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Claude Certified
Architect — Foundations

Complete Study Guide & Reference

by Claude Certified Architect Team

116 Lessons · 15 Domains · 803 Practice Questions

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Agentic Architecture — 27% of exam

Agentic Loops

Learning Objectives

  • Understand the agentic loop cycle
  • Use stop_reason for termination
  • Avoid common anti-patterns

An agentic loop is the runtime that sits between your application and the Claude API. Without it, every API call is stateless and isolated...

async function agenticLoop() {
const messages = [];
while (true) {
// Claude responds with stop_reason
const response = await api.send(messages);
if (response.stop_reason === "end_turn") break;
}
}
Difficulty: advanced📝 Exam Tip section
Sample chapter — Agentic Loops

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Table of Contents

The book is organized into 4 parts spanning all 15 domains

Part I13 chapters
Claude 101 — Beginner's Guide

Learn Claude from scratch — what Claude is, writing prompts, projects, artifacts, skills, connectors, research mode, and more.

Part II13 chapters
AI Fluency Foundations

Master the 4D Framework: Delegation, Description, Discernment, and Diligence for effective human-AI collaboration.

Part III85 chapters
CCA-F Exam Domains (12 domains)

All 12 CCA-F domains: Foundations, Prompt Engineering, Context Engineering, Tool Use, Structured Outputs, MCP, Claude Code, Agents SDK, Agentic Architecture, Production, Reliability, and Multi-Agent Systems.

Part IV4 chapters
Practical Exercises

Hands-on exercises: building multi-tool agents, configuring Claude Code for teams, data extraction pipelines, and multi-agent research systems.

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