English:
NotebookML
How to Use
- Read the guide that matches your preferred language.
- Work through the scenarios and questions.
- Use the Practical Exercises section to rehearse key patterns (tool design, MCP integration, structured output, context management, and reliability).
How to Read the Practical Test Questions
The practical test questions come from the real exam materials and are kept as they are. Some of them are deliberately compact: the correct answer often depends on one deciding phrase in the stem, while the stem leaves out details an engineer would normally ask about (traffic share, cost, whether the tools can be changed). Wording like this can be debated, and that is fine.
A few habits that help:
- Look for the deciding phrase: "most effective first step", "tool descriptions are clear", "incorrect refunds", and similar.
- Ask what the proportionate first step is. Prefer the change that fixes the root cause with the least new machinery.
- Separate guidance from guarantees. If a rule must always hold (for example, call order), the answer is usually programmatic enforcement, not a stronger prompt.
- Use disagreement as a learning tool. Vote alone, discuss in pairs, vote again, and then read the explanation.
Thanks to Silvan Mühlemann and the team at mühlemann+popp for the thoughtful feedback in issue #53.
Free Anthropic Courses
13 free courses & certificates from Anthropic Academy:
- Claude 101 — Learn Claude for everyday work. Core features and best practices.
- AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations — The foundational thinking course.
- Introduction to Agent Skills — Build, configure, and share Skills in Claude Code.
- Building with the Claude API — Function calling, tool use, streaming, SDKs, and production patterns.
- Claude Code in Action — Integrate Claude Code into your dev workflow.
- Intro to Model Context Protocol — Build MCP servers and clients from scratch in Python.
- MCP: Advanced Topics — Sampling, notifications, file system access, and transport for production MCP servers.
- AI Fluency for Students — AI skills for learning, career planning, and academic success.
- AI Fluency for Educators — For faculty and instructional designers applying AI Fluency into teaching.
- Teaching AI Fluency — Teach and assess AI Fluency in instructor-led settings.
- AI Fluency for Nonprofits — Increase organizational impact while staying mission-true.
- Claude with Amazon Bedrock — The full AWS accreditation course, now open to everyone.
- Claude with Google Cloud's Vertex AI — Work with Claude through Google Cloud's Vertex AI, from setup to production.
See Also
- Claude Code: Commands Cheatsheet https://claude-guides.com
- Top 80 Claude Skills, Agents & GitHub Repos for AI — The Complete Guide https://x.com/paullarionov/status/2038254131849134220
- Claude Certified Architect in Spanish — study guides for Foundations and Professional, an EN→ES glossary, and a free 163-question practice simulator (no signup) https://github.com/juanmartincoma-collab/claude-certified-architect-es
How to Contribute
- Add new translations to your language in md files, PDF version will be generated automatically after merge of PR.