Claude Certified Architect Study Companion

The book I wish existed when I prepared for the Claude Certified Architect exam — so I wrote it.

Most prep material teaches you to memorise flags. The CCAR-F exam doesn't test memory — it drops you into six production scenarios (a support agent that must hit 80% first-contact resolution, a CI pipeline drowning in false positives, a research system losing its citations) and asks what you'd change first. The wrong answers are never absurd. They're plausible, expensive, and correct for a different problem.

This 161-page book teaches you to see through them.

Inside:

• All 5 exam domains, weighted exactly as the exam weights them (27/18/20/20/15)
• All 6 official scenarios walked end to end, with working config and code sketches
• 28 original architecture diagrams, a 41-entry anti-pattern catalogue, and the one-page reference matrix
• 70 practice questions — including a full 45-question mock exam — each with a rationale explaining why every wrong option is wrong
• Every technical claim verified against Anthropic's official documentation (August 2026), including the errors that circulate in popular study notes

Who it's for: engineers and architects at Claude Partner Network organisations preparing for CCAR-F — and anyone building production agentic systems with the Claude API, Claude Code and MCP, exam or not.