First cohort started Saturday 19 September 2026 · enrolment closed
Agentic Architecture & Orchestration carries 27% of the exam, Claude Code Configuration & Workflows takes 20%, Prompt Engineering & Structured Output another 20%, Tool Design & MCP Integration 18%, and Context Management & Reliability the last 15% — 60 scenario questions, 120 minutes, 720 of 1000 to pass, and it only exists in English.
Exam blueprint
CCAR-F
Claude Certified Architect – Foundations
Agentic Architecture & Orchestration27%
Claude Code Configuration & Workflows20%
Prompt Engineering & Structured Output20%
Tool Design & MCP Integration18%
Context Management & Reliability15%
60 questions · 120 minutes
720 of 1000 to pass
$125 exam fee (not included)
Exam language: English only
Weights are the published exam blueprint, as of August 2026.
Where self-study stalls
The material is free.People still fail.
Knowing it isn’t answering it
Being able to build something and being able to pick the right option in a scenario question are different skills. Sixty questions in 120 minutes is a pace you have to rehearse.
The weighting is invisible
Agentic Architecture alone is 27% of the exam. Without knowing that, people spread their study evenly across everything and arrive underprepared where it counts.
Free material has no order
Anthropic Academy publishes the content but not a path through it. Fifteen to twenty hours of material, no sequence, no checkpoints, no way to tell whether you are ready.
You may not be eligible
Sitting the exam requires your organisation to be in the Claude Partner Network. Most people discover this at the point of registration.
Where you’ll be at the end
The full blueprint,in your own words.
Not memorised answers — the ability to read an unfamiliar scenario and judge it.
Every domain, weighted
Starting from the 27% domain and working down, with study time allocated to match.
Fluent in the question style
Familiar with the recurring phrasings and how distractor options are built, so the wording stops costing you marks.
Pace under time
A full-length mock exam turns 60 questions in 120 minutes into something your hands already know.
Ready to register
Eligibility, registration, and the exam-day environment all sorted out in advance.
Curriculum
Five domains,heaviest first.
Every session ends in exam-format practice, and every submission gets individual review.
Session 1
Agentic Architecture & Orchestration
27% of the exam — the heaviest domain, so it goes first. Lose this one and the pass mark is out of reach.
Where a single request ends and an agent begins
Splitting and rejoining work across multiple agents
Architectures that break, and the signs before they do
Session 2
Claude Code Configuration & Workflows
20%. Configuration, permissions, hooks. Daily use is not the same as how the exam frames it.
Project configuration and the permission model
When to reach for a hook and when for a subagent
Fitting it into CI/CD
Session 3
Prompt Engineering & Structured Output
20%. Not "good prompts" — reliably getting the output shape you specified.
Structured output and schema design
Separating out what actually drives behaviour
The conditions under which output degrades, and how to avoid them
Session 4
Tool Design & MCP Integration
18%. The granularity of tool definitions, and designing connections over MCP.
Tool definition design and its common failure modes
MCP structure and permission design
Safety when connecting to outside systems
Session 5
Context Management & Reliability
15%. How to handle long context, and where reliability starts to drop.
Structuring and compacting context
Judging where accuracy begins to slip
Designing for reproducibility
Session 6
Mock exam and gap-filling
A full 60 questions in 120 minutes under exam conditions, reviewed on the spot. Whatever is left gets covered individually.
Full-length mock exam (60 questions, 120 minutes)
Question-by-question review and how to eliminate options
Registration and exam-day preparation
Format
Live online (Google Meet)
Sessions
6 × 120 minutes
Cadence
Weekly
Duration
About 6 weeks
Seats
10
Instruction
Japanese or Chinese
Instructor credential
The person teaching this examhas already passed it.
The lead instructor holds the Claude Certified Architect – Foundations certification. Here is the certificate itself — and you can verify it on Credly at any time.
The credential was issued by Anthropic, via Credly, to the instructor personally. It does not mean Anthropic runs, endorses, or accredits this course.
Our own mock exam system
Same conditions as the real thing —your weak spot, as a number.
A 60-question, 120-minute mock built to the published domain weights. It returns a per-domain score rather than just a total, so you find out which domain is keeping you under 720 before you pay $125 and sit the real one.
Score report (sample)CCAR-F
Total score
713/ 1000
Pass mark 720
Agentic Architecture & Orchestration78%
Claude Code Configuration & Workflows71%
Prompt Engineering & Structured Output82%
Tool Design & MCP IntegrationNeeds work54%
Context Management & Reliability66%
Seven points short — and only one of the five domains is behind.
The real format
Sixty questions in 120 minutes, scored out of 1000 against a 720 pass mark. Two minutes a question becomes muscle memory before it counts.
Weighted like the blueprint
From Agentic Architecture at 27% down to Context Management at 15%, the published weights are reproduced exactly. Being strong in one domain does not carry the score.
Scored domain by domain
A total tells you nothing about what to fix. You get a reading for each of the five domains, which is what decides where the remaining study time goes.
Reviewed with you afterwards
Every question you missed is walked through — why that option is the answer, and how to read the English stem without translating it first.
The mock is written by us for course participants. Its questions are not those of the Anthropic / Pearson VUE exam. The course does not guarantee a pass.
Pricing
Two ways in.Pick by what you’re after.
Take the certification yourself, or bring the whole team up to it.
IndividualEnrolment closed
For getting yourself to a CCAR-F pass.
¥200,000About $1,2606 sessions · no additional fees
Enrolment for the first cohort has closed. Once the second cohort is scheduled, we write to the waiting list first, in the order people joined it.
Get notified about the next cohort
Joining is free and does not reserve a seat or commit you to a purchase.
Six live sessions, 120 minutes each
All five domains, covered in weight order
Full-length mock exam (60 questions, 120 minutes)
Practice each session, individually reviewed
Support with obtaining exam eligibility
The $125 exam fee is not included
Not offered to residents of mainland China
Team training
For companies that want several certified people in-house.
From ¥1,000,000About $6,300Per company / up to 10 people
We issue a quote and an invoice once scope and dates are agreed. Card payment is also available.
Curriculum shaped around your setup
Up to 10 participants
Support with participant exam eligibility
Pre-session interview and post-session report
Invoice payment by bank transfer
Exam fees are paid by each candidate
Not offered to residents of mainland China
Important: this course is not offered to residents of mainland China. Sessions run on Google Meet, which cannot be reached from mainland China, so we are unable to deliver the course there. By enrolling you confirm that you do not reside in mainland China. Before enrolling, please make sure Google Meet works where you live.
You are charged in Japanese yen. The dollar figures are approximate, converted at ¥159 to the US dollar (August 2026), and your bank’s rate on the day is what applies. Prices shown are the total payable — we are a tax-exempt business under Japanese consumption tax law (免税事業者), so no consumption tax is added on top. The $125 exam fee is not included.
FAQ
Before you enrol,things worth checking.
What language are the sessions in?
Sessions run in Japanese or Chinese — you choose a cohort when you enrol. They are not run in English. Technical terms are kept in English throughout, matching the wording used in the exam.
I’m not eligible to sit the exam. Can I still take this?
Sitting CCAR-F requires your organisation to be part of the Claude Partner Network. We are a Claude Partner Network partner and can discuss and support obtaining eligibility. What is possible depends on your situation, so please get in touch before enrolling.
Isn’t the Anthropic Academy material free?
It is, and it stays free. What this course adds is a path through it in the order the exam weights the domains, exam-format practice that builds decision speed, individual review of your work, and help with the registration process itself. It replaces study time, not the material.
Do you guarantee a pass?
No. The exam is administered and the certification awarded by Anthropic and Pearson VUE; we have no part in the result. This is preparation support, not a guaranteed outcome.
Is the exam fee included?
No. The $125 fee (as of August 2026) is paid directly to Pearson VUE. Fees change — check the official figure at the time you register.
Can the exam be taken in a language other than English?
As of August 2026, CCAR-F is available in English only.
Can I pay in instalments?
Credit card instalments are supported. Enter your card at checkout and the available terms are shown; the number of instalments and any fees are set by your card issuer. Bank transfer is offered for team training only.
I live in mainland China — can I enrol?
No. This course is not offered to residents of mainland China. Sessions run on Google Meet, which is not reachable from mainland China; we do not offer an alternative tool, and we do not accept enrolments that depend on a VPN — sessions missed because you could not connect are not refundable. By enrolling you confirm that you do not reside in mainland China. Residents of Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and anywhere else Google is reachable are welcome.
Can I cancel?
Full refund if you tell us eight or more days before the first session. 50% from seven days before up to the day before. After the first session begins, we refund the portion corresponding to sessions not yet delivered. The basis is set out in our 特定商取引法 disclosure.
Six weeks from now,you’re ready to sit it.
First cohort started Saturday 19 September 2026 · enrolment closed
